Brecht, Bertolt
Bredow, Major-General Kurt von
Breker, Arno
Bremen
Brenner Pass
Brentano, Lujo
Breslau
bribery
Britain
rearmament
global strategy
foreign policy
Jewish immigrants
ultimatum to Germany
declares war
see also Chamberlain, Neville
British Empire
British Petroleum
Brown Book of the Hitler Terror
brownshirts see ‘Storm Division’
Bruckner, Anton
Brückner, Helmut
Brückner, Wilhelm
Brüning, Heinrich
as Reich Chancellor
leaves the country during Röhm purge
rumoured to be on death-list
sets up Economic Advisory Council
austerity programme
Buber-Neumann, Margarete
Buchenwald concentration camp
Buchner, Ernst
Buchwitz, Otto
Budapest
Büdingen
Bulgaria
Bülow, Bernhard von
buna (synthetic rubber)
Bünger, Wilhelm
Bürckel, Josef
Burckhardt, Carl
bureaucracy
Burg, Hansi
Burgenland
Busch, Fritz
business
Bütefisch, Heinrich
Butlin, Billy
cabaret
Calvinism
Cameroon
Canada
Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm
capital punishment
Carinhall hunting lodge
Carl Zeiss, optics firm, Jena
Carol, King of Romania
Carpatho-Ukraine
Carsten, Francis
castration
Catacomb club, Berlin
Catholic Action
Catholic Church
Bismarck and
Concordat (1933)
Hitler and
Goebbels and
Heydrich and
Himmler and
and murder of prominent Catholics
Index of Prohibited Books
alleged financial corruption
Papal Encyclical (Mit brennender Sorge)
accusations of homosexuality and paedophilia
power and influence severely dented by 1939
conservatism
fear of Bolshevism and revolution
and forcible sterilization
and contraception
power in Italy
and Saarlanders
in Austria
Catholic community
tries to integrate into the social and political system
civil servants
lay organizations
and Klausener’s murder
prosecution and imprisonment
the press
allegiance to the Papacy
Trade Unions
Gestapo and
youth organizations
Teachers’ League
Caritas Association
opposition to Nazism
sympathy for the Jews
and the 1939 pogrom
censorship
film
literary
theatre
reduces variety of cultural life
Central Agency for Jewish Emigration
Central European Travel Office
Central Franconia
Central Institution for Jewish Economic Aid
Centre Party
antisemitism
restriction of losses
dissolved
Cézanne, Paul
Chagall, Marc
Chamber of Architects, Reich
Chamber of Deputies, Prussian
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart
Chamberlain, Neville
Charlemagne
Charlottenburg
chemical industry; see also.G. Farben
children
Child-Rich Families, Reich League of
Christianity
Church Affairs, Reich Ministry for
Churchill, Winston
Chvalkovsky, Franzisek
Ciano, Galeazzo
cinema/film
Cinema Law
Citizenship Law
civil liberties
civil service
job losses
Catholics
purged
Jews in
oath of allegiance to Hitler
Hess’s power
decline in influence and prestige
and Hitler’s misuse of Hindenburg’s funds
‘double earners’ fired
Civil Service Law (Law for the Re-establishment of a Professional Service, 1933)
club foot
coal
cobblers
Cologne
University of
‘colonization’ of the East
Columbia
commercial vehicles
Commerzbank
Committee for Aid and Reconstruction
Communist International (Comintern)
Communist Party of Germany
and the SA
NovemberReichstag elections
suppression of
and the Social Democrats
resistance and repression
see also concentration camps
‘community aliens’ (Gemeinschaftsfremde); see also ‘asocials’
comradeship houses
concentration camps
map
Communists in
trade unionists in
Social Democrats in
and Public Prosecutor’s Office
transfer of prisoners to
an instrument of racial and social engineering
increase in deaths
opening of new camps
labour
uniforms
brutality of camp life
‘Marxist’ functionaries in
Jehovah’s Witnesses
theft of personal possessions and money
Jewish prisoners with emigration papers released
see also Buchenwald; Dachau; Esterwegen; Flossenbürg; Fuhlsbüttel; Lichtenburg; Mauthausen; Neuengamme; Sachsenhausen
Concordat (1933)
