Index

A4 rocket programme, 817, 874–875, 908–910, 932
Abetz, Otto, 700–701, 770
Abwehr, 572, 574, 917–920
Abyssinia, 418, 438, 441–442, 454–455, 457, 467
Afghanistan, 734–735, 961
agriculture, 175
food prices and tariffs, 305, 314, 405, 428–429, 432–433, 447–448
food supply, 432–433, 447–448, 523–524, 762, 830, 963
forced labour, 567–568
global crisis (1927–1928), 175
Hitler’s speeches on, 175–176, 213–214
imports, 406, 439–440, 522–523
under Nazi regime, 440, 522–523, 567–568
Alfieri, Dino, 459–460, 467, 691, 716
Alsace-Lorraine, 39–40, 333–334, 341, 364, 555, 702–703, 827, 928
Alt, Rudolf von, 487–488
Altenberg, Jacob, 27
Alvensleben, Werner von, 244, 251–252
Amann, Max
arrest, 119
deposits donations, 103
as Eher director, 146, 198–199
on Hitler, 38, 41, 77–78, 148
Hitler’s behaviour toward, 41–42
as Hitler’s deputy, 104
as Nazi Party manager, 90, 107–108, 118
American Amateur Athletic Union, 458
Angriff, Der, 187, 198, 203, 213, 216–217, 429–430, 861–862
Anti-Comintern Pact, 468, 530–531, 533, 538, 544, 586–587, 601, 632–633, 708–709, 784–785, 828
Anti-Semitic League, 22–23
Antonescu, Ion, 706–707, 715, 739, 820–821, 863, 865–866, 896–897, 899, 928–929
Arbeitsgemeinschaft, 111
Ardennes offensive, 682–683, 689, 933–934
Arras, Battle of, 39
Association of German Bookshop Owners, 310–311
Association of German Employers’ Organizations, 304–305
Astachov, Georgi, 633
Atlantic Charter, 761–762, 768–769
Attolico, Bernardo, 639, 642
Auf gut Deutsch, 64–65, 67
August-Wilhelm of Prussia, 305
Auschwitz death camp, 808–809, 818–821, 860, 879, 901–902
Aust, Hermann, 95–96
Austria, 537, 543–550
annexation (Anschluss), 550, 571, 955
1933 coup attempt, 334–335, 343, 395–396
as central aim of Nazism, 551
confirmatory plebiscite, 552–553, 556–557
coordination policy, 547–549
early Nazi ambition for, 150–151
economic effects, 553–554
formal annexation, 551
Göring on, 468–469, 528, 544
Hitler’s ambitions for, 137–138, 544
Hitler’s decisive role in, 551, 644, 958–959
Hitler’s speeches on, 546
Hungarian diplomatic relations and, 367
Italy and, 333–334, 394–395, 543–544, 550
July agreement and, 455
mass arrests, 552
Neurath and, 334, 342
Pan-German demands for, 29
public opinion on, 646
Schussnigg agreement, 547, 551
South Tyrol and, 137–138
Wehrmacht invades Austria, 549
Catholic Church, 552
ethnic Czechs, 13–14
ethnic Germans, 12, 343
German diplomatic relations with, 367, 396–397, 455
German nationalism, 12
Hitler’s image of, 28
Italy and, 395, 441, 454–455, 468, 521, 528, 559
Jews
expulsion from, 589–590
persecution, 571
Nazi Party, 342–343, 395–396, 543–552
coordination measures, 343
DSP and, 87
reaction to Dollfuss ban, 342–343
tourism visas, 343
Austrian question, 395–396, 543–544, 546–549, 551
Axmann, Artur, 942
Baarová, Lída, 590–592
Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem, 388
Backe, Herbert, 835
Backhaus, Erich, 325
Bad Harzburg, 227–229, 231
Badoglio, Pietro, 871–872, 897
Bad Wiessee, 383–385
Ballerstedt, Otto, 92–93, 387–388
Barbarossa, Operation, C34
diplomacy prior to, 739, 741–743
German armaments production and, 799
Halder outlines plans, 719–720
Halder’s opinion, 719
initial operations, 743–750
Japan and, 728
Jewish annihilation and, 721
justification for, 743–744
military operations
Moscow offensive, 767–768, 777
southern sectory, 766–767
preparations for, 720, 723, 726
SS zones of operation, 731–732
Bárdossy, Lászl, 723–724
Barthou, Louis, 366
Bauer, Kurt, 395–396
Baumann, 63
Baumgarten, Alexander, 207
Baur, Hans, 238–239
Bavaria, 52, 69–70, 72, 91, 168–169, 950–951
anti-Catholic demonstrations, 766
army, 34, 82–83, 124
as ‘cell of order’, 72–74, 950
declaration as free state (1918), 49
government, 74–75, 92, 98, 109, 111–113, 117–118, 129, 131, 168–169, 293, 409–410
government protection for Nazi Party, 82, 112–113
Hitler’s claim to Bavarian identity, 93–94, 309
Kapp putsch and, 73–74
as Nazi ‘base’, 118, 143–144, 303
Nazi party in, 100, 148
Nazi seizure of power, 293
paramilitary (‘self-defence’) organizations, 53, 65–66, 73–74, 90–91, 114
Räterepublik, 50–52, 54–55, 57–58, 66, 85–86, 120–121
Reich government conflict, 98
Reichswehr presence, 114
state of emergency declared, 92
Bavarian Industrialists’ Association, 95–96
Bavarian Middle Party, 92
Bavarian Order Block, 74
Bavarian Peasant League, 49–50, 92–93
Bavarian People’s Party (BVP), 50, 92, 143, 233–234, 252–253, 271, 293, 299, 323, 336–338
Bechstein, Helene, 103
Beck, Fritz, 388
Beck, Józef, 423, 539, 612–613, 642
agreement with Hitler on threat of Bolshevism, 539
Danzig question, 600–601, 612–613
opposition to common Soviet Union policy, 601–602, 665–666
Ukraine and, 600, 612
Beck, Ludwig, 542, 556, 561, 563, 572–573, 918–919
Becker, Heinrich, 103
Belgium, 928, 932
civilian administration, 911
German withdrawal, 928
incorporation into Reich, 675–676, 691, 827–828
invasion plans, 624, 660, 674–676, 681–682
Jews, 808, 820
military commander, 772
neutrality, 630, 679, 689
resistance movements, 772
surrender, 691
Belgrade, 724–726
Below, Nikolaus von, 581, 609, 850, 934
Below, Otto von, 226, 229
Bełz˙ec death camp, 775, 807–809, 820–821
Benesch, Eduard, 469, 562, 576, 579–580, 602–603
Berchtesgaden agreement, 547–548
Berchtold, Joseph, 154–155
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 944
Berger, Gottlob, 821
Berlin
city transport services strike (1932), 260–261
as Reich Capital, 197–198, 260–261, 351–352, 445, 459–460, 492, 512, 694, 800
Berliner Tageblatt (BT), 126
Berlin Sportpalast, 286, 291, 557, 580, 704
Berlin State Opera House, 413, 417
Bertram, Adolf, 391, 764–765
Best, Sigismund Payne, 677–678
Best, Werner, 880–881
Beulwitz, Veit-Ulrich von, 388
Bier, August, 484
Bismarck (German battleship), 606, 736–737, 750
Bismarck, Otto von, 489–490, 606, 737, 750
Bloch, Eduard, 20
Blomberg, Werner von
appointment as Defence Minister, 271–272
Blomberg-Fritsch crisis, 500–501, 540–543, 545–546, 548–549, 592
marriage scandal, 541
removal from post, 542–543
complaints about SA armed units, 376–377
cooperation with Hitler, 284
doubts about conscription, 417
German withdrawal from Disarmament Conference, 359
Göring and, 536
invites Hitler to meet Reichswehr commanders, 283–284
opposition to war with Britain and France, 535–536
Reichswehr rearmament programme, 285, 338–339
doubts about success, 533–534
removal of expenditure limits, 439
removal of SA, 363, 376
Reichswehr to swear personal allegiance to Hitler, 399
support for Spanish coup, 456
tells Goebbels that Papen proposes to succeed Hundenburg, 380–381
Blood Flag, 154–155, 346–347, 496–498
Blum, Léon, 467
Bock, Fedor von, 679, 719–720, 748–749, 787–788, 822–823
Böcklin, Arnold, 487–490
Bodenschatz, Karl-Heinrich, 693–694
Boepple, Ernst, 55, 67–68
Bohemia, 608–609, 617, 678–679, 819, 827, 835, 882
Bohlen, Gustav Krupp von, 234
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 371
Bonnet, Georges, 582–583
book burning, 311–312
Boris III of Bulgaria, 459–460, 713–714, 739, 862, 873
Bormann, Martin, 356, 502, 882–883, 895–896
campaign against superstitions, 729
Committee of Three, 852–853, 859–860, 882, 895–896
conscription and, 852–853
execution of Hitler’s personnel matters, 503
Goebbels and, 896
Göring’s dismissal and, 946
as head of Party Chancellery, 809, 835–836, 852–853, 871–872, 876
Ley and, 801
military leadership proposals, 889
occupation policy and, 756–758
as part of ‘Gang of Four’ advocating radical course for war, 905, 911, 941
as part of Hitler’s entourage, 652–653, 670–671, 693–694, 819, 944–945
personal access to Hitler and, 835–836, 839
religious policy and, 764–765
roles on Obersalzberg, 356
as Secretary to the Führer, 882
Speer and, 884–885, 896
total war preparations, 924–925
unlimited scope of office, 502
Börsenblatt des deutschen Buchhandels, 311
Borsig, Ernst von, 95
Bose, Herbert von, 386–387, 391–392
Bose, Subhas Chandra, 735
Bothmer, Carl von, 57–58, 67
Bouhler, Philipp, 146, 670–671, 701–702
Boxheim documents, 230–231, 235
Bracher, Karl Dietrich, 280
Bracht, Franz, 252
Brack, Viktor, 670–671, 701–702, 775
Brandenburg, Ernst, 315–316
Brandmayer, Balthasar, 41–42
Brandt, Anni, 356
Brandt, Karl, 356, 669–671, 693–694, 765–766, 834, 839
Bratianu, Gheorghe, 468–469
Brauchitsch, Walther von, 573, 674, 698, 719–720
appointment as Army Commander, 542–543
Beck and, 556, 572–573
Czech attack plans, 575
Eastern war and, 699, 718, 745–749, 783
Einsatzgruppen activity and, 655–656
Greece and, 723
Italy and, 620–621
offers resignation, 679, 788
outlines Hitler’s views on Czech question, 563–564
questions troop effectiveness, 677, 679
rearmament targets missed, 599, 624–625
reprimanded by Hitler, 679
reprimanded by Hitler re: Czech question, 573–574
resigns, 788
Western war and, 675–677, 682, 690–691
Braun, Eva, 161–162, 354, 356, 938–939, 947–948
Braun, Otto, 208, 225, 282–283, 290–291
Brecht, Arnold, 282–283
Breker, Arno, 693–694
Brest, 851
Brest-Litovsk Treaty, 851
Brinon, Fernand de, 341, 364–365
Bruckmann, Hugo, 143
Brückner, Helmuth, 412
Brückner, Wilhelm, 356, 384, 693–694
Brüning, Heinrich, 196–197, 227, 229–231, 235–236, 243–245, 256–257, 318
attempts to extend President’s term of office, 235
Boxheim documents, 230–231, 235
as Chancellor, 227
appointed to role, 196–197
British government talks, 224–225
budget proposal, 200
DVP and, 224–225
Geneva disarmament conference, 224
Hindenburg demands right-wing reshuffle, 227
Hindenburg’s support for, 236
on Hitler, 209–210
Hitler and, 228–230
coalition talks, 235–236
Nazi coalition talks, 243
offers Nazis ministerial posts, 208–209
opposition to Nazi coalition, 210
opposition to war reparations, 209–210, 232
refuses Brunswick police funds, 211
SA ban, 240–241
Schleicher and, 243
Goebbels on, 243–244
Hitler denies SA mistreatment of politicians, 318–319
Papen and, 247
resigns, 245
threatens to leave Centre Party, 258
Brunner, Alfred, 69
Buchenwald, 454
Bulgaria, 712–715, 718, 725, 862, 873
non-involvement in war, 723–724, 873
Soviet invasion, 928–929
territorial concessions to, 696, 706–707, 725
unwillingness to join Tripartite Pact, 714, 721–722
Wehrmacht movement through, 722
Bund Oberland, 90–91, 110, 112
Bürckel, Josef, 510, 547–549, 551–553, 558, 590, 607–608
Burckhardt, Carl, 629, 631
bureau, 234–235
Burhenne, Karl, 95
Buttmann, Rudolf, 129, 146, 372, 390
Canaris, Wilhelm, 572, 574, 655–656, 715–716, 919
Canary Islands, 706–708, 736–737
Carol II of Romania, 601–602, 696, 706–707
Catholic Action, 386–387, 390–391
Catholic Bavarian People’s Party, 50
Catholic Church, 453, 475–476, 481
antipathy to Nazism and, 205
Austria, 552
avoidance of conflict during war, 766
Bolshevism as common enemy, 475–476
crucifix ban, 476
German Nationalism and, 12
Hitler and
AH spurns potsdam service invitation, 296
anger at in early life, 26
attempts to conciliate, 390
ignores request about future church policy, 431
hostile policy (1936), 474–475
Mit brennender Sorge (anti-Nazi encyclical), 479
opposition to Nazism, withdrawal of, 335
religious and cultural associations, 390
religious and cultural organizations, 523
subornment, 390–391
sexual prosecutions, 479
Vatican Concordat, 323, 330, 390
aims, 323–324, 335
Catholic anti-Bolshevism and, 476
