Pomerania (Pomorze), 458, 460, 497, 625
Popitz, Johannes, 373, 659, 670, 846fn., 904, 907, 908, 1017, 1023, 1072
Porsche, Dr. Ferdinand, 266
Portugal, 785, 788, 789, 792, 817
Posen, 212, 458, 626, 659, 937–38, 944, 954, 966
Potemkin, Vladimir, 482
Potsdam, 3, 54–55, 166, 182, 196–97, 375, 413, 1072
Pour le Mérite (Ger. decoration), 49
Po Valley, 1107
Prague, 332, 376–77, 383, 419, 420, 443–44, 446, 447fn., 448, 991, 992, 1064
Pravda, 496
Preuss, Hugo, 56fn., 241
Preysing, Cardinal Count, 1048fn.
Price, Ward, 280–81, 283
Prien, Oberleutnant Guenther, 646
Priess, Hermann, 1095fn.
Priestley, J. B., 784
Primo de Rivera, Miguel, 787, 788
Prince of Wales (Br. battleship), 901fn.
Prinz Eugen (Ger. hvy. cruiser), 914
Pripet Marshes, 810, 811
prisoners of war, 744, 854fn., 932, 940, 942fn., 946–47, 948, 949, 951–56, 969, 973, 979, 1029, 1086, 1095fn., 1100, 1105, 1114–15
Progressive Party, 55–56
Propaganda Ministry, 167, 196, 204, 244–45, 246, 247, 387, 636, 638, 1061, 1062–63, 1110, 1121–22, 1143; see also Goebbels
Protestant Church, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 251
Proust, Marcel, 241
Prussia (kingdom), 92–98, 196–97, 236, 259, 1015, 1087
Prussia (federal state), 154, 155, 159, 160, 165, 184, 186, 191, 200; see also East Prussia, West Prussia
Pryor, Gen. W. W., 698–99
Puaux, Gabriel, 334fn.
Puch, 821
Qattara Depression, 919
Quisling, Maj. Vidkun Abraham Lauritz, 675–78, 701, 704, 705, 706, 709fn., 755fn.
Raczyński, Count Edward, 551, 602
radar, 775, 776, 781, 1007, 1037
Raeder, Gr. Adm. Erich, 207, 214–15, 273, 305, 313, 314, 317, 321, 365, 401, 462, 484, 487, 488, 497, 515fn., 529fn., 622, 636–38, 646, 667, 670, 742, 873, 877, 878fn., 914, 915, 1080; naval building program, 281–82, 487, 622; Norway campaign, 674–79, 683, 696, 697fn., 710; Britain invasion plans, 752, 758–59, 763–68, 770, 771; urges concentration on Mediterranean area, 812–13, 818–21, 828–29, 912–13; urges attack on U.S. shipping, 879, 880, 882, 895, 901–2; ousted as Navy C. in C, 1000; sentenced at Nuremberg, 1143
Ramsgate, 762, 763, 766, 767
Rangsdorf, 1048, 1054–55, 1057, 1058
Rapallo, 494
Rascher, Dr. Sigmund, 984–90
Rashid Ali, 828, 841
Rassenkunde, 259; see also “master race” concept
Rastenburg, E. Prussia, 101, 849, 863, 919, 920, 922, 925, 928, 932, 941, 998, 1001, 1002, 1004, 1010, 1015, 1020, 1026–27, 1034, 1058, 1062, 1066, 1069, 1070, 1075, 1077, 1080, 1107; attempt to assassinate Hitler at, 1045–57
Rath, Ernst vom, 430–31
Rathenau, Walther, 34, 51, 241, 245
Rattenhuber, Oberfuehrer, 1049
Raubal, Angela Hitler, 9, 131
Raubal, Friedl, 131
Kaubal, Geli, 9–10, 131, 132, 152, 153, 221, 223, 244fn., 1111
Rauschning, Hermann, 169, 784
Ravensbrueck, 272, 979, 989, 990, 992, 1025
Réal, Jean, 105
Reckse, Doctor, 1025
Red, Case, 303
Reed, Douglas, 784
Regensburg, 71
Regina Palace Hotel, Munich, 418
Reich Broadcasting Corp., 247, 467fn.
Reich Central Security Office, see R.S.H.A.
Reich Chamber of Art, 244
Reich Chamber of Culture, 241–44
Reich Chamber of Films, 247
Reich Chamber of Radio, 247
“Reich Church,” 237, 238, 240
Reich Committee of German Youth Associations, 252–53
Reich Defense Council (Reichsverteidigungsrat), 208, 275, 281, 282, 290, 497–98
Reich Defense Law, secret (May 31, 1935), 259, 285fn.
