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Becoming Hitler

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by Thomas Weber


  and women, 307–308

  worldview of, 123, 168, 267, 326

  working habits of, 279

  Hitler, Paula, 202–202, 262, 263

  Hitler’s First War (Weber), xvi, xxi

  Hoffmann, Heinrich (and son), 39–40, 213, 281

  Hoffmann, Hermine, 256, 314

  offmannHoffmann, Johannes, 45, 48, 51, 54, 162

  Hofmiller, Josef, 8, 9, 11, 12, 19, 28, 47, 90, 134

  Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Prince Wilhelm von, 158

  Holocaust, 60, 109, 120, 170, 245

  genesis/emergence of, 275–276, 333, 334

  Horlacher, Michael, 86, 89, 91

  House of Wittelsbach, xxi, 19, 21

  “How the English Win World Wars” (Müller), 89

  Hugenberg, Alfred, 331

  hunger, 28, 148. See also food shortages

  Huch, Ricarda, 81

  Iceland, 132, 135

  iconography, 281

  idealism, 84, 85

  immigration, 153

  India, 246

  individualism, 153

  industrialization, 146

  inequality, 185

  Infantry Leib Regiment, 34

  inflation/hyperinflation, 266, 295–296, 302

  influenza, 148

  intellectuals, 29

  interest, 86, 95, 119, 138, 153, 201, 219

  internationalism, xvii, 38, 68, 105, 115, 120, 147, 170, 262

  International Jew, The (Ford), 251

  Irre, Max, 103

  Italy, 240–241, 253, 274, 310, 322, 324. See also Mussolini, Benito

  Jesus, 286

  Jews, 11, 16, 59, 109, 118, 122, 128, 135, 141, 142, 184, 217–218, 225, 276, 291, 297, 303, 317, 323, 324, 329

  “final solution,” 180, 240, 279, 332

  in Freikorps, 60, 61, 62

  vs. genius, 190

  Jewish bankers, 221

  Jewish materialism, 118, 119

  Jewish spirit, 129, 153, 177, 221, 229

  in Poland, 333–334

  secular Jews, 62

  See also anti-Semitism; capitalism: Jewish finance capitalism

  Jodl, Alfred, 80

  Jones, John “Jack,” xiii

  Judas Schuldbuch (M. Lehmann), 243

  Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 289

  Jungdeutscher Orden, 290

  Kahr, Gustav von, 163, 164, 165, 217, 296–297, 298–299, 301, 302–303

  Kaiser (Lieutenant), 105

  Kant, Immanuel, 22, 249

  Kapp, Wolfgang, 159, 160–161, 162, 165, 183, 184, 216, 284

  Karl (emperor), 233

  Karsch, Franz Xaver, 86, 89

  Kaulbach, Friedrich August and Mathilde von, 261

  Keogh, Michael, 107–108

  Kerchnawe, Hugo, 244

  Kershaw, Ian, xv

  Kirill (Grand Duke), 250, 251

  Kleber (Feldwebel), 72

  Klemperer, Victor, 9, 29, 59, 77–78

  Knilling, Eugen Ritter von, 269, 298

  Koerber, Victor von, 283–285, 288, 290–291, 311

  arrest of, 291

  Kommer, Rudolf. 260

  Kraus, Karl, 173

  Kressenstein, General Friedrich Kress von, 303

  Kriebel, Hermann, 301

  Kristallnacht, 176, 291

  Krohn, Friedrich, 66, 156, 212

  Krüger, Emmy, 7, 11–12, 47, 55–56, 77

  Landsberg fortress, 181, 202, 307, 312, 315, 319

  Lauböck, Fritz, 275

  Lauböck, Theodor, 201–202

  League of Nations, 17, 77, 105, 137

  Lebensraum, 123, 320, 321–322, 332

  Lechfeld, 105, 109

  Left-Liberals, 23

  Lehmann, Julius Friedrich, 18, 31, 32, 70, 157, 212, 241, 242–245, 299, 308, 315, 322

