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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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by William Shirer


  Scharnhorst, Gen. Gerhard Johann David von, 1028, 1081

  Scharnhorst (Ger. battle cruiser), 281, 711, 914

  Schaub, Julius, 279, 1113

  Schaumburg-Lippe, Prince, 519fn.

  Scheidemann, Philipp, 34fn., 51, 52, 57, 60

  Scheldt, Hans-Wilhelm, 678

  Scheliha, Franz, 1043fn.

  Schellenberg, Gen. Walter, 520fn., 653–55, 783–84, 785, 787fn., 788, 789, 791, 991fn., 1066, 1114

  Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 102

  Scheringer, Lieutenant, 139–42

  Scheubner-Richter, Max Erwin von, 67, 69, 70–74, 118

  Schicklgruber, Alois, 6, 7, 1123

  Schicklgruber, Maria Anna, 7

  Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von, 97, 243

  Schirach, Baidur von, 149, 252–53, 275, 348fn., 1142–43

  Schkopau, 282

  Schlabrendorff, Fabian von, 373, 374, 380fn., 558, 648, 905, 1014fn., 1019, 1020–21, 1022fn., 1024, 1026, 1029, 1049, 1071–72, 1073/7!., 1074

  Schlageten Leo, 967fn.

  Schleicher, Gen. Kurt von, 3, 56fn., 137, 150–55, 159–67, 169–70, 172–75, 182, 183, 216; background, 150–52; his chancellorship, 175–82, 229; purge victim, 222, 224, 320, 414

  Schleswig, 58, 94, 1134

  Schleswig-Holstein, 516

  Schlieffen plan, 717

  Schmid, Dr. Willi, 223, 224fn.

  Schmidt, Gen. Arthur, 931

  Schmidt, Charlotte (Frau von Brauchitsch), 319

  Schmidt, Dr. Guido, 325, 326fn., 328, 329–30, 344fn.

  Schmidt, Hans, 316, 317, 354

  Schmidt, Dr. Paul, 293, 301, 408, 409, 436fn., 437, 441fn., 538, 551, 555, 556, 580–82, 606–7, 613–14, 639, 684fn., 686, 688–89, 744, 804, 805, 807, 814, 815, 834, 848–49, 874; on Hitler-Chamberlain negotiations, 385, 386, 392, 394, 395, 397, 398, 399fn., 401, 415, 419, 549; anti-Hitler conspirator, 406; at Hitler-Hácha meeting, 445, 447; at Hitler-Duce meetings, 816, 996, 1055–56; at Hitler-Matsuoka meeting, 876; on Hitler’s declaring war on U.S., 896

  Schmidt, Theresa, 14

  Schmidt, Willi, 223–24

  Schmitt, Dr. Karl, 206, 261

  Schmundt, Gen. Rudolf, 357, 360, 378, 484, 485, 1019, 1022, 1054fn.

  Schneidhuber, Obergruppenfuehrer, 221, 222

  Schniewind, Adm. Otto, 484, 766

  Schnitzler, Arthur, 241

  Schnitzler, Georg von, 144, 190

  Schnurre, Dr. Julius, 476, 481, 495, 500, 501, 505, 506, 513, 525, 667, 668, 839–40

  Schobert, Gen. Eugen Ritter von, 355

  Schoenaich, General Freiherr von, 32fn.

  Schoenerer, Georg Ritter von, 23

  Schoenfeld, Dr. Hans, 1017, 1018

  Schoerner, Field Marshal Ferdinand, 1113, 1121, 1129

  Scholl, Hans, 1022–23

  Scholl, Sophie, 1022–23

  Schopenhauer, Arthur, 103

  Schrader, Col. Werner, 1027

  Schreiber, Capt. Richard, 676, 702

  Schroeder, Baron Kurt von, 144, 178

  Schulenburg, Herr von, 228

  Schulenburg, Count Friedrich Werner von der, 376, 476–77, 481–82, 490–94, 496, 500, 501, 505, 513, 514, 520, 521fn., 522–28, 540fn., 621, 627–31, 793, 795, 801, 803, 839, 840–41, 842, 844, 847–49, 876; in anti-Hitler conspiracy, 1033, 1072

  Schulenburg, Count Fritz von der, 413, 1047, 1072

  Schultze, Capt. Herbert, 636fn.

  Schulung, 290, 291

  Schultz, Dr. Walther, 74

  Schulze-Boysen, Harold, 1043fn.

  Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 180, 280, 295–96, 351, 385, 456, 457, 578–79; Anschluss, 323–44, 345fn., 346–52; meets with Hitler, 325–30; appeals to Mussolini, 334–35, 339, 343; resigns, 341; arrested, 352; in concentration camp, 353, 918fn., 1074, 1115

  Schuschnigg, Vera (Countess Czernin), 352

  Schutzbar, Baroness Margot von, 355

  Schutzstaffel, see S.S.

