Dresden (66 page)

communist rule in, 385–86, 431

Dresden as capital of, 1–2, 11, 14–46, 54, 216, 228

electors of, 16, 17, 18–19, 31–33

geography of, 57–58

history of, 1–2, 11, 14–42

judicial system of, 159–60

Nazi party in, 43, 46–54, 382

parliament of, 31, 37, 40, 45–46, 51–52, 63

Reichsstatthalter
of, 43, 46

royal house of, 15–17, 24, 25, 27, 31–33, 38–39, 49–50, 206, 312, 314–15

settlement of, 1–2

Soviet drive towards, 227–28, 239, 337–38, 382

war-related industry in, 414–15

Saxony-Anhalt, 198

Scharnhorst,
117–18

Schauspielhaus, 56

Schloss,
16, 24, 39, 226, 277, 312, 399, 423

Schmidt, Henry, 67–68, 154, 158

Schmidt, Walter, 160

Schnatz, Helmut, 425, 439–41

Schneider armaments factory bombing (1942), 214

Schörner, 382–83, 392

Schröter, Hans, 292–94, 296

Schumann, Robert, 30

“Scum of Humanity, The,” 391

SD, 68

Sebald, W. G., 404

Second Bomber Division, U. S., 201–2, 316, 317, 319–20

Section IIB3 (Gestapo), 67–68

Seidel and Naumann, 33, 57, 149–50, 195, 330

Seidlitzer Platz, 295

Semper, Gottfried, 31, 63–65, 70, 71, 73

Seven Just Men, 53–54

Seventeenth Army, German, 184

Seventh Army, U. S., 374

Seventh Corps, U. S., 170

Seven Years' War, 25–29

sewing machines, 41, 57, 149, 195

Seydewitz, Max, 385–86, 399, 431, 432, 441–42, 443, 447, 449, 450–51, 453

Shakespeare, William, 107

Shayler, Walter K., 194, 195

Silbermann, Gottfried, 25

Silesia, 12, 13, 26, 39, 57, 161, 183, 184, 227, 360, 415

Sinclair, Archibald, 183, 184–85, 186, 211, 363, 388

Singapore, 118

“Sitzkrieg,” 94

Sixth Army, German, 188, 313

627th Bomber Squadron, British, 5–6, 244

“sky marking,” 338

Slaughterhouse-Five
(Vonnegut), xi, 348–49, 399

Slavic revolt (1147), 15

Slovakia, 48–49

Smith, Maurice, 241–42, 407

Smith, Walter Bedell, 363

Snavely, Ralph A., 201

Social Democratic Party (SPD), 36, 41, 42, 43, 45–46, 51–52, 160

Social Republic of Saxony, 39

Society for the Eastern Marches, 37

Somaliland, 83

Sonntag, Curt, 309, 310–11

Sophienkirche, 397

Sopwith Camel airplane, 121

Southam, Vaughan, 114–15

South-West Africa, 120

Soviet Union:

atomic bomb developed by, 392

civilian casualties of, 411–12

collapse of, xii, 408

German invasion of, 49, 110–11, 127, 254

military casualties of, 392

Nazi Germany invaded by, 12–13, 163, 165, 170–71, 179–92, 200, 225–26, 375, 380, 382–86, 392, 406–11, 455

Spaatz, Carl, 186, 188, 451

Spanish Civil War, 48, 88–91

Speer, Albert, 60, 108–9, 133, 134, 367, 404, 412, 413, 414

Spence, Magnus, 128

Sperrle, Hugo, 88

Spitfire fighter, 98–99

SS (Schutzstaffel), 4, 48, 49–52, 56, 68, 71, 138, 152, 163, 165, 171, 206, 307–8, 348, 351, 369, 370, 384

