Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz
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RH’s testimony at Kaltenbrunner’s trial, 257–60
languages used, 321
sentences, 321
ODESSA network, 234, 317
Olympic Games (1936), 82
Operation Haystack (1945–46): hunt for Simon, 204–19, 313–15
Nazi hunt intensifies, 228–34
hunt for Glücks and RH, 234–45, 317–19
focus moves to different targets, 247
Operation Paperclip (1945), 304
Oświęcim, see Auschwitz
Paczynski, Josef, 106, 114–15, 298–9
Pagels, Hans Joachim, 292
Pallasch (Concentration Camp Inspectorate employee), 160
Pallenberg, Max, 47, 292
Paperclip see Operation Paperclip
Parchim, 37
Perl, Franz, 76, 82
Picard, Amalie, 21, 27, 49, 80
Picard, Lucien, 21, 24, 27, 49, 73, 80
Pohl, Oswald: named as war criminal, 151
and Morgen’s corruption investigation, 158
relationship with RH, 160
suggests RH visit the camps, 162
Morgen tries to initiate criminal proceedings against, 306
reaction to Belsen conditions, 169
hunt for, 204, 232–3, 234
arrest and execution, 316, 322
RH writes character sketch, 263, 265
Polanski, Anton, 191
Polgar, Alfred, 292
Prees Heath, 124–5
Prinz, Rabbi, 78
Purrmann, Hanns, 292
Ravensbrück, 196
Reading, Lord, 120, 122
Refugee Children Movement, see Kindertransport
Reich Citizenship Law, 82
Reich Escape Tax, 83, 296
Reinhardt, Max, 47, 292
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 249
Riga, 32–4
Ritzler, Barry, 320–1
Robichaud, Lieutenant R. E., 175
Robson, Colonel, 318
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 149
Rossbach, Gerhard, 30–1, 32, 34, 35
Russell, Lord, 326
SA, see Sturmabteilung
Sachsenhausen: RH is transferred there, 69–71
Graetz stays in temporarily, 90–1, 297
growth, 95
changes in leadership, 96
RH leaves, 97
corruption investigation, 155
RH moves there to work for Concentration Camp Inspectorate, 159–62
T-building, 160–1, 196, 231–2
St. Malo, 121–2
Samelson, Felix, 107
Scheideler, Alvis, 210, 211
Scherk, Grete, 292
Schiff, Otto, 76
Schlageter, Albert Leo, 37
Schmauser, Ernst, 109, 110
Schutzstaffel (SS): Himmler appointed leader, 56
growth and membership criteria, 60
RH joins, 60–1
uniform, 61
scientists, plans to track down German, 304
Scott-Barrett, Brigadier H., 176, 307
Sehn, Jan, 262–3, 264, 326
Serebrenik, Rabbi Dr. Robert, 206
Shoah Archive, 299
Silberstein, Joszef, 191
Simon, Gustav, 204–19, 205, 221
Simon, Gustav Adolf (son of above), 208, 209–11, 212
Smallwood, Major Geoffrey, 175
Smith, Major Gordon, 301
Sobibor, 307
Somerhough, Anthony George, 203–5, 228, 317, 324
Sommer, Karl, 204, 231–2, 234
Soviet Union: German invasion, 112
attitude to Final Solution, 149
Speer, Albert, 249
Spitzer, Margit, 191
SS, see Schutzstaffel
Stalin, Josef, 149
Stangl, Franz, 227
Stephens, Colonel Robin “Tin-Eye,” 176–7, 237, 308
Strauss, Richard, 47
Sturmabteilung (SA): Hitler builds up, 291–2
size and control, 60
Der Stürmer (magazine), 53–4, 322
Sug (Concentration Camp Inspectorate employee), 160
Sussmann, Bella (née Alexander), 18, 44
joins father at front, 17
and HA’s childhood pranks, 23
cherry-pip spitting, 292
on HA and Paul at school, 292
moves to London, 74
marriage, 295
life in London, 76
father visits, 80
meets HA at Croydon airport, 84
helps family settle in to London, 88
family meet-ups, 90
stripped of German nationality, 92–3
HA visits, 123
husband’s death, 186–7
remarriage, 276
and father’s Iron Cross, 278
death, 279
Sussmann, Harold, 74, 84, 88, 186–7
Sussmann, Peter, 76, 80, 84, 123, 314–15
Sussmann, Tony, 123
Sylt, 200
Szczurek, Janina, 103–4
T-building, see Sachsenhausen
Tabau, Jerzy, 302
Tatarosuk, Marian, 191
Thorn, Jos, 217, 218
Tilling, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Humphrey: replaces Genn, 204
instructs HA to hunt down Simon, 207
reaction to HA’s capture of Simon, 215
Ann asks for help in getting HA to write to her, 219–21
plan to hunt down Concentration Camp Inspectorate officials, 228–9
asks RH to hunt down Glücks and RH, 234
sends HA home, 247
Torahs, 27–8, 290
see also Alexander Torah
Treblinka, 132–3, 156, 300
Tukums, 32
Unger (Concentration Camp Inspectorate employee), 160
United Nations War Crimes Commission, 149, 150
United States: attitude to Final Solution, 149
war crimes strategy, 151
Victoria, Queen, 5
Victory in Europe Day, 170
Vogel, Blanka, 191
Vogel, Michael, 107
Volkenrath, Elisabeth, 139, 181, 182, 193
Wagner, Gustav, 307
Waite, Robert, 291
war criminals: Allied strategy, 149–52
interrogations, 174–82, 189–92, 307–8
failure to track down swiftly, 307
HA sets off to hunt down, 193–5
British War Crimes Group established, 203–4
hunt for Simon, 204–19, 313–15
Nazi hunt intensifies, 228–34
hunt for Glücks and RH, 234–45, 317–19
change in emphasis of hunt, 247
RH’s time in Polish captivity, 260–7
his trial, 267–70
“following orders” defense, 269
Frankfurt Trial, 276
see also Belsen Trial; Nuremberg Trials
Warner, Fred, 316
Warsaw Ghetto, 149, 300
Wegener, Paul, 48, 292
Wehner (Conentration Camp Inspectorate employee), 160
Werwolfs, 313
Wessely, Molly, 292
Weymouth, 124
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 18
Wirth, Christian, 156
Wirths, Eduard, 179
Witt, Georg, 233
Wolfsburg, 174, 306
Zaremba, Father Tadeusz, 274
Zyklon B, 114, 299
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