9th Flak Division, 18, 254, 268, 280, 341, 364, 370
Lunovo camp, 415, 423 Lvov, 22–3
Lyudnikov, Colonel I. I., 196, 216
Mäder, Lieutenant-Colonel, 353, 355, 359, 365f
Maikop, 2, 69–70
Malinin, General M. S., 323, 388
Malinovsky, General Rodion, 106, 298, 309
Malenkov, Georgy, 9, 37, 133, 234
Manstein, Field Marshal E. von, 16–17, 22, 55, 61, 70, 75, 81, 254, 266, 268, 273–4, 296, 298f, 302,308–10, 315f, 341–2, 343, 347, 368, 403, 425, 430
Manuilsky, Dmitry, 197, 422, 425–6
Marinovka, 346, 354, 356
Melnikov, General, 422f, 425
Milch, Field Marshal Erhard, 345;
and ‘Special Staff’, 359, 368–9, 370, 383, 396, 398, 403
Millerovo, 78, 295
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 5, 9f, 37f, 234, 417
Morozovsk, 64, 78, 114, 179
Moscow, 5–6, 9, 72;
advance on, 32f, 34, 36;
state of siege, 38
Myshkova, river, 295, 299, 301, 309, 311, 314, 320
NKGB see NKVD (security police) NKVD, 19, 22, 28, 36–7, 157, 419;
propaganda and POW Department, 86, 180, 182, 279, 286, 307–8,319, 322, 350, 378, 400, 412–13;
Volga crossing and 71st Special Service Coy, 190–91
NKVD troops, 38, 79, 88, 106, 110, 167;
10th NKVD Rifle Div., 75, 109, 128, 131–3, 159–60, 174, 385
NKVD Special Detachments (later SMERSH) xiii, 79, 86, 168–9, 172–3, 199–200, 213
SMERSH, 26, 80, 186, 288
Frontier Troops, 18, 25, 41
National Committee for Free Germany, 422f, 425f
Niemeyer, Lieutenant-Colonel, 227, 366
Nizhne-Chirskaya, 177–8, 254, 263, 267–9, 293, 295
Novocherkassk, 274, 294, 301,316, 341
Operation Barbarossa, 3–6, 8ff, 12–14, 16, 18, 20, 33, 53f, 68, 75, 77
Operation Blue, 63, 64, 69–74, 77–8;
rewritten, 80, 124 Operation Fridericus, 65, 70–71
Operation Northern Light, 63
Operation Ring, 321f, 353–62
Operation Saturn, 292–3, 299;
‘Little Saturn’, 299, 310, 398
Operation Thunderclap, 296, 299, 309
Operation Torch, 214, 229f
Operation Typhoon, 33, 40
Operation Uranus, 130–31, 179;
planning and preparation, 220–23, 225–8, 230, 232–5;
execution, 236–63;
effect, 281, 292, 398
Operation Winter Storm, 296–300, 309
opolchentsy (militia), 28, 35
Order No. 227, 84–5, 97, 144
Order No. 270, 84, 169, 172
Orel, 34, 72
Organisation Todt, 255, 340
Oster, General Achim, 431
Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich, 17, 33, 35, 40, 51–54;
takes over Sixth Army, 61, 65, 67;
and Stalingrad, 103, 113, 119, 129f, 140, 145–6, 183, 191, 210, 216, 218;
and Uranus, 228, 245, 247, 251, 253;
and encirclement, 227, 267–9, 271–2, 275–7, 299, 302, 308–9, 314f, 317ff, 320, 324n, 342–3;
and last resistance, 360, 366, 370, 377, 380, 381–2;
and Schmidt’s influence, 379, 382f, 388n, 422;
after surrender, 387f, 389–91, 396f, 400, 403;
and fate of sons, 427;
imprisonment, 422, 427f, 431
Paulus, Elena, 53, 314, 427f
Pavlov, General D. G., 21, 25
Pavlov, Sergeant Jakob, 198
Perelazovsky, 232, 242, 252, 267
Peskovatka, 247, 258–9
Pickert, General Wolfgang, 267–8
Pieck, Wilhelm, 407
Pitomnik airfield, 281, 304, 334f, 338, 340, 343, 346, 357ff, 360, 361–2, 363f
Pfeffer, General, 62, 65, 381,382, 426
Plievier, Theodor, 377
Political department see Commissars Poltava, 2, 52f, 69, 74