  anti-Semitism of, 243

  Lehmann, Melanie, 18, 21, 32, 81, 243, 279–280, 303, 308–309, 315

  Lenin, V. I., 309, 320, 323

  Lerchenfeld, Count Hugo von, 269

  Levi, Hermann, 174

  Levi, Rafael, 57–58

  Levien, Max, 36, 58

  Leybold, Otto, 315

  liberalism, xxi, 20, 24, 30

  liberal democracy, 335, 336, 337. See also parliamentary democracy

  List, Guido von, 246

  List Regiment (Sixteenth Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment), xvi, xvii, xxiii, 4–5, 9, 61, 73, 105

  Lloyd George, David, 308

  Lossow, Otto von, 303

  Lotter, Obermaat Konrad, 33, 35

  Löwensohn, Robert, 62

  Luch Sveta, 225

  Lüdecke, Kurt, 313

  Ludendorff, General Erich, 19, 216, 225–226, 274–275, 281, 283, 285, 287–288, 297, 300, 311

  coup planned by, 301–305, 308, 309, 310

  Ludwig III (king), 7, 8, 19, 22, 269

  Lüers, Friedrich, 39, 51, 70

  Lüttwitz, General Walther von, 160

  Mann, Klaus, 69

  Mantel, Karl, 303

  Märklin (Oberleutnant), 72

  Marx, Karl, 169

  Masaryk, Tomáš, 20

  materialism, 85, 119, 142, 169, 174, 311

  Maurice, Emil, 150, 178–180

  Mayr, Karl, 66, 67, 79–80, 85, 88, 89–90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 101–103, 108–109, 121, 129, 160, 161, 163–164, 165, 183, 215, 290, 291

  death of, 187

  and NSDAP, 185–186, 187

  opposition to, 184

  “as republican of reason,” 186

  See also under Hitler, Adolf

  Mein Kampf (Hitler), xvi, xix, xxii, xxiii, 3, 14, 25, 35, 53, 81–82, 86–87, 96, 97, 105, 114, 125, 143, 151, 154, 191, 228, 247, 282, 309, 316–320, 322, 326, 327

  difference between two volumes of, 324–325

  frequency of terms in, 323–324

  and lessons Hitler learned, 320

  original title of, 315

  race mentioned in, 323

  reference to gassing of Jews in, 278

  Mell, Max, 175

  Mensch und Gott (Chamberlain), 175

  middle class, 126, 132, 147, 188–189, 227, 256, 261

  might vs. right, 136–137

  militias, 9, 31, 60, 70, 164, 274, 297. See also Freikorps

  Möhl, General Arnold von, 74, 101, 110, 129, 160, 163–164, 165

  given emergency powers, 162, 163

  monarchies/monarchists, xvi, xix, xx, xxii, 6, 19, 20, 21, 25, 162, 217, 225, 250, 267, 268–269, 291, 320

  morale, 104, 106

  morality, rules of, 188

  Mühsam, Erich, 30, 36

  Müller, Captain von, 298, 299, 300, 301

  Müller, Karl Alexander von, 86, 87–89, 89–90, 91, 176

  Müller-Meiningen, Ernst, 8, 145

  Münchener Beobachter, 132, 135. See also Völkischer Beobachter

  Münchener Post, 40, 65, 186

  Münchener Stadtanzeiger, 113

  Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten, 76, 155, 169

  Münchner Zeitung, 155

  Munich, xiv, xviii, xix–xx, xxi, 25, 33, 46, 93, 116, 169, 213, 327

  Americans in, 31, 261

  anti-Prussian sentiment in, xix, 55

  art scene in, 142

  Austrian Consulate in, 10

  Bavarian vs. German identity in, 5

  beer halls in, 196

  as capital of National Socialist Movement, 163

  counterrevolutionaries/white forces in, 53, 56, 69, 209, 216–217

  decommissioning of soldiers in, 72, 80

  elections in military units in, 48–49

  emigration from, 51–52

  executions in, 54, 69, 134, 298

  food supplies in, 28

  Jews in, 57, 136, 169

  left-wing coup in, 4, 8, 13, 18–19

  march from Munich to Berlin, 295

  martial law in, 38, 74

  migrants in, 126

  Munich University, 143, 144

  Odeonsplatz, firefight on, 304

  People’s Court in, 309

  photos of
Hitler in, 281 (see also Hitler, Adolf: photos of)

