The Third Reich at War

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by Richard J. Evans

Arno Breker in

  Louvre museum

  abortive coup after July 1944 bomb plot

  Parkinson’s disease

  Party Chancellery

  Pas-de-Calais

  Patton, George

  Pau

  Paul, Prince Regent of Yugoslavia

  Paulus, Friedrich

  Pavelic’, Ante

  Pavlov, Dmitri

  Peace Settlement (1919) see also Versailles, Treaty of

  Pearl Harbor

  peasantry

  Polish

  Norwegian

  Greek

  Croatian

  Bulgarian

  German

  Soviet

  Peenemünde

  Peer Gynt (Egk)

  Penzberg

  People’s Court

  ‘People’s Storm’ (Volkssturm)

  Peron, Juan

  Persia

  Petacci, Clara

  P’tain, Philippe

  backs armistice with Germany

  establishment of Vichy government

  negotiations with Hitler over attack on Britain

  and deportation of Jews

  reduced to figurehead

  Peter, King of Yugoslavia

  Peters, Gerhard

  Petersen, K̈the

  pets, Jews banned from owning

  Pfannm̈ller, Hermann

  Pfitzner, Hans

  Pforzheim

  Philippines

  Philips (multinational)

  ‘phoney war’

  phosgene gas

  phosphates

  physics

  Piaf, Edith

  Piaski

  Picasso, Pablo

  Picker, Henry

  Pillau

  Pintsch, Karl-Heinz

  Pirna

  Piskowitz

  Pius, Pope

  Pius, Pope

  plebiscites

  Ploesti oilfield

  Pl̈tzensee prison

  plutonium

  pogroms

  November 1938 (’Night of Broken Glass’)

  in Tsarist Russia

  in German-occupied Soviet Union

  in Romania

  Pohl, Oswald

  Poland

  formation of Polish state after First World War

  German invasion

  Soviet Union invades

  surrender

  ethnic German population

  Catholics and Catholicism

  German ‘civilizing mission’ in

  occupation as proving-ground for Nazi

  new racial order

  intelligentsia

  mass executions

  Task Forces in

  German army’s atrocities in

  labour conscription

  confiscation of property

  Germanization programmes

  suppression of Polish culture and education

  bribery and corruption in

  black markets

  disintegration of Polish society

  Poland - cont.

  atrocities in Soviet occupied territories

  Jewish ghettos

  government in exile

  Home Army

  murder of asylum patients

  Polish units in Allied forces

  internees in North African labour camps

  and German invasion of Soviet Union

  Hitler’s plans for ‘living space’

  extermination of Jews

  political prisoners in concentration camps

  Polish labourers in Germany

  disintegration of German rule

  resistance

  rescue of Jews

  looting of artworks

  Warsaw uprising (1944)

  Red Army occupation

  war crimes trials

  under Communism

  see also General Government

  police

  criminal

  Security

  Order

  in General Government

  Polish

  Reich Criminal Police Office

  border

  in Soviet Union

  in Romania

  in Yugoslavia

  Jewish ghetto

  knowledge of deportations

  see also Gestapo

  Polish Corridor

  Polish Home Army

  ‘Polish muddle’ (Polenwirtschaft)

  Poltava

  Pomerania

  Poniatowa labour camp

  Pontine marshes

  Ponza

  Popitz, Johannes

  P̈ppel, Martin

  Portsmouth

  Portugal

  Posen

  Posse, Hans

  postal service

  Potocki family

  Potsdam

  Prachtice

  Prague

  Pravda (newspaper)

  Press Chamber, Reich

  Pretzsch

  Preussich-Stargard (Starograd)

  Preysing, Count Conrad, Bishop of Berlin

  Prince of Wales (battleship)

  Pripet marshes

  prisoners of war

  Polish

  Soviet

  British

  French

  German

  Ukrainian

  deployment as labourers

  Italian

  American

  Danish

  Norwegian

  prisons

  Probst, Christoph

  Prochorovka

  propaganda

  anti-Jewish

  antisemitic feature films

  of ‘euthanasia action’ programme

  on German plans for occupied Soviet territory

  anti-Polish

  on women’s roles

  and defeat on Eastern Front

  Goebbels’s ‘total war’ speech

  against Allied bombing raids

  Allied propaganda against Jewish genocide

  against Red Army atrocities

  purpose of wartime propaganda

  Goebbels gains complete control over

  radio broadcasts

  on ‘wonder-weapons’

