Fighting Fascism in Europe: The World War II Letters of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War

Index

INDEX Aachen, xxviii, xxix, 130n, 139, 142 Abraham Lincoln Brigade, xiii– xiv, xliv, l poem about, 249 Veterans of the, 101n Agnew, William C., Jr., 226 Aix-la-Chapelle, 130n American Communist Party, 203n, 207n anti-fascists, xi, 131 premature, xv, xlviii, 261 Aragon, Battle of, xiii Ardennes, Battle of, 178, 193 Ardis, Daniel T., 230 Army, U.S. and segregation, xvii, xxi, 3, 61 and Spanish Civil War veterans, xv–xvi Army Air Corps, xv Assembly Area Command, xxxv, xxxvi, 200, 211–12, 240 Astor, Lady, 27n Astor, Vincent, 27n Austria, 166 Bagramian, Ivan, 184, 184n Baker, George, 179n Bass, Charlotta, xlvi Belchite, xiii, 140 Belgium, 126 Berkner, George S., 227, 231 Blumenstein, Edward J, 224 Bottcher, Herman, xvi n, 172 Boulton, George, 225 Bridges, Harry, xlvi Browder, Earl, 78n, 203n Buchenwald, xxxv, 196 Bulge, Battle of the, xxxi, 153–57 Butler, Smedley, 251 Cadres Officer Course, 222 Camp Baltimore, xxxv, 200 Camp Claiborne, Louisiana, xix, xxi, xli, 59 Camp Oklahoma City, xxxv, 201– 10, 212–16 Camp Ritchie, Maryland, xviii, 42–53 Camp Washington, 210–11 Cane, David Earl, xxx, xlii, 133n, 134, 137–38 Cane, Grace Singer, xxi, xli, 45 Cane, Lawrence, 225, 230. See also Cohen, Lawrence awards received, xxxvi biography, xi–xiii comments on his soldiers, xviii, xxviii, xxxii death of, li–lii radio interview, 249–61 Silver Star documentation, 233, 235 Carentan, France, xxv, 86 censoring of mail, 77, 227 Champion, James L., 242 Cherbourg, 93n, 94n, 97, 192 Churchill, Winston S., 65, 65n, 146n, 173n 264 INDEX City College of New York, 75, 221 Clifton, James F., 243 Clivedens, 27 Cobra. See Operation Cobra Cockburn, Claude, 27n Cohen, Abraham, xii, 83n, 172 Cohen, Faye, xii, 77 Cohen, Lawrence, 220, 221. See also Cane, Lawrence Collins, J. Lawton, 144, 149, 237, 238 Cologne, 175 Combat Command B, xxvii combat experiences, xvi, xix, 223–24 sharing of, 10, 11, 17 Comintern, xi, 52n Communist Party of Germany (KPD), xxxv, 196 Communist Party-USA, xxxi, xlv, xlviii–xlix, 28n, 147 Communist (Third) International, xi, 52 concentration camps, 185n, 196 Buchenwald, xxxv, 196 Dora-Mittelbau, 185 Nordhausen, xxxiii, xxxix, 185n–186n Congress of Industrial Organization , 77 Corbera, xiv Counter Intelligence Corps, xxxv, 189n Crawley, Herman S., 229 Croix de Guerre (medal), xxviii Daily Worker, 28 Davis, Leon W., 227 Dawley, Jay P., 237, 241 D-Day, 227, 232 de Gaulle, Charles, 120n desegregation, xvii n, xxii, xlv, 67, 180n desertion of German soldiers, 183 discrimination, xvi, xxii racial, 63–64 against Spanish Civil War veterans , xv–xvi Distinguished Unit Citation, xxvii District Nazi Party Center, 180 Doolittle, James H. (‘‘Jimmie’’), 48n Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, 185 Duclos, Jacques, 202, 202n–203n East Prussia, 167 Edwards, F. V., 226 82nd Airborne Division, xxxi, 155n, 245 Eisenhower, Dwight D., xlvi, 120n, 148, 189n Elature, Tony, 249 1106th Engineer Combat Group, xxiii, 84, 86n, 99 England, 63–66, 69 Eschweiler, Germany, 171 Esler, Michael M., 226 European Theater of Operations, 78, 260 FFI. See French Forces of the Interior Fifteenth International Brigade, xi, xiv, 100n, 180, 195, 253 Filipiak, Anthony P., 243 First Infantry Division, 238 First U.S. Army, xxxiii, 136n, 180, 187 1st Platoon of Company C, xxvi, xxvii, 113n 582nd Engineer Dump Truck Co., xix, 54–55, 59n, 89, 222 INDEX 265 Fort Belvoir, Virginia, xviii, 31– 42, 53–59 Fort du Roule, 95n Foster, William Zebulon, 207n France, 83, 116, 214 Franco, Francisco, xi, l, li, 252, 258 French Forces of the Interior, 117, 121, 122, 123 French people, 111–12, 118, 121, 125 French Underground, xiii, xxix, 87, 124, 192 Fuentes del Ebro, Battle of, xiii, xiv Geiger Field, xviii, 4–11, 17–21 Gellhorn, Martha, 253 German-American Bund, xii German military, 124, 125, 138 Seventh Army, xxvii, 157 German people, 143, 176, 178, 194 Germany, xxxi, xxxii, 146, 165, 168 Germinal (Zola), 122 G.I. Bill of Rights, l, 205 Goebbels, Joseph, 168n Goldstein, Butch, l Gonshak, Sam, 249–61 Gravette, Donald C., 241 Greene, Jim, 172 Hallinan, Vincent, xlvi, xlvii Hankin, Leonard J., 220 Harmon, Major General, 234 Harrell, Joe S., 231 Harriman, Manny, liii Hemingway, Ernest, 253 Hene, Dr. Julius, 203n Herschmann, Carola, 137 Herschmann, Ellen, 137 Herschmann, Max, 134, 135n, 136, 137, 143 Herschmann, Ruth, 137 Hitler, Adolph, xi, 103, 105n, 141, 170, 250–52 Hitler Jugend, 102, 140 Hoefert, Richard E., 226 Holocaust Museum, xxxix homecoming, xxxvi, 217, 218 Hood, Lonnie A., 243 Hoover, J. Edgar, xlvii...