Hitler's Generals in America: Nazi POWs and Allied Military Intelligence

Index

237 Index Numbered military units are alphabetized as if spelled out. Adelheide, Germany: postwar British prisoner-of-war camp, 180 Adenauer, Konrad, 176 Afrika Korps, 15, 59, 70, 112 Afrikakorps-Verband (Africa Korps veterans association), 176 Afrikaner, 15, 33, 53, 98–99, 104, 126 Alexander, Harold, 20 Allied Captured Intelligence Centre, Algiers, 4 Allied war aims, discussion of, 93–94 American Captured Records Section, 165 American Expeditionary Force, 3 American methods of interrogation, 61–62 American military intelligence, 6, 62, 78, 137, 140–41, 143, 162, 182 American officer corps: democratic ideals of, 9; “natural aristocracy” of, 8–9; professionalization of, 9 American suspicions of professional militaries, 9–11 Anglo-American relationship, 5, 51, 53, 54, 78, 137–38 Armee Gruppe Afrika, 15, 19 Armee Gruppe Weichsel, 151 Armored Breakthrough, 154, 161 Aschenbrenner, Heinrich: added to British “stop list,” 180; interrogation of and eavesdropping on at Fort Hunt, 136–37, 139, 220nn9–10; transfer to Camp Dermott, 121 atomic bomb, 175–76 Australian War Memorial, 166 Austrian Document Center, 141 Austro-Prussian War, 155 Axberg, Olle, 119, 120–22, 123, 124 Badinski, Curt: photo of, 35; potential willingness to collaborate with the Americans, 100; repatriation and release of, 177, 178; surrender of, 35, 36; transfer to Camp Clinton, 80 Baldwin, Alfred: impressions of Elster, von Liebenstein, and von Sponeck, 119 “barbed-wire psychosis,” 88–89 Barbusse, Henri, 10 Barnett, Correlli, 8, 19 Bassenge, Gerhard: “Anti-Nazi and Defeatist” clique, 28–29; photo of, 17 Battle of Brest, 42–43 Battle of Crete (May–June 1941), 41–42 Battle of El Alamein, 15, 23, 42, 171 238 Index Battle of Kasserine Pass, 15 Battle of Kharkov, 37 Battle of Kirovograd, 42 Battle of the Mareth Line, 15 Battle of the Scheldt Estuary, 46 Battle of Zhitomir, 42 Bay, Thomas A., 124, 218n37 Bays, Thomas, 64–65, 218n37 Belgium, king and queen of, 22 Bernays, M. C., 5; inspection of Camp Clinton, 73–74, 76 Bieringer, Ludwig: expresses willingness to collaborate with Americans, 99–100; repatriation and release of, 177, 178; selected for transfer to Camp Dermott, 104; surrender of, 34, 36, 39; transfer to Camp Clinton, 77; transfer to Camp Dermott, 107, 124, 125 Birkhauser, [first name unknown], Lieutenant: prisoner of war at the Idea Factory, 114–16 Bismarck Reich, 115 Bissell, Clayton, 140 Blank, Theodor, 176 Blunda, George F., 142–46; photo of, 144, 150, 157 Boker, John, 138–39, 162 Bolero Group, 139, 166–67, 174, 179, 184. See also Gehlen Organization Borowietz, Willibald: American interrogation of and eavesdropping on, 57–60; arrival in the United States, 53; departure for the United States, 27; painted portraits of Camp Clinton, 73, 76; receipt of the Oak Leaves, 22; suicide of, 88, 134, 214n29; surrender of, 16 Bradley, Omar, 16 British Army of the Rhine, 156, 178 British Directorate of Military Intelligence, 159 British Eighth Army, 15, 18, 176 British First Special Air Service Regiment, 122 British General Staff, 140 British Home Army, 8 British House of Commons, 24, 159 British Joint Staff Mission, 152–53 British officer corps: nobility of, 7–8 British Royal Navy, 41 British “stop list,” postwar, 180 British War Office, 12, 79, 140, 141–42 Bruhn, Hans: release of, 178; surrender of, 49 Bryan, Blackshear M., 85 Buhle, Walther, 146, 149; correspondence with John Lovell, 157, 159; transfer to Ft. George Meade, 158 Bülowius, Karl Robert Max: American interrogation of and eavesdropping on, 57–60, 76; arrival in the United States, 53; comments recorded by the British, 26; departure for the United States, 27; surrender of, 17; transfer to Camp Forrest and suicide of, 87–88, 134 Bundesnachrichtendienst, 173 Bundeswehr, 174, 176, 185 Burgdorf, Wilhelm, 36 Busch, Ernst: assessment of von Arnim, 19 Byrnes, James F., 164, 224n76 Camp Alva, Oklahoma, 80, 110–13, 120 Camp Bolbec, Le Havre, France, 146, 169–70, 171 Camp Clinton, Mississippi, 54; accommodation of high- Index 239 ranking naval prisoners, 78–79; accommodations at, 67–68; alleged insolence of American guard personnel, 83; arrival of more generals after D-Day, 77, 78; arrival of the first general officers, 68, 211n32; assignment of aides and orderlies, 68; assignment of an assistant executive officer, 96–97; construction delays, 65; designation as camp for German general officers, 67; Feer’s and Gufler’s critical inspection report of, 70–73; generals’ preference for remaining at the camp, 82; generals split into pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi factions, 125–28, 132, 134...