dissolution of Catholic political parties, 323, 337–338, 389–390, 956–957
Hitler’s influence on, 344–345
Hitler’s opinion, 338
initiallment, 336
negotiations, 427
opposition to, 478–479
Papen’s pursual, 335
political pressure to conclude, 336–337
termination, 481–482
terms and content, 336
Centre Party, 196–197, 242, 253–254, 274–275, 281, 298, 335
dissolution, 323, 336–338
Hesse state government, 230–231
Hitler assures sanctity of judiciary, 298
Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor and, 254, 262–263
Nazi coalition negotiations, 242, 256–258, 271, 273, 281
Nazi Party and, Nazis demand support for Papen, 248
Nazi propaganda against, 250, 287–288
Presidential election (1931), support for Hindenburg, 236
Prussian state parliament (1932), 241–242
Reich Government (1930), 196–197, 208
antipathy to Nazi coalition, 209–210
dependence on SPD, 225
Reichsrat, 282–283
Reichstag elections (1932), 252–253
rejection of Papen, 247
support for Enabling Law, 298–299, 318
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 133–134
Chamberlain, Neville, 579, 581–582
Bad Godesberg meeting, 578–579
Hitler rejects Chamberlain’s proposal to continue negotiations with Prague, 580
Hitler’s attack on, 674–675
Munich conference, 581–583, 587, 630
Obersalzberg meeting, 577
upset at lack of transcript copy, 577–578
support for Poland, 612–613, 637, 643
Chelmno death camp, 808–809, 819
Christian Social Party, 11–12, 29–30, 79–80, 342–343
Churchill, Winston, 761–762, 793
Chvalkovský, František, 585–586, 602–604, 608–609
Ciano, Galeazzo, 454–455, 586, 621, 718–719, 722, 851, 872
Anti-Comintern Pact, 530–531, 587
appointed Foreign Minister, 454–455
discusses peace with Soviet Union, 851
First Vienna Award, 582
French armistice negotiations, 691–692
Hitler blames Ciano for death of Italian Fascism, 872
Italian statement of neutrality, 559
Italian war preparations, 629–630
Italy attacks Greece, 709–710, 714–715
Italy declares war on Soviet Union, 742–743
joint protocol, 468
Madagascar project, 700–701
offers troops for Indian campaign, 777
Pact of Steel, 620, 629–630, 708–709
personal meetings with Hitler, 468, 629–630, 694, 706–707, 851
Second Vienna Award, 706–707
Tripartite Pact, 708–709
Cincar-Markovic´, Aleksandar, 722
Class, Heinrich, 38–40, 68, 83, 87–88, 90, 94–95, 187–188, 304, 313
Cologne
Cathedral, 445
RAF bombing, 817
Combat League for Breaking Interest Slavery, 68
Combat League for the Commercial Middle Class, 304
Committee of Three, 852–853, 859–860, 882, 895–896
Communist Party of Germany (KPD), 50, 195, 197, 209–211, 258, 260–261, 280–281, 283, 287, 289–292
concentration camps, 484
Bergen-Belsen, 944
Czech prisoners, 818–819
Dachau, 93, 300, 384–385, 388–389, 454
forced labour, 568, 825, 875
Himmer’s, 513–514
Himmler’s reform, 454
initial establishment, 300
Jews imprisoned and murdered, 592–593, 816, 863, 903
Nazis imprisoned and murdered, 389
political dissidents, 388, 517, 657–658, 879
prisoners of war, 657–658, 907–908
Sachsenhausen, 454, 816
threat of imprisonment as political leverage, 432–433
conspiracy, 385–386, 392–393, 591, 594, 675, 677, 761–764, 914–915, 917, 919–920, 926–927
Conti, Leonardo, 670–671
Coulondre, Robert, 638
Crimea, 748
as Eastern Goths’ Gau, 755–757
German surrender, 888
military operations, 781, 887, 891, 899, 901
Crispien, Arthur, 290–291
Croatia, 725, 828–829, 879, 940
Csáky, István, 602–603, 622
Cuno, Wilhelm, 208–209, 211–212, 226
Curtius, Julius, 227
Cvetkovic´, Dragiša, 621, 722–723
Czecheslovakia, Poland and, 539
Czechoslovakia, 455, 561, 589, 602, 614–616, 623, 644–645, 933
annexation, 955
Carpatho-Ukraine, 585
destruction of, 555–556, 578, 614–615, 644–645
ethnic German population, 532
German diplomatic relations, 532–533
Hitler’s opinions on
as artificial construct, 531–532
decision on military action, 534–535
inevitability of German invasion, 528–529
as Soviet ally, 468–469
Hungary and, 538–539, 574–575, 578, 585–586, 602, 622
invasion
Blitzkrieg, 561
Czech mobilization as brinkmanship, 560–561
date set, 644–645
dependence on neutralisation of France, 548–549
destruction of state as aim, 538, 555, 584–585, 602–604, 645
hesitancy of military leadership, 572
Hitler commits to military action, 605–606
Hitler’s ultimatum, 579, 585–586
military preparations, 535–537, 559–561, 563–564, 575, 607–608
necessity of swift action, 561
risk of Western power intervention, 556, 563, 572–574
invasions
Italian neutrality, 559
Western powers state support for, 580
Jews, 603
Munich agreement, 645, 959
Nazi propaganda, 570, 575–576, 580
Sudeten Germans, 528, 532–533, 560
as part of anti-Bolshevist front, 467
as part of Reich, 528
Poland and, 578
Slovakian question, 606–607
as Soviet ally, 469, 471, 521
Sudetenland ceded at Munich conference, 583
Weekend Crisis, 644–645
Yugoslavia and, 539
Dachau concentration camp, 93, 300, 384–385, 388–389, 454
Dahlerus, Birger, 639–642, 652, 660, 667
Daladier, Edouard, 341, 364, 582, 587, 630, 641
Daluege, Karl, 452
Danzig, 628
dispute with Poland over, 333–334, 423, 537, 539, 586–587, 600–601, 612, 641
Britain’s role, 636, 641–642
German annexation, 651–652
German takeover plans, 642
Hitler increases demands, 640, 643
Poland breaks off negotiations, 631
as pretext for war, 628
elections, 425
Hitler’s speeches, 627–629
Darányi, Kálman, 538–539, 585–586
Darlan, François, 736
Darmstädter und Nationalbank, 224–225
Darré, Richard Walther, 306–307, 329–330, 375–376, 405–406, 440, 447–448, 510, 514, 835, 859–860
death camps, 775, 901–902
Auschwitz, 808–809, 818–821, 860, 879, 901–902
Bełz˙ec, 775, 807–809, 820–821
construction, 794
deportations to, 807–808, 818–821, 826, 866
Jews in, 703, 808–809
Decree for the Protection of the Armaments Economy, 802
Defregger, Franz, 487–488
Denmark, 621, 630, 686–688, 827–830, 880–881
Detten, Georg von, 386–387
Deutsche Bürgervereinigung, 55
Deutsche Handlungsgehilfenverband, 96
Deutscher Kampfbund, 112–114, 117, 120–121, 127–128, 130–131, 279–280
Deutscher Schulverein, 12–13
Deutscher Sprachverein, 12–13
Deutscher Volkswille, 99–100
Deutsche Staatspartei, 241–242, 292–293
Deutsche Studentenschaft, 311–312
Deutsche Volksrat, 60–61
Deutsche Volksverlag, 67–68
Deutsche Werkgemeinschaft, 87–88, 99–100
Deutsche Zeitung, 81
Deutsch-völkische Schutz- und Trutzbund, 55–56, 67–72, 82, 84, 99–100
DAP and, 70–71
Dickel, Otto, 87–89, 99–100
Dietl, Eduard, 66–67
Dietrich, Otto, 384, 551–552, 660, 767, 840
Dietrich, Sepp, 386
Dimitroff, Georgi, 365
Dingfelder, Johann, 71
Dinter, Artur, 146, 184–185
Dirksen, Herbert von, 208–209, 456
Dittmann, Wilhelm, 290–291
Dohnanyi, Hans von, 917–919
Dohrmann, Franz, 398–399
Dollfuss, Engelbert, 342–345, 366–367, 395–396
Dönitz, 868, 947–948
Dornberger, Walter, 874
Dorpmüller, Julius, 835
Dorsch, Franz Xaver, 906
Drexler, Anton, 63, 65–66, 69–70, 85–87
Action Committee, 80–81
DSP and, 87
foundation of DAP, 64–65
founds National-Sozialer Volksbund, 147
as honorary party president, 90
Drexler, Anton
invites Hitler to join DAP, 63, 65
Münchener Beobachter transferred to, 83
objections to Hitler’s claim to be 7th DAP party member, 63–64
opposition to Hitler, 89–90
as party chairman, 70, 133
party programme, 71
responds to Hitler’s threat to quit party, 89
Drexler, Anton, Thule Society membership, 64–65
Duesterberg, Theodor, 188, 229, 236–238, 271, 273, 308–309
Dufter, Georg, 52
Düsseldorf Industry Club, 233
DVP, 193–197, 201, 211, 224–225, 227, 234–235, 252–253, 292–293
East Asia, 467, 635–636, 727, 730–731, 785, 793, 796–797
East Prussia, 205, 250–251, 254, 291, 397–399, 600–601, 612, 631–632, 653, 932–933, 935–936
Ebert, Friedrich, 92, 124–125, 144–145
Eckart, Dietrich, 55, 57, 85–86, 103, 115–116
Auf gut Deutsch, 64–65
Bothmer and, 57–58
DAP involvement, 67, 89, 107–108
dramatic works, 67–68
Hitler and, influence on, 76
Kapp putsch, 72–73
Münchener Beobachter fundraising, 83
poetry, 101–103
as Schutz- und Trutzbund speaker, 55
Völkischer Beobachter editorship, 90, 108
Eden, Anthony, 376, 416–418, 421, 471–472
Edward, Duke of Windsor, 538
Egypt, 699, 710, 712, 714–715, 734–738, 961
Ehard, Hans, 120–122
Eher Verlag, 67–68
Ehrhardt, Hermann, 73–74, 91
Eichmann, Adolf, 590, 603, 667, 901–902
Eicke, Theodor, 389
Einsatzgruppen, 653–656, 666, 734, 759–760
Eiserne Faust, 65–66
Eisner, Kurt, 49–50, 56
El Alamein, battle of, 821–822, 845–846, 848
election, 129, 178–180, 200–203, 237–242, 247–248, 258–260, 269–270, 288, 445–446
Elser, Georg, 677–678
Eltz-Rübenach, Paul von, 272–273, 477–478, 482–483
Enabling Law, 300–301
Church rights and, 324, 335
dependence on existence of coalition, 308, 320–321
extension, 501–502
Goebbels on plans, 253–254
Hitler on, prior to assuming Chancellorship, 262–263
Hitler’s monopoly of power through, 300–301
limits on Hitler’s power, 297
Reichstag consideration, 297
support for, 299
transfer of presidential powers and, 397
Engel, Gerhard, 693–694, 708, 847–848
Engelhardt, Philipp, 38
Epp, Franz Ritter von, 65–66, 83, 200–201, 208, 293, 303
Erhardt. Hermann, 114
Ernst, Karl, 386–387
Ernst, Max, 485–486
Erzberger, Matthias, 92
Esser, Hermann, 51–52, 65–66, 85–86, 89–90, 147, 149–150
Esser, Thomas, 90, 102, 107–108, 127–128, 130, 133, 146, 149–153, 257
Estonia, 621, 827
eugenics, 139–140, 437
euthanasia programme, 668–673, 701–702, 762–766, 774–775, 956–957
Evangelisches Jugendwerk, 372
Evian conference, 589–590, 595–596
extermination, 96, 731, 775, 793–794, 833, 857, 961, 963–964
Falkenhausen, Alexander von, 772
Falkenhayn, Nikolaus von, 687
Falkenhorst, Nikolaus von, 788
Falter, Jürgen, 204–205, 253
Farinelli, Roberto, 870–871
Farouk I of Egypt, 735–736
Faulhaber, Michael von, 475–477, 479
Feder, Gottfried, 55, 65–66, 68, 107–108, 146, 150–151
anti-capitalism, 211
anti-Semitism, 57–58, 60, 67, 75
chairmanship of Economic Council, 214–215
dismissal from Ministry of Economics, 412
as economics spokesman, 259
fury at dissemination of party programme, 150–151
importance in Munich völkisch scene, 68
speeches, 57–58, 63, 69–71, 154–155
Fegelein, Hermann, 947
Feininger, Lyonel, 485–486
Feuerbach, Anselm von, 488–490
Fick, Roderich, 493
Filchner, Wilhelm, 484
Filoff, Bogdan, 722, 873
Final Solution, 672–673, 807
Finland, 699–700, 712
arms exports to, 707
German diplomatic relations, 707
Soviet-German relations and, 712–713, 732, 739, 741–742
Soviet invasion, 686–687, 742
Fischböck, Hans, 596
Flag Law, 433
Flammenwerfer, Der, 250
Flanders, first Battle of, 35–37
Flick, Friedrich, 233–234
Fobke, Hermann, 126, 130–133
Forster, Albert, 628–629, 631–632, 642, 663–664
Förster, Helmuth, 789–790
Four-Year Plan, 513–514
France
Allied invasion, 907–909, 927–928, 935–936
German withdrawal from, 928
Alsace-Lorraine dispute, 39–40, 333–334, 341, 364, 555, 702–703, 827, 928
Anglo-German cooperation against, 138
armaments expenditure, 625
attempted rapprochement, 345
Belgium and, 674
blamed for starting war, 643, 661–663, 674–675
Britain and, 539
diplomatic tensions between, 561
colonial possessions, 708, 710, 714, 736
communism in, 467, 469–470, 539
Czecheslovakia and, 531–532, 539, 548–549, 555, 560–561, 573, 644, 955
diplomatic isolation of Germany, 366
as enemy of Germany, 561
as enemy of National Socialism, 209–210