  Schwaegermann, Guenther, 1136

  Schwaerzel, Helene, 1072

  Schwarz, Franz Xavier, 133

  Schwerin von Krosigk, Count Lutz, 164, 260, 434, 943, 1107, 1109, 1110, 1126

  Science, Education and Popular Culture, Reich Ministry of, 248–49

  Scotland.675, 682, 834, 913

  S.D. (Sicherheitsdienst, S.S. Security Service), 271, 273–74, 315, 430, 518–19, 520fn., 654, 782fn., 783, 785, 952, 953, 955, 956, 958, 960, 963fn., 965, 991–93, 1060–61, 1063, 1066, 1074–75, 1077

  “Sea Lion.” code name for invasion of Britain, 753

  Sebekovsky, Doctor, 383

  Second Reich, see Germany, Second Reich

  Secret Cabinet Council (Geheimer Kabinettsrat), 275, 319fn.

  Security Service, see S.D.

  Sedan, 718, 723, 724

  Seeckt, Gen. Hans von, 34, 55fn., 60, 64–65, 66, 71, 139, 142, 150, 212, 458, 459, 494

  Seeds, Sir William, 477fn., 480, 504fn., 534, 535

  Seidlitz, Gertrud, 46

  Seine river, 1037, 1085, 1086

  Seisser, Col. Hans von, 65–72, 75–76

  Seldte, Franz, 184

  Semmering, 915, 919

  Senne, 1102

  Serafimovich, 926

  Serbia, 824, 841

  Serrano Suñer, Ramón, 787, 788, 814

  Seven Years’ War, 1108, 1110

  Severn river, 763

  Sevez, Gen. François, 1139

  Seyss-Inquart, Dr. Arthur, 296, 328, 331–33, 337–42, 347, 441, 442, 661, 677, 1126, 1143

  SHAEF, 1105, 1106

  Shakespeare, William, 243

  Shaposhnikov, Gen. Boris M., 504

  Shaw, George Bernard, 243, 784

  Shawcross, Sir Hartley, 961

  Sherwood. Robert E., 877fn.

  Shetland Is., 673

  Shkvarzev, Alexander, 617

  Shulman, Milton, 319fn., 732fn., 757fn.

  Siberia, 833, 840, 885, 886, 932

  Sibibor, 967

  Sicily, 912, 996, 999, 1002fn.

  Sidi Barrâni, 817

  Sidor, Karol, 440–41

  Siegfried Line, 1086, 1089

  Siemens, electrical company, 145

  Sievers, Wolfram, 980–81, 982

  Siewert, Lt. Col. Curt, 591

  Silesia, 212, 363, 463, 497, 518, 575, 626, 797, 944, 1096, 1097, 1098

  Silex, Karl, 245

  Silvertown, Eng., 780

  Simon, Sir John, 283, 288, 410, 453, 837

  Simović, Gen. Dušan, 823, 826

  Simpson, Gen. William H., 1105

  Simpson, Mrs., see Windsor, Duchess of

  Sinclair, Upton, 241

  Singapore, 873, 874, 876, 877, 883, 885, 893

  Sirovy, Gen. Jan, 391, 420, 421

  Six, Dr. Franz, 782–83

  Skagerrak, 695, 702

  Skorzeny, Otto, 519, 1003–4, 1066, 1068–69, 1090fn., 1092

  Skubl, Doctor, 337, 338

  slave labor, 111, 484–85, 497, 940, 946–51, 954, 966, 968, 975, 979, 1034

  Slavs, 21, 22, 83, 87, 88, 93, 97, 429–30, 937, 939, 950, 951

  Slovakia, 358–59, 421, 429, 437–43, 449, 450–51, 460, 519, 626, 911, 956

  Smigly-Rydz, Marshal Edward, 458–59, 583, 601

  Smith, Capt. Truman, 46fn.

  Smith, Gen. Walter Bedell, 1106, 1138–39

  Smolensk, 853, 856, 859, 1006, 1014, 1019, 1022, 1052

  Snow, C. P., 784

  Social Democrats; Austrian, 18, 22, 42, 325fn., 334, 337fn., 350

  Social Democrats, (Socialists), German, 31fn., 32–34, 37, 40, 55 96fn., 126, 129, 137, 138, 153, 155–57, 160, 165, 166, 172, 174, 178–79, 181, 185, 186, 190, 194, 195, 196, 198–99, 201, 210, 231, 237, 1044; proclaim Republic, 52; make deal with Army, 53–55, 60–61; largest party in nation, 55–56, 95, 112, 118; party dissolved, 201

