BERLINER ZEITUNG (B.Z.), Liberal daily, founded by Leopold Ullstein: 305f, 461.
BEWER, Max (1861–1921), German journalist (→Lokalanzeiger) and author: 292.
BIACH, symbolic name for credulous newspaper reader: 67ff, 76ff, 251f, 290, 354ff, 381, 398f, 432ff, 468f.
BIENERTH, Countess Anka Bienerth-Schmerling (1869–1937), wife of Prime Minister Richard von Bienerth (1908–11), honorary president of the →“Schwarzgelbe Kreuz” War Welfare organization and “Relief Meals for the Unemployed” during war: 233, 403, 445.
BIG BERTHA (“die dicke Bertha”), a 42-cm German howitzer, range c. 75 miles, especially effective in destroying the forts at Liège, Namur, and Antwerp: 128, 262, 266, 313, 348, 461, 502, 543, 578.
BIND AND FETTER (Anbinden), penalty for military indiscipline (for up to two hours daily) when imprisonment impracticable: 448, 473, 540.
BIRINSKI, Léo (1880–1920), dramatist, known for Nestroy adaptations: 44, 45, 507.
BLANKA, archduchess (1868–1949), m. →Leopold Salvator (1899): 238, 275, 486.
BLOCH’S WEEKLY (Blochische Wochenschrift, 1885–1920), organ for the promotion of Judaism: 80.
BOAS, Ismar Isidor (1858–1938), professor of medicine, Berlin, 329, 332.
BÖCKLIN, Arnold (1827–1901), Swiss landscape painter: 501.
BÖHM-ERMOLLI, Baron Eduard von (1856–1941), commander of Second Army in →Galicia and →Carpathians; relieved →Lemberg (June 1915); participated in the 1918 offensive in France: 111, 415.
BOMBE, Die, humorous weekly: xvii, 36, 76.
BOROEVIC, Swetozar Boroević von Bonja (1856–1920), led Third Army in relief of →Przemysl and at →Gorlice. Popular commander during 11 defensive battles on →Isonzo until final withdrawal of Austrians from →Piave after secession of other Central Power troops. Appointed field marshal (1918): 271, 272, 533.
BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (Map E4), Ottoman provinces annexed by Austria-Hungary in 1908; the ensuing crisis radicalized Young Serb intelligentsia, responsible for the assassination in Sarajevo: x, xii, xiv, 123, 591.
BRATIANU, Joan (1864–1927), sporadically Romanian prime minister: 359.
BREST-LITOVSK (Map G2), fortified town on River Bug where peace treaty was signed in March 1918 after negotiations between Central Powers and Soviet Russia, whereby Russia renounced claims to the Baltic lands, Poland, Finland, and Ukraine (hence “Brotfrieden”/“Peace for Bread”), sealing German victory in the east: xviii, 343, 503.
BRIEY-LONGWY (Map B3), basin in Lorraine, source of some two-thirds of French iron ore; occupied by German troops throughout the war: 297, 305, 426, 503.
BRISTOL, fashionable hotel on →Kärntnerring (Plan C4): 33, 34, 100, 136, 139, 172, 319, 321.
BROCKHAUSEN, Carl (1859–1951), German jurist, author of Österreichs Kriegsziel (Austrian War Aims, 1915): 65ff, 86.
BRODSKYS, “The Brodskys are one of the richest families in Kiev” (Map H2) — editorial by →Benedikt (→Neue Freie Presse, 4 July 1915): 80, 367.
BRODY (Map G2), town in Volhynia north-east of →Lemberg, focus of →Brusilov offensive: 272, 358.
BRÜCH, Oskar (1869–1943), artist and officer, published Unsere Heerführer (1915), 200 signed portraits of army commanders in the field: 217.
BRUDERMANN, Rudolf (1851–1941), Austrian commander in →Galicia, dismissed after defeat at Lvov (→Lemberg, September 1914): 101ff.
BRUSILOV, Aleksei (1853–1926), Russian commander on Russian South-western Front. During the surprise Brusilov offensive of June — September 1916 Russia inflicted a heavy defeat on Austria-Hungary along a 500-kilometre front from →Lutsk to →Czernowitz, breaching defences considered virtually impregnable, effectively eliminating Austria as a major military power, and taking some 350,000 prisoners of war, though with a million or more dead on each side. It has been argued that the subsequent collapse of the offensive made the Russian revolution possible: 358, 362.
