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;