  and threat of German annihilation

  fails in face of invasion and defeat

  Propaganda Ministry

  and invasion of Poland

  and assassination attempt on Hitler (November 1939)

  recommends replacing ‘antisemitic’ with ‘anti-Jewish’

  and ‘Jewish world conspiracy’

  and ‘total war’ initiative

  and Allied bombing raids

  and Hitler’s increasing withdrawal from public view

  briefing papers to Hitler

  Nazi Party ‘Word of the Week’

  newsreels

  takes over radio stations

  and Reich Chamber of Music

  and ‘Jewification’ of Hungary

  and ‘wonder-weapons’

  prostitutes, prostitution

  Protectorate, the see Bohemia and Moravia (Reich Protectorate)

  Protestant Church see Confessing Church; Evangelical Church; German Christians

  Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The

  Pr̈fer, Kurt

  Prussia see also East Prussia; West Prussia

  Prussian Finance Ministry

  psychiatric hospitals see also T-4 unit killing centres

  psychiatrists

  Psychological Research and Psychotherapy, Reich Institute for

  publishers

  Pultusk

  putsches

  Kapp (1920)

  Munich beer-hall (1923)

  Quakernack, Walter

  quinine

  Quisling, Vidkun

  Race and Settlement Head Office

  racial classification

  racial hygiene, hygienists

  Racial Observer (newspaper)

  Racial-Political Office

  radar

  radio

  interception of messages

  popular b
roadcasts

  ‘radio crime’

  Radio Society, Reich

  Radom

  Radomsko

  Raeder, Erich

  railways

  Trans-Siberian Railway

  under-investment in German system

  Trans-Sahara Railway

  improved in occupied Poland

  Hitler’s plans for new system in east

  transportation of prisoners of war

  and relocation of Soviet industry

  sabotaged by Red Army

  transportation of Jews

  restrictions on Jews’ use of

  sequestration of equipment from occupied countries

  destroyed in bombing raids

  railway workers knowledge of deportations

  breakdown of railway communications

  transport to Bayreuth festivals

  destroyed by pro-Soviet partisans

  incompatiblity of gauges

  German equipment removed by Soviets

  Rallies, Nuremberg Party

  rape

  Rascher, Sigmund

  Rastenburg

  Rath, Ernst vom

  rationing

  in occupied countries

  in ghettos

  for German Jews

  in Germany

  for foreign workers

  in Britain

  in concentration camps

  Rauca, Helmut

  Rauff, Walter

  Rauter, Hanns

  Ravensbr̈ck concentration camp

  Rebatet, Lucien

  Reck-Malleczewen, Friedrich

  Reck-Malleczewen, Irmgard

  Red Army

  invasion of Poland

  purges

  war with Finland (’Winter War’ 1940)

  size

  unprepared for German invasion

  collapses in chaos

  deserters

  prisoners of war

  determination to fight

  reorganization

  counter-attacks

  Battle of Moscow (1941-2)

  Battle of Stalingrad (1942-3)

  forces German retreat from Caucasus

  Battle of Kursk (1943)

  German propaganda against

  Operation Bagration

  and Warsaw uprising (1944)

  advances into Germany

  total losses

  atrocities in occupied Germany

  final battle for Berlin

  and surrender of German forces

  Red Cross

  Red Front-Fighters’ League

  ‘Red Orchestra’

  refugees

  Polish

  Jewish

  French

  Serbian

  Soviet

  German

  Regensburg

  Reich Chancellery

  State Secretary

  part ofservice

  and invasion of France

  and extermination of Jews

  Hitler’s bunker complex

  bombardment of

  Reich Defence Commissioners

  Reich Research Council

  Reich School of the Nazi Party, Feldafing

  Reich Security Head Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt)

  creation of

  plans for removal of Jews from the Reich

  General Plan for the East

  forwards reports from Task Forces to Hitler

  and development of genocidal policy

  and deportation of Jews from Western Europe

  orders arrest of Germans demonstrating friendliness to Jews

  orders execution of looters

  Reich (journal)

  Reich, Wilhelm

  Reich-Ranicki, Marcel

  Reichenau

  Reichenau, Field Marshal Walter von

  Reichsbank

  Reichstag

  Reichwein, Adolf

  ‘Reinhard Action’ camps see also Belzec; Sobibor; Treblinka

  Reinhardt, General Hans-Georg

  Remagen

  Remer, Otto Ernst

  Renown (battle cruiser)

  reparations

  Request Concert (film)