BUDISCHOVSKY & Co., Viennese army supplier (shoes, leather goods): 218.
BUKOVINA (Map G3), province lying between Galicia, Russia, Romania, and Hungary; Austrian since 1775, Romanian after First World War: 109ff, 163, 510.
BULGARIA (Map G5), ally of Austria-Hungary (autumn 1915), whose defeat on Salonikan front (September 1918) foreshadowed the collapse of the Central Powers: 360, 418.
BUQUOY, probably Count Karl (1885–1952) and Count Heinrich (1892–1959), both in Uhlan regiments, decorated for bravery: 272f.
BÜRGERTHEATER, in Vordere Zollamtstrasse (Plan E3), playhouse and operetta theatre: 492.
BURGTHEATER →Hofburgtheater.
BURIÁN, Count Stefan Burián von Rajecz (1851–1922), succeeded →Count Leopold Berchtold as foreign minister (1915–16), finance minister (1916–18): 431, 433f, 458, 462.
BUTTMANN, Philipp Karl (1764–1829), German classical philologist: 356.
CADORNA, Count Luigi (1850–1928), chief of staff of Italian army (July 1914–November 1917), in command throughout →Isonzo campaigns, dismissed after → Caporetto: 336ff.
“CALL ME CUDDLE BUNNY!” (“Sag Schnucki zu mir!”), duet from operetta Die Rose von Stambul (1916), music by Leo Fall (1873–1925), libretto by Julius Brammer (1877–1943) and Alfred Grünwald (1884–1951): 481, 525.
CAPORETTO (Map D4), Battle of, scene in autumn 1917 of disastrous defeat inflicted on Italian army under →Cadorna by combined German and Austrian forces: xviii, 461.
CAPUCHIN CRYPT, and Habsburg tomb, in Kapuziner Kirche (Plan C4): 37, 377, 486f, 515.
CARNEGIE, Andrew (1835–1919), American industrialist and philanthropist: 191.
CARPATHIANS (Map F3/G3), 1,300-kilometre mountain range in south-east Europe; attempted Russian breakthrough to Hungary partially successful (late 1914–early 1915), but conquest of Galicia thwarted by February 1915 (→Uzsock Pass): 85f, 89f, 246, 406ff, 414, 542, 545.
CASEMENT, Sir Roger (1864–1916), Irish patriot, executed by the British for attempting, with German support, to enlist Irish prisoners of war in fight against Britain: 384.
CASSIAN, supposedly refused to record trial of suspected Christian centurion, Marcellus, in AD 298; both became Christian saints and martyrs. →Hans Müller wrote newspaper features as “Cassian at the Front”: 254.
CATTARO/Kotor (Map F5), Austrian navy base in Montenegro until 1918: 357.
CENTRAL POWERS (Zentralmächte), designation for the German Reich, Austria-Hungary, and other nations opposed to the →Entente.
CHABATZ (Schabatz, Šabac, Map F4), disputed Serbian frontier town on →River Save, scene of fierce fighting (August 1914–autumn 1915): 49, 388, 536.
CHAPEAU (Chapeau Rouge) (Plan C4), nightclub in Annagasse: 82, 319.
CHARAS, Heinrich (1860–1940), head of Viennese Voluntary First Aid Service: 43, 506.
CHERUSCAN SOCIETY, Cheruscia was a nationalist German duelling fraternity which became notorious in 1910 for serious injuries (III, 11): 258ff.
CHINESE WAR POET, Chong-fu-tse (c. 551–479 BC), author of “Epitaph for a Warrior”, trans. Klabund (1915): 494.
CHOTEK, Sophie (1868–1914), Bohemian countess, later Duchess of Hohenberg, →Franz Ferdinand’s morganatic wife: 31, 33, 34, 37, 41, 45, 122.
CLEMENCEAU, Georges Benjamin (1841–1929), French prime minister (1906–9, 1917–20): 358, 365, 367.
CLEOPATRA’S NOSE, satirical leitmotif deriving from a pretentious editorial in the Neue Freie Presse of 16 April 1915 containing absurd speculations about the causes of the war.
CONRAD →Hötzendorf.
CONSTANTINE, Roman emperor whose conversion to Christianity after the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (AD 312) is associated with a vision of the Cross and the words “in hoc signo vinces” (In this sign you shall conquer): 386.