Geneva disarmament talks, 364, 366, 416–418
German invasion, 691–693
German naval expansion and, 420–421
German trade with, 405–406
Goebbels on, 548
guarantees Greek and Romanian independence, 619
Hitler and
Alsance-Lorraine dispute, 341
French interviews, 364
opposes Streseann’s rapprochement policy, 208–209
renounces territorial demands, 415, 651–652
Hitler on, willingness, 341
Hitler’s opinions on, 75
Italy as suitable ally, 196
Italy and, 182, 366
Italian occupation zone, 880, 964–965
Italy as suitable German ally, 183
Jews, 770, 775, 808, 818–820, 866, 880
joint declaration of German contravention of Versailles Treaty, 418
Madagascar plan and, 701
Munich Conference, 581–582
Neurath on impossibility of German alliance, 333–334, 341
Poland and, 423, 612–613
popular front government, 467
as potential opponent, 535–536
prisoners of war, 830
Saar dispute, 413, 415
south of, German replacement of Italian troops, 871, 876–880
Soviet Union and, 283–284
Franco-Soviet pact, 425–428, 441–444
as part of potential Soviet alliance, 521
Soviets offer Britain and France pact, 632
Tripartite Pact and, 619–620, 632
under Nazi occupation
armistice negotiations, 692–693
dependence of future role, 828–829, 864
food and commodity supply to Germany, 830
France required to participate in war on Britain, 705–706, 708
reprisal shootings, 772–773
resistance movements, 772
war on Britain and, 734–735
unreadiness for war, 636
war plans against, 587
Franco, Francisco, 456–457, 635, 707–708, 714–716, 719
François-Poncet, André, 341
Frank, Hans, 721
as Governor-General of Poland, 757
Lidice massacre, 819
Madagascar project, 700–701, 703
resettlement of Jews in Poland, 721
transfer of powers to Himmler, 818
as Nazi attorney, 207
as part of Hitler’s entourage, 559, 664–665
resignation of Reich Legal Office headship, 824–825
Frank, Karl Hermann, 532–533, 575–576, 818–819
Frankfurter, David, 440–441, 591
Fränkischer Kurier, 233–234
Frederick the Great, 116–117, 127, 295–296, 487–490, 789, 910–911, 943
Goebbels draws parallels between Hitler and, 812–813
Freisler, Roland, 824, 926–927
Frick, Wilhelm
as head of Munich police political department, 53, 83–84
arrest, 119
as member of Reich Defence Council, 642, 658–659
as Minister of the Interior, 271–273, 292–293, 318, 430
anti-Jewish legislation, 433–434
Brüning and, 318–319
Church policy, 325, 372, 409
comments on price increases, 428–429
complaint about concentration camp system, 454
divorced of so-called mixed marriages, 860–861
Kerrl as Church Commissar, 430
Reich administrative reform, 511, 835
Reich governorships appointed, 303
removal from post, 882
as Nazi Reichstag leader, 218–219, 226, 264–265, 270
ministerial post demands, 253–254, 270
support for DAP, 83–84
as Thuringian Interior and Education Minister, 194
civil service purge, 194–195
implementation of Nazi policies, 194–195
removed from post, 195, 216
Fritsch, Theodor, 143–144
Fritsch, Werner von, 411–412, 536, C25, 541, 545–546
argues against allowing Britain and France to be enemies, 535–536
Blomberg-Fritsch crisis, 535–536
doubts about rapidity of Reichswehr expansion, 417
homosexuality scandal, 541–542
removal from post, 542–543
symbolic rehabilitation, 563–564
trial, 543
Fromm, Friedrich, 922
Frontbann, 131, 215–216
Führer (office of ), 500
Führer myth, 952–954
Führer principle, 101, 149, 152, 169–170, 206–207, 304–305, 307, 350
Funk, Walther, 259, 350, 541, 642, 658–659, 835, 924–925
Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 310, 484
Gablenz, Freiherr von, 789–790
Gailani, Raschid Ali al-, 735–736
Galen, Clemens August von, 764–765
Gansser, Emil, 95, 103
Ganzenmüller, Albert, 835
Gayl, Wilhel Freiherr von, 257–258
Gebhardt, Karl, 885
Geibel, Emanuel, 101
Geilenberg, Edmund, 907
Geisler, Fritz, 94–95
Gemlich, Adolf, 59–60
General German Language Society, 12–13
General German Trade Union Federation, 313–314
General Government, 667, 721, 830
administrative guidelines, 664–665
establishment, 664–665
Galicia district, 775
Jewish reservation, 666–667, 702
Jews
extermination plans, 794, 807
murder programme, 818, 820–821
Jews deported to, 721, 773–774, 807–808, 820–821
Madagascar project and, 703
transport ban, 820
General Plenipotentiary for Total War, 929
Geneva Disarmament Conference, 338–339, 346, 358, 467
German aims, 224
German attempts to induce failure, 358, 367
German demands, 338–340
German withdrawal, 363
Hitler threatens, 344–345
MacDonald Plan, 340–341
removal of permission for German rearmament, 341–342
Gereke, Günther, 272–273
Gerlich, Fritz, 387–388, 390–391
German Agricultural Council, 305
German Democratic Party (DDP), 92, 193, 196–197, 201, 204
German Faith Movement, 427
German Labour Front (DAF ), 314, 349–350, 450–451, 506–507, 553
business interests, 506–507
leisure organization (Kraft Durch Freude), 349, 506–507
membership levels, 503, 506–507
Volkswagen project and, 450–451
German League for Protection and Defiance, 55
German Nationalism, 9–16, 28, 81, 218–219, 231, 254, 322
German Nationalist Party, 231, 247
German Nationalist People’s Party (DNVP), 69–70, 242, 271, 320
agricultural interests, 175
Bad Harzburg conference, 228–230
Bayerische Mittelpartei and, 55, 92
defections to Nazis, 320
dissolution, 321–324
electoral performance, 192–193, 204, 237–238, 241–242, 252–253
expansion programme, 193
funding, 211
Harzburg Front, 236
Nazi attacks on, 308
Nazi cooperation with, 69–70, 177–178, 191–192, 194, 226–227, 291–292
Nazi propaganda against, 259, 261, 307–308
Prussian government, 248
in Reichstag, 197, 225–226
Hitler government, 320
Papen government, 247
German National People’s Party, 69–70
German navy, 420, 606, 623–624, 737–738, 750
Z-Plan, 680
German People’s Party, 12, 15–16, 323
German Revolution, 49, 188
German Socialist Party (DSP), 68–69, 87–89, 99–100
German Theatre Employees’ Cooperative, 310
German-Volkisch Freedom Movement (DVFB), 143–144
German-Völkisch Freedom Party (DVFP), 128–130, 132, 144–145, 154
German Workers’ Party (DAP), 63–65, 950
Munich right-wing politics and, 64
Germany
1918 revolution, 49
1929 referendum, 191
1931-32 economic crisis, 224–225, 231–232
declaration of WWI, 33–34
economy, 173–174, 232, 404–406, 464, 522, 546, 569, 912, 941, 958–959
armaments spending, 404–405
ore mining, 407
petroleum products, 407
unemployment, 111–112, 196–197, 213–214, 250, 259, 282–284, 314–317, 377–379, 405, 658
national flag, 433
Gersdorff, Freiherr von, 859, 919
Gestapo, 919–920
arrests of Jews, 592–593, 816, 880
cultural blacklists, 311
gas chamber, 666
Himmler as chief, 375–376
investigates coup attempt, 919–920
murders, 386–387
as part of police state, 504–505, 517, 657
preventative action against political subversives, 452–453
provocative action in Poland, 615
public morale and, 448
Wehrmacht cooperation, 655–656
Gibraltar, 699, 705–708, 712, 714, 716, 737–738
Giesler, Hermann, 492–493, 693–694
Glaise-Horstenau, Edmund, 546, 548–549
Globocnik, Odilo, 775, 794, 807, 820–821
Goebbels, Magda, 220–223, 230, 305, 309, 354–355, 443, 628, 938–939
Goebbels, SA and, 216
Goebbels, Strasser and, 155–156
Goebbels, Joseph, 202–204, 220–223, 485–486, 859–861, 871–872, 894–895, 912–913, 924–925, 940–941
ambition for Nazi Party, 241–242
anticapitalism, 214–215
appointed Gauleiter, 155–156
at Bad Harzburg, 228–229
Below on, 581
as Berlin Gauleiter, 191–192, 202–203, 218–219, 553, 860–861
Jewish persecution, 429–430, 571–572, 702, 771–772, 860–861
publishing control, 197–198
on Brüning, 245, 257
campaign against the occult, 729
civilian responsibilities, 833
Committee of Three and, 895–896
coup attempt and, 922
diaries, 150–151, 243–244, 248, 262–263, 289–290, 383–384, 386–387, 396–397, 469–471, 938–939, 941
Schelicher offers Strasser Vic-Chancellorship, 265
diary
extracts published, 265
tampering, 265
discussions with Hitler, foreign policy, 555
Dollfuss putsch, 396
exclusion from economic policy meetings, 213–214
expansion of Der Angriff, 198
foreign policy
Japan, 456
Yugoslavia, 724
foreign policy discussions, Soviet Union, 940
foreign policy positions, 431–432, 438
foreign policy views, 152–153
as Gauleiter of Berlin, appointment, 154
Geneva Disarmament Conference, 358
Himmler and, 896
on Hindenburg, 262–263
on Hitler, 264–265, 369
acclaims Hitler as genius, 152
anger at DNVP, 197
Bishop Müller and, 371–372
on eve of war, 652
Geli’s death, 223
Hitler ponders Centre Party coalition, 253–254
Hitler’s health, 797, 895, 940
Hitler’s speeches, 154–155
Jewish policy, 436
Mussolini and, 454
Olympic Games, 461
Reichstag fire, 290
reverence for, 152–153
Stalhelm concessions, 187
as successor to Frederick the Great, 812–813
Hitler and, 197
Hitler’s praise for Goebbels, 153
Magda Quant, 220–221
policy discussions, 409–410, 415–416, 418
presses for more concrete policy statements, 213
Rhineland occupation, 442–443
tour of SA pubs, 203–204
Italy and, 870–872
Jews and, boycott, 301
Kapp putsch, 216–217
marriage, 221–222
affair with Lída Baarová, 590–592
Munich conference, 581
named as Hitler’s successor, 947–948
narcissism, 155–156
on Nazi economic policy, 214
on Nazi inability to form governments (1932), 241–242
as Nazi propaganda chief
appointment, 198–199
election campaign management, 201
party programme (1920), 213
as Nazi propaganda head, 286
on Nazi ralllies, 188–189, 415, 580–581, 925–926
Nazi-Sozi pamphlet, 218
on Palais Barlow, 200–201
Palais Barlow, 200–201
on Papen government, 251–254
personal ambition, 209–210
personal relationship with Hitler
encourages Hitler to put himself up for Reich Presidency, 236
Goebbels’ affair with Lída Baarová, 590–592
Hitler’s praise for Goebbels, 153
Magda Goebbels and, 220–223
presses Hitler toward socialism, 217
Plebiscite Law, 359–360
as Plenipotentiary for Total War, 833, 924–925, 929
conscription efforts, 929
dissolution of Prussian finance ministry, 930
policy discussions, 443
Church policy, 764–765
Czecheslovakia, 455, 579–580, 606–607
Final Solution, 786, 794–795
foreign policy, 602
judicial reform, 811
occupation policies, 695, 760–761
peace deals (1943), 886
Poland, 422–423, 642–643, 661
Soviet Union, 684–685
total war, 909–910
as Propaganda Minister (1933–1945), 294–295, 875–876
anti-British propaganda, 618, 627–628
anti-Semitic propaganda, 761, 771, 779, 861–862, 865–866
Austrian Anschluss propaganda, 546–550, 557
book burnings, 311–312
church policy, 331–332
Church policy, 477–479
combination of party and state roles, 510, 514
creates Austrian Reich propaganda office, 551–552
cultural policy, 403–404
cultural portfolio, 295
cultural purge, 310–312
Czecheslovakia and, 559–560, 570, 575–576
Czecheslovak propaganda, 607–608
demands dissolution of Centre party, 336–337
Eastern front propaganda, 778–779, 861
food shortages, 440, 447–448
German Art Exhibition, 485–486
Hess and, 729–730
Hitler bows to Hindenburg, 296–297
Hitler’s 53rd birthday celebrations, 812–813
Hitler’s speeches, 894–895
Jewish persecution, 590–593
Jewish star marking, 764, 768
Nazi rallies, 580–581, 925–926
Polish propaganda, 646–647
press interventions, 656–657
propaganda guidelines, 840
radio broadcasts, 295, 350, 741
Reich Chamber of Culture, 351
seizure of power celebrations, 853–854
Soviet propaganda, 760–761
