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Also by Giles Milton
Nonfiction
The Riddle and the Knight
Nathaniel’s Nutmeg
Big Chief Elizabeth
Samurai William
White Gold
Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922
Fiction
Edward Trencom’s Nose
According to Arnold
Children’s Books
Zebedee’s Zoo
Call Me Gorgeous!
Picture Acknowledgements
Courtesy of Wolfram Aïchele: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4, Photo 5, Photo 6, Photo 7, Photo 8, Photo 9, Photo 10, Photo 11, Photo 12, Photo 13, Photo 17, Photo 20, Photo 18, Photo 33, Photo 25 Photo 41. AKG-Images: Photo 14/Bildarchiv Pisarek, Photo 26 Photo 27/Ullstein Bild, Photo 30, Photo 32, Photo 34/Ullstein Bild, Photo 35. Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz: Photo 29. Corbis/Bettmann: Photo 39. Getty Images: Photo 16/Time & Life Pictures, Photo 23, Photo 24, Photo 36, Photo 37, Photo 38/Time & Life Pictures. Courtesy of Peter Rodi: Photo 19. Schoeningh & Co., Luebeck: Photo 15. Stadtarchiv Pforzheim – Institut für Stadtgeschichte: Photo 21, Photo 22 Photo 28, Photo 31, Photo 40.
Index
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Academy of Fine Art, Stuttgart
Adenauer, Konrad
Aïchele, Alexandra
Aïchele, Benedikt
Aïchele, Erwin (Wolfram’s father); after end of the War; as artist/art teacher; attitude to Hitler and the Nazis; draftings after Allied landings in Normandy; and the English; job at Fine Art School, Karlsruhe; and Kraft; at start of War; and a tramp; visit to Wolfram at Marienbad; on Wolfram’s return from prison camp; and Julius Zorn
Aïchele family see also individual family members; flying the Nazi flag; and the Nazis in the mid-30s; and refugees; traditions; and wartime household management
Aïchele, Gunhild (Wolfram’s sister)
Aïchele, Marie Charlotte (Wolfram’s mother); 1942;; 1944; 1945; after end of the War; attitude to Nazism; depression; on Elsässer’s memorial service; feeding the family; and the Gestapo; and the Moroccan occupation of Eutingen; and the Pforzheim bombing; visit with Wolfram to Tiefonbronn; on Wolfram’s return from prison camp
Aïchele, Reiner (Wolfram’s brother)
Aïchele, Walter (Wolfram’s uncle)
Aïchele, Wolfram: in 77th Infantry; art see under art; birth; in Brittany; call-up; childhood life, early; Crimean posting; death of maternal grandparents; diphtheria; early attitudes to Nazism and Hitler; and Hitler Youth; at Marienbad sanatorium; marriage to Barbara Rodi; move to Paris; in Normandy; and the Normandy Campaign; in Oberammergau; as prisoner of war; Reich Labour Service see Reich Labour Service; resumption of life after the war; return home from American prison camp; surrender to the Americans; teenage employment; teenage interests; training as a funker (wireless operator); transported to America; transported to England; in the Ukraine
Alsace
America see United States of America, World War II
anthroposophical movement
anti-Semitism; in 1930 Nazi political programme; deportation of Jews; German underestimation of Nazi; Goebbels’ call for the elimination/extermination of Jewry; Kristallnacht; mass executions; Nazi extermination programme; Reich Citizenship Law; Russian Jews under Hitler’s invasion; SS orders against; taught in universities and schools; Wagner and
Aron, Gustav
art: books; folk art; influence of maternal grandmother on Wolfram; Nazism and; Orthodox; present exhibited work of Wolfram; Wolfram’s childhood art; Wolfram’s father and; Wolfram’s post-war pursuit of; Wolfram’s teenage passion
Audrieu
Auschwitz
Austria: incorporation into German Reich; Wolfram cycling in
Babei (a Turkmen)
Bacherer, Col. Rudolf
Bad Wimpfen
Baden state, Wagner and
Bader, Franz
Barbarossa, Frederick
Barneville-sur-Mer
Barth, Arthur
Baum, Otto
BBC
Becher, Otto; and R
ust
Becker, August
Becker, Werner
Beckmann, Max
Beer Hall Putsch
Bergen-Belsen extermination camp
Berlin; Olympic Games
Bible
Bloch, Margot
Boedicker, Herr, Wolfram’s grandfather
Boedicker, Johanna, Wolfram’s grandmother
Boedicker, Marie Charlotte see Aïchele, Marie Charlotte
book burning