Reich Economic Chamber, 262
Reichenau, Field Marshal Walter von, 183, 325, 335, 626, 724, 725, 730, 755fn., 762, 763, 767, 861fn., 903fn.
Reich Food Estate, 258
Reich Governors, 200
Reich Music Chamber, 242
Reich Press Chamber, 246
Reich Press Law (Oct. 4, 1933), 245
Reichsbank, 145, 146, 204, 260, 261, 311, 351–52, 439fn., 973–74
Reichsbanner, 160
Reichsgericht (Ger. Supreme Court), 269
Reichsgesetzblatt (official gazette), 434
Reichskriegsflagge, 71, 72
Reichsrat, 153, 198
Reichstag, 95, 151, 153, 163, 173, 174, 176, 180, 194, 318, 560; Nazi representation in, 118, 119, 123, 138, 146, 148, 149, 166, 172, 186, 196; Nazi program in, 127, 144, 162, 167, 184, 196–201, 229, 237; dissolutions of, 137, 155, 161, 164–65, 170–72, 179, 181, 189, 294fn.; elections of, 138, 166, 172, 211, 237, 347; Goebbels expelled from, 157; support of Hitler-Papen govt., 182, 197–201, 210, 274; votes Hitler absolute power, 867; Hitler speeches in, 213, 234, 291, 562–63, 828, 834; repudiation of Versailles Treaty, 299, 300; on peace, 209, 280, 285, 290, 470–76, 641–42, 752–55, 761, 762; on 1934 purge, 220, 223, 224, 226, 268; on Anschluss, 348, 349; on Czech invasion, 365; on beginning of Polish war, 598–600, 603, 604; on war with U.S., 895–900; on annihilation of Jews, 964
Reichstag fire, 146, 191–95, 196, 223, 269, 274, 653, 654
Reich Statistical Office, 264
Reichswehr, 33, 34, 46, 60; becomes Wehrmacht, 285fn.; see also Army, German
Reich Theater Chamber. 242–43
Reichwein, Adolf, 1044, 1072
Reims, 1093, 1138–39, 1141
Reinberger, Maj. Helmut, 671–72
Reinecke, General, 1063, 1065
Reinhardt, Gen. Georg-Hans, 724, 731, 859
Reinhardt, Max, 242
Reitlinger, Gerald, 970, 973, 978, 1025fn.
Reitsch, Hanna, 1111, 1118–19, 1120, 1122, 1133
Remagen, 1101
Remarque, Erich Maria, 241
Remer, Maj. Otto, 1061–66, 1069
Rennes, 1037
Renthe-Fink, Cecil von, 700
reparations, German, World War I, 51, 58, 61, 64, 112, 117, 136, 137, 152, 154, 943
Republican Party (U.S.), 748
Repulse (Br. battleship), 901fn.
Reuben James (U.S. destroyer), 883
Reuters, 1122
Reventlow, Count Ernst zu, 123
Reynaud, Paul, 720, 726, 729, 738
Rheydt, 124
Rhine river, 634, 646, 723, 738, 1088–89, 1090, 1095, 1099, 1101, 1102, 1105
Rhineland, remilitarization of, 211, 282, 286, 290–96, 299, 302, 327, 378, 459, 530, 543, 635, 657, 714
Rhone Valley, 691, 740, 1086
Ribbentrop, Gertrud von, 1056fn.
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 233, 276, 302, 381, 406fn., 435fn., 507, 556–57, 560, 595fn., 596fn., 620, 672, 676, 741, 742, 751fn., 814, 924, 955, 1017fn., 1097, 1112, 1113, 1126, 1142–43; personal characteristics, 181, 298, 415, 436; ambassador to Britain, 288, 298, 335, 344–45; appointed Foreign Min., 319; and Goering, mutual dislike, 298, 469, 483, 1056; at Hitler-Schuschnigg meeting, 328, 347; and Czechoslovakia, 360, 364, 365, 376, 377, 405, 408, 409, 421, 429, 439–42, 444, 446–47, 449, 451–52; at Hitler-Chamberlain talks, 385, 396; pact with France, 437; negotiations with Poland, 455–57, 459, 460–61, 463–64, 499, 588; rejects British, French protests on Memel, 461–62; talks with Duce, Ciano on war co-operation, 436, 482–83, 508–10, 512, 548, 551–55, 564, 566, 687–90, 816, 821, 845, 910, 923; negotiations with U.S.S.R., 491, 492, 500, 501, 505, 513–14, 520–28, 531, 535fn., 537–41, 545, 547, 609, 621–22, 627, 629–31, 639, 674, 793–95, 801–9, 847–49; negotiations with West on Poland, 562, 570fn., 576–78, 580–83, 585fn., 586–89, 591, 602, 605–7, 613; relations with U.S., 637, 683, 686, 748, 871, 881–96 pa
ssim, 897fn.; rejects British, French ultimatums, 615–18; relations with Norway, Denmark, 696–98, 703, 704, 706; Windsor kidnap plot, 785–91; dealings in Balkans, 795, 800, 801, 823–24; declaration of war on U.S.S.R., 848–49; relations with Japan, 871–72, 874–78, 881–96; declaration of war on U.S., 900
Riccione, 851
Richardson, William, 852fn., 912
Richthofen Fighter Squadron, 49
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 684
Riess, Curt, 1063fn.