structure of Propaganda Ministry, 295
total war propaganda, 852–853, 855–860, 883
winter clothing collection campaign, 792
quotes Hitler
anti-Semitism, 571
on Austrian Anschluss, 528–529
Battle of Monte Casino, 891
on Benes, 576
Blomberg-Fritsch affair, 542–543
on Brauchitsch, 788
on Catholic Church and homosexuality, 474–475
Church policy, 557
on Church policy, 478–480
on Czecheslovakia, 577–578
on division of Europe, 469–470
on Eastern front, 816–817
at end of war, 938–939
fight against Bolshevism, 467
on Final Solution, 808
on foreign policy, 611
on Franco, 708
on generals as rubber men, 790
House of German Art, 485
on Hungary, 898–899, 902
on Italy, 467, 908
on Jewish persecution, 571
on Jews, 854–855
on Leningrad, 753–754
on Mussolini, 877
occupation of Rhineland, 441–443
on offer to Britain, 697–698
Operation Barbarossa, 766–767
on Poland, 618
on Reich as continuation of Holy Roman Empire, 683
on total war, 860
on war with Britain, 674–675, 683
radio broadcasts, 281, 287, 791
Reich inspector of civilian air war measures, 893
Reichstag fire, 289–290
relationships, Magda Quant, 220–223
Ribbentrop and, 470–471
Rosenberg and, 403–404
SA and, 203–204, 383–387
speeches, 152, 349, 362
Church policy, 480
on culture, 486–487
Hindenburg and, 313
Hitler critical of, 529
introducing Hitler, 444–445
Kristallnacht, 592
on total war, 856–857
vetted by Hitler, 869
Speer and, 896, 912–913
on Strasser, 265, 267
suicide, 945
total war, purge of generals, 925–926
total war and, 924–925
Goerdeler, Carl Friedrich, 257, 407, 429, 432–433, 439, 461–462, 512, 918–919
Goering, 267
Goltz, Rüdiger von der, 188, 208–209, 226, 229
Gömbös, Gyula, 366–367, 468–469
Göring, Carin, 110
Göring, Hermann
Austrian Anschluss and, 545, 549
Blomberg-Fritsch affair, 541
as Commissar for Raw Materials and Foreign Exchange, 466, 474, 522–524, 536
establishes Hermann Göring steel works, 533–534, 566–567
rearmament plans, 565, 569, 588, 597
Committee of Three and, 859–860
contentration of power in, 924–925, 958
creates Jewish Emigration Office, 603
Cuno as Reich President candidate, 208–209
diplomatic missions
Britain, 639–640, 642, 685
Hungary, 468–469, 574–575, 580–581
Mussolini, 366–367, 528, 544
Poland, 422–423, 539
direct contact with Hitler, 839
exclusion from economic decision-making, 833
food industry foreign exchange mediation, 440, 447–449
Four-Year Plan, 470, 512–514, 566, 588, 758, 801, 958
anti-Jewish measures, 595
Economics Ministry assigned to Göring, 541
Kristallnacht clearup, 594–595
Speer’s central planning committee, 802
General Government and, 663–664
Hitler on, 470
names Göring successor, 501–502, 542–543, 651–652
industrial and business contacts, 212, 218–219, 226, 470
Jewish policy, 596, 655–656
Madagascar Plan, 701
Kapp putsch, 119
Kristallnacht and, 594–595
as Luftwaffe head, 416–417, 457, 849–850, 924–925
Ju-88 programme, 680
Me-262 bomber programme, 907
as Military Court Chairman, 543
as Minister without portfolio, 272–273
personal relationship with Hitler, 105–106, 208–209
powers and prestige, 513–514, 542, 833
as Hitler’s deputy, 501–502, 659, 729, 946
removes Funk from Economics post, 659–660
as Prussian interior minister, purge of democratic officials, 288
as Prussian Minister of the Interior, 271–273, 295, 303
bans Communist Party meetings, 287, 290–291
Winterfeld and, 320
as Prussian Prime Minister, 303, 320, 375–376
amalgamation of Prussian ministries, 375–376
raw materials production campaign, 461–462, 465
as Reich Commissioner for raw materials and foreign exchange, 449
as Reich Forestry Office chief, 375–376
as Reich Marshall, 542–543, 697–698
on Reichstag fire, 290
as Reichstag President, 257–258, 262–263, 274, 289
as SA commander, 383
anti-Jewish attacks, 293–294
appointment, 110
leadership purge, 383–387
speeches, traitors, 412
Speer and, 884–885, 906–907, 911–912
support for Franco coup, 456
Göring, Hermann denounces military ‘traitors,’ 412
Graefe, Albrecht von, 128, 130, 132, 143–144
Graf, Ulrich, 85–86, 107–108
Grandel, Gottfried, 83
Graz, 493, 547, 557
Great Britain, 182, 422, 427–428, 472, 538, 561, 640–641, 644, 651–652, 674–675, 697–700, 738, 817
air war against, 817, 833, 874, 907
air warfare against, 703–704
rocket strikes, 908–909, 932
alliance prospects, 639–641, 955
Hitler abandons, 527–528, 538
Ribbentrop on, 538
Austria and, 343
colonial possessions, 472, 708, 715–716, 961
India, 705–706, 708–709, 734–735, 755, 777, 797–798
conscription introduced, 625
Czecheslovakia and, 536–537
declares war, 652
Finland and, 712
France and, 705–706, 708
conflicting interests, 138
Geneva disarmament talks, 416–418
German alliance prospects, 137–139, 167–168, 181, 333–334, 428, 431–432, 462–463, 467, 469–470
German rearmament and, 442–443, 520–521
Germany and
Jewish persecution and, 427–428
naval restrictions, 419–422
trade with, 379–380, 405–406
government, 224–225, 416, 422, 446, 471–472, 575, 638–643, 652, 674
Hitler on, as opponent, 75
invasion
European occupation as prerequisite, 679, 693
German unreadiness for, 695
invasion plans, 623–624, 695, 699–700, 704, 710, 718–719, 734, 750–751
Italy and, 559, 642
alliance prospects, 341–342
cooperation polucy, 454–455
Jewish refugees, 596
Locarno Pact, 441
Munich Conference, 582
naval power, 598
naval restrictions, 618, 627
naval warfare against, 751
Nazi propaganda against, 627, 630, 677, 720, 761–762
North Africa campaign, 735–736
as opponent, 534, 561, 565–566
intervention prevention policy, 538
Poland and, 620, 637–638, 641–642
British ultimatum, 652
Danzig question, 539
Poland requests British guarantee of support, 612–613
rejects German ‘appeal for peace,’ 698
Rudolf Hess flies to, 730
Soviet Union and, 632–633, 712, 718, 726, 741–742
Societ-German alliance and, 697–698
Soviets as German ally, 699
war against Britain contingent on Soviet defeat, 740, 798, 940
United States and, 705, 730–731, 785, 962
rivalry between, 182
unreadiness for war, 636
war against as focus, 767
war preparations against, 587–588
Great German Art Exhibition, 485–488
Greater Germanic Reich, 490–491, 611, 687, 800, 827–829, 863, 879, 961
Greece, 621, 712–716, 719–726, 744–745, 830, 862, 961
Greim, Robert Ritter von, 72–73, 946–947
Greiser, Artur, 663–664, 770–771, 774–775, 836
Grillmeier, Alois, 65–66
Gröber, Conrad, 335–336
Groener, Wilhelm, 227, 235–236, 240–241, 243–244
Grohé, Josef, 837–838
Grossdeutscher Jugendbund, 307
Grossdeutsche Volksgemainschaft (GVG), 127–130, 133, 144, 146–147
Grützner, Eduard, 487–488
Grynszpan, Herschel, 590–591
Grzesinsky, Albert, 290–291, 319
Guariglia, Raffaele, 872
Guderian, Heinz, 748–749, 888–889, 926
Günther, Hans, 194–195
Gürtner, Franz, 281, 409–410, 810–811
Gustloff, Wilhelm, 440–441, 474, 591
Gutberlet, Wilhelm, 67–68
Gutmann, Hugo, 39–40
Gypsies, 774, 825
Haake, Heinrich, 147–148
Haase, Ludolf, 132
Habicht, Theodor, 395–396
Habsburg Monarchy, 28
Hácha, Emil, 608–609
Halder, Franz
Balkan capaign plan, 723
Belgium and Netherlands offensive, 675–677
on Britain, 698–700, 704
coup plans, 574, 675, 677
Czecheslovakia and, 574
Danzig question and, 640
dismissal, 847–848
Eastern front, 697, 717, 719–720, 726, 732, 744–750, 780, 814, 823–824, 846
on Hitler, 643, 681–682, 847
Operation Sea Lion, 695–696
Hitler reproaches, 679
on Hitler’s plans for Poland, 655–656
post-Barbarossa plan, 734–735, 744
on Wagner and Heydrich, 654
Hall, Stephen King, 627–628
Hamburg National Club, 167, 211–212
Hammerstein-Equord, Kurt Freiherr von, 283–284
Hanfstängl, Ernst, 104–108, 118
Hanisch, Reinhold, 25–27
Hanke, Karl, 905–906
Harrer, Karl, 64–65, 69–71
Harzburg Front, 231, 236, 242, 261, 270, 274–275, 952–953
Hassell, Ulrich von, 418, 441–443, 445–446, 530–531, 600, 918–919
Haug, Hans, 160–161
Haug, Jenny, 161–162
Haushofer, Albrecht, 469
Haushofer, Karl, 86
Häusler, Rudolf, 31–32
Hayler, Franz, 884
Heidegger, Martin, 312
Heilmann & Littmann, 32–33
Heim, Georg, 98–99
Heimatdienst Bayern, 57–58
Heines, Edmund, 385–386
Held , Heinrich, 143
Helldorf, Wolff-Heinrich von, 571
Henderson, Nevile, 547–548, 638–640, 642–643, 652
Henlein, Konrad, 532–535, 555–556, 575–576
Hennig, Wilhelm, 143–144
Hepp, Ernst, 35, 42–43
Hermann Göring steel works, 533–534, 566–567
Hermine Reuss of Greiz, 230
Heroes’ Remembrance Day, 444
Hess, Rudolf, 85–87, 185, 266–268, 369–370, 372, 382, 501–503, 651–652, 728–730
Hess, Rudolf, essay on German dictator, 102–103
Heydebreck, Hans-Peter von, 386
Heydrich, Reinhard, 452, 654, 772
Hiedler, Johann Georg, 7–8
Hiedler, Johann Nepomuk, 7–8
Hierl, Konstantin, 66, 84–85, 193–194, 200–201, 213–214, 249, 295, 496–497, 513
High Pressure Pump (gun), 875
Hilgenfeldt, Erich, 347
Himmler, Heinrich, 268–269, 452–453, 769–770, 820–821
concentration and death camps, 666
concentration camp reform, 454
concentration of power in, 833
ethnic policies, 513–514
expulsion of Polish Jews, 590
Final Solution, 774–776, 820, 883
as Gestapo head, 452–453
as head of SS, 496–497, 664, 701, 731–734, 759, 825, 833, 935
Einsatzgruppen pogroms, 759–760
forced SS recruitment, 828–829
orders insurgent executions, 654
Jewish deportations, 703, 770–771, 808, 818, 820–821
Madagascar project, 700–701
reputation for brutality, 758
resettlement programme, 667, 757–758
Hindenburg, Oskar von, 272
Hindenburg, Paul von, 196–197, 200, 210, 228, 232, 239, 262, 268–269, 272, 322–323, 952–953
Hitler, Adolf, 127, 139–140, 622–623
ambition to become German Führer, 116–117
announcement of withdrawal from politics, 130
anti-Semitism, 17, 22–23, 26–27, 29–32, 39, 59–62, 76, 177–178
in relation to other enemies, 31, 62
removal of Jews, 166
appointed Chancellor, 279
appointment as Chancellor, 275
architecture and, 21–22, 491–499
considers joining architectural academy, 32–33
criticism of megalomaniacal building projects, 495
designs buildings, 18
Hitler’s tastes in, 21–22, 491–492
as immortalization of Nazi power, 353, 484, 491–492
town planning, 355–356, 493, 884
art and, 310
ambiguity of opinion, 403–404
art collection, 489–490
artistic ambitions, 11, 16, 18–19, 23–24, 32, 134, 355–356, 488, 694, 938, 955–956
artistic aspirations, 11, 16, 18–19, 23–24, 32, 134, 355–356, 938, 955–956
attacks on modern art, 351, 403–404, 432–433, 485–487
Hitler as connoisseur, 346–347, 955–956
Munich as centre, 351–352
music, 19, 22
postcard painting, 25–27
programmatic statements, 487, 494–495
racial views on, 194–195, 403–404, 484–485, 487
taste in art, 356, 485, 487–489
unconvinced of merits of Nazi artists, 491
Vienna Academy of Fine Art, 19–25, 27–28, 310–311
assassination attempts, 905, 919–923, 926–927
Bürgerbräukeller, 677–678
Ballerstedt attack, 93, 111
Beer Hall putsch, 115, 118
release from Landsberg, 143
trial, C5–127
Berchtesgaden, 108, 136, 159–161, 181–182, 243–244, 354–356, 868, 943, 945–946
birthday celebrations, 115–116, 127, 308–309, 376–377, 460, 615–617, 626–627, 688, 812–813, 944–945
as Chancellor (1933-1934)
abolishes political parties, 319–324
anti-Jewish initiatives, 301–303
appoints Goebbels minister of propaganda, 294–295
appoints Nazis to government roles, 295
attacks on Centre Party, 287–288
Church policy, 325–326
Enabling Law, 297–301
meets Reichswehr commanders, 283–284
rearmament programme, 285–286