  Socialists, Left, 52

  Soissons, 1039

  Sola airfield, Norway, 702

  Sola river, Poland, 971

  “Soldiers’ Councils,” 34, 54

  Solf. Anna,
1025

  Somme river, 30, 727, 728, 732, 737, 738, 759

  Sondergericht, see Special Court

  Sonderkommando, 970

  Song of the Nibelungs (Mell), 102

  Sonnenburg, 491

  South Africa, 957

  Soviet Congress of Germany, 54

  Soviet Union, 54, 57, 150, 209, 232, 280, 282, 299, 306, 307, 353, 455, 470, 550fn., 711fn., 752, 771, 783, 822, 827, 829, 843, 1033, 1044, 1070, 1098, 1104, 1116–17; Hitler’s aims toward, 82–84, 299, 383, 426, 464, 669, 774, 785, 795–99, 810–13, 818, 821, 822, 829, 830, 837–47, 849–50, 871, 873–79; France, pact and relations with, 285, 290–91, 295, 354, 389, 390, 392, 404, 427; German–Czech issue, policy on, 285, 346, 354, 361, 362, 364–68, 376, 377, 383, 389, 390, 392, 404, 409; collective security, talks with Britain and France, 353, 460, 479, 489–92, 495–96, 500–4, 506, 521, 523, 525, 531, 533–38, 541, 542, 610; Poland, relations with, 377, 458, 459, 461, 464, 468, 478, 482, 485, 513–16, 521–22, 533–38 (see also invasion of Poland, below); excluded from talks on Czechosl., Poland, 404, 409, 419, 427, 465fn., 466, 478, 481, 489; rapprochement with Germany, talks on trade and Poland, 476–77, 480–82, 489–96, 500–3, 505–7, 508fn., 510–12, 553, 556, 560, 617, 620–22, 626–31, 639–41, 645, 657, 666–70, 674, 687, 695fn., 747, 794–96, 800–5, 808–10, 839–40, 842, 844 (see also Nazi–Soviet Pact); and Baltic States, 495, 501, 502, 515, 521, 534, 539, 541, 542, 544, 630–32, 657, 665–66, 668, 683, 747, 793–94, 797, 801; relations with Japan, 521, 522, 876–77, 878, 886, 890–92, 895; invasion of Poland, 626–32, 641; war against Finland, 665–66, 676, 683, 806; activity in Balkans, 747, 800–3, 805–7, 817, 839, 841; German war against, 847–48, 853–54, 857, 859–63, 870, 880, 886, 901, 910, 1010–11, 1017fn., 1018, 1139; German occupation of, 830–34, 843, 846, 851, 854, 915, 937, 939, 940, 943–44, 947–48, 950, 954, 955, 957, 958, 962–66, 979, 993, 1029, 1139; Italy declares war on, 851; see also Russian Air Force; Russian Army

  Spa, Germany, 54, 59, 153, 1092

  Spaak, Paul-Henri, 672, 713–14

  Spain, 281; civil war, 297–301, 304, 307, 373, 419, 566, 814; and World War II, 529, 642–43, 785–89, 791, 792, 814, 817, 819, 850, 911

  Spandau, 1066

  Spartacists, 52, 54–55; see also Communists in Germany

  Special Court (Sondergericht), 239, 269, 270

  Speer, Albert, 947fn., 1087, 1097, 1098, 1103–4, 1111fn., 1117–18, 1126, 1142–43

  Speidel, Gen. Hans, 1031–32, 1037, 1038, 1039, 1040, 1041, 1042, 1047, 1075, 1076–77, 1079, 1085fn., 1086, 1088

  Spender, Stephen, 784

  Spengler, Oswald, 61, 208

  Sperrle, Field Marshal Hugo, 325, 755fn., 775

  Spiller, Captain, 703, 704

  Spital, 7, 8, 9, 14, 23

  Spitfires (Br. fighter planes), 736, 775, 776, 913

  Sponeck, Gen. Count Hans von, 865–66, 903

  Sportpalast, Berlin, 157, 207, 237, 396, 397–98, 407, 415, 643, 779–80

  Spree river, 1137

  S.S. (Schutzstaffel), Blackshirts, 143–45, 160, 202fn., 205, 255, 263, 269, 276, 301, 348fn., 352, 369, 372, 444, 461–62, 1023, 1055, 1114, 1121, 1122, 1126, 1127, 1129, 1136–37, 1141; organization of, 120–21, 148, 270, 273; control police, 191, 274; conflict with Army, 214, 226, 315, 317, 355, 660, 1024; role in Roehm purge, 215, 220, 222, 224, 226; atrocities, 271, 272, 351, 430, 659–64, 834, 934, 937–38, 947, 953, 965–68, 971, 973–78, 980–81, 983–86, 990, 1029 (see also concentration camps; and see names of individual occupied countries); and anti-Hitler plotters, 374, 670, 1031, 1034, 1035, 1057, 1060–61, 1063–66, 1068, 1073–75, 1077; in Czechoslovakia, 388, 449, 991; Polish border “incident,” 518–19, 595, 599; Venlo incident, 652–55; and Britain occupation plan, 782–85; rescues Mussolini, 1003–4; arrests Goering, 1118

  Security Service, see S.D.