Riga, 794, 967
Rintelen, General von, 825
Rio de Janeiro (Ger. transport), 695
Riom trial, 609fn.
Ripka, Herbert, 390
Ritter, Gerhard, 1046fn.
Riviera, French, 740, 1086
Robeson, Paul, 784fn.
Robin Moor (U.S. freighter), 882
Rocca delle Caminate, 1005
Rockefeller, John D., 688
Roehm, Ernst, 4, 39, 46, 63, 120, 155, 159, 160, 313, 317, 371, 691, 834; background, 38; with Goering, organizes S.S., 49; in Beer Hall Putsch, 66, 71, 73, 75; break with Hitler (1925), 118; returns to party, heads S.A., S.S., 146–48; contact with Schleicher, 152, 161, 216; friendship with Hitler, 207, 216; named to Cabinet, 208; rift with Hitler over radicalism, 204–8, 213–17; purged, 219–22, 224–26, 273, 1056–57
Roenne, Colonel Freiherr von, 1030
Roepke, Wilhelm, 95, 99fn., 251
Rokossovski, Gen. Konstantin, 929
Roman Catholic Church, 23, 24, 55–56, 61, 64, 92, 119, 157, 166, 201, 234–35, 237–40, 326, 332, 341, 350, 355, 370, 374, 1048, 1060fn.
Roman Empire, 104, 106, 305
Rome, 436, 450, 469–70, 746, 910, 996, 1001, 1002, 1004, 1005, 1006, 1036
Rome–Berlin Axis, 298, 301, 324, 353, 478–79, 482–84, 491, 508, 547, 665–66, 800
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin, 724, 999, 1000, 1085; in N. Africa, 827–29, 902, 911–15, 919–22, 934; in anti-Hitler plot, 1030–32, 1041–42, 1047, 1076–80; in Normandy, 1036–42; urges Hitler seek peace, is cashiered, 1039–41; wounded in air attack, 1041–42, 1047; suicide and funeral, 1078–80
Rommel, Frau, 1031, 1078–79
Rommel, Manfred, 107, 8
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 435fn., 544 fn., 684fn., 686fn., 688, 815fn., 827fn.,’ 828, 829, 871, 872, 874, 887, 888, 894–95, 907; peace efforts, 209–10, 400, 469–75, 508fn., 560–61, 574, 683, 684, 687, 714, 749; recalls ambassador, 433fn., 685; negotiations with Japanese, 873fn., 884–87, 892; Nazi gibes at, 470–75, 875fn., 897–900; Atlantic naval policy, 877fn., 880–82; war aims, 904, 1033fn.; death of, delights Nazis, 1110
Rosen, Count Eric von, 49
Rosenberg, Alfred, 39, 67, 73, 97, 108, 118, 122, 123, 149, 154, 236, 240, 253, 276, 835; background, 48–49; contact with Quisling, 676–78; and German occupation of Eastern Europe, 832–34, 939–42, 947–48, 952–53; plunder of art treasures, 945–46; Nuremberg trial and execution, 1142–43
Rosenman, Samuel I., 897fn.
Ross, Colin, 683fn.
Rossbach, Lieutenant, 66
Rosterg, August, 144
Rostock, Capt. Max, 992
Rostov, 859, 860–61, 865, 916, 928, 952
“Rote Kapelle,” 1043fn.