Condor Legion
Confessing Church
declaration of principles
rejects the ‘Aryan Paragraph’
creation of ‘Provisional Management of the German Evangelical Church’
and the German Christians
leaders under surveillance
repression of
supporters driven out of Dahlem
refuses to comply with Kerrl’s plans
and theology faculties
and the 1938 pogrom
conscription
labour
construction industry
corruption
Costa Rica
Councils of Trust
Courts of Honour
Criminal Code (1871)
criminals
cross/crucifix symbol
Cuba
Cubism
Culture Chamber, Reich
‘cultural Bolshevism’
currency
Czechoslovakia
exporter to Third Reich
as a source of food supplies
Hitler wants to annex German-speaking areas
ethnic groups in
compared with Austria
Munich Agreement
Polish and Hungarian claims
Slovak independence
Hácha’s agreement with Hitler
German protectorate
dismemberment
see also Sudetenland
Dachau concentration camp
Dadaism
Dahlem, Berlin
Daily Telegraph
Daimler-Benz
Daluege, Kurt
Danat Bank
Dangerous Habitual Criminals, Law against (1933)
Dannecker, Theodor
Danzig (Gdansk)
Darmstadt
Darré, Richard Walther5
replaces Hugenberg as Agriculture Minister
‘blood and soil’ ideology
view of Christianity
Reich Farmers’ Leader
yields to the demands of autarky
Reich Entailed Farms
Reich Food Estate
Director of Himmler’s Head Office for Race and Settlement
David, Hans Walter
Day of National Labour
Day of National Solidarity
Day of Potsdam (21 March 1933)
deafness, hereditary
death penalty see capital punishment
Debussy, Claude
Defence Council, Reich
Defence Law
degeneracy
Degenerate Art exhibition
Degenerate Music exhibition
Degenhardt, Carl
Degussa chemical company
Delbrück, Hans
Denmark
denunciations
department stores
Depression (1929-33)
Deutsche Bank
Dickens, Charles
Diels, Rudolf
Dietrich, Marlene
Dietrich, Otto
Dietrich, Sepp
Dimitrov, Georgi
Dirks, Walter
Disney, Roy
Disney, Walt
District Leaders (Kreisleiter)
Ditzen, Rudolf (Hans Fallada)
divorce
Dix, Otto
Dmowski, Roman
Doctor Mabuse (The Gambler) (film)
doctors
Dollfuss, Engelbert
Domagk, Gerhard
domestic service
Dominican Republic
Donat, Wolfgang
Donop, Lippe
Dresden
Dresdner Bank
drug companies
Duisburg
Durango, Spain
Düsseldorf
Gestapo office
Theatre
Degenerate Art exhibition
Reich Music Festival (1938)
Special Court
1938 pogrom
Duty of Service, Decree of
East Friesia
East Prussia
East-Central Europe
ethnic Germans in, 1937
Eberlein, Hugo
Ebermannstadt, Bavaria
Eberstein, Karl, Baron von
Ebert, Friedrich
Eckell, Johannes
Economics, Reich Ministry of
economy; see also ‘Aryanization’; Four-Year Plan
Ecuador
Eden, Anthony
Editors’ Law
education
religious
Nazification of
antisemitism
textbooks
teachers
political
physical
class sizes
Nazi elite schools
Adolf Hitler Schools
Order Castles
sports
higher
female
medical
see also universities
Education, Reich Ministry of
Eggers, Kurt
Egk, Werner
Eglfing-Haar asylum
Eher Publishing House
Ehrhardt, Captain Hermann
Eichberg asylum
Eichenauer, Richard
Eichengrun, Sally
Eichmann, Adolf
Eicke, Theodor
Einstein, Albert
Eisenach prison, Thuringia
Eisenstein, Sergei
Elberfeld
elections
high turnout rates
liberal centre and moderate left losses (mid-1920s)
Reichstag (1928)
Reichstag (1930)
Reichstag (November 1932)
Reichstag (July 1932)
Reichstag (March 1933)
Reichstag (March 1936)
Reichstag (November 1933)
Church (November 1932)
Church (July 1933)
local
see also plebiscites
Ellerhusen, Paul
Eltz-Rubenach, Peter Baron von
embezzlement
Emergency Association of German Science (later the German Research Community)
emergency relief schemes
emigration
of Jews
of university staff
of artists
Emsland, North Germany
Empires, European
Enabling Act (1933)
Endeks
Engels, Friedrich
engineering
Entailed Farms
epilepsy, hereditary
Erbach, Willi
Erfurt
Essen
Esslingen, Württemberg
Esterwegen concentration camp
Estonia