  Standarte 89, 279

  Waffen S.S., 976, 1015, 1121

  Waffen S.S. units:

  1st S.S. Armored (Panzer) Corps, 1005, 1095fn.

  1st S.S. Panzer Div., 1095fn.

  Sixth S.S. Panzer Army, 1095fn.

  12th S.S. Panzer Div., 1038

  Bodyguards (Leibstandarte), 553, 664, 905, 1005, 1040fn., 1049, 1051

  Das Reich Div., 993

  Panzer Lehr Div., 1038

  Staatspartei, see Democratic Party

  Stachiewicz, General, 536, 537

  Stadelheim prison, Munich, 221, 222fn.

  Stahlecker, Franz, 962

  Stahlhelm, 154, 157, 191

  Stalin, Joseph, 276, 427, 476–80, 496, 513, 514–15, 522, 526, 657, 689, 821, 839, 845, 852fn., 855, 939, 1029; German pact, trade negotiations, 526–28, 531, 535fn., 540, 538–44, 549, 562, 630–32, 665, 667–70, 799, 800, 803, 804fn., 805, 809–10, 839–44; warned by West of German attack, 544fn., 796, 843; invasion of Poland, 628–32; operations in Baltic and Balkan states, 665, 793–95, 797; suspicious of British, 835, 837–38; takes over as Prime Min., 841; signs neutrality pact with Japan, 876; war leadership, 909, 917, 995, 996, 1033, 1097; and German peace offers, 1011, 1012, 1017fn., 1033, 1135

  Stalingrad, 830, 857, 859, 861, 865, 909, 911, 914–19, 922, 924, 925–34, 975, 996, 1006, 1014–15, 1022, 1029, 1125

  Stark, Johannes, 250

  Statistical Year Book, 257

  Stauffenberg, Count Berthold von, 1047, 1048, 1072

  Stauffenberg, Lt. Col. Klaus Philip Schenk, Count von, 1027–31, 1033–36, 1042–55, 1057–61, 1064–65, 1067–71, 1072, 1075

  Stauffenberg, Countess Nina von, 1029

  Stauning, Thorvald, 698

  Stavanger, 677, 681, 696, 702, 707, 721

  Stavelot, 1092

  Stefanie, 15

  Stein, Lt. Walter, 662fn.

  Steiner, Gen. Felix, 1112–13, 1120

  Steinhardt, Laurence, 521fn., 544fn., 843

  Stempfle, Father Bernhard. 85, 133, 223

  Sternberg, 43

  Stevens, Maj. R. H., 653–55, 692

  Steyr, 11, 14

  Stieff, Gen. Hemuth, 1020, 1026, 1030, 1049, 1070–71, 1075

  Stockholm, 695, 843, 1017, 1024, 1026, 1122

  Stockmar, Baron Christian Friedrich von, 373

  Stohrer, Eberhard von, 785–86

  storm troopers, see S.A.

  Storting (Norw. Parliament), 703

  Stotzingen, Baroness, 222

  Strang, William, 391, 495–96, 503fn., 523, 533

  Strasbourg, 983

  Strasbourg, University of, 980–83

  Strasser, Gregor, 118, 122–29, 132, 143, 144, 146–49, 152, 154–55, 157, 159, 167, 171, 173, 174, 176–78, 180, 216, 222, 224, 691

  Strasser, Otto, 123, 126, 127, 147, 224

  Strauss, Gen. Adolf, 762

  Strauss, Richard, 242

  Streck, Major, 74

  Streicher, Julius, 26, 44–45, 50, 73–74, 106, 118, 253, 1142–43

  “Strength through Joy” (Kraft durch Freude) movement, 254, 265–66

  Stresa Conference, 285, 288, 289, 296

  Stresemann, Gustav, 56, 64, 66, 112, 136, 201, 212

  Stroelin, Dr. Karl, 1031, 1032

  Strones, 7

  Stroop, Juergen, 975–78

  Stuckart, Dr. Wilhelm, 347

  Studie England (naval invasion plan), 759

  Stuelpnagel, Gen. Karl Heinrich von, 378, 379, 591, 644, 957, 1031, 1032, 1047, 1059, 1060, 1074–77

  Stuka (Ger. plane), 720, 723, 725, 776

 

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