  Police Directorate in, 121

  political mass rally in, 6, 8

  postrevolutionary Reichswehr in, 185

  Protestants in, 126, 242

  putsch in 1923, 294 (see also Hitler, Adolf: coup planned by)

  radical right in, 156, 196, 207, 208, 209, 226, 228, 296, 297, 333

  Schwabing neighborhood in, xxi

  as Soviet Republic, 46–47, 52, 53–54, 62, 65, 68, 71, 72, 74, 102, 117, 121, 133, 134, 150, 159, 209, 284

  Sterneckerbräu restaurant in, 111

  support for NSDAP in, 327

  uncertainty in, 18, 55, 298

  upper classes in, 209–210, 214, 253, 256, 260–261, 313, 314

  and Versailles Treaty, 76, 77, 81

  “white” émigrés/Baltic Germans in, 217, 222, 223, 224, 225

  Mussolini, Benito, 241, 253, 265, 275, 295

  mysticism, 246, 247

  nationalism, xiii, 90, 105, 117, 146, 152–153, 302

  Nationalismus (Tagore), 246

  National Socialism, xiii, xiv, 40, 62, 154, 157, 316, 324, 326

  Freikorps movement as vanguards of, 63

  propaganda of, 13, 15, 63, 64, 103 (see also propaganda)

  National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), 122, 133, 150, 156, 163, 164, 165, 166–167, 181–182, 185–186, 194, 220, 229, 230, 268, 327

  anti-Semitism of, 167, 168, 265, 278

  and Bavarian establishment, 297

  chapters outside Munich, 191–192, 227, 253

  democracy dead in, 235–236

  Hitler leaving and rejoining as leader of, 234–235, 242, 252–253, 286

  membership, 227, 253

  money problems of, 208–213, 253, 254, 300

  outlawed, 303

  split in, 236

  success of, 228, 330

  See also Nazi Party

  National Socialist Workers’ Association, 156, 209

  Nazi Party, xxi, 94, 112

  SS in, 60

  term “Nazi,” 326

  See also National Socialist German Workers’ Party

  Netherlands, 20

  Neues Wiener Journal, 290

  Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 8

  New York Times, 252

  Niekisch, Ernst, 38

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 188, 249

  Noske, Gustav, 51, 54, 65, 75

  NSDAP. See National Socialist German Workers’ Party

  Nuremberg party rally in 1934, 193

  Obersalzberg, 263

  occultism, 246, 247, 248

  Oestreicher, Paul, 303–304

  Olympics of 1936, 193

  Operation Barbarossa, 334

  Oppenheimer, Gabriele “Yella” von, 174, 175, 176

  Ordnungszelle, 164

  Ottoman Empire, 102, 132, 214, 277, 322. See also Turkey

  Pacelli, Eugenio, 33, 36, 53, 58, 60, 164

  Pan-German League, 157, 213, 242, 244, 296, 299

  parliamentary democracy, 23, 30, 31, 32, 36, 37, 38, 159, 164, 235, 247, 269

  death of, 46

  See also liberalism: liberal democracy

  Passau, 139

  passports, 164

  Patrick, William, 181

  Peasants’ League, 59, 163

  Peer Gynt (Ibsen/Eckart), 237–238

  Pest in Russland! (Rosenberg), 221

  Pius XII (Pope), 33, 53

  Pöhner, Ernst, 122, 164, 298–299

  Poland/Poles, 58, 229, 261, 277, 322, 332, 333–334

  populists, 312, 315, 331, 336

  POWs, 15–16, 17, 24, 39, 50, 56, 78

  German POWs returning home, 105

  Irish, 107

  Pravda, 293

  Pröhl, Ilse, 195, 197, 257

  propaganda, xvii, 13, 15, 40, 51, 63, 64, 66, 78, 85, 93, 95, 96, 97, 105, 125, 154, 284. See also Hitler, Adolf: as propagandist

