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by Roger Manvell


  Oppressed by decision on genocide; reaction to Heydrich’s appointment to Prague; becomes increasingly subject to Schellenberg’s influence; on the Russian front; reaction to assassination of Heydrich; attempts to control industry; forms international SS.; plans for world domination by Germany; speech on destruction of Warsaw Ghetto; visits Auschwitz; briefs Skorzeny on rescue of Mussolini; applies Hitler’s leadership system to his own staff; sends reproofs to SS. officers; concern over Hitler’s health and sanity; first considers independent peace negotiations; fails to oppose Ribbentrop; later influence of Kersten on, chaps. vi and viii passim; extends military ambitions; admiration for Jenghis Khan; regains confidence of Hitler after misunderstanding; becomes Minister of Interior (August 1943); relations with Bormann; takes over V2 from Army; destroys Abwehr. Mature beliefs concerning medicine; on pan-Germanic culture; destruction of Bolshevism; alliance with other Nordic races to control world; on place and function of women; on homosexuality; on religion and the Churches; on the Jewish race; on violence; on genocide; on the leadership principle.

  Meets Goring and Ribbentrop on Allied landing in Normandy; actions after attempt on Hitler’s life (July 1944); appointed Commander-in-Chief, Reserve Army; negotiates sale of Jewish liberties; deportations and evacuations from camps; as Army Commander; uses Free Russian forces in the East; helps found German Home Guard; fear of Hitler; negotiates with Bernadotte on release of prisoners from camps and on peace terms; discusses peace negotiations with Goebbels; final meeting with Hitler; meets Masur to discuss liberation of Jews; seeks meeting with Allied Commanders; considers founding new Party without Hitler; hopes Allies will join with Germany to crush Bolshevism; dismissal by Hitler; final relations with Doenitz; arrest and interrogation by British; suicide.

  Described by Bernadotte; by Bormann; by Dornberger; by Goebbels; by Guderian; by Hitler; by Kersten, chap. vi passim; by Doris Mehner (secretary); by Schellenberg; by Westphal.

  Himmler, Marga (wife)

  Hindenburg, Field-Marshal Paul von

  Hitler Adolf, character; leads Munich putsch (November 1923); in Landsberg castle; concept of the SS.; attitude to Himmler and other prominent Nazis up to 1933, et seq.; attitude to S.A.; intrigue prior to coming to power; action on coming to power; declares amnesty for political prisoners (1933); desires to centralize control; gives Himmler control of police and Gestapo; and Roehm purge; decrees independence of SS. from SA; becomes Supreme Head of State on death of Hindenburg; and murder of Dollfuss; compares Himmler to Loyola; permits limited military training for SS; relations with High Command during and after the Blomberg and Fritsch cases; in Austria after Anschluss; employs Himmler as diplomat; and Czechoslovakia; attitude to his leaders at the beginning of war; appoints Heydrich Chief of Reich Security Office; Reichstag speech on Poland; orders extermination of mentally unfit; campaign in the West (1940); restricts Waffen SS; prepares Russian campaign; reaction to assassination of Heydrich; and leadership principle; Himmler’s medical report on; leaders’ concern over his health; isolation at various headquarters; regains confidence in Himmler after misunderstanding; at time of Allied landings in Normandy; attempt on his life (July 1944); agrees to demotion of Himmler as Army Commander in East; last meeting with Himmler; decides to stay in Berlin; dismisses Goring; dismisses Himmler; suicide

  Hoepner, Gen. Erich

  Hoess, Rudolf

  Hoffmann, Heinrich

  Hossbach, Col. Friedrich

  Höttl, SS. Col. Wilhelm

  Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Prince of

  Hunsche, Eichmann’s associate

  Immfeld, Mme.

  International Military Tribunal (the Nuremberg Trial (1945—6))

  International Tracing Centre (Arolsen)

  Jehovah’s Witnesses

  Jodl, Alfred

  John, Otto

  Kaduk, Oswald

  Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, SS. Gen.

  Kaminski

  Kammler, Heinz

  Kaufmann, Karl

  Keitel, Field-Marshal Wilhelm

  Keppler, Wilhelm

  Kersten, Felix, chaps. vi and vii passim

  Kersten, Frau Irmgard

  Kiep, Otto

  Kiermaier, Josef

  Kogon, Eugen

  Korherr, Dr

  Kramer, Josef

  Kripo (the Criminal Police)

  Krosigk, Count Schwerin von

  Krueger, Friedrich

  Krumey, Eichmann’s associate

  Lammers, Dr Hans

  Langbehn, Carl

  Lebensborn movement

  Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler

  Ley, Dr Robert

  Lidice, martyrdom of

  Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince

  Loritz family (Munich)

  Lüdecke, Kurt

  Ludendorff, Gen. Erich, F. W.

  Ludwig II, Prince of Bavaria

  Luther, Martin

  Macher, Major

  Mähner, Doris

  Masur, Norbert

  Mecklenburg, Prince von

  Meisinger, Josef

  Mengele, Dr

  Moltke, Helmuth Count von

  Montgomery, Field-Marshal Lord

  Morell, Dr Theodor

  Mueller, Heinrich

  Müller, Dr Josef

  Munich putsch (November 1923)

  Munich Pact (1938)

  Murphy, Col. L. M.