Brenner, Walter
Brest-Litovsk
Briquebec
Britain: British requirements for settlers in Palestine; declaration of war on Germany; German pre-war attitudes to the British; RAF see Royal Air Force
Brittany
brownshirts see SA
Brüning, Heinrich
Bulge, Battle of the
Caen
Chamberlain, Neville
Cherbourg; Fortress
Cherson
Christianity: Christian community of Pforzheim and the Nazis; closure of churches under Stalin; Nazi assault on Christian teaching; Orthodoxy; paganising/replacement of Christian festivals
Christmas traditions
Clara (maid)
Communism; and Hitler; and the Nazis
Cotentin peninsular
Coutances
Crimea
D-Day
Dachau concentration camp
Danzig
Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State
Decree on Demolitions on Reich Territory (Nero Decree)
democracy
Demolitions on Reich Territory, Decree on (Nero Decree)
Dimbleby, Richard
divorce, on racial grounds
Dix, Otto
Dollman, Gen. Friedrich
Donitz, Admiral Karl
Dorothea, Sister
Dresden; air raid
Driffield
Ducy
Eberstadt
Ebert, Friedrich
educational propaganda
Elsässer, Rolf
Emsheimer, Blondine
ethnic cleansing see also Nazism: extermination programme
Ettal kloster
Ettal, Mount
Eutingen: American occupation; blowing up of bridge; French prisoners of war; Hitler Youth branch; Hitler’s visit to; murder of a British pilot; Nazi Party in; and the Nazi revolution; occupation of; and the start of war; surroundings; Tunisian occupation of; villa; village
Falley, Gen. Wilhelm
farms, Swabian
Feodosia
flags
folk art
Frank, Hans
Freemasonry; Reuchlin Masonic lodge
French prisoners of war
Frey, Adolf
German art see also art
German economy
German Infantry: 1st Battalion, 1050th Infantry Unit; 77th Division
German patriotism
German prisoners of war: and the end of the war; in France; French post-war plans for using; Peter Rodi; Wolfram and his comrades
German Sixth Army
German war casualties (World War II); Pforzheim bombing
Germanic traditions
Gestapo: 1937; deportation of Jews; and the Rodis; and Wolfram’s mother
ghetto, Pforzheim
Glasser, German officer
Gleiwitz
Goebbels, Joseph; presentation of Kristallnacht; Propaganda Ministry
Goering, Hermann
Goesser (a prisoner of war)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Göppert, Herr (prisoner of war)
Gradenwitz, Herr
Gretel (friend of the Haas family)
Gruber, Camp
Guggenheim family
Gurs, Camp
Haas, Frau
Haas, Hannelore see Schottgen, Hannelore
Haas, Herr
Halder, Fritz
Hallig island
harvest festivals
Hebel, Mr 231
‘Heil Hitler’ salute
Hennecke, Admiral Walter
Hess, Rudolf
Heydrich, Reinhard
Hicks, Sgt Doug
Hillenbrandt, Dr
Himmler, Heinrich
Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig von
history, Nazi version of
Hitler, Adolf; 1930 election; 1933 election; adulation of; and the Allied Normandy Campaign; and art; assassination attempt; assurances of avoiding war; and Austria’s incorporation into German Reich; birthday; and Chamberlain; and the Communists; Crimean campaign see also Crimea; cult of the Führer; death; decree on Hitler Youth; ‘Heil Hitler’ salute; invasion of Soviet Union; lebensborn (racial breeding programme); in mid-1930s; monologues; Nero Decree; and the Olympic Games; order of mass executions; and the outbreak of war; and Poland; Reich Citizenship Law; rise to chancellorship; signing of Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State; SS orders against enemies of Nazism; Sudetenland crisis; visit to Pforzheim; War advances
Hitler Youth
Hoch, Frau
Ilse (maid)
Issel, August
Jahnke, Lt. Arthur
Jews: anti-Semitism see anti-Semitism; deportations; emigration to Palestine; Jewish immigrants in England; law concerning declaration of Jewish origins; of Pforzheim; Reich Citizenship Law; Russian; yellow stars
Karlsruhe; court; Fine Art School; Organisation I
Katz, Adoph
Kerch
Kiev
Knab, Hans
Kraft, Herbert
Krakow
Kristallnacht
Kuppenheim, Lilly
Kuppenheim, Rudolf
Kursk, Battle of
Lang, Werner
Lattre de Tassigny, Jean de
Le Havre
Le Vretot
League of German Girls
lebensborn (racial breeding programme)
Lehman, Frau (cleaning lady)
Lemberg (Lvov)
Leningrad
Lieutenant W.