Stalin, Joseph, 186, 189–90, 191, 206, 387, 399, 408

Stalingrad, Battle of, 12, 135, 312–13, 374

State Porcelain Manufacture, 23

Stettin, 175, 218

Stewart, William, 316–17, 319

Stimson, Henry L., 365–66

Stokes, Richard Rapier, 363–64, 365, 372, 376

strafing runs, 77, 296, 429–42, 453, 475
n

Strategic Air Force Command, U. S., 192

Strauss, Adolf, 225

Strauss, Richard, 3

Streicher, Julius, 66, 67, 69

Striesen, 277, 358, 396, 397

Stum, Gustav Braun von, 127

Stürmer,
66

Stuttgart, 208

Stutthof concentration camp, 151

Sudetenland, 59, 160, 161, 198

Südvorstadt, 159, 235–36, 270, 277, 325, 330–31, 341, 396, 397

Summerhill school, 152

Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF), 172–75, 190, 192, 213, 360, 362–63, 364

Svenska Dagbladet,
369

Svenska Morgonbladet,
370

Swinemünde bombing raid (1945), 408–9

“Swiss Quarter,” 313–14

“Swordfish Able” bomber, 321, 324–25

 

T4 program, 307

Tagesbefehl Nr 47,
370, 444–47

Tal der Ahnungslosen (Valley of The Clueless), 400

Tannhäuser
(Wagner), 36

Tanzlustbarkeiten,
135–36

Target for Tonight,
117

target indicator (TI), 224, 246, 283

Targets Committee, British, 192, 207

Taschenberg Palace, 226

Technische Nothilfe, 74

Tedder, Arthur William, 175, 186

telex terminals, 415–16

Theaterplatz, 263

Theresienstadt concentration camp, 162–63, 233

Thermite, 115, 250

Things to Come,
93

Third Air Fleet, German, 102–6

Third Army, U. S., 170

Third Bomber Division, U. S., 188–89, 274, 316, 317, 319, 380

Third Group, British, 208

Thirty Years' War, 16–17, 19

Thoma, Wilhelm Ritter von, 88

Thorsch Camera, 449–50 3

Group, British, 274 303

rd Bomber Group, U. S. (“Hell's

Angels”), 194–95, 316, 318, 325

305th Bomber Group, U. S., 326

325th Bomber Squadron, U. S., 316–17

352nd Fighter Group, British (“Blue-Nosed Bastards of Bodney”), 317, 320–21, 438

356th Fighter Group, U. S., 317, 438, 439, 441

379th Bomber Group, U. S., 325, 326, 328

398th Bomber Group, U. S., 317, 321, 322

Thunderbolt fighter, 235, 329

Thuringia, 198, 382

Tiefflieger über Dresden? Legenden und Wirklichkeit
(Schnatz), 439–41

Times
(London), 130, 184, 446

Tirpitz,
214–15, 281

Tod von Dresden, Der
(Rodenberger), 443

Tokyo firebombing, 390

Tollkewitz, 307, 358

Topper, William, 241, 244, 245

Treblinka concentration camp, 351

Treitschke, Heinrich von, 66

Trenchard, Hugh, 81, 83–85, 86, 87, 133, 178, 388

Tripp, Miles (“Mike”), 210, 274, 280, 281–82, 337–38, 474
n

Truman, Harry S., 393

Trümmerbahnen,
396

Trümmerfrau
(rubble women), 395–96, 420

Tschirnhaus, Count von, 22

Turkish Palace, 28

Turner, General, 318

Turner, Ilana, 150–51, 306–8

Twentieth Fighter Group, U. S., 317, 321–22, 432–33, 435–39

typewriters, 33, 41, 57, 149, 195

 

U-boats, 85, 117, 125, 127, 131, 153, 158, 214, 379

Ufa cinema, 194–95

“U for Uncle” bomber, 210, 247–50

ULTRA, 174, 177

Unbesiegbare Stadt, Die
(Seydewitz), 443

Unemployed Man, The
(Griebel), 41

United States Strategic Bombing Survey, 133

 

V-1 rocket, 152, 169–70, 171, 202–3, 216, 403

V-2 rocket, 152, 169–70, 171, 202–3, 216, 375, 403

Venetian rebellion (1848–1849), 79

Verdi, Giuseppe, 47

Verrier, Anthony, 403

Versailles Palace, 17, 24, 58

Versailles Treaty, 40

Verteidigungsbereich,
225

“V for Victory” bomber, 282

VHF short-range radios, 242, 244–46, 276–77, 281–82

Vienna, 18

Villa San Remo, 450, 451–54

Vitzthum-Gymnasium, 199, 284–86

Voigt, Hanns, 444, 446

Völkerwanderung,
227

Volksausschuss für Nationale Verteidigung, 39

Volksempfänger,
152

Volkssturm (Home Guard), 170, 288, 342

Voltaire, 26

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., xi, 348–49, 399

 

