Crowns, Crosses, and Stars: My Youth in Prussia, Surviving Hitler, and a Life Beyond

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305 D Index d Adenauer, Konrad, 227, 273, 304 adoption laws, 264 African Americans, 82, 247 African slaves, 295 Agnes, Princess, 190, 211 Air Force Hospital, 278, 281 air mines, 140, 162 air raids, 132, 140, 152, 160, 162, 164, 169, 231 Albert, Carl Edward George, Duke of SaxeCoburg and Gotha, 14 Alexander, Marshal, 173 Alexander, Tsarevich, 107 Alexanderplatz Prison, 70 Alexandra, Viktoria, Princess of House of Hessen and bei Rhein, 60, 61 allegiance oath, 235 Allen, Steve, 246 American Friends Service Committee, 258 American Red Cross, 268, 302 Andersen, Hans Christian, 30 Anschluss, 94 anti-Americanism, 266 anti-Bolshevism, 112 anti-Communism, 287 anti-Semitism and Catholic Church, 299 Jewish concentration camps, 49 Jewish student surveys, 63 Judenstern, 128 kin liability (“Sippenhaft”), 148 Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”), 101–102 legal codification of, 51 liquidation orders, 172 and nationalism, 79, 267–268 and Nazi party, 82 and Niemoeller, Martin, 107 and philo-Semitism, 226 popularization of, 74 profiting from extermination, 209 propaganda, 74 race laws, 73, 128–129 Semi-Gotha, 9, 10 slave labor, 49 theories, 9 Arabella, 170, 171, 174, 178–182, 186, 187, 189 aristocracy, 145, 214 Aryan descent questionnaire, 63 “Aryan paragraph,” 52 assassination, 112, 148, 256–257 astrology, 80, 245 Atkinson, Tom, 210, 211, 212, 220 Aufbau, 292 August Wilhelm, 53 Auguste Viktoria, Empress, 6, 11, 12, 43 Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp, 130, 135, 204, 227, 267, 289, 290 autobahn, 49, 217, 221, 277 Index 306 Baader, Andreas, 280 Bach, Dr., 105 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 288 ballet school, 118 Baranowski, Officer, 96, 97 Barbara, 159 Barth, Karl, 199 Battaglia, Charles, 181, 182, 184, 186–187, 188, 192, 193, 231 battle of Berlin, 176, 204 battle of St. Quentin, 13 Bavarian Alps, 66 Bayern, Albrecht von, Prince, 68 Beckett, Samuel, 221 Behnke, Colonel, 156–157, 163, 170 Belafonte, Harry, 247 Bell, George, 92, 122, 273 Bellevue Hospital, 245 Benny, Jack, 252 Berchtesgaden, 66, 153 Bergen-Belsen, 129, 204 Bergner, Elisabeth, 118 Berlin Airlift, 224 Berlin blockade, 224 Berlin State Theater, 117 Berlin Wall, 253, 286, 287, 288 Berlin Zoo, 153 Bertha, 284 Best, S. Payne, 121, 167, 172 Best Foot Forward, 256 Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von, 22, 23, 31 Beverly Hills Hotel, 252 Bitburg Cemetery, 294 “black border,” 193 Black Maria, 165 black market, 150, 153, 165, 207, 216, 224 “Black Society,” 247 blacklisting, 94 Blair, Frank, 246 Blockwart, 80 Bloom, Claire, 249 Blum, Léon, 167 Bodelschwingh, Pastor von, 38 Bolshevism, 51, 143, 149, 206, 214, 227 Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 229, 230 Bonhoeffer, Emmy, 185–186, 217 Bonhoeffer, Klaus, 186 book burning, 54, 117–118 Boone, Pat, 247 Bote & Bock, 58 Bowling, Jack, 284 Brauchitsch, Augusta Bertha Ottilie Helene von, née von Korn-Rudelsdorf. see Sell, Baroness Augusta von Brauchitsch, Eberhard Hubertus Hellmut Konrad von, 7, 8, 9, 73 Brauchitsch, Hans-Conrad von, 73 Brauchitsch, Hellmut von, 7 Brauchitsch, Herta von, 7, 8 Brauchitsch, Hildegard von, 7, 8 Brauchitsch, Konrad Louis Eduard von, 6, 7, 8, 9, 106 Brauchitsch, Konrad von (grandson), 7 Brauchitsch, Siegfried von, 7 Brauchitsch, Walther von, 78, 112, 132 Brecht, Bertolt, 117, 138 Bremer, Else, 37, 38. see also Niemoeller, Else Bremer, Herrmann, 37 Brenner, Justice, 235, 236–237, 238–239 bribery, 154, 185, 215–216, 224 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 95, 121, 140 British Intelligence, 191, 221, 243 British Military Police, 209, 220 British Royal Air Force (RAF), 127, 132 Brocovice, Velislaus von, 6 Brooklyn Academy of Music, 250 Brooklyn Friends School, 249 Brooklyn Heights, 249 Buchenwald, 172, 215, 290 Index 307 Budapest Reformed Theological Academy, 295, 296 Bund Deutscher Maedel, 64 Burns, George, 252 Bussche, Axel von dem, 140 Cäcilie, Crown Princess, 60 Calvinism, 296 Canaris, Wilhelm, 111, 142, 214, 229, 230 Canterbury, Archbishop of, 122 capitalism, 270 Capote, Truman, 249 Carson, Johnny, 246, 256 Carter, Jimmy, 282 Casals, Pablo, 250 Catholic Church, 51, 66, 79, 94, 121, 299 Celan, Paul, 272 censorship, 92, 96 Central Park West, 290 Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 9 Chamberlain, Neville, 140 Chase Manhattan Bank, 243 Checkpoint Charlie, 217, 288 Chiang Kai-shek, 100, 101 “Chief One,” 85, 87, 103–104 “Chief Three,” 85 “Chief Two,” 85 Children’s Hospital of Detroit, 228 “Christmas tree” devices, 162 Church of Hessen and Nassau, 200, 253, 266, 275, 285, 301 Church of Jesus Christ, 52, 104 Churchill, Winston Spencer, 190, 223 Claudia, 284, 291 Clay, Lucius D., 224 Coburg and Gotha, Duke of, 10, 13 cognitive dissonance, 140, 162 Cold War, 225 collective forgiveness, 272...