Lubbe, Marinus van der
Lvov (Lemberg)
Maginot Line
Malicious Gossip Law
Mann, Thomas
Marienbad
marriage legislation, Reich Citizenship Law
Marshall Plan
Mayer, Rupert
Miggel, Erwin
Milton, Madeleine
Minsk
Moroccan occupation of Eutingen
Moscow
Moser, Lusas
Moses, Dr
Munich Agreement
Münsingen
Mussolini, Benito
National Socialist Party see Nazis Nazism see also individual Nazis: 1928 election; 1930 election; 1930 political programme; 1933 election; American action against Nazis after the war; anti-Semitism see anti-Semitism; assault on Bible and Christian teaching; and Austria’s incorporation into German Reich; brownshirts see SA; and Communism; criminalisation of non-participation; and the culture of secrecy; death squads; early days of Nazi Party; extermination programme; flag; and German art; and Germanic traditions; Gestapo see Gestapo; Hitler Youth; ideology; lebensborn programme; Malicious Gossip Law; Nazi Party in Eutingen; Nazi Party in Pforzheim; Night of the Long Knives; propaganda see propaganda, Nazi; public holidays and festivities; Reich Citizenship Law; renaming of streets and schools; SA see SA (Sturmabteilung, brownshirts); SS see SS (Schutzstaffel); torchlit parades
Nero Decree
New York
Niederbayern
Night of the Long Knives
Nikolaev
Nikolaus, St
Normandy; Campaign
Nuremberg trials
Oberammergau
Oeschelbronn
Ohlendorf, Otto
Olympic Games
Omaha Beach
Operation Uranus
Orthodoxy
Otto the Gre
at
pagan festivals
Papen, Franz von
Paris
patriotism
Paulus, Gen. Friedrich Wilhelm von
Peenemunde
Pforzheim; after Allied landings in Normandy; after end of the War; Allied advance on; Allied arrival in; bombing and aftermath; burning of books by Hitler Youth; Christian community of; ghetto; Hitler’s visit to; Jewish community; Kristallnacht; Nazi Party in; Nazi renaming of streets and schools; and the Nero Decree; picture house; public morale; surroundings; and the vote on Austria’s incorporation into German Reich; War years
Pforzheimer Anzeiger
Pforzheimer Rundschau
Philip, Hulde
Poland; SS orders against Poles
Probst, Christoph
propaganda, American
propaganda, Nazi; in German education; Goebbels’ Propaganda Ministry
public holidays and festivities
race: anti-Semitism see anti-Semitism; Nazi ideology
RAF see Royal Air Force
rationing
Reich Citizenship Law
Reich Labour Service; medical exam for; Niederbayern camp; Wolfram’s Crimean posting
religious festivals
reparation payments
Reuchlin Masonic lodge
Riemenschneider, Tilman
Ritzy (a funker)
Rodi, Barbara
Rodi, Ev-Marie
Rodi family see also individual family members; American uncles; on Hitler’s birthday; and the Pforzheim bombing
Rodi, Frithjof
Rodi, Gisela
Rodi, Martha Luise; after end of the War; and the Allied arrival in Pforzheim; and the Gestapo; and the Pforzheim bombing
Rodi, Max; and the Pforzheim bombing
Rodi, Peter; conscription into infantry; drafting into home defence; escape from prison of war camp; escape plans; as prisoner of war; reported missing in action
Röhm, Ernst
Romanian Third Army
Rommel, Erwin
Rothfuss, Werner
Rothschilds
Royal Air Force; Pforzheim bombing see also Pforzheim: bombing and aftermath
Rublev, Andrei
Rundstedt, Gerd von
Rust, Bernhard
SA (Sturmabteilung, brownshirts)
St Maria Magdalena church, Tiefonbronn