Wagner, Richard, 3, 30, 36–37, 253

Walch, C., 58

Wanne-Eickel synthetic oil plant, 207

war crimes, xi, 11–12, 190, 384–85, 386, 410–11, 420–21, 424–25, 431, 453, 474
n

War Cripple, The
(Dix), 41

warfare:

air, 79–91, 106, 109, 110, 115–18, 121, 128, 183–86, 375–79, 387, 401–17, 437, 467
n

deterrence in, 87–88

ground, 80, 86

medieval, 76

naval, 84–85, 117

retaliation in, 77–78, 99, 113, 117, 202–3, 394, 401–2, 403, 410–11

rules of, 76, 411–12

total, xii, 39, 87–88, 147, 170, 308, 355, 413, 426

trench, 53, 121

War in the Air, The
(Wells), 79

Warsaw, 76–78, 92, 95, 106, 206, 366

Weber, Carl Maria von, 3, 30

Wehrmacht:

conscriptions for, 162, 170, 288, 342

Dresden forces of, 99–100, 165, 215–16, 347, 350, 352, 357, 371, 382–83

effectiveness of, 161, 171–72, 177, 179

High Command of, 148, 149–50, 202, 312–13, 436

mobilization of, 160, 162, 180, 182–83, 187, 215–16, 230, 236, 253–54, 308

reinforcements for, 162, 170, 187, 215–16, 230, 236, 253–54, 308, 382–83

supplies for, 152–53, 161, 359, 374, 415–16

tank divisions of, 146, 171

Weidauer, Walter, 57, 390–91, 393, 398, 399, 445, 448, 453, 454–56

Weir, William, 81, 82

Weisser Hirsch, 69, 451

Wellington bomber, 97, 111, 137

Wells, H. G., 79

Wesel, 375

Weser, Arno, 68, 198

Westwall, 170

Wettin dynasty, 15–17, 24, 25, 27, 31–33, 38–39, 49–50, 206, 312, 314–15

Wettiner Bahnhof, 195, 196

White, Alec, 349

Whitley bomber, 97

Wiener Platz, 286

Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany, 32

Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, 38

Wilhelmshaven, 92

Willis, Admiral, 118

Wilsdruff, 383

“window” devices, 4, 131–32, 243, 275

“Without Baggage” (Ley), 367

Wolf, Henny, 68–69, 73, 75, 157–59, 232–34, 254, 260, 262–63, 302–3, 305–6, 336

Wood, Kingsley, 94

“Word about Our Jewry, A” (Treitschke), 66

World War I:

armistice for, 40, 83

bombing in, 79–82

civilian casualties in, 84–85, 402

German defeat in, 38–39, 67, 83

as stalemate, 85–86, 87

trench warfare in, 53, 121

World War II:

Allied air superiority in, 94–99, 106, 178, 182, 366

bombing campaigns of,
see
bombing campaigns

Eastern front of, 135, 163, 165, 179–80

German offensives in, 95, 96–101, 135, 171–72, 234–35, 382

military casualties in, 135, 172, 403

North African theater of, 118, 135

Pacific theater of, 118, 389–90

“Phony War” in, 92–94

propaganda in, 12–13, 93–94, 95, 96, 100–101, 117, 118, 202–3, 382

Western front in, 169–72

Wren, Christopher, 107

Wright, Orville and Wilbur, 79

Würzburg, 131–32, 211, 374, 409

 

X-Gerät guidance system, 102–4, 123

 

Yalta Conference (1945), 185, 189–91, 207, 208–9, 211, 212, 318–19, 382, 408

Y-Gerät (Wotan) guidance system, 123

Yugoslavia, 110

 

Zeiss, Carl, 33

Zeiss-Ikon AG, 33, 57, 136, 148, 151, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157–58, 303, 358–59

Zeppelin airships, 80, 121

Zuzugssperrgebiet,
229

Zwinger gardens, 23–24, 195, 312, 397