retrieves and preserves stolen treasures; treatment of German POWs; prisoner-of-war camps; interrogation and torture methods; trial and punishment of Nazi war criminals; conduct of war; and Dachau trial; Bulganin declares enemy; policy on Germany at Potsdam Conference; possesses atom bomb; drops atom bombs; hostility to Soviet Russia; and Berlin airlift; post-war dismissals and resignations; see also American zone
Unverzagt, Wilhelm
Upper Austria
Upper Silesia
uranium: mined in Erzgebirge
Üxküll-Gyllenbrand, Gräfin Alexandrine von
Vaihingen
Valchař (Czech Little Fortress guard)
Vansittart, Robert, Baron
Vassiltchikov, Princess Marie (‘Missie’)
Veesenmayer, Edmund
Veltheim, Hans-Hasso von
Veltheim, Otti von
venereal diseases
Venlo Incident (1939)
Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (VVN)
Vermehren, Isa
Versailles, Treaty of (1919)
Victoria, Princess
Victoria Louise, Princess (Duchess of Brunswick)
Vienna: partition and occupation; falls to Red Army; foreign workers in; looting; under Soviet occupation; women raped; cultural life; May Day parade (1945); destruction; housing; rationing and food supply; Western Allies advance on; zoned between Allies; concern for return to normality; administration under occupying powers; Soviet monument in; communist failure in 1945 election; lawlessness and banditry in; discussed at Potsdam Conference; food shortage in British sector; in severe winter (1946-7); blockade threatened; see also Austria
Vietinghoff, General Heinrich von
Vilfan, Josef
Villach, Carinthia
Vlasak Karel
Vlasov, General Andrei
Vogel, Hans
Voikova (Russian camp)
Voizard (governor of Tyrol-Vorarlberg)
Volga Germans
Volkspolizei (Vopos)
Volkswagen factory, Wolfsburg
Völpel, Gustav
Vom Ghetto zur Freiheit: Die Zukunft der Juden im befreiten Österreich (pamphlet)
Vorarlberg
Voroshilov, Kliment Yefremovich
Vorys, John
Voss, Admiral Hans Erich
Vrša, Commandant
Vyshinsky, Andrei
Wabra, Dr Franz
Wagner, Franz
Wagner, Friedelind
Wagner, Hans
Wagner, Josef
Wagner, Richard
Wagner, Wieland
Wagner, Winifred; trial
Wagner, Wolfgang
Waite, Air Commodore Reginald Newnham
Wallenberg (village)
Wallenberg, Major Hans
Walser, Martin
Walter, Bruno
Wandel, Paul
Warlimont, General Walther
Warner, Major Frederick (born Manfred Werner)
Warsaw Uprising (1944)
Waterhouse, Ellis
Watt, Donald Cameron
Watzka, Maximilian
Watzke, Anton
Wechsberg, Joseph
Wedel, von (Prussian escapee)
Wedgwood, Colonel Josiah Clement ( later 1st Baron)
Weeks, General Sir Ronald
Wegener, Paul
Wegner, Franz
Weidling, General Helmuth
Weimar
Weimar, Grand Duchess of
Weinberger, Lois
Weinhand, Franz
Weis, Franz
Weisenborn, Günther; Berliner Requiem
Weiss, Dany
Weiss, Grigori
Weiss, Martin
Weiss, ‘Uncle Toni’
‘Weisse Rose’ Movement
Weissenheim, Austria
Weizsäcker, Carl Friedrich von
Weizsäcker, Ernst von
Weizsäcker, Richard von; Vier Zeiten: Erinnerungen
Wellesz, Egon
Wells, Dr C. J. I.
Wendt, Erich
Wensich, Franz
Werewolves
Werl, near Dortmund
Werner, Dr Arthur
Werth, Alexander
Wesen, Hans
West, F. C.
West Germany see German Federal Republic
Western European Union
Wetzelsdorf, Austria
Weygand, General Maxime
White, Harry Dexter
Wichmann, Lily
Wiechert, Ernst
Wiesbaden
Wiesbaden Manifesto
Wieselmann, Flight Sergeant
Wiesenstein, Haus, Silesia
Wiesner (Czech camp commandant)
Wilhelm Gustloff (ship)
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands
Wilkinson, Colonel Alexander
Wilkinson, Peter
Willenbucher, Dr
William II, Kaiser
Williams, Charles: Adenauer
Williams, Air Marshal Sir Thomas Melling
Wilson, Woodrow
Wilton Park, Buckinghamshire
Winchell, Walter
Winckelnkemper, Peter
Winterton, Major-General Sir John
Wirths (prisoner in Russia)
Wisliceny, Dieter
Witgenstein, Werner
Witzleben, Field Marshal Erwin von
Woermann, Ernst
Wolf, Markus
Wolff, Jeanette
Wolff, Karl
Wolfsberg, Austria
Wollin, Poland
Woman in Berlin, A (anon.)
women:
Shae Connor
Melody Snow Monroe
Edwina Currie
Jodi Cooper
Susan Coolidge
Jane Yolen
Rick Hautala
Nalini Singh
Gayla Drummond
Sara Craven