  Rescuing Children and Protecting the

  Health of Jewish Populations,

  Organization for

  Research Community, German (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

  Research Council, Reich

  resistance movements

  in France

  in Czecho-Slovakia

  in Belgium

  in south-east Europe

  in Poland

  in Germany

  Reynaud, Paul

  Rheinmetall-Borsig (arms company)

  Rhine, river

  Rhineland

  Rhodes

  Rhodes, Cecil

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von

  at signing of French Armistice

  plan to kidnap Duke and Duchess of Windsor

  negotiations with Franco

  and German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (1939)

  and administration of Denmark

  and refusal of Nazi allies to deport remainder of Jews

  orders deportation of Italian Jews

  and Hitler’s refusal to surrender

  last days in the bunker

  leaves Berlin

  dismissed by Goebbels

  trial and execution

  Riedl, Colonel

  Riefenstahl, Leni

  Riegner, Gerhart

  Riesenburg (Probuty)

  Riga

  Ringelblum, Emanuel

  Ritter, Gerhard

  Ritter, Robert

  road-building

  Robert Koch Institute

  rockets

  Rodenwaldt, Ernst

  R̈hm, Ernst

  Rokossovskii, Marshal Konstantin

  Roman Observer (newspaper)

  Romania

  Polish government flees to

  ethnic German population transfer programmes

  Jewish emigrants returned to

  ceding of territories

  Iron Guard uprising

  oilfields

  alliance with Germany

  and German invasion of Soviet Union

  genocide of Romanian Jews

  declares war on USA

  Romanian concentration camp guards

  deportation of Jews from

  German influence in

  Legion of the Archangel Michael

  deportation of Gypsies from

  Hungarian Jews flee to

  Red Army approaches

  defects to Allies

  Rome

  Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin

  Roosevelt, Franklin.

  leases destroyers to Britain

  arms production programme

  signs ‘Atlantic Charter’

  supplies Soviet Union

  and ‘Jewish world conspiracy’

  Casablanca conference (1943)

  protests at deportation of Hungarian Jews

  death

  Rosenberg, Alfred

  Nazi Party ideologue

  attacks on Christianity

  Reich Minister for Occupied Eastern Territories

  and extermination of Jews

  confiscation of property

  and partisan resistance

  robbery of Jewish library in Rome

  leaves Berlin

  trial and execution

  Rosenheim

  Rostock

  Rostov-on-Don

  Rothschilds’ Shares in Waterloo, The (film)

  Rotmistrov, Pavel

  Rotterdam

  Rouen

  Royal Air Force

  and German invasion of France

  Battle of Britain

  Bomber Command

  ‘pathfinders’

  ‘Window’ (anti-radar device)

  ‘dam-buster’ raids

  leaflet-dropping

  and Warsaw uprising (1944)

  see also bombing raids, on
Germany

  Royal Navy

  and German invasion of Norway

  and planned German planned invasion of Britain

  leasing of destroyers from USA

  Mediterranean bases

  evacuation of Crete

  Atlantic convoys

  destruction of German battleships

  Arctic convoys

  see also submarines, U-boats

  Royal Oak (battleship)

  Royzicki, Stanislav

  Rozan

  rubber see also buna

  Rubinstein, Artur

  Rubinstein, Helena

  R̈gen

  Ruhr

  Rumkowski, Chaim

  Rundstedt, Gerd von

  invasion of Poland

  and German advance through France

  and invasion of Soviet Union

  replaced by Reichenau

  heart attack

  donation from Hitler

  and Allied Normandy landings

  sacked

  presides over court-martial following July 1944 bomb plot

  capture and death

  Rüsselsheim

  Russia, Tsarist

  Russian Revolution (1917)

  Rust, Bernhard

  Rybachi peninsula

  Rzhev

  SA (Sturmabteilung, Storm Division) see also brownshirts

  Saale, river

  Saar

  ˇabac

  Sachsenhausen concentration camp

  Polish academics deported to

  Berlin Jews taken as hostages

  Gross-Rosen sub-camp

  loans for construction

  prisoner labour

  homosexuals in

  Swingers sent to

  medical experimentation

  deportation of Slovakian Jews

  Sagan

  St Nazaire

  St Petersburg (Leningrad)

  Sajmiste

  Salat, Alfred

  Salerno

  Saliège, Jules-G’rard, Archbishop of Toulouse

  Salò

  Salonika

  Salzburg

  San, river

  Sardinia