  Protestants, 59, 126, 133, 184, 193–194, 220, 227, 242, 254

  “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” 222, 225, 250

  Prussia, xix, xx, 19, 38, 55, 268

  anti-Prussian sentiment, xix, 55, 126

  racial theory, 244, 245, 248, 320, 322–323

  Raeder, Grand Admiral Erich, 239

  Rassenkunde des deutschen Volkes (Günther), 244, 245, 320, 322

  Rathenau, Walther, 58, 164

  Raubal, Geli, 179

  Reck, Friedrich, 210

  Red Army, 46, 50, 52, 54, 57, 69, 70, 73, 75, 158

  desertions in, 55

  Reformation, 194

  Regina Palasthotel, 79, 121

  Reichert, Maria, 166, 314

  Reichsbanner, 186–187

  reparations, 76, 139, 295

  revolutionary councils, 14–15

  Riefenstahl, Leni, 193

  Riehl, Walter, 202

  Rilke, Rainer Maria, 18–19, 27–28, 71

  Ring of the Nibelung (Wagner), 329–330

  Rödl, Arthur, 61

  Röhm, Captain Ernst, 150

  Romanov, Grand Prince Kirill, 225

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 260

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 192

  Rosenberg, Alfred, 133, 217, 219–223, 224, 238, 251, 252, 263–264, 287, 306

  Rosenheim, 201–202

  Royal Bavarian State Railway, 116, 117, 125–126

  Roze, Valdemar, 294

  Rubenia fraternity, 217

  Rubenstein, Lewis, 329–330

  Rupprecht (Crown Prince), xx–xxi, 19, 226, 269, 297

  Russians/Russia, 16, 22, 38, 50, 56, 83, 115, 138, 139, 215, 217, 225, 251, 293, 321–322, 332. See also Hitler, Adolf: and alliance with Russia

  SA (Sturmabteilung), 150, 179, 236, 240, 252, 275, 326–327

  Salomon, Franz Pfeffer von, 241

  Saxony, 293–294, 295

  Scandinavia, 20, 67

  Scharrer, Eduard August, 276

  Scheubner, Mathilde von, 216

  Scheubner-Richter, Max Erwin von, 215–217, 219, 222, 223, 224–225, 226, 250, 251, 252, 270, 283, 309, 320

  death of, 304

  Schioppa, Lorenzo, 58, 69

  Schlager, Lieutenant Josef, 17

  Schmidt, Ernst, 12–13, 13–15, 18, 24–25, 45, 46, 53, 56–57, 70, 314

  Schreck, Julius, 150

  Schröder, Fritz, 30

  Schrönghammer-Heimdal, Franz, 147

  Schwarzenbach-Wille, Renée, 7, 11, 254

  Schweyer, Anna, 211

  Schweyer, Franz Xaver, 22, 270–271, 273

  Sebottendorff, Rudolf von, 132, 133, 134–135, 207, 214, 215

  Second Infantry Regiment, 9, 10, 25, 34, 41–42, 54–55, 75, 139

  Investigation and Decommissioning Board, 72–73, 74, 75, 80

  Second Demobilization Company, 25, 40, 41, 49, 63

  Second World War, 65, 80, 138, 170, 180, 252, 322

  Seihs, Josef, 42, 73

  Seydlitz, Wilhelm von, 212

  Shützenregiment 41, 139

  “Sieg Heil,” 259

  Slavs, 250, 322, 323, 332

  Smith, Captain Truman, 269–270

  Snessarev, Nikolai, 250

  Social Democracy, xvi, xvii, xx, 13, 19, 20, 118, 154, 327

  moderate Social Democrats (SPD), 5, 6, 22, 30, 31, 32, 33, 42, 45, 51, 64–65, 66–67, 71, 74, 75, 82, 92, 146, 162, 163, 186, 269, 270

  radical Independent Social Democrats (USPD), 6–7, 7–8, 22, 23, 30, 36, 42, 64, 78, 164, 270