  Musi, Jean-Marie

  Mussolini, Benito

  Nanette-Dorothea (Himmler’s illegitimate daughter)

  Nazi regime, nature of

  Nebe, Artur

  Neurath, Baron Constantin von

  Nuremberg Trial (see International Military Tribunal)

  Ofner, Dr Abram

  Ohlendorf, Otto

  Olbricht, Col. Gen. Friedrich

  Papen, Franz von

  Payne-Best, Capt. S.

  Pohl, Oswald

  Popitz, Johannes

  Pringsheim, Fritz

  Pruetzmann, SS. Gen.

  Quisling, Vidkun

  Race and Resettlement Office

  Raeder, Adm. Erich

  Rankine, Paul Scott

  Rascher, Dr Sigmund

  Rauter, Hans

  Reichstag fire

  Reitlinger, Gerald

  Reitsch, Hanna

  Remer, Otto Ernst

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von

  Riss, Dr

  Roehm, Ernst

  Rommel, Gen. Erwin

  Rosenberg, Alfred

  Rote Kapelle

  Rothschild, Baron Louis de

  Rundstedt, Field-Marshal Gerd von

  SA (Sturmabteilungen: Assault Sections)

  Salon Kitty

  Saradeth, Col.

  Sarre, Puppi

  Schacht, Dr Hjalmar

  Schellenberg, Walter , chap. viii passim

  Schleicher, Gen. Kurt von

  Scholl, Hans and Sophie

  Schroeder, Kurt von

  Schulenburg, Gen. Graf von

  Schuschnigg, Kurt von

  SD (Sicherheitsdienst: Security Service): founded under Heydrich; Heydrich builds up intelligence files; Section relations with the Abwehr; and the Tukhacchewski affair; Himmler on SD; SD spy-ring abroad; and Operation Himmler; departments under Heydrich; becomes an official state organisation; wartime duties; wartime relations with High Command; under Schellenberg; telephone-tapping; later wartime development

  Selvester, Capt. Tom

  Semmler, Rudolf

  Seyss-Inquart, Dr Arthur

  Schirach, Baldur von

  Sievers, Wolfram

  Sima, Horia

  Simon, Sir John

  Six, SS Col. Prof. Dr Franz

  Skorzeny, Otto

  Skubl, Michael

  Solf, Dr and Frau Wilhelm

  Speer, Albert

  SS (Schutzstaffeln: Protection Squads): initial formation; Himmler appointed Reichsführer SS; SS under Himmler (1929-32)et seq.: concept of elite corps; SS marriage code (1932); SS Junkerschule (Bad-Toelz); growth of the SS;
relation to the SA; rival factions within SS; recruitment of aristocrats and prelates; Himmler reduces numbers (1934).

  Sense of respectability in SS; independence from SA; relationship with the Army; SS as a racial elite: developments after 1934, as latter-day Teutonic Knights; loyalty oath to Hitler; health and sport in; Jesuitical basis to organization; work with the concentration camps; para-military nature of; origin of the Waffen-SS; Himmler on; and the Lebensborn movement; and the Jews; and the Action Groups in Poland; and euthanasia of the mentally-unfit; and the medical experiments; international recruitment to; and European Jewry; later developments in the Waffen SS; Himmler’s ‘philosophy’ of future role of SS in Germanic society, chap. vi passim; opposition to homosexuality in SS by Himmler

  Stalin, Joseph

  Staudte, Dr Hans Hilmar

  Stauffenberg, Colonel Claus Schenk, Count

  Steiner, Felix

  Stevens, Major P. H.

  Stieff, Gen. Helmuth

  Storch, Hilel

  Strasser, Gregor

  Strasser, Otto

  Stroop, Lieut.-Gen.

  Stuckart, Wilhelm

  Terboven, Gauleiter Josef

  Teutonic Knights

  Theresienstadt Ghetto

  Thiele, Gen. Fritz

  Trevor-Roper, Prof. H. R.

  Tukhachevski, Mar. Mikhail

  Venlo Incident

  Vlassov, Andrei

  Völkischer Beobachter

  Wagner, Gen. Eduard

  Waldeck, Prince von

  Wannsee Conference

  Warsaw Ghetto

  Wells, Capt. C. J. L.

  Wenck, Gen.

  Westphal, Siegfried

  Wewelsburg, SS castle of

  Winocaur, Jack

  Wisliceny, Dieter

  Witzleben, Field-Marshal Erwin von

  Wolff, SS General Karl

  Wulff, Wilhelm

  Yorck von Wartenburg, Count Peter

  Zahler, Ludwig

  Zansen, Col.

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  Copyright © by Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel 1965

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  British Library Cataloguing-in Publication Data

  Manvell, Roger, 1909 — 1987

  Heinrich Himmler

  1. Himmler, Heinrich, 1900 — 1945 2. Nazis — Biography

  I. Title II. Fraenkel, Heinrich, 1897 — 1986

  943’.086’092

  ISBN 978-1-85367-740-3

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Manvell, Roger, 1909 — 1987.

  Heinrich Himmler : the SS, Gestapo, his life and career / Roger Manvell

  and Heinrich Fraenkel.

  p. cm.

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Originally published: London: W. Heinemann, 1965.

  9781602391789

  1. Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945. 2. Nazis—Biography. 3. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel Biography. 4. Germany—Politics and government—1933 — 1945.

  I. Fraenkel, Heinrich, 1897 — 1986. II. Title.

  DD247.H46M3 2007

  943.086092—dc22

  [B] 2007016953

  Printed and bound in the United States of America

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