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The Third Reich in Power

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by Evans, Richard J.


  Porsche, Ferdinand

  Posse, Hans

  Postal Service, Reich

  Potsdam

  Prague

  ‘Prague Manifesto’ (1934)

  Prenzlau district

  Press, Reich Association of the German

  Press Chamber, Reich

  Pretzel, Raimund

  preventive medicine

  prices; see also inflation

  prisons

  professionals

  Prokofiev, Serge

  propaganda

  funding of

  antisemitic

  ‘Night of the Long Knives’

  Social Democrats’ criticism of Nazi propaganda machine

  Nazi alarmist

  treasonable verbal

  and plebiscites

  Nazis’ belief in positive power of

  cult of Hitler

  Triumph of the Will

  radio

  Bayreuth Festival

  campaigns of early 1930s

  cultural

  and art

  and German language

  anti-Christian

  Nazi propaganda in schools

  against the physically handicapped

  pronatalist

  supposed mistreatment of Sudeten Germans by Czechs

  claims of First World War

  unremitting

  see also Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, Reich Ministry of Property Transfer Office (Vienna)

  Prora resort, Rügen island

  prostitution

  Protection of German Blood, Reich Committee for the

  ‘protective custody’; see also concentration camps

  Protestant Church see Evangelical Church

  Protzen, Carl Theodor

  Prussia

  Puccini, Giacomo

  Punch magazine

  quantum mechanics

  ‘racial defilement’ (Rassenschande)

  racial hygiene, hygienists

  Racial Observer (Völkischer Beobachter)

  radio

  Radio Chamber, Reich

  Radio Luxemburg

  Raeder, Admiral Erich

  Railway Station Booksellers, Reich Association of German

  railway system

  rapists

  Rath, Ernst vom

  Rathenau, Walther

  Raubal, Angela (‘Geli’)

  Ravensbruck concentration camp

  raw materials

  rearmament

  Reck-Malleczewen, Friedrich

  Red Aid welfare organization

  Red Army

  Red Cross

  Red Flag (Rote Fahne)

  Red Front-Fighters’ League

  Reduction of Unemployment, first Law on the (‘First Reinhardt Programme’)

  Reduction of Unemployment, second Law on the (‘Second Reinhardt Programme’)

  Reformation

  Regensburg, Bavaria

  Regional Leaders (Gauleiter)

  Reich, The (Das Reich) magazine

  Reich Chancellery

  Reich Court, Leipzig

  Reich School of the NSDAP Feldafing

  Reich Security Head Office

  Reich Statistical Office

  Reich Supervisory Office for Insurance

  Reichenau, General Walther von

  Reichsbank

  Reichsbanner

  Reichsrat

  Reichstag

  accepts Hitler’s justification for the Röhm purge

  Reichstag fire

  state opening at Potsdam (21 March 1933)

  effective elimination of

  Hitler addresses on the Rhineland

  Hitler addresses on the armed forces

  Hitler’s speech on Czechoslovakia (18 March 1938)

  Hitler announces abrogation of agreements with Poland and Britain

  Hitler announces invasion of Poland

  Reichstag elections see under elections

  Reichstag Fire Decree (28 February 1933)

  Reinhardt, Fritz

  relativity

  religion see Christianity

  Remarque, Erich Maria

  Remmele, Hermann

  Renner, Karl

  reparations

  Respighi, Ottorino

  Reuter, Vice-Admiral Ludwig von

  Revolutionary Socialists of Germany

  rheumatoid arthritis

  Rheydt

  Rhineland

  African-Germans

  remilitarization of

  Rhineland-Westphalia

  Rhine Metal company ,

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von

  Richthofen, Colonel Wolfram von

  Riefensthal, Leni

  Ritter, Gerhard

  Ritter, Dr Robert

  Robert Ley (a ship)

  Röhm, Ernst

  Röhm purge see ‘Night of the Long Knives’

  Röhricht, Eberhard

  Romania

  Romanies see Gypsies

  Rome

  Rome-Berlin Axis

  Röontgen, Wilhelm

  Rosenberg, Alfred

  and Bishop Sproll

  and Goebbels

  and Fighting League for German Culture

  editor-in-chief of the Racial Observer

  similar views to Hitler on art and music

  and Ditzen

  denounces Barlach

  and The Silent Woman

  and the Degenerate Art exhibition

  and music

  declining influence

  anti-Christian ideas

  and universities

  and homosexuality

  and the Non-Aggression Pact

  Rosenheim

  Rosenheim, Julius

  Rostock

  Roth, Carola

  Rothenberg, Franz

  Rothfels, Hans

  Rothschild family

  Rowohlt, Ernst

  rubber; see also buna

  Rüdin, Ernst

  Ruhr

  Franco-Belgian occupation (1923)

  armed left-wing uprising (1920)

  Communists in

  Schlageter shot

  food shortages

  African-Germans in

  Catholics in

  Ruler, The (Der Herrscher) (film)