  See also Hitler, Adolf: and Social Democrats

  socialism, xiii, xiv, xvii, xxiii, 117, 132, 146

  Socialist revolutionaries, 3, 4, 7, 36

  See also German Socialist Party

  Soldiers’ Councils, 8, 14, 15, 24, 30, 33

  Solleder, Fridolin, 61

  Somerville (British intelligence officer), 28

  “Song of the Nibelungs, The,” 200

  Sontheimer, Josef, 30

  sovereignty, 127

  Soviet Union, 170, 217, 277, 320, 333. See also Russians/Russia

  Sozialistische Monatshefte,
92

  Spartacists, 29–30, 32, 36, 47, 69, 75, 106, 115, 159, 169

  SPD. See Social Democracy: moderate Social Democrats

  Speidel, Max von, 22, 64

  SS (Schutzstaffel), 60, 178–179, 240–241

  Einsatzgruppen in, 170

  Staatskunst (term), 189

  Staubwasser, Oberst Friedrich, 75, 80

  Stauffenberg, Countess Caroline Schenk von, 27

  sons of, 28

  Steininger, Babette, 246

  Sterneckerbräu restaurant, 149–150, 166, 197

  Stolzing-Czerny, Josef, 282

  Stosstrupp Hitler, 179

  Straus, Rahel, 8, 11, 28

  Streicher, Julius, 253

  strikes, 55, 294

  students, 143, 262

  Süddeutsche Monatshefte, 89, 90, 92

  Sudetenland, xiv

  Switzerland, 8, 253–254, 265

  Tagore, Rabindranath, 246

  Tedescos (family), 175

  Teutonic race, 192

  Therese (Princess of Bavaria), xxi

  Thule Society, 31–32, 54, 111, 131–135, 149, 155, 156, 242, 247, 299, 315

  Thuringia, 293, 295

  Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Nietzsche), 188

  Timm, Johannes, 37

  Tiroler Gröstl, 197–198

  Tirpitz, Alfred von, 146, 254

  Togler, Ernst, 128

  Toller, Ernst, 50, 66, 144

  “To the German Worker” (Müller), 89

  Traunstein, 14–18, 24, 41, 238, 248

  Traunsteiner Wochenblatt, 238

  Treaty of Sèvres, 214, 274

  Tröbst, Hans, 274–275, 277, 279, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 309, 333

  sister-in-law Dorothee, 302

  Türken Barracks, 107, 139, 140

  Turkey, 214, 274, 275, 310. See also Ottoman Empire

  Uffing am Staffelsee, 305

  Ullstein, Hermann, 291

  United States, 80, 136, 137, 138, 158, 170, 201, 252, 259–260, 282, 324

  Library of Congress, 243, 245, 248

  Upper Silesia, 196, 261

  urban warfare, 70

  USPD. See Social Democracy: radical Independent Social Democrats

  Vatican, 80

  Verdi, Giuseppe, 247

  Versailles Treaty, 65, 78, 115, 152, 157, 214, 268

  ratification of, 80, 82, 83–84

  See also under Hitler, Adolf; Munich

  Vienna, 202, 203, 205, 258, 282

  Vienna Stock Exchange, xiii, 336

  Vinberg, Fyodor, 225, 250

  Völkischer Beobachter, 111, 212, 214, 220, 221, 238, 251, 258, 259, 264, 280, 306–307

  sale of, 207–209

  völkisch movement, 117, 118, 131, 132, 134, 234

  Voll (Herr), 212

  Vollmar, Georg von, 6

  Vonficht, Georg, 16

  Wagner, Richard, 144, 173, 189, 193, 213, 248, 253, 329

  Wagner, Winifred, 176

  WannSee Conference, 128

  Weber, Christian, 263

  Weber, Friedrich, 299–300, 301, 302, 315

 

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