Ethiopian War
Ettighofer, Paul Coelestin
eugenics, eugenicists
Evangelical Church
politically conservative
Inner Mission
attempts to Nazify
and stormtroopers’ uniformed presence at services
co-ordination of
existing officials replaced with German Christians
and German Democratic Republic
conflict between German Christians and Confessing Church
dominated by German Christians in North Germany
adopts the Aryan Paragraph
loss of power and influence by 1939
fear of Bolshevism and revolution
and welfare institutions
see also Confessing Church; German Christians
Evian conference (1938)
exports
Expressionism
Falkenburg Castle, Crossinsee, Pomerania
Falkenstein
Fallada, Hans see Ditzen, Rudolf
family
family assistants
farmers
Nazi Party members
and traditional Church festivals
Darré’s vision
price controls inheritance laws
Reich entailed farms
see also agriculture; Entailed Farms, Food Estate
Farmers’ Leaders
Farmsen
Fascism (Italian)
Faulhaber, Cardinal Michael
Feder, Gottfried
feeble-mindedness
Feidler’s stocking shop
feminist movement
Feuchtwanger, Lion
Fey, Major Emil
Fiehler, Gerhard
Fighting League for German Culture
Fighting League of German Architects and Engineers
film see cinema
Film Chamber, Reich
Film Credit Bank
Film-Courier magazine
Finck, Wilhelm
Finland
First World War
‘spirit of 1914’
Germany’s defeat
Remarque’s and Ettighofer’s views of
Germany’s Protestant clergy
Allied blockade of Germany
‘stab-in-the-back’
fighting unity and commitment of the front
Jews portrayed as the enemy
propaganda claims
fishing industry
Flechtheim, Alfred
Flick, Friedrich
Flossenbürg concentration camp
folk music
Folkwang Museum, Essen
Food Estate, Reich
food supplies
forced labour
Ford Motor Corpor
ation
foreign debt
foreign exchange reserves
Foreign Ministry, Reich ; see also Neurath; Ribbentro p foreign travel
Forester, Cecil Scott
forestry
Forster, Albert
Four-Year Plan
Fox Talking Weekly Review
Fraenkel, Ernst
France
German loss of territory to
Hitler alleges government plot with Röhm
Impressionists
treatment of Catholic priests by German troops (1870s)
wrests control of education from the clergy
occupation of the Rhineland
pronatalist propaganda
restrictions on employment of foreign workers
antisemitism
ethnic Germans in
reluctance to prepare for war
Communist Party
ultimatum to Germany
Franciscans
Franco, General Francisco
Franco-Soviet Pact
Franconia
Frank, Hans
Frank, Karl Hermann
Frank, Walter
Frankfurt am Main
Frankfurt Newspaper (Frankfurter Zeitung)
Frankfurter, David
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
Free Corps
Freemasonry
Freiberg, Saxony
Freudenberg, Carl
Freusberg
Frick, Wilhelm
Frie, Karl
Friedrich Wilhelm, Crown Prince
Friedrichshain, Berlin
Friedrichstadt
Fritsch, General Werner von
Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp
Fühlsbüttel prison
Funk, Walther
Fürstenwalde
Furtwängler, Wilhelm
Galen, Clemens von, Bishop of Münster
Galerie Fischer, Lucerne
Garbo, Greta
Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Winter Olympic Games, 1936)
Gather, Wilhelm
Gauguin, Paul
Gebensleben, Eberhard
Gebensleben, Elisabeth
Gebensleben, Friedrich Karl
Gebensleben, Irmgard
Gedye, George
Geigy
General Motors
Geneva
geography teaching
George, King of Great Britain
Gera
Gereke, Günter
Gerlich, Fritz
German Blood, Declaration of
German Blood and German Honour, Law for the Protection of
German Book Week
‘German chemistry’
German Christians
sweeping victory in Church elections (23 July 1933)
failure
and the Confessing Church
antisemitism
and theology faculties
and welfare institutions
German Conservative Party
German Criminal Code
German Democratic Republic
German Earth- and Stoneworks Company
German Educationalists’ Community
German Faith Movement
German Fashion Institute
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