Rothschild, Baron Louis de, 351
Rotterdam, 721, 722–23, 769
Rovno, 841
Royal Oak (Br. battleship), 646
R.S.H.A. (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Reich Central Security Office), 782–84, 958, 1024, 1026, 1063; see also S.D.
rubber, synthetic, 282, 301, 840
Ruegen, 266
Ruge, Colonel, 704, 708, 709
Ruhr, 61–65, 112, 282, 301, 486, 517fn., 634, 635, 645, 793, 1088–89, 1096, 1097, 1098, 1102, 1105
Rumania, 283, 399–400, 530, 626, 799, 817, 823, 824, 909; relations with France, Britain, 295, 426–27, 469, 495; policy toward U.S.S.R., 478, 495, 534, 538fn.; Hungary takes Transylvania from, 800–1; Nazi–Soviet struggle for control of, 541, 609, 610, 632, 794, 795, 797, 800–1, 803–8, 810, 811, 815, 817, 820, 822, 823, 839, 842, 845, 847, 858; Nazi driven out by Red Army, 1007, 1085, 1098
Rumanian Army, 869, 911, 915, 926, 928, 932
Runciman, Lord, 376–77, 386, 388–89, 392, 416
Rundfunkhaus, see Broadcasting House
Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von, 165, 293, 355, 747, 757fn.; relieved of commands (four times), 318–19, 861, 865, 903fn., 1041, 1099; in Polish invasion, 488, 497; in Battle of France, 718, 726, 731–34; named Field Marshal, 755fn.; Britain invasion plan, 761, 762; Russian campaign, 830, 853, 855, 858–61, 865, 903fn.; and anti-Hitler plotters, 906, 1030, 1032; C. in C. West, 906, 918, 922, 923, 1036–41, 1086, 1087, 1089–91, 1094; sacked again, 1099
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, 46fn., 63, 67, 72–73, 371
Russell, Bertrand, 100fn., 784
Russian Air Force, 502fn., 855, 926, 1053, 1100
Russian Army, 502fn., 534, 797, 810, 811, 822; invades Poland, 627, 628; attacks Finland, 675 (see also Finland; Russo–Finnish War); seizes Baltic States, 794; takes over Bessarabia, Bucovina, 795; war with Germany, 852, 854, 855, 857, 859–60, 862–65, 869, 886, 909, 915, 939, 973, 1000, 1006–7, 1033, 1036, 1041, 1042, 1046, 1085, 1090, 1096, 1097, 1105, 1107, 1120; at Stalingrad, 915, 922, 926–33; meets Americans at Elbe, 1106, 1107, 1112; Battle of Berlin, 1106, 1108, 1112, 1117, 1118, 1129, 1130, 1132, 1134–36
Russo–Finnish War, 665–66, 668–69, 675, 676, 682, 683
Russo-Japanese neutrality pact, 876–77
Rust, Bernhard, 127, 248–49
Ruthenia, 440, 443, 449–50
Rzhev, 868
S.A. (Sturmabteilung, storm troopers or Brownshirts), 3, 4–5, 143, 146–48, 154, 159–60, 167, 169, 176, 183, 190, 191, 192, 194, 195, 199, 202fn., 237, 249, 263, 270, 271, 273, 1081; beginnings of, 38, 42–43, 49; and Beer Hall Putsch, 66–71; conflict with Army, 120, 143, 204–8, 213–16, 226, 317; Bruening’s ban on, 160–65; Hitler’s suppression of, 215, 217, 219–26; role in Austrian Anschluss, 327, 351
Saalfelden, 529fn.
Saar, 283, 286, 568, 569, 738, 1095, 1101
Saarbruecken, 291fn., 435
Sachsenhausen, 238, 239, 270, 272, 352, 655
Sack, Dr. Carl, 140
Saefkow, Anton, 1044
St.-Germain, 1077
St.-Germain, Treaty of, 41, 347
St-Hardouin, Jacques Tarbé de, 506
St.-Lô, 1076
St.-Omer, 728, 731
St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna, 19, 338, 350
St. Wolfgang, 509
Sakhalin, 809
Salerno, 1002
Salonika, 823
Salzburg, 8, 27fn., 325, 330, 333, 337, 348, 350, 509, 546, 552, 910–11, 928, 995
Sammler, Rudolf, 1064fn.
San river, 541, 626, 629, 631
Sandomierz, 626
Sanger, Margaret, 241
San Remo, 440
Santayana, George, 100
Sarajevo, 826
Sardinia, 1003
Sas, Col. J. G., 694, 715–16
Saturday, Hitler’s “surprise day,” 284, 300fn.
Sauckel, Fritz, 948fn., 951, 1142–43
Sauerbruch, Dr. Ferdinand, 251, 979fn., 1025, 1029
Saxony, 65, 363
Scapa Flow, 646
Schacht, Dr. Hjalmar H. G., 112, 145–46, 167, 189–90, 229, 351–52, 427, 918fn., 1073–74, 1115, 1142–43; plans for war economy, 259–61, 275, 285fn.; out of war economy post, 310–11, 320; in anti-Hitler conspiracy, 373, 405, 411–13, 517, 558, 560, 650, 659, 907
“Schaemmel, Major,” 653
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