  Rummelsburg

  Russia see Soviet Union

  Rust, Bernhard

  SA see ‘Storm Division’

  SA Man, The (Der SA-Mann), magazine

  SA-Man Brand (film)

  Saar plebiscite

  Saarbrucken

  Sachsenburg

  Sachsenhausen concentration camp

  Sager and Woerner, engineering firm

  Salamander shoe company

  Salazar, Antonio

  Salomon, Ernst von

  Salzgitter

  Sauber, Georg

  Sauckel, Fritz

  Sauerbruch, Ferdinand

  Saxony

  Schacht, Hjalmar

  Schardt, Alois

  Schaub, Julius

  Scheel, Gustav Adolf

  Schell, Colonel von

  Schellenberg, Walter

  Schemm, Hans

  Schenzinger, Karl Aloys

  Schiller, Friedrich

  Schinkel, Friedrich von

  Schirach, Baldur von

  schizophrenia

  Schlageter, Albert Leo

  Schleicher, General Kurt von

  appointed Chancellor

  killed by the SS

  allegations against him

  Schlemmer, Oskar

  Schleswig-Holstein

  Schleswig-Holstein (battleship)

  Schlösser, Rainer

  Schlotterbeck, Friedrich

  Schlotterer, Gustav

  Schmeling, Max

  Schmid, Wilhelm Eduard

  Schmidt, Otto

  Schmidt, Waldemar

  Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl

  Schmitt, Kurt

  Schmitt, Ludwig

  Schmoller, Gustav

  Scholtz-K
link, Gertrud

  Schönberg, Arnold

  Schönerer, Georg Ritter von

  schools see education

  Schopwinkel, Robert

  Schreck, Julius

  Schrödinger, Erwin

  Schulenburg, Count Fritz-Dietlof

  Schultze, Walter ‘Bubi’

  Schultze-Naumburg, Paul

  Schulz, Paul

  Schuschnigg, Kurt von

  Schwanenwerder

  Schwarz, Franz Xaver

  Schweinitz District News-Sheet (Schweinitzer Kreisblatt)

  Schwerin von Krosigk, Lutz

  science

  Science and Education, Reich Ministry of

  Scott, Sir Walter

  sculpture

  Secker and Warburg (publishers)

  Seldte, Franz

  Sembach, Emil

  Sethe, Paul

  sex offenders

  sexuality

  sexually transmitted diseases

  Seyss-Inquart, Arthur

  Shakespeare, William

  Shanghai

  Shirer, William.

  shoe industry; see also cobblers

  shopkeepers see under middle class

  Shostakovich, Dmitri

  show trials

  Sibelius, Jean

  Siberia

  Siegerland

  Siegfried Kroch Company

  Siegfried Line see West Wall

  Siemens, Georg von

  Siemens-Schückert company

  Signac, Paul

  Silesia

  Silverberg, Paul

  Simon, John

  Simson arms manufacturing company

  Sinti see Gypsies

  Six, Franz

  Skoda works

  smoking

  Social Darwinism; see also racial hygiene

  Social Democratic Party of Germany

  membership

  principles

  and Grand Coalition

  terror against

  backs Hindenburg

  suppression of

  November 1932 Reichstag elections

  and the Communists

  mass arrests of leaders

  exiled leadership in Prague

  and Röhm purge

  opposition to Nazism

  Marxist ideology

  and 1934 plebiscite

  New Beginning and other groups

  and denunciations

  and journalism

  propaganda

  and the Hitler Youth

  report on artisans and shopkeepers

  loss of capacity for independent action

  and Strength Through Joy

  vast cultural apparatus

  welfare

  and the 1938 pogrom

  see also concentration camps

  social deviance

  social welfare see welfare system

  social workers

  Socialist Flysheets (Sozialistische Blätter)

  ‘Socialist Front’

  socialist realism

  Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany

  sociology

  Solingen-Ohligs

  Solmitz, Major Friedrich

  Solmitz, Luise

  Sonnemann, Leopold

  Sonthofen Castle, Bavaria

  Sotke, Fritz

  South Africa, Jewish immigrants

  Soviet Germany

  Soviet Union

  Revolution (1917) (‘October Revolution’)

  agricultural collectivization

  purges

  show trials

  deaths under Stalin

  labour camps

  cultural propaganda

  socialist realism

  unremitting war on individualism

  German belief in backwardness of Slavs

  Orthodox Russians

  persecution of the Christian Church

  becoming a threat in the ‘struggle of nations for life’

  ‘showdown with Russia inevitable’ (Göring)

  Five-Year Plan

  state ownership and centralized panning

  civil war (1918-21)

  state ownership of industry

  restrictions on birth control

  Jews

  ethnic Germans in

  invasion of (1941)

  Polish attitude to

  Spahn, Martin

  Spain

  SpanishWar

  Spartacist uprising (Berlin, January 1919)

