Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich

ABBREVIATIONS

PREFACE vii ABBREVIATIONS AND FOREIGN TERMS AD AIB AJC Alpenfestung Ami Armeekorps BaStAM BdM Bezirksamt CAD Cav Rcnz Sq CC CIC DP Edelweiss Piraten FO Freikorps G-2 Gauleiter Gebirgsdivision Gebirgsjäger Armored Division Armored Infantry Battalion American Jewish Committee Alpine Fortress (national redoubt) American (German slang) German army corps Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv München (Bavarian State Archives, Munich) Bund deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls) local government district office Civil Affairs Division Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron Combat Command Counter Intelligence Corps displaced person Edelweiss Pirates (dissident youth gangs) Forward Observer (artillery) German paramilitary groups Intelligence section (U.S. Army) Nazi Party regional leader mountain division German mountain troops PREFACE viii Gestapo GI HJ ID IR Jabos JDC JIC Kampfgruppe Kraft durch Freude Kreisleiter Landkreis Landser LKA LRA MG NA Nibelungentreue NSDAP OMGBY OMGUS OKW Organization Todt Ortsgruppenleiter OSS Panzerfaust Panzergrenadier Panzergrenadier Division Panzerkampfgruppe PWD Pz RAD Regierung Regierungspräsident Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police) government issue (American infantryman) Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) Infantry Division Infantry Regiment Jagdbomber (fighter-bombers) (Jewish) Joint Distribution Committee Joint Intelligence Committee (for SHAEF) ad hoc German battle group Strength through Joy (Nazi organization) Nazi Party district leader county German infantryman Landeskirchliches Archiv Nürnberg (State Church Archives, Nuremberg) Landratsamt (district administrative office) Military Government U.S. National Archives (College Park, Md.) blind loyalty Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers Party) Office of Military Government for Bavaria Office of Military Government for the United States Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces High Command) German engineering/construction unit Nazi Party local leader Office of Strategic Services one-shot antitank weapon armored infantry armored infantry division armored battle group Psychological Warfare Division, U.S. Army Panzer (tank, armored) Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labor Service) government chief administrator of a region ABBREVIATIONS AND FOREIGN TERMS PREFACE ix Reichstag RG ROB RSHA SA SD SHAEF Sicherheitspolizei Spruchkammer SS StAN Tiefflieger Tk Bn UNRRA USFET VGD Volk völkisch Volksgemeinschaft Volkssturm Waffen-SS Wehrkraftzersetzung Wehrkreis Wehrmacht Werwolf Wolfsangel parliament Record Group Reserve Officers Battalion Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office) Sturmabteilung (Storm Troopers) Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service, part of the RSHA) Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force security police denazification court Schutzstaffel (elite Nazi troops) Staatsarchiv Nürnberg (Bavarian State Archives, Nuremberg) low-flying fighter-bombers Tank Battalion United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency United States Forces European Theater Volksgrenadier Division people, nation national, populist national community, people’s community “people’s storm” (German national militia) armed or combat SS undermining of the war effort military district German armed forces (often used to refer specifically to the army) werewolf; Nazi guerrilla and resistance movement wolf trap (a Werwolf symbol) ABBREVIATIONS AND FOREIGN TERMS ...