Rastenburg, Wolfsschanze HQ, 44, 63, 79, 129, 267, 270, 272, 297, 316, 343–7, 391,393
Rattenhuber, Hans, 80
Raus, General Erhard, 296f, 301–2
Red Army: Armies: 1st Guards, 118;
2nd Guards, 293, 298f, 309;
3rd Guards, 300f;
1st Shock, 41–2;
2nd Shock, 44;
5th Tank Army, 227f, 230, 241, 245, 252, 296;
4th Army, 19;
6th Army, 67, 300;
16th Army, 41;
21st Army, 203, 252, 325, 355, 357, 359, 377;
24th Army, 118, 243, 323;
28th Army, 147;
51st Army, 85, 147f, 169, 172, 211, 223, 243, 248, 298;
57th Army, 67, 147f, 211f, 223, 243, 248, 278, 298, 310, 321, 359;
62nd Army, 90f, 96, 114, 118, 125–6, 128–9, 136, 144, 147, 154, 157, 190, 192, 196, 201, 212, 216, 243, 247, 264, 302–3, 359, 377, 394, 431;
64th Army, 90f, 114f, 118, 125, 147, 169, 186, 197, 202f, 211,223, 248f, 355, 359;
65th Army, 251, 257,353,355,357,359, 370;
66th Army, 243, 355
Corps: 3rd Guards Cavalry, 241, 251, 253f;
4th Cavalry, 227, 232, 248, 297;
8th Cavalry, 241, 252;
1st Tank, 246, 252;
4th Tank, 227, 241, 244, 246, 251, 253, 256;
13th Tank, 298, 356;
16th Tank, 259;
24th Tank, 300–301;
26th Tank, 246, 252, 255f;
4th Mechanized, 227, 248, 250, 254, 256, 298;
13th Mechanized, 227, 248, 250
Divisions: 13th Guards Rifle, 131–2, 133–5, 138, 140–41, 150, 163, 171, 198, 204, 215, 377;
15th Guards Rifle, 168;
33rd Guards Rifle, 91–2;
35th Guards Rifle, 138f;
36th Guards Rifle, 356;
37th Guards Rifle, 177, 191, 193f, 195–6;
38th Guards Rifle, 186;
39th Guards Rifle, 163, 189;
1st Rifle, 113;
38th Rifle, 170–71;
45th Rifle, 168–9, 212–13,
64th Rifle, 116;
93rd Rifle, 232;
95th Rifle, 138, 161f, 196, 205, 216;
96th Rifle, 325;
112th Rifle, 136, 190, 193, 195, 196–7;
138th Rifle, 196, 216;
157th Rifle, 249;
173rd Rifle, 233, 320;
181st Rifle, 96;
193rd Rifle, 164, 189;
196th Rifle, 170f;
204th Rifle, 169, 172;
214th Rifle, 115, 157;
221st Rifle, 222;
245th Rifle, 201;
248th Rifle, 213;
284th Rifle, 142–3, 150, 154, 170, 203;
302nd Rifle, 169;
308th Rifle, 187–8;
347th Rifle, 215;
422nd Rifle, 356;
81st Cavalry, 232, 297
Red Army Aviation, 92–3, 110;
8th Air Army, 133, 138, 162, 195
Red October metalworks, 161, 163, 187, 189, 198, 204, 211f, 217, 303, 377
Reichel, Major Joachim, 71–2, 73
Reichenau, Field Marshal Walter von, 16, 22, 35, 47, 52, 53–4;
Reichenau order, 16, 53, 55, 56–57
Renoldi, General Dr Otto, 304, 315, 377
Reuber, Dr Kurt, 256, 283f, 312, 348, 421
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 4, 6–8, 214
Richthofen, General Baron W. von, 69, 96, 103–5, 113, 119, 216, 230, 233, 244, 246–7, 270, 292, 334, 360
Rodenburg, General Carl, 423, 426, 430
Rodimtsev, General A. I., 106, 131–2, 134–5, 138, 141, 163
Rodin, General A. G., 246, 252, 255
Rogatin, General, 132–3, 190f, 303
Rokossovsky, Marshal Κ. K., 23, 39, 106, 225, 298, 320–2, 324, 353, 365, 388, 396
Romanenko, General P. L., 241, 245, 296
Romanian armed forces, 20, 83, 87, 183–4;
in Kessel, 319, 355, 365, 377, 386
Third Army, 81, 184, 225, 226, 229, 230, 233–4, 239, 247, 252f
Fourth Army, 81, 147, 232, 248–9, 250
Divisions: 1st Panzer, 231,245, 252;
1st Cavalry, 239, 244;
6th Cavalry, 250;