SPD and, 299
as Chancellor, speeches, 298
claim to Chancellorship, 248, 253–254, 259–260, 268–269, 273–274, 333, 344–345, 959–960
criminal and imprisonment
demonstrations against, 127
Landsberg imprisonment, 126
DAP and
attends first meeting, 65
new procedural rules, 70
removal of Harrer as party leader, 69–70
death, 947–948
demands office of Chancellor, 255–256, 262
Deutscher Kampfbund and, 113
as dictator, establishment of dictatorship, C12, 279–291
Dinter and, 185
early life, Realschule, 11, 14–15
Edmund, 9–10
education, 11, 14–16
entourage, 77, 96–97, 110, 133, 157–158, 220–221, 353–356, 399–400, 459, 636, 785–786
1922/1923, 107–108
Hoffmann, 106–107
family, 7–8
father, 7–12
grandparents, 7–8
Jewish ancestry rumours, 7–8
mother, 7–11, 16, 18–22, 24–25
siblings, 8, 10
foreign policy, 138–139, 152–153, 178–179, 182–184, 333–334, 344–345, 415–416, 466–467, 520–522, 835, 954–955, 957
France and, 364
as Führer (1934-1945), 500
Goebbels and
friendship, 222–223
Hitler as instrument of divine fate, 155–156
newspaper expansions, 198
spells out demands for Centre Party coalition, 208
ideas, 166, 169–170
industry and business and, 232–234
intellectual influences
Poetsch, 15–16
Reichswehr indoctrination, 57–61
Rosenberg and Sceubner-Richter, 86–87
leadership style, 153, 157–158, 213, 502, 906
direct rule, 832, 839–840
divide and rule, 218–219
as Führer, 249
personalization, 218–219, 249
unpredictability, 157–158
on Leningrad, 753–754
lifestyle, 25, 159–160, 220
homes and property, 159
personal finances, 20–21, 27, 41, 96–97, 159–160, 220
living space thesis, 136–137, 178, 181, 260, 283–284, 531–532, 535, 537–538, 605, 622–624, 960–961
Ludendorff as, pushes for election as Reich President, 144–145
Mein Kampf, 14–17, 19–20, 24–25, 28–30, 32, 42–44, 133–140, 159–160, 169
military service, 33–44, 63
AH’s reflections on, 40–41
avoidance of conscription, 33
Battle of Arras, 39
Battle of the Marne, 39–40
as Corporal, 37–38
as council representative, 50
decoration, 38–40
discharge, 82–83
First Battle of Flanders, 35–37
hospitalization and end of WWI, 44
military discipline and, 43
performance and reputation, 38, 40
propaganda speaking, 58
sense of purposefulness, 34
Traunstein POW camp, 49–50
trench warfare, 37
wounding, 39
Nazi party and
ambition to establish national party, 147
as Führer, 115–116
fundraising, 103
joins DAP, 63
as party chairman, 153
as propaganda chief, 79–81
re-establishment guidelines, 145–146
Nero Order, 941–942
Pan-Germanism, 28–29, 61–62
paramilitary organizations and, 156, 177
personal finances, 20–21, 27, 41, 96–97, 159–160, 220
personality, 7, 10–11, 17–19, 41, 43, 78, 80–81, 157–158, 163, 949–950, 954
charisma, 840–842
childishness, 44
depression, 45
disorganization, 43
grandiosity, 24
megalomania, 78–79, 136, 158
narcissism, 10–11, 256
rhetorical talent and, 78–79
Poland and, 365
political and intellectual views
Munich years, 32
on propaganda, 79–80
political ideas
lack of specificity, 239–240
living space, 169, 260
political influences
Lueger, 26, 29–30
Schönerer, 14, 26, 28–30
political opinions, German defeat in WWI, 44–45
political testament, 104, 947–948
political views
antipathy to socialism, 62
during WWI, 42
Vienna, 28–31, 62
publications, second book, 181–182
public image
personal appearance, 27–28, 106, 158–159, 298, 331
photographic images, 107, 158–159
as statesman, 220
radio broadcasts, 293–294, 359–360, 415, 762, 770, 876–877, 894–895
rearmament and, naval expansion, 420
road-building programme, 315–316
Röhm and, 131
SA and, 203, 207, 215–216, 403
AH’s view on role of SA, 156
Schleicher and, 263
self-image, 24–25, 30–31, 41, 45, 61, 88–89, 107, 127, 133–134, 237
as Bavarian, 93–94
as Führer, 101, 115–116, 124–125
as genius, 7, 24, 133–134, 158, 220, 488, 927–928, 938, 949–950
as great German, 116–117
as heroic leader, 122–123
on socialism, 62
social relationships, 108, 154, 160–161, 428, 441, 527, 531, 538, 651–652, 661, 724
and status as Führer, 353–354
speeches, 75, 95–96, 166–167, 169, 172, 419, 481–482, 497, 508, 576, 635, 793–794, 812
1925 ban on, 147
1930 Reichstag elections, 201–202
agricultural audiences, 175–176
anti-Semitism, 75, 165, 177–178, 195–196
Appeal to the German people, 282
audience numbers, 167–169
Beer Hall putsch trial, 123, 125
business audiences, 166–168, 211–212, 233
as Chancellor (1933-1934), 286–287
Circus Krone (1921), 84
Düsseldorf Industry Club, 233
early DAP speeches, 69
early Nazi meetings, 75–79
early Nazi party, 84
entrance fees, 171
frequency, 164, 170
government statements, 359–360, 373
Hamburg National Club, 167, 211–212
key themes, 171
living space motif, 178, 196
Nazi party re-establishment, 146
party members as audience, 165
Party Rallies, 169–170
peace speeches, 318, 339–340, 344–345, 419, 423, 443–444
Poland, 622–624
to Reichswehr commanders, 283–284
Reichswehr indoctrination, 58–59
Saxon parliament elections (1930), 195–196
setting and stage-management, 164, 170–172
structure, 171–172
talent as public speaker, 76–79
United States and, AH’s opinion, 181–182
Volkswagen project, 450
as Wehrmacht commander, assumes command, 542–543
women and, 23, 41, 160–161, 163, 220
Eugenie Haug, 160–161
Geli Raubal, 162, 220, 223, 489, 626–627
Magda Quandt, 220–223, 230, 305, 309, 354–355, 443, 628, 938–939
Maria July, 161–162
Maria Reiter, 161–162
Stefanie, 18, 23–24
writing
Illustrierter Beobachter, 182–184, 191–192, 196, 211
My Programme, 239–240
open letter to Papen, 260
Völkischer Beobachter, 188, 229–231, 261
Hitler, Alois Jr. (AH’s brother), 8–9
Hitler, Alois Sr. (AH’s father), 7–12
Hitler, Angela (AH’s sister), 8, 27, 161
Hitler, Gustav, 8
Hitler, Ida, 8
Hitler, Johanna, 27
Hitler, Klara (AH’s mother), 7–11, 16, 18–22, 24–25
Hitler, Paula, 9, 16, 20–21, 27
Hitler Youth, 173, 230, 296–297, 301–302, 307, 323, 346–347, 349–350, 372, 506–508, 942, 944–945
Hoche, Alfred, 669
Hof, Willy, 315–316
Hofer, Franz, 619
Hoffmann, Heinrich, 33–34, 106–108, 127, 158–159, 354, 356, 485, 636, 638, 652–653
Hoffmann, Johannes, 50–51, 73, 121–122
Hohberg und Buchwald, Freiherr Anton von, 388
Hoheneichen-Verlag, 67
Hölscher, Heinrich, 272–273
Holste, Rudolf, 946
homosexuality, 23, 215–216, 239, 385, 474–475, 541–542
Honisch, Karl, 27–28
Hoover, Herbert, 224–225
Horst Wessel Song, 459
Horthy, Miklós, 575, 896, 931
Göring on, 580–581
Hitler discusses Bolshevik threat, 468–469
Jewish deportations from Hungary
capitulates to threats, 897
halts deportations, 931–932
refuses Hitler, 863–865
Prinz Eugen state visit, 574–575
Soviet Union and, 931
Ukraine and, 601–602
Yugoslavia and, 723–724
Hossbach, Friedrich, 416–417, 533, 538, 542, 544, 555, 562, 622
Huber, Ernst Rudolf, 500
Huemer, Edward, 11, 15–16
Hugenberg, Alfred
Brüning government
refuses extension to Presidential term, 236
refuses vote of no confidence, 197
Brunswick government, 226–227
complains about attacks on DNVP, 308, 320
dissolution of DNVP and, 321–323
Harzburg Front, 228–230, 270
Hindenburg and, 227
Hitler appointed Chancellor, 262–263
Hitler/Papen government, 271–274, 320
as Agricultural Minister, 305–307
appointed Economics and Agriculture Minister, 272–273
appoints Wagener and Moeller, 304–305
complains about Neurath, 320–321
exclusion from power, 320
Hitler’s retention in cabinet, 322
resigns, 321
World Economic Conference memorandum, 320–321
Reich Presidential elections (1931), 226–227
Hull, Cordell, 784
Hungary
alliance with, 531–532
Austria and, Roman Protocols, 366–367
Czecheslovakia and
Carpatho-Ukraine, 585, 600, 602
First Vienna Award, 582
Slovakian claim, 574–575, 580–582, 585
status of Hungarian minority, 578
Sudeten crisis, 585–586
territorial claims, 538–539, 555, 584–585
Vienna Accord, 586
Hitler on, 469–470
as part of anti-Bolshevist front, 468–469
Jews, persecution, 600
Hunzinger, 692
Husky, Operation, 870
Husseini, Amin al-, 735–736
Imrédy, Béla, 574–575, 578, 897
Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD), 49–51, 119
India, 705–706, 708–709, 734–735, 755, 777, 797–798
inflation, 92, 241, 378–379, 407, 432–433, 439–440, 599, 830
Innitzer, Theodor, 552–553, 557
International Olympic Committee (IOC), 458–459
International PEN Club, 310–311
Iraq, 735–736
Italy
Abyssinia invaded by, 418, 438, 441–442, 454–455, 457, 467
Albania invaded by, 619, 635–636, 709–710, 716, 724–726, 879
alliance with, 610
anti-Comintern Pact, 468, 530–531, 533, 538, 544, 586–587, 601, 632–633, 708–709, 784–785, 828
German territorial expansion and, 528
Hitler’s early views on, 137–139, 151, 167–168, 181–184, 191–192, 196, 211
as Hitler’s primary goal, 520–521
living space and, 196
Pact of Steel, 620, 622, 629–630, 632, 645, 708
threat of Italy leaving Axis, 871–872
Tripartite Pact, 619–620, 708–709, 711–716, 721–724, 739, 828
Anti-Comintern Pact, 533
Austria and, 366–367, 395, 559
Dollfuss putsch, 366–367
Balkan countries and, 706–707
Bulgaria and, 873
Czecheslovakia and, 584–585
Geneva disarmament conference, 340–341, 467
Greece and, 714–715
Hitler on, 876–877
as natural ally against Bolshevism, 462, 467–470
Hitler’s early views on, 137
Hitler’s state visits to, 395, 559
international sanctions against, 438
invades Albania, 619
Jews deported from, 879
joint declaration of Germany’s violation of Versailles Treaty, 418
Locarno Pact, 467
Munich conference, 581–582
neutrality, 559, 872
South Tyrol problem, 619
South Tyrol question, 137–139, 150–153, 179, 181–184, 619, 876
Soviet Union and, 684
Stresa alliance, 419
World War II
Allied invasion threat, 867–868
Allies break through Gustav Line, 908
German occupation plans, 876, 964–965
Italy signals readiness for, 691
Italy unprepared for, 629–630, 639
lack of enthusiasm for, 637–638, 684–685
surrender, 876
war aims, 630
Yugoslavia and, 539
Jacob, Hans, 127–128
Jaenecke, Erwin, 901
Jäger, August, 407–411
Jahn, Friedrich Ludwig, 12–13
Japan, 455–456, 467–468, 538, 623, 699–700, 705–706, 717, 726–728, 751–753, 784–785
alliance, Tripartite Pact, 708–709, 727
alliances, anti-Comintern Pact, 468, 587
alliance with, 456, 467
as anti-Bolshevist power, 462, 469–470
colonial ambitions, 705
Singapore attack plans, 727–728, 751–752
Soviet Union and, 422, 438, 455–457, 623–624, 699–700, 727, 752–753
as peace mediator, 931
United States and, 728, 784–785
German declaration of war and, 962
Jarres, Karl, 144–145
Jewish badge, 763–764
Jewish persecution, 571, 590, 592, 600, 604–605, 617, 763–764, 794, 806–807, 866–867
Jews, 55, 59–61, 75–76, 596–597, 700–703, 720–721, 769–775, 806–809, 820–821, 864–866, 879–881, 903–904
anti-Jewish policies, 720, 865–866, 902–903
anti-socialism and, 56
attacks on Jewish lawyers, 294, 301–303
boycotts of Jewish businesses, 301–302, 312, 426–427
communism as Jewish conspiracy, 86–87
deportation, 667–668, 703, 769–776, 807–808, 820–821, 863, 879, 901–902
from Belgium, 808, 820
from Croatia, 820–821, 863
from Denmark, 880–881
to General Government, 667–668, 702–703, 774
from Germany, 590
from Hungary, 863, 903
Madagascar plan, 571, 700–703, 771, 818–819
deportations, to death camps, 807–808, 818–821, 826, 866
dismissal of Jewish civil servants, 302–303
Eastern, 56, 71–72, 330
European, 137, 672–673, 700–703, 721, 764, 771, 794, 806, 818, 857, 881