  Special Courts

  special schools

  Speer, Albert

  early life

  becomes Hitler’s personal architect

  General Building Inspector for the National Capital

  plans for Berlin

  earnings

  and Strength Through Joy

  and ‘one-pot Sunday’

  and the Olympic Games

  Sperrle, General Hugo

  Spilker, Inge

  Spoerl, Heinrich

  Sports Palace, Berlin

  Sproll, Bishop Joannes

  SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squad)

  prosecutions

  nominally a part of the SA

  ‘putsch’ warning

  Hitler’s bodyguards

  ‘Night of the Long Knives’

  murder of Schleicher

  built up by Himmler

  compared to the SA

  hierarchy

  uniforms

  sponsorship

  purges

  marriage issue

  educational level

  begins to merge with police

  and concentration camps

  ‘Death’s Head Formation’

  employed by Gestapo for brutal interrogations

  at Nuremberg Rally

  Frankfurt Newspaper raided

  roots out books by proscribed authors

  in Sachsenhausen

  and Catholics

  and religion

  Himmler’s plans

  attacks Haupt

  Rust and

  Stark and

  boycott of Jewish firms

  aristocrats in

  doctors

  and Strength Through Joy

  and Winter Aid

  and racial hygiene

  and master-race

  and homosexuality

  treatment of Jews in Austria

  Eichmann joins

  and Czechoslovakia

  SS Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst or SD)

  Heydrich leads

  Ohlendorf heads the economics section

  established by Himmler

  personnel in political police service posts

  Koblenz branch

  on German radio

  and ‘degenerate’ art

  and Hitler Youth

  on universities

  and Heisenberg

  on historians

  exhortations not to buy from Jewish businesses

  on theservice

  Jewish Affairs Division

  and Polish Jews resident in Germany

  on ‘war psychosis’

  and Czechoslovakia

  Stäbel, Friedrich Oskar

  Stade, North Germany

  Stadelheim gaol, Munich

  Stalin, Josef

  purges

  secret police

  Soviet military preparedness

  Five-Year Plan

  Stark, Johannes

  Stauffenberg, Lieutenant Claus von

  Stauss, Emil Georg von

  Steed, Henry Wickham

  steel

  Steel Helmets: League of Front-Soldiers

  Steinbeck, John

  Steinhäusl, Otto

  Stelling, Johannes

  sterilization

  Stern scrap metal company, Essen

  Sternberger, Dolf

  Stettin

  Stoeckel, Walter

  ‘Storm Division’ (Sturmabteilung, or SA; brownshirts; stormtroopers)

  violent activism

  and the Communi
st Party

  and the Social Democrats

  unemployment

  enrolled by Goring as auxiliary police

  membership statistics

  Köpenick blood-week (June 1933)

  finds itself without a role

  Steel Helmets incorporated into

  own justice system

  prosecutions

  Röhm envisages as national militia

  Hotel Kaiserhof incident

  threat to the army

  obstacle to Himmler’s ambitions 1934 purge of

  decline in membership

  compared with SS

  and plebiscites

  at 1934 Nuremberg Rally

  and jazz

  uniformed presence at church services

  and Catholics

  and Hitler Youth

  and education

  and shortages of raw materials

  demands for donations

  attack on stores

  action against Jewish-owned shops

  robbery from Jewish homes

  candidates for jobs

  Prince August Wilhelm in

  Körle cycling club incident

  medical services

  and welfare collections

  and homosexuality

  antisemitism

  and the 1938 pogrom

  Stormer, The (Der Stürmer)

  Strait Way, The (Der gerade Weg)

  Stralsund

  Strasser, Gregor

  resignation from the Nazi Party

  shot at police headquarters

  Hitler’s allegations against

  sets up Economic Policy Division

  Strasser, Otto

  Straubing

  Strauss, Richard

  Stravinsky, Igor

  Streicher, Julius

  antisemitic paper The Stormer

  antisemitic speech in Hamburg

  ‘Strength Through Joy’

  ‘Strength Through Joy car’ (later Volkswagen)

  Stresa Front (1935)

  Stresemann, Gustav

  Stuckart, Wilhelm

  Stuckenschmidt, Hans-Heinz

  students see universities

  Stuttgart

  Styria, Austria

  Sudetenland

  Suhr, Otto

  Supreme Censorship Authority for Dirty and Trashy Literature

  swastika symbol

  Sweden

  swing, ‘Swing Youth’

  Switzerland

  Syllabus of Errors (1864)

  Tack (shoe firm)

  Tanganyika (later Tanzania)

  Tannenberg League

  taxation

  teachers; see also education

  technology

  Telegraph Union

  Ten Commandments

  Teschen, Czechoslovakia

  Tessenow, Heinrich

  textiles

  Thälmann, Ernst

  theatre

  Theatre Chamber, Reich

  theology

  Thieme, Emma

  Thierack, Otto-Georg

  Thingspiel (‘meeting-play’)

  Third Republic (France)

  Thirty Years’ War

  Thomson, Joseph John

 

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