INDEX
235
French Academy of Sciences 77 
French, Sir John 54, 87, 88, 99, 100, 101 
Fromelles 60, 87, 89, 98–113; (1916) 
136–46; British attack on 98, 128–9; 
casualties 107, 110–11, 140–41; losses 
111–12, 138, 141; ‘Sugarloaf’ 98, 141 
Galicia 101 
Gallipoli 100 
gas 128, 136, 172, 195–6 
Geiss, Imanuel 28 
George, Stefan 22–3 
Gerlach, Hellmuth von 41 
German atrocities 120 
German Fourth Army 54 
German press 29–30, 76–7; coverage 
of war 34–5; ‘field-post subscriptions’ 
16 
Germania (newspaper) 25 
Germany: advance into France 41; 
attitude to British Army 151; 
conscription 9, 36–7, 53, 170, 211n2; 
declaration of war against Russia 
(1914) 17 
Gheluvelt 54, 57, 60–1; British recapture 
62; List Regiment at 60–2, 63 
Gibbs, Philip 120, 121, 144, 152 
Grand Quartier Général (GQC) 87 
Graves, Robert 121 
Grey, Sir Edward 27, 30 
Gutmann, Hugo 114, 116, 131–2, 134; 
and Hitler 132, 134–5, 191 
Haas, Ludwig 118 
Hagen offensive 187 
Haig, Sir Douglas 89, 93, 139, 140, 165, 
170; ‘Special Order to the 1st 
Army’ 89–90, 92; and the 
Somme 148–9 
Haking, General Sir Richard 139, 140; 
Army Company Training Manual 140 
Hale, Oron 27 
Hamburger Fremdenblatt 
(newspaper) 30 
Hamman, Brigitte 22 
‘Hassgesang auf England’ (Song of Hate 
against England (Lissauer) 79–80 
Häusler, Rudolf 19, 21 
Headgear.List Regiment 74 
Heiden, Konrad 67 
Hepp, Ernst 20–1, 57 
Hess, Rudolf 15 
51st Highland Division 115 
Hindenburg, General Paul von 55, 167, 
194 
Hindenburg-line 162, 168–9 
Hintze, von 194 
History of the Franco-Prussian War of 
1870–71 22 
Hitler, Adolf: adolescence 13; assigned 
to 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment 
159–60; at Alsace 178; anti-Semitism 
208; appearance 58, 59, 107, 117; 
arrival in Munich (1913) 18–19; as 
a dispatch runner 11, 59, 63, 95, 
128–9, 163–4, 180, 203; as a supreme 
commander 205; awarded Iron 
Crosses 1st and 2nd Class 2, 8, 9, 
13, 65–7, 134, 190–91, 203; battlefield 
recollections 62; at Becalaere 57; 
beliefs 12; birth 20; books on 40; 
‘coarse, powerful mind’ 5; diet 39–40, 
179; eccentricity 15, 74; education 
7–8; enters politics 201; and Ernst 
Schmidt 39–40; fanaticism 2; former 
comrades’ memoirs 8; found unfit 
for Austrian military service 23, 35; 
at Fromelles 104–6, 107, 111, 116, 
128–9, 141; generosity to comrades 15; 
at Gheluvelt 62; and Gutmann 132, 
134–5, 191; illness 130; imperial 
vision 206; interests 16; journey to 
the 1914–18 Western Front (1940)
45–6; lack of promotion 15, 201, 204; 
at Laon 186; in Lille 47; lodgings 
at 34 Schleissheimerstrasse, Munich 
20; Mein Kampf 62, 66, 196; military 
development 205–6; in Munich (1914) 
17; in Munich (1916) 158–9; nature 
of 14, 15, 45, 81; at Neuve Chapelle 
95–6; ‘outstanding gallantry’ at Fontaine 
186; painting 21–2, 23; at Pasewalk 
196; patronage to comrades 40; pet fox 
terrier 82; physique 14, 35, 58; 
political commitment 16; political 
fanaticism 82–3, 117, 130; promoted 
to corporal 63; prudery 14, 131; 
qualities as a soldier 13, 15, 47–8, 202; 
racism 131, 132; reaction to outbreak 
of war 32–3; reading materials 12–13, 
22; return to List Regiment 162; 
service in List Regiment 1–3, 35, 39; 
sexual orientation 39, 40, 133, 180, 
212n15; social-Darwinist worldview 5;