German, 55, 301, 440–441, 470, 591, 596–597, 604–605, 764, 769–771, 773–776
Hitler’s hatred of, 17, 22–23, 26–27, 29–32, 39, 59–62, 76, 136–137, 177–178
Marxism and, 45
WWI caused by Jews, 42–44
international conspiracy theory, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 865–866
labelling (yellow star), 596, 764, 768–770
laws targeting, Professional Civil Service Law, 302–303
Nazi legal definition, 436–437
pre-Nazi antisemitism, 14–15, 31, 56
propaganda and agitation against
international conspiracy theory, 76, 591, 594, 761–764, 768, 865–866, 903–904
Munich, 56–57
Reichswehr, 57–61
refugees to Western powers, 596
violence and murder against, 432, 523–524, 552, 590–592
death camps, 703, 807–809, 818–821, 826, 866
Final Solution, 435–436, 622, 794–795, 806–807, 820, 861, 903
General Government, 775, 819–820
military and paramilitary murders, 653–655, 759–760
war against, 761–762, 768, 786, 903, 962
Joachimsthaler, Anton, 32
Jodl, Alfred, 560–561, 699, 713–714, 731–732, 846–847, 888–889, 944–945
Jodl, Alfred, on Czech weekend crisis, 560–561
Jodl, Alfred
Hitler considers dismissal of, 847–848
Hitler discusses military plans with, 699, 718
Hitler explains Western attack plans to, 682
on Narvik evacuation, 688
on Operation Weserübung, 687
as part of Hitler’s entourage, 652–653
on plans for attacking Soviet Union, 699, 710, 731–732, 746–747, 767
Johanna, 16, 27
Johst, Hanns, 310–311, 373–374
Ju-88 programme, 680–681
judicial system, 243, 251–252, 369, 732, 810–811, 824–825, 835, 951–952
July, Maria, 161–162
Jung, Edgar Julius, 383–384, 386–387, 391–392
Jung, Rudolf, 127
Kaas, Ludwig, 298–299, 335–338
Kahr, Gustav von, 73–74, 83–84, 86, 90–92, 112–113, 116–119, 121–124, 387–388
Kampfbund Niederbayern, 110
Kampf publishing house, 173–174, 188, 197–200
Kandl, Eleonore, 28
Kánya, Kálman, 538–539, 574–575, 578
Kapp, Wolfgang, 72, 82–83
Kapp putsch, 72–74, 86, 121–122
Karl Liebknecht House, 287
Karmasin, Franz, 606–607
Kassel, 591–592, 626, 922, 943
Kastl, Ludwig, 304–305
Katyn massacre, 861–862, 866–867
Kaufman, Theodore N., 768–769
Kaufmann, Karl, 147–150, 152–154, 834
Kaulbach, Friedrich August von, 487–490
Kehrl, Hans, 234, 882–883
Keitel, Wilhelm, 542–543, 559–560, 614, 620, 638–639, 652–653, 655–656, 664–665, 667, 692–693, 871–872, 874
Committee of Three, 852–853, 882, 895–896
French armistice announcement, 692
Hitler discusses military plans with
British invasion plans, 695–696, 699
Czecheslovak invasion, 556, 559–560, 563, 575, 607, 614
Soviet occupation policy, 733–734, 756–758
Hitler loses faith in, 847–848
as Ministerial Defence Council member, 658–659
as part of Hitler’s entourage, 559, 608–609, 912–913
total war proposals, 924–925
Wehrmacht rearmament and, 597
Keppler, Wilhelm, 214–215, 234, 250, 406, 547
Kerlen, Kurt, 70–71
Kerr, Alfred, 311–312, 319
Kerrl, Hanns, 245, 303, 430–431, 478, 481, 668–669, 764–765
Kershaw, Ian, 553
Kesselring, Albert, 939–940, 943
Khan, Abdul Majid, 734–735
Kiehn, Fritz, 234
Kiel mutiny, 49
Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig, 485–486
Kirdorf, Emil, 188, 212
Kisch, Egon, 290–291
Klant, Josef, 147–148
Klausener, Erich, 386–387, 390–391
Klausner, Hubert, 547
Klee, Paul, 485–486
Klein, Adelheid, 160–162
Kleist, Leopold von, 226, 230, 898–900
Klumpf, August, 52
Knilling, Eugen von, 100, 111, 119
Knochen, Helmut, 880
Koch, Erich, 758, 837–838
Kölnische Volkszeitung, 126
Koppe, Wilhelm, 769–770
Körner, Oskar, 94
Körner, Paul, 802
Kozma, Miklós, 468–469
Kraft durch Freude (DAF leisure organization), 349–350, 450–451, 506–507
Krause, Reinhold, 371–372
Kreisau Circle, 916, 918, 920
Kriebel, Hermann, 112
Krofta, Kamil, 469
Krosigk, Lutz Graf Schwerin von, 272–273, 835
Krüger, Friedrich-Wilhelm, 769–770, 818
Kubelik, Jan, 13–14
Kubizek, August, 10–11, 17–19, 21–25, 79, 355–356
Küchler, Georg von, 788–790, 891
Kühn, Erich, 55, 68–69
Kursell, Otto von, 86–87
Laffert, Sigrit von, 161–162
Lammers, Heinrich, 428–429, 500–501, 559, 642, 664–665, 670–671, 759, 831–832, 835–836, 852–853, 856, 859, 924–925
Lammers, Heinrich, Committee of Three, 882, 895–896
Landvolkbewegung, 175–176, 180
Lanz, Hubert, 919
Latvia, 621, 744–745, 759, 827, 931–932, 935–936
Laval, Pierra, 708
Laval, Pierre, 366, 716, 864, 880
Law against the Creation of New Political Parties, 330
League of Nations, 333–335, 339–340, 358–360, 363–364, 366–367, 413, 416–419, 443–446
Le Bon, Gustave, 79
Lechfeld, 34–35, 58–59, 63
Leeb, Wilhelm von, 788
Lehmann, Julius Friedrich, 55, 67–68, 82–83
Lend-Lease law, 737
Leningrad, 753–754
Lenz, Fritz, 139–140
Leopold, Josef, 547
Lerchenfeld, Hugo, Graf von, 92–94, 98, 100
Levetzow, Magnus, 208–209, 226, 228, 230, 429–430
Leviné, Eugen, 56
Lewald, Theodor, 458
Ley, Robert, 151, 266–267, 801, 834, 885
appointed Social Housing Commissar, 834
as Cologne Gauleiter, 147–148, 269
as German Labour Front leader, 314, 349, 801
as head of Nazi Party organization, 440, 497, 502
powers and responsibilities, 514
as Reich Inspector, 249
Lignite-Petrol, 407
Linde, Herbert, 765–766
Lindener-Wildau, Hans-Erdman von, 69–70
Linzer Tagespost, 9–10, 12–14
Linz Gallery, 490–491, 493
Lippert, Julius, 492
Lippert, Michael, 389
Lipski, Josef, 365, 423, 531, 578, 586–587, 612–613, 643–644
List, Julius, 35–37
List, Wilhelm von, 823, 846–847
Liszt, Franz, 741
Litten, Hans, 217–218, 290–291
Litvinov, Maxim, 632, 685–686
Locarno Pact, 366, 419, 441–446, 467
Łódz´ ghetto, 769–770, 774–775, 807–808
Lohse, Hinrich, 147–148, 837–838
Lösener, Bernhard, 433–434
Lossow, Otto Hermann von, 112–113, 118–119, 121–124
Lüdecke, Kurt, 105, 107–108
Ludendorff, Erich, 72–74, 124, 131, 137
Beer Hall Putsch, 114–115, 118–119, 122, 124–126
demands loyalty from paramilitary leagues, 110–111
Deutscher Kampfbund and, 112–113
Frontbann leadership, 131
Hess and, 85–86
Hitler distances self from, 143–145
Kapp putsch, 72–74
Nationalsozialistische Freiheitspartei and, 128–130, 132
Reich Presidential race, 144–145
Ludwig III of Bavaria, 34–35, 49
Lueger, Karl, 26, 29–30
Luftwaffe, 72–73, 465, 588, 723–725, 737–738, 746, 750–751, 753–754, 817, 833, 874
Luther, Hans, 295
Lüttwitz, Walther Freiherr von, 72
Lutze, Viktor, 383, 385–386, 412, 864–865
Madagascar plan, 571, 700–703, 771, 818–819
Mahler, Gustav, 19, 22–23
Majority Social Democrats (MSPD), 50–53
Mann, Heinrich, 310–312, 319
Manstein, Erich von, 682–683, 823, 849–850, 853, 857–858, 887–891, 898–900
Marc, Franz, 485–486
March, Werner, 352–353
Marx, Wilhelm, 144–145
Marxism, 32, 83–84, 123–125, 146, 171, 179, 189–190, 227, 283–284, 287–288, 462
Matsuoka Yosuke, 726–728
Mattheiss, Hermann, 388
Maurenbrecher, Max, 81
Maurice, Emil, 85–86, 107–108, 126, 162
May, Karl, 106
Mayr, Karl, 57–63, 65–66, 68, 72–73, 82–83
Mayrhofer, Josef, 9–12
Mein Kampf, 14–17, 19–20, 24–25, 28–30, 32, 42–44, 133–140, 159–160, 169
account of Flanders Battle, 36
autobiographical content, 135–137
military service, 51–52
propaganda in, 80
structure and content, 135–139
Vol. 2, 136–140, 151
United States, 181–182
WWI in, armistice, 44
Meiser, Hans, 408–410
Meissner, Otto, 235–236, 263–264, 408–409
Memel, 555, 589, 610–612, 635, 955
Menzel, Adolph, 487–488
Meyer, Alfred, 837–838
Michael I of Romania, 706–707, 928–929
Michoff, Nicolai, 873
Miesbacher Anzeiger, 387–388
Milch, Erhard, 802, 853
military service, 44
Minoux, Friedrich, 114–115, 124
Mitford, Unity, 356
Mittelpartei, 55, 69–70
Model, Walter, 891, 910–911, 927–928
Moeller, Alfred, 304–305
Möhl, Arnold von, 53, 73
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 632–634, 636–637, 696, 710–714, 742–743
Moltke, Hans-Adolf von, 489, 612, 918, 920
Monte Cassino, Battle of, 891
Moravia, 27–28, 608–609, 617, 819, 827, 835, 882
Morell, Theodor, 895
Morgenstern, Samuel, 27
Morocco, 707–708, 714, 848
Moscicki, Ignacy, 422–423
Mosert, Kurt, 389
Mosley, Oswald, 356
motorways, 315–317, 348, 351–352, 586–587, 681, 695, 754–755, 955–956
Mücke, Hellmuth von, 186–187
Mühsam, Erich, 56, 290–291
Müller, Bishop, 371–372, 407–408
Müller, Georg, 68–69
Müller, Heinrich, 667, 760
Müller, Hermann, 196–197
Müller, Karl Alexander von, 77, 106
Müller, Ludwig, 324–326, 371–372, 407–411, 431
München-Augsburger Abendzeitung, 64
Münchener Beobachter, 54–56, 60–61, 64–65, 68, 79, 82–83
Münchener Post, 126
Münchner Neueste Nachrichten, 233–234
Munich, 31–33, 49–50, 56, 68–69, 72–74, 94, 105–106, 128–130, 148–149, 383–384, 386–388, 488–489
anti-Semitism, 56–57
as birthplace of Nazism, 54
Hitler in, 32–33
Räterepublik, 50–53, 111
right-wing politics, 54–58
German Workers’ party and, 64–69
second revolution, 50
Munich conference, 581–582, 584, 587, 597, 602
Munich Merchants’ Club, 95–96
Munich University, 57, 102–103
murder programme, 670–671, 775–776, 806, 818, 820
Mussolini, Benito, 105, 395, 418, 441, 529–530, 550, 639, 683–686, 691–692, 870–871
annexation of Saloniki, 722–723
Anti-Comintern Pact, 587
arrest, 871
Austria and, 395, 419, 528
agrees to German military intervention, 548–550
pressures Austria to reconsider German relations, 455
support for formal independence of Austria, 544
on Berlin-Rome Axis, 468
claims of financial support for Hitler, 179
claims war between Western powers and Hitler inevitable, 418
Czecheslovakia and, 559
declares war on Soviet Union, 742–743
doubts about Locarno Pact, 441–443
four-power pact proposal, 341–342
French armistice and, 691–692
Greece and, 725–726
halts Albanian offensive, 724
Hitler fails to inform of military mission to Romania, 706–707, 709–710
Hitler on failures of, 872
Lüdecke and, 105
military coordination efforts, 718–719
Munich conference, 581–582
offers mediation with Britain, 642
parallels drawn with Hitler, 116
proclaims Social Republic of Italy, 879
proposes second Munich conference, 621, 652
re-founds Fascist party, 877
Roman Protocols, 366–367
Soviet Union and, 684
suggests compromise peace, 862
state visit to Germany, 529–530
Tripartite Pact, 708–709
United States and, 709
on war with Western powers, 629–630, 639
agrees to enter war, 685–686, 691
lack of enthusiasm for, 639, 641, 683–685
promises Italian support for Germany, 641
Mussolini Benito
South Tyrol and, 179
Nadolny, Rudolf, 338–339, 364–365
Nasjonal Samling, 686–687
Nationaler Sozialist (newspaper), 197–200
National Socialist Factory Cell Organization (NSBC), 260–261, 279–280, 327–328
National-Sozialer Volksbund, 147
Nationalsozialistische Briefe, 149–150, 155–156, 207–208
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, 71
Nationalsozialistische Freiheitsbewegung, 132–133, 143–144, 146–147
Nationalsozialistische Freiheitspartei, 129–130
Nationalsozialistische Hochschulbriefe, 176
Nazi party
anti-Semitism
attacks on Jews, 293–294
campaign against Jewish lawyers, 294, 301–303
associations
agricultural, 305–307, 329–330
control, 307
economic, 304
associations and organizations, 186, 234–235, 239, 307, 314, 349–350, 411–412, 509–510
Doctors’ Association, 186
Kampfbund für den gewerblichen Mittelstand, 279–280
Motor Vehicle Corps, 349–350, 509
associations and organizations
NS Kraftfahrkorps, 349–350
Pupils’ Association, 186
Teachers’ Association, 186
Welfare Organization, 347, 503
Austria, 342–343, 395–396, 543–552
banned following Beer Hall putsch, 127–128
Blood Flag, 154–155, 346–347, 496–498
