The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

by William Shirer

White Russia, 627, 628, 798, 811, 832, 962

  White Sea, 798

  Whitworth, Vice-Adm. W. J., 707

  Widerstand (Resistance), 373

  Wiechert, Ernst, 242

  Wiegand, Karl von, 748

  Wiessee, 217, 221, 314

  Wietersheim, Gen. Gustav von, 369–70

  Wildpark-Werder, 1115

  “Wilfred,” 696

  Wilhelm I, King of Prussia and Kaiser of Germany, 95

  Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 29, 31, 52, 53, 56, 58, 94, 95, 99, 103, 104, 106, 107–8, 109, 153, 197, 200, 243, 288, 406, 485–86, 499, 598, 658, 692–93, 713, 738fn., 754fn., 871, 907, 1025, 1139

  Wilhelm, Prince, 907

  Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, 561, 640, 652, 721, 723, 729

  Wilhelmshaven, 467, 752

  Willstaetter, Richard, 250

  Wilmot, Chester, 1041fn.

  Wilson, Sir Horace, 382, 391, 396, 397, 398–99, 401, 402, 407, 416–17, 418, 572, 583, 585fn.

  Wilson, Hugh R., 360, 433fn.

  Wilson, Woodrow, 52, 57, 898

  Windau, 539

  “Winds” message to Nomura, 886

  Windsor, Duchess of (Mrs. Simpson), 298, 785, 787, 788, 789, 792

  Windsor, Duke of (Edward VIII), 298, 596fn., 751fn., 783, 785–92

  Winkelmann, Gen. H. G., 723

  Winterhilfe, 264, 643, 779

  Wisconsin, University of, 1043fn.

  Wittelsbach monarchy, 33, 64, 67, 70

  Wittenberg, 237

  Witzleben, Field Marshal Erwin von, 284, 318–19, 375, 405, 407–8, 411, 412, 413, 422, 426, 530, 558–59, 670, 755fn., 906, 1030, 1035, 1036, 1048, 1054, 1058, 1064–65, 1070–71, 1075, 1079

  Wlodawa, 626

  Woermann, Dr. Ernst, 429, 897fn.

  Wolf, Otto, 144

  Wolfers, Alfred, 274

  Wolfsschanze (Wolfs Lair), 849, 870, 881, 882, 919, 1000fn., 1046, 1048–49

  Wolzek, 968

  Woods, Sam E. 842–43

  Woolff, Virginia, 784

  Woolwich Arsenal, 780

  World Jewish Congress, 978

  World War I, 108, 282, 283, 544, 597–98, 630, 635, 637, 658, 673, 717, 727, 754fn., 760, 794, 800, 823, 897, 918, 957, 1007, 1081; Hitler’s service in, 29–30, 1124; armistice, 29, 31–32, 52, 58–59, 741–42, 1036; peace terms, see Versailles Treaty; Germany’s mistakes in, 485, 486, 546, 645

  Wrench, John Evelyn, 288fn.

  Wuensdorf, 1057

  Wuerttemberg, 131, 1028

  Yellow, Case, 682, 710, 717, 718, 719

  Yorck von Wartenburg, Count Peter, 1015, 1016, 1028, 1070–71

  Young, Desmond, 1079fn.

  Young Plan, 136, 145, 943

  Ypres, 29, 30, 730

  Yugoslavia, 295, 399–400, 426–27, 469, 470, 530, 804, 808, 815, 823–24, 825, 826, 828–30, 839, 841, 842, 874, 875, 993, 1006

  Zander, Wilhelm, 1129

  Zaporozhe, 1001, 1007

  Zech-Burkersroda, Count Julius von, 713

  Zehlendorf, 715

  Zeitzler, Gen. Kurt, 360–61, 915, 918, 919, 925–27, 928, 933

  Zeller, Eberhard, 1046fn., 1050fn.

  Zeughaus, Berlin, 1021, 1022fn.

  Zhdanov, Andrei, 496, 794

  Zhukov, Gen. Georgi, 864–65, 866, 869, 891, 1097, 1106, 1135fn.

  Zichenau, 944

  Ziegenberg, 1089, 1091, 1108

  Ziegler, Adolf, 133fn., 244

  Ziereis, Franz, 967fn.

  Zoellner, Doctor, 238, 239

  Zola, Emile, 241, 736

  Zossen, 518, 560, 658, 670, 694, 1058, 1065

  Z Plan, 487, 622

  Zurich, 563, 1018

  Zweig, Arnold, 241

  Zweig, Stefan, 24, 241

  Zwoelf-Uhr Blatt, 564

  Zyklon B, 970, 972

  Table of Contents

  Foreword

  Book One: The Rise of Adolf Hitler

  1. Birth of the Third Reich

  2. Birth of the Nazi Party

  3. Versailles, Weimar and the Beer Hall Putsch

  4. The Mind of Hitler and the Roots of the Third Reich

  Book Two: Triumph and Consolidation

  5. The Road to Power: 1925–31

  6. The Last Days of the Republic: 1931–33

  7. The Nazification of Germany: 1933–34

  8. Life in the Third Reich: 1933–37

  Book Three: The Road to War

  9. The First Steps: 1934–37

  10. Strange, Fateful Interlude: The Fall of Blomberg, Fritsch, Neurath and Schacht

  11. Anschluss: The Rape of Austria

  12. The Road to Munich

  13. Czechoslovakia Ceases to Exist

  14. The Turn of Poland

  15. The Nazi-Soviet Pact

  16. The Last Days of Peace

  17. The Launching of World War II

  Book Four: War: Early Victories and the Turning Point

  18. The Fall of Poland

  19. Sitzkrieg in the West

  20. The Conquest of Denmark and Norway

  21. Victory in the West

  22. Operation Sea Lion: The Thwarted Invasion of Britain

  23. Barbarossa: The Turn of Russia

  24. A Turn of the Tide

  25. The Turn of the United States

  26. The Great Turning Point: 1942—Stalingrad and El Alamein

  Book Five: Beginning of the End

  27. The New Order

  28. The Fall of Mussolini

  29. The Allied Invasion of Western Europe and the Attempt to Kill Hitler

  Book Six: The Fall of the Third Reich

  30. The Conquest of Germany

  31. Goetterdaemmerung : The Last Days of the Third Reich

  A Brief Epilogue

  Afterword

  Notes

  Acknowledgments

  Bibliography

  Index