Summers, Brad 151–3
superstition 85
survivors’ stories, effect of 243–4
Swan, Peter 279
Swansea 56
Sweden 139, 279
‘swing youth’ 40
Tandy, Napper 11
target indicators 99, 111–14, 192, 280
telephone network 176, 304
Termer, Dr Franz 123–4, 177, 267
Thälmann, Ernst 20, 21
Things to Come(film) 51
thousand-bomber raid, Cologne, 1942 63
Tiefstack power station 303
The Times234
Timperley, Trevor 193, 195, 280
‘Tinsel’ 76
Titschak, Erich 207–9, 226, 231
Tizard, Sir Henry 69–70
Tokyo, firebombing of 334
total war 50
transport system 176
trees, bloom in September 306–7
Trenchard, Brigadier-General Sir Hugh 48–9, 50, 51, 60
Trojan Horse B17s 172
tuberculosis 312
Turin 268
Turkey 45
Turner, Geoff 100
typhoid 182
typhus 293
U-boat yards, recovery of 304
U-boats 322, 335
Ufa-Palast cinema 303
unemployment 24, 25, 31
United States of America
air-raid scares 52
attitude to the bomber war 338–9
German immigration 15–16
immunity from air attack xvii–xviii
reaction to the bombing 235
reconstruction aid 311
relationship with Hamburg 14–16
war production 63–4
United States Strategic Bombing Survey 261, 318–22, 323
Ursta, George 157
US Eighth Air Force 64, 68, see alsoindividual air raids
4th Bombardment Wing 128–9
VIII Bomber Command 128, 168, 173
91st Bombardment Group 138, 141, 150, 166, 168
97th Bombardment Group 66
303rd Bombardment Group 129, 138, 149, 150, 166, 167, 168, 169
351st Bombardment Group 138, 141, 150, 166, 168, 172
379th Bombardment Group 138, 150, 166, 167
381st Bombardment Group 138, 141, 147, 149, 150, 153, 154, 166
384th Bombardment Group 138, 139, 149, 150, 151, 154–5, 166, 167
532nd Squadron 154
544th Squadron 155
USAAF (United States Army Air Force)
agrees to bomb Hamburg 69
bombing accuracy 66, 164, 334
brashness 134
casualties 67, 173, 336
contrasts with RAF 132–3
daylight bombing policy 66–7, 132–3, 134–5, 333–4
first raids 65–6
flight formations 133, 164
follow-up raid postponed 185–6
grounded 248
lack of experience 132
life expectancy 135–6
RAF co-operation with 65
raid on Hamburg, June 1943 129, 138
raid on Kiel 248
rest policy 165
statistics 394–5
suspends operations 124–5
tactics 133, 134–5, 146, 333–4
target policy 338
victory claims 164–5
USDP (Independent Social Democratic Party) 18
utilities, restoration of 303–4
Vergangenheitsbewältigung 332
Versailles, Treaty of 25, 30–1
Voght & Sieveking 14
Völkischer Beobachter(newspaper) 245
Voss, Hannah 241
‘wakey-wakey’ pills 78
Wandsbek 32, 109, 221, 224
Wandsbeker Chaussee 221
war crimes 331
war declared 33
war economy, effect on 322–3
War in the Air, The(Wells) 45
war industries, return to production 304
Warboys 105
Warnemünde 130, 131, 145, 248
Warsaw, bombing of 54
Washington Post235
water supply 35, 177, 183, 288, 293, 304
weather 81, 123, 129–30, 137, 186, 202, 266–7, 268, 269
Wehrmann, Pastor Jürgen 305
Weir, Lord 49
Weise, Generaloberst 257, 278
Weldon, Joe 255
Wellham, Reg 197–8
Wells, H. G. 45
Wesermünde 172
White Rose movement 40
Wilde Sau fighters 191–2, 195–6,251, 254, 326
Wilhelmshaven 18, 172, 198
Wilken, Erika and Willi 217–18, 231
Wilmott, Tommy 309
wind 123
‘Window’ 75–6, 78–9, 82–3, 87, 92, 94–5, 97–8, 103, 105–6, 113, 182, 188, 189–90, 198, 250, 252, 254, 278
Winter, 1946–7 315
Winterhude 5, 123
wireless operators 79, 83, 87, 103, 142
Wittenburg 238
Witter, Ben 219, 292, 293
Wolff-Mönckeberg, Emil 124–5
Wolff-Mönckeberg, Mathilde 34, 123, 124–5, 294, 301–2
Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council 20
working hours 38
World Trade Center, 11 September terrorist attacks xvii–xviii
Wray, Air Commodore A. M. 188
Wulff, Herbert 205, 227, 230–1
Wuppertal xv, 68, 201
‘Würzburg’ radar system 74, 76, 97, 190
Zassenhaus, Hiltgunt 114–15, 175, 176–7, 240–1
‘Zephyrs’ 81
zeppelins 15, 34, 47