coalitions and alliances
Bavarian People’s Party, 233–234, 271
Centre Party, 208–210, 233–234, 242–246, 248, 271
Conservative parties, 186
DNVP and DVP, 194
German Nationalist People’s Party, 69–70, 177–178, 191–192, 194, 226–227, 291–292
Harzburg Front, 227–229, 231, 236, 242, 261, 270, 274–275, 952–953
SPD and KPD, 186–187
Stahlhelm, 187
cultural policy, 309–310
economic policy
armaments expenditure, 404–405
tax breaks, 259, 314–315, 317, 328
work creation schemes, 272–273, 285, 314–317, 404–405
election campaigns, 179, 200–203, 237–239, 247–248, 258–260, 288, 361–362
1930 Reichstag, 201–202
1932 ( July) Reichstag, 250–252
1932 (November) Reichstag, 259–260
1932 Presidential, 237, 239
1937, 444
Reichstag (1932), 249
Reichstag (1933), 286
elections, 129, 144–145, 154, 178–179, 192–193, 197–198, 259–261, 281–283, 425–426, 443–445
elections Mecklenburg-Schwerin state assembly (1927), 170–171
electoral performance
1929 state parliaments, 186, 192–194
Danzig, 425
Lippe state elections (1933), 269
Presidential (1932), 237–239
Reichstag (1928), 179–180
Reichstag (1930), 204–207
Reichstag (1932), 252–253
Reichstag (1933 March), 291–292
Reichstag (1933 November), 261
Reichstag and referendum (1936), 445
Saar (1935), 415
voter demographics, 204–207, 253
electoral poerformance, Thurigian state (1927), 194
electoral results, Prussian state parliament (1932), 241–242
as Führer Party, 147, 151–152, 173
fundraising and donations, 95–97, 103, 192
government, Thuringia (1929), 194–195
headquarters, Palais Barlow, 200–201
housing policy, 317
left wing, 173–174, 186–187, 197–200, 202
membership
1920 level, 82
1922 level, 100
1923 level, 115
1929 level, 186
early, 84–85
merger with DVFP, 129, 132
organizational structure, 107–108, 148, 156–158
AH’s personality and, 157–158
Gau system, 147–148, 185–186
Hitler takes charge, 266–267
leadership, 87, 198–199, 242, 248, 252, 254, 258269
leadership elections, 153
Strasser’s centralization efforts, 249
western block, 149–150
parades, 281
Brunswick (1931), 230
paramilitary arms, Gymnastic and Sports Section, 85
paramilitary organizations, Gymnastic and Sports section, 91
party headquarters, 90, 96, 147–153, 171, 200–201, 249, 266–267, 369, 489, 502
Corneliusstrasse, 90
policies, economic, 213–215, 239–240, 328–329, 461–462, 523–524, 830
policy programme, 71, 89, 148–151, 156–157, 173–178, 188, 195–196, 213, 249
anti-capitalism, 202, 211–212, 250
foreign policy, 179
social policy, 71–72, 149, 239–240, 353
political ideas, socialism, 173–174
political programme, My Programme, 239–240
propaganda, 195, 219–220
propaganda efforts
middle-class, 174–175
rural population, 175
students, 176
rallies, 110, 154, 189–190, 331–332, 346–348, 408–409, 431, 436, 516, 518–519, 694, 955–956
1923, 109
1925, 154–155
1926, 156–157
1927, 168–169, 173–175
1928 (cancelled), 185
1929, 162, 188–190, 669
1933, 311, 346–347, 351
1934, 354, 403–404, 437, 508
1935, 431–433, 436, 439–440, 503, 669, 957–958
1936, 465–467, 491
1937, 491, 528–529, 531
1938, 499, 571, 576
Reichstag elections (1933), 287
re-establishment guidelines, 145–146
as state, 327–328
Ulm treason trial, 207–208
völkisch movement and, 72
Nazi Party, associations and organizations, National Socialist Factory Cell Organization (NSBC), 260–261, 279–280, 327–328
Nazi Party, as German Workers Party (DAP), 63–71, 74, 83–84, 101, 146, 950
Nazi Party, as German Workers Party (DAP), Deutsche Schutz- und trutzbund and, 70–71
Nazi Party, as German Workers Party (DAP)
early institutional support, 66
early membership, 65–69
Harrer’s removal as leader, 69–70
Hofbrauhaus meetings, 71
Nazi Party, re-founding, 143, 146–147
Nazi Party voters, 204, 241, 251, 253, 953–954
Netherlands, 674–675, 679, 682–683, 689, 829
invasion, 689
Jews deported from, 808, 820, 866–867
Neumann, Ernst, 610–611
Neumann, Josef, 26–27
Neurath, Konstantin von, 244, 271–273, 343–344, 358–360, 395, 409, 535–536
appointed Reich Protector, 608–609
Geneva disarmament talks, 338–339, 342
Hugenberg complains about, 320–321
Italy and, 528
outlines foreign policy principles, 333–334
Secret Cabinet Council, 542–543
New York Times, 392
Niemöller, Martin, 326–327, 371–373, 409–410, 482
Nolde, Emil, 485–486
Normandy landings, 908, 911
North Africa, 456–457, 620–621, 720, 726, 734–736, 738, 750–751, 793, 796, 866–867
Norway, 621, 630, 686–689, 695, 712, 827–830, 863–864
Nuremberg Laws, C19, 431, 435–437, 458, 466, 474, 523–524, 592, 957–958
Olbricht, Friedrich, 917–920, 922
Ollenhauer, Erich, 319
Olympic Games, 352–353, 440–441, 457–459, 461, 474–475
Oshima Hiroshi, 455–456, 728, 751–752, 784–785, 787
Ossietsky, Carl von, 290–291, 311–312, 484
Ott, Eugen, 264, 269–270
Owens, Jesse, 460
Pacelli, Eugenio, 335, 338, 391
Pact of Steel, 620, 622, 629–630, 632, 645, 708
Pan-Germanism, 9–12, 14, 16, 26, 28–29, 61–62, 67–69, 72, 74
Pan-German League, 55, 67–68, 72, 74, 83, 94–95, 100, 228
Pannini, Giovanni Paolo, 489
Papen, Franz von, 244–245, 247–248, 250–254, 257–262, 268–274, 335–338, 380–381
paramilitary organizations, 74, 91, 131, 145–146, 156–157, 174, 177, 205–206, 215–216
Bavaria, 91
Paris, 691–693
Paris Conference, 84
Pastors’ Emergency League, 371
Paul, Regent of Yugoslavia, 722–723
Paulus, Friedrich, 849–850, 853–854
Pavelic´, Anton, 725, 739, 863
Pavolini, Allesandro, 741
Pearl Harbour attack, 784, 962
Peasants’ League, 50–51, 92–93
Pétain,Philippe, 691–692, 708, 864, 880
Peter II of Yugoslavia, 723
Pfeffer von Salomon, Franz, 147–148, 152–153, 155–156, 202–204, 213–214, 395–397, 410
Pfordten, Theodor von der, 117–118
Pfundtner, Hans, 433–434
Philipp of Hesse, 550, 873
Phipps, Eric, 421
Pietzsch, Albert, 234
Piłsudski, Józef, 422–423, 662
Pirow, Oswald, 595–596
Pittinger, Otto, 90–91, 98–99
Pius XI, 479
Pleiger, Paul von, 234, 804–805
Poehner, Ernst, 53, 73, 92
Poensgen, Ernst, 212, 233–234
Poetsch, Leopold, 15–16
Pöhner, Ernst, 83–84, 118–119, 125–126, 129, 143
Poland, 422–423, 586–587, 601, 612, 614–615, 622–623, 628–629, 631, 640–642, 651–652, 663, 665–666
Anti-Comintern Pact, 468, 531–532, 586–587
cooperation with, 422
Czecheslovakia and, 555, 563, 578–579, 582, 584–585
Danzig dispute, 333–334, 423, 537, 539, 586–587, 600–601, 612, 641
Britain’s role, 636, 641–642
as pretext for war, 628
Great Britain and, 627, 636, 652
invasion
Hitler decides on invasion, 613–614
Hungarian participation, 622
Italy and, 630
to prevent Polish attack on Germany, 635
threat of Western power intervention, 620, 637–638, 645
war plans, 620, 623
Wehrmacht invades, 653–656, 662
living space and, 423
Nazi propaganda against, 618, 631
non-aggression pact (1934), 334–335, 365, 367
Germany withdraws from, 618, 646–647
occupation plans, 661, 663
Polish Jews, 590, 601–602, 808–809
Polish Minorities Declaration, 531
Pölzl, Klara, 7–8
Popitz, Johannes, 272–273
Popoff, Blagoi, 365
Popp, Anna, 31–32
Popp, Joseph, 38, 66–67
Porsche, Ferdinand, 450–451
Potsdam Day, 296
Prinz Eugen (German cruiser), 574–575, 796
prisoners of war, 782, 800, 805–806, 808–809, 830, 854, 866
Probst, Adalbert, 389–391
Professional Civil Service Law, 302–303, 310, 312
Protestant Church
Aryan descent law, 371
Law Concerning the Constitution of, 330
overseas, 409, 428
reform and unification, 323–324, 327, 335, 407–412, 523
internal disputes, 370–371, 373, 378–379, 393–394, 478
youth organization, 372
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 865–866
Prussia, 208, 227, 232, 242–243, 248, 251–254, 270–273, 282–283, 290–291, 303
ban on Nazi Party (1922), 100
Centre-Nazi coalition, 245, 248
Church policy in, 324–325, 427, 430–431
Culture Ministry, 311
elections, 179, 192–193, 225, 237–238, 242
government, Centre Party in, 208, 244–245
Hindenburg as Commisar for, 252
Hitler as governor, 303
Nazi government, ban on communist party, 287, 290–291
press censorship, 290–291
proposed dissolution, 511
SPD-Centre coalition, 209–210
Prützmann, Hans-Adolf, 821
Pudor, Heinrich, 60–61
Quandt, Herbert, 220–221
Quirnheim, Mertz von, 922
Quisling, Vidkun, 686–687, 796, 827–828, 863–864
Rademacher, Franz, 701–702
Raeder, Erich, 376–377, 420–421, 443, 598, 607–608, 686–687, 692, 695–696, 699–701, 706, 736–737
Rahn, Rudolf, 879
Rangell, Johan, 820–821
Rath, Ernst vom, 590, 592, 594–595
Rathenau, Walther, 98
Raubal, Angela, 354
Raubal, Geli, 162, 220, 223, 489, 626–627
Ravensbrück concentration camp, 819
rearmament, 285–286, 317–318, 338–339, 363–364, 439–440, 448–449, 463, 521–523, 533–534, 587–588, 597, 955–959
rearmament programme, 317–318, 359, 363–364, 367, 380, 416–418, 439–442, 533–534, 597
Rechny, Hermann, 396
Reck-Malleczewen, Friedrich Percyval, 106
Rehm, Rudolf, 188–189
Reich Association of German Industry (RDI), 214, 304–305, 603
Reich Association of German Motor Manufacturers, 450
Reich Brotherhood Council, 409
Reich Church, 324–325, 335, 371–372, 408–412, 956–957
Reich Committee for the German Plebiscite, 191, 226
Reichenau, Walter von, 396, 411–412, 497, 782, 788
Reichsbank, 212, 352–353, 378–380, 439, 569, 599
Reich Security Head Office (RSHA), 657, 667, 701–702, 721, 774, 805, 808–809, 818, 919–920
Reichsflagge, 110, 112–113
Reichsgesetzblatt, 501, 812
Reichskriegsflagge, 112–113
Reichslandbund, 228, 245, 268–269
Reichsrat, 282–283
Reichstag, 289–290
fire, 289–293, 297, 299–300, 344, 365
opening ceremony (1933), 295–297
Reichstag elections, 129, 132–133, 193, 200, 252–253, 255–256, 261, 264–265, 269, 286, 303, 359
Reich Supreme Court, 122, 207, 409–410, 810–811
Reichswehr, 61, 65–67, 109–111, 113–114, 117–118, 284–285, 363, 376, 381–382, 939–940
antisocialist propaganda efforts, 57–61
conscription, 363–364, 376, 411–412, 416–417, 419, 424
dominance of military policy, 284
treason trial, 207
unwillingness to submit to Nazi total power, 411–412
in WWI, 39–40
Reinhardt, Fritz, 295, 317
Reiter, Maria, 161–162
Reitsch, Hannah, 946–947
Remarque, Erich Maria, 311–312
Renn, Ludwig, 290–291
Renteln, Adrian von, 304
Rentenbank, 117
Renzetti, Giuseppe, 467
Reschny, Hermann, 395–396
Reupke, Hans, 214
Reusch, Paul, 233–234
Reventlow, Ernst Graf zu, 143–144
Rhineland, 333–334, 419, 441–446, 454–455, 458, 469, 471–472, 481–482, 933
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 455–456, 585–587, 601, 612, 620, 633–634, 636–637, 685–686, 708–709, 722–723, 727–728, 784–785, 871–872
Papen government, 269–270, 274, 341
Riefenstahl, Leni, 460
Ripke, Axel, 147–148
Röchling, Hermann, 804–805
rocket attacks, 817, 874–875, 908, 932
Röhm, Ernst, 65–66, 109–110, 112–113, 119, 130–131, 145–146, 215–216, 239, 368–370, 376–377, 380, 385, 389
Roller, Alfred, 21
Roma, 458, 774
Romania, 601–603, 696–697, 705–707, 709–715, 739, 878–879, 928–929
Rommel, Erwin, 720, 726, 735–736, 793, 821–822, 845–846, 848–849, 858, 867–868, 871–872, 908–911
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 589–590, 768–769, 785–786
Rosenberg, Alfred, 67–68, 85–87, 127–128, 309–310, 403–404, 422, 661, 733, 756–758, 786, 834
Rossbach, Julius R., 79
Roth, Christian, 53
Rothenberger, Curt, 824–825
Royal Air Force (RAF ), 703–704, 796, 817, 868–869, 873–874, 892–893
Royal Navy, 420, 695, 737, 796
Rublee, George, 596, 603
Ruhr occupation (1923), 108–112, 138
Russia, 137–139, 182, 684–685, 695–700, 711–712, 718–719, 727–728, 730–733, 739–740
Rust, Bernhard, 147–148, 155–156, 272–273, 303, 310–311, 351, 375–376, 835, 859–860
SA (Sturmabteilung), 130–131, 154–156, 174, 202–204, 215–217, 368–370, 376–378, 380–386, 392–394, 403–404
Austria, 395–396
ban on, 240–241
Church criticism of, 378–379
conflict with Party leadership, 368
Deutscher Kampfbund, 112
dissolution, 380–382, 385, 392–393
Göring’s appointment as commander, 110
Hitler calls SA leaders to Bad Wiessee, 383
Hitler decides on leadership purge, 383–384
Hitler takes over as head, 203–204
imprisonment of political dissidents, 299–300
integration into Nazi Party, 145–146
integration into state, 369–370
integration of Stalhalm into, 323
leadership demands inclusion on Nazi membership list, 202–203
organizational structure, 108, 156–157
as paramilitary organization, 205–207
as part of German army, 339–340
rallies and parades, 154–155, 173, 189–190, 346–347
re-establishment, 130–131
re-establishment as non-paramilitary organization, 145–146
Reichswehr and
Reichswehr prepares for violence against, 382
as source of finance, 103
subordination to Reichswehr, 376
training supplied, 114
volunteers integrated into SA, 363, 376
revolt, 203
role and tasks, 156
SA leaders arrested, 384–385
SA leaders executed, 386–389
staff guards, 376–377
Stennes affair, 216–218
violence and intimidation, 99–101, 311–312
anti-Jewish attacks, 240–241, 293–294
attacks on Stahlhelm, 308–309
attacks on trade unions, 313–314
Göppingen, 100–101, 109
Hitler urges discipline, 92–93
members killed during, 180
Sachsenhausen concentration camp, 454, 816
Sander, Wilhelm, 386–387
Sauckel, Fritz, 800–801, 804–805, 834, 837–839, 852–853, 856, 884–885, 906–908, 912–913, 924–925
Saur, Karl, 905–906, 925
Saxony, 111–112, 114, 117, 148–149, 168, 186–187, 192–196, 200, 292–293, 300, 490–491
Schacht, Hjalmar, 212, 234, 317–318, 378–380, 405–406, 439–440, 447–449, 461–463, 596
announces debt moratorium, 318
Schäffer, Fritz, 293
Scharrer, Eduard, 137–138
Schätzel, Martin, 387–388
Schaub, Julius, 157–158, 384, 693–694, 931, 945
Scheer, 736–737
Scheidemann, Philipp, 125, 290–291, 319
Schell, Adolf von, 597–598
Schenk, Claus, 920
Scheubner-Richter, Max, 75, 86–87, 101, 107–108, 112, 117–119
Schickedanz, Arno, 86–87
Schicklgruber, Alois (AH’s father), 7–12
Schicklgruber, Maria Anna, 7–8
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich, 491–492
Schirach, Baldur von, 307, 356, 507, 721, 839
Schlegelberger, Franz, 810–811, 824–825, 835
Schleicher, Kurt von, 227, 242–245, 247–248, 251–254, 257–258, 263–266, 268–271
Schlitt, Ewald, 810–811
Schmid, Wilhelm, 384, 386, 388
Schmidt, Arthur, 850
Schmidt, Fritz, 41–42
Schmidt, Guido, 455
Schmidt, Paul, 530, 577–578, 580, 582–583, 642, 652, 708, 710–711, 728, 739
Schmidt-Hannover, Otto, 270
Schmitt, Kurt, 328, 380, 406
Schmundt, Rudolf, 622, 682–683, 898–899
Schneider, Hermann, 153
Schneidhuber, August, 386
Schönerer, Georg von, 14, 26, 28–30
Schörer, Ferdinand, 899–900
Schott, Georg, 127
Schreck, Julius, 103, 157–158
Schröder, Kurt von, 250, 268
Schulenburg, Friedrich von der, 542, 574, 633–634, 726, 742–743
Schultze-Naumburg, Paul, 194–195
Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 455, 545–549, 552, 644
Schüssler, Rudolf, 66–67, 89–90
Schutzverein Ostmark, 12–13
Schwab, Gustav, 18
Schwarz, Franz Xaver, 146, 153–155, 502
Schweitzer, Herbert, 485
Schweppenburg, Leo Geyr von, 910–911
Schweyer, Xaver, 92–94
Sea Lion, Operation, 693, 695–696, 703
Sebottendorf, Rudolf von, 54–55
Second Rearmament Programme, 285–286
Seeckt, Hans von, 117
Seidlitz, Gertrude von, 103
Seldte, Franz, 187–188, 229, 308–309, 835
Sesselmann, Max, 55, 68–71
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, 545–549, 551–552, 607–608
Sicherheitsdienst (SD), 567–568, 570, 589–592, 615, 617, 654, 656–657, 663, 792–794, 857–858
Sicily, 872
Simeon II of Italy, 873
Simon, John, 359–360, 416–418, 421
Singapore, 727–728
Slavisization, 13–14, 28
Slovakia, 538–539, 574–575, 580–582, 585–586, 606–608, 612, 808, 818, 820, 828–829
Slovenia, 725
Social Democratic Party (SPD), 179, 196–197, 204, 209–210, 225, 236–237, 241–243, 250–251, 282–283, 319, 617
Somme, Battle of the, 39
South Tyrol, 137–139, 150–153, 179, 181–184, 619, 876
Soviet Union, 366, 696–699, 710–714, 726–728, 730–731, 738–743, 750–753, 886, 931–932, 961–962
Czecheslovakia and, 469, 531–532
diplomatic relations with, 364–365
as enemy of National Socialism, 209–210
France and, 366, 418–419, 441–443, 471
friendly relations with, 299, 343–344
invasion. See Barbarossa, Operation
Japan and, 455–457
Lithuania and, 661
living space to be taken from, 178, 624, 664
Nazi-Soviet Pact, 632–633, 635, 637, 661, 684
occupies Baltic states, 696–697
Poland and, 365, 367, 422, 601–602, 612, 653
Soviet press barred from Reichstag, 344
See also Barbarossa
Spain, 456–457, 465–468, 521, 698–700, 705–708, 714–716, 734–735
Civil War, 457–458, 474–475, 521, 527, 531–532, 626, 958
Speer, Albert, 355–356, 491–492, 800–805, 869, 883–885, 905–907, 911–913, 924–925, 941–942, 946
Spitzweg, Carl, 487–489
Sponeck, Hans Graf von, 789–790
Spreti, Erwin, 386
Springorum, Fritz, 234
SS (Schutzstaffel), 240–241, 288, 377, 388–389, 393, 403–404, 452, 497–498, 506, 654–656, 733–734, 774–775, 879
armament of, 411–412
Einsatzgruppen, 653–656, 666, 734, 759–760
Stadelheim prison, 386–389
Stahlhelm, 187–188, 225–226, 228–229, 231, 236–238, 270–271, 288, 308–309, 323
alliance with Nazi Party, 177–178, 187, 226–227
dissolution, 431, 433
Nazi attacks on, 307–309
transfer of members to SA, 323
Stalin, Josef, 636–638, 684–686, 696, 698, 718–719, 739–742, 766–767, 903, 940–941
Stalingrad, 780–781, 813, 823–824, 845–846, 848–850, 854–855, 861, 867, 890–891, 964
Stampfer, Friedrich, 319
state parliaments, 178–179, 188–189, 194–195, 209–210, 247–249, 303, 374
Stauffenberg, Claus Schenk von, 920–922
Stauss, Emil von, 208–209, 212, 228
Stempfle, Bernhard, 387–388
Stennes, Walther, 202–204, 216–218
Sterneckerbräu, 63
Stojadinovic´, Milan, 539
Strachwitz, Hyacinth Graf von, 919
Strasser, Gregor, 131, 133, 149–151, 173–174, 197–200, 207, 211, 249–250, 257, 263–269
Strasser brothers, 173–174, 191–192, 197–198, 218–219
Strauss, Adolf, 789–790
Strauss, Richard, 459, 626–627
Streicher, Julius, 99–100, 119, 127–131, 133, 146, 151, 301, 944
Stresa Front, 418–419, 422, 425–428
Stresemann, Gustav, 111–112, 178–179, 183–184, 208–209
Stuckart, Wilhelm, 433–434
Sudeten crisis, C26, 570–572, 574, 585–586, 590–592, 602, 605–606, 615, 645, 917, 959
Sudeten German Party (SdP), 532–533, 555–556, 559–560, 570
Súñer, Serrano, 708, 714
Suvich, Fulvio, 366–367, 454–455
Sweden, 82–83, 621, 630, 686–687, 712–713, 827–828, 881, 940–941
Switzerland, 103, 440–441, 474, 630, 675–678, 827–828, 919–920, 940–941
Syria, 706, 735–736
Sztójay, Döme, 723–724, 897
Tafel, Paul, 68, 74, 83
Taneff, Wassil, 365
Teleki, Pál, 723–724
Terboven, Josef, 383, 444–445, 688, 837–838
Thälmann, Ernst, 239, 290–291
Thierack, Georg, 824–826, 835
Thomas, Georg, 587–588, 625
Thule Society, 54–55, 64–65, 67–69, 72, 85–86
Thuringia, 87, 111–112, 114, 117, 127–128, 179–180, 184, 194–195, 197–198, 218–219, 226–227, 264–265, 287
Thyssen, Fritz, 212–214, 233–234, 304–305
Tiefenböck, Karl, 66–67
Tiele-Winckler, Marie, 230
Tiso, Jozef, 585–586, 607–608, 863, 902–903
Todt, Fritz, 315–316, 492–493, 512, 564, 597–598, 681, 699, 800
Todt Organization, 800, 906
Toller, Ernst, 56
Tooze, Adam, 404–405
trade unions, 111, 283, 300–301, 312–314, 319, 338
Traunstein prisoner-of-war camp, 49–50
Tresckow, Henning von, 858–859, 917–920
Treviranus, Gottfried, 209–210
Tripartite Pact, 619–620, 708–709, 711–716, 721–724, 739, 828
Troost, Paul Ludwig, 351, 355–356, 484–485, 491–494
Tucholsky, Kurt, 311–312, 319
Tuka, Voytech, 606–607
Turkey, 619, 621, 635–636, 706, 711–715, 734–735, 737–738, 750–751
Ukraine, 601–602, 612–613, 719–720, 731–732, 756–758, 821–823, 827, 830
Ultramontanism, 143–144
unemployment, 111–112, 196–197, 213–214, 250, 259, 282–284, 314–317, 377–379, 405, 658
Unified Reich Church, 324–325, 410
Union of Völkisch Associations, 188
United States, 182, 705, 709, 718, 728, 736–740, 751–753, 761–762, 771, 784–786, 934, 961–962
AH’s opinion of, 181–182
Unity Front, 413
universities, 312
Urbsys, Joseph, 611
V1 flying bomb, 908–909, 932
V2 rocket programme, 817, 874–875, 908–910, 932
Valley, Arco auf, 50
Vansittart, Robert, 459–460
Vaterländische Vereine Münchens, 110
Vatican, 323–326, 335–338, 390–391, 427, 479, 481–483, 871–872
Veesenmayer, Edmund, 897, 902
Vereinigung der Vaterländischen Verbände, 94–96, 100, 108–109, 111
Versailles, Treaty of, 84, 183–184, 339–340, 415–416, 418, 420, 438, 441, 444–446, 954, 959–960
Victor Emanuel III of Italy, 871
Vienna Accord, 586
Vienna Awards, 602, 715
Vietinghoff-Scheel, Leopold von, 94–95
Vögler, Albert, 233–234, 250
Volck, Adalbert, 130–133
Völkisch Block, 127–129, 146–147
Völkischer Beobachter, 90, 92–94, 96–97, 102, 107–108, 144–146, 154–155, 178–179, 216–217, 229–230, 444–445, 627–628
Völkischer Kurier, 131
völkisch movement, 54–55, 67–69, 71–74, 96–97, 127–129, 131, 143–147, 188, 371–372, 444–445
Volkswagen project, 450–452, 466, 955–956, 958
voting, 206–207
Wagener, Otto, 212–215, 221–222, 259, 304–305, 328
Wagner, Adolf, 189, 293, 346–347, 766, 857, 901–902
Wagner, Eduard, 654
Wagner, Gerhard, 433, 669
Wagner, Richard, 18, 22, 489
Wagner, Robert, 196, 702–703
Wagner, Winifred, 188, 220
Wall Street Crash (1929), 194
Walter, Bruno, 309–310
Wannsee Conference, 794, 807, 809, 818
Warsaw, 423, 539, 555, 601, 612–613, 618, 628–629, 641–642, 653, 660, 662, 925
Warsaw ghetto uprising, 861–862, 866–867, 883
Washington Naval Conference (1922), 420
Weber, Christian, 85–86, 107–108, 117, 125–126
Weber, Friedrich, 114–115
Wehrmacht, 533–534, 542–543, 548–549, 564–566, 652–653, 655–656, 659–660, 687–688, 721–722, 732, 814–815, 852–853
6th Army, 35, 689, 781, 848–850, 853–854, 943
Army Group Centre, 744–749, 766–768, 780–781, 787–788, 845, 891, 919–920
High Command, 653–656, 677, 682–683, 686–687, 697–699, 732–735, 748, 777, 852–853
Weimar democracy, 186, 196–197, 200, 952
Weiss, Bernhard, 319
Weizsäcker, Ernst von, 545, 559, 572, 574, 577–578, 633, 637–638, 643–644, 697, 735–736
Welles, Benjamin Sumner, 685
Wels, Otto, 299, 319
Wenck, Walther, 939
Western Pact, 467
West Wall project, 564–565, 567, 569–570, 618, 644–645, 681, 928, 958–959
White Russia, 698–700, 732, 744, 757–758
Wiedemann, Fritz, 38–42, 448, 573
Wiegand, Ferdinand, 68
Wieser, Friedrich, 68
Wilson, Horace, 580
Wilson, Woodrow, 43–44, 580, 785–786
Winterfeld, Friedrich von, 320, 324–325
Wirth, Joseph, 211, 227
Wirtschaftliche Aufbau-Vereinigung, 86
Wolf, Karl Hermann, 26
Wolff, Karl, 820–821
Wolff, Theodor, 311–312
work creation measures, 272–273, 285, 314–317
World War I, 22–23, 33, 39, 41, 163, 226, 295–296, 317, 531–532, 626, 628, 668, 949–950
armistice, 43–44
Hitler’s service in, 33–44
Wurm, Theophil, 408
Yorck, Peter, 918
Young Plan, 187–188, 191–193, 197, 199, 208–209, 212, 226
Yugoslavia, 468–471, 521, 539, 621, 712–715, 719–726
Zakreys, Maria, 19–20
Zeitzler, Kurt, 847–848, 850, 910–911
Ziegler, Adolf, 485–486, 489
Zionism, 29–30, 467
Z-Plan, 680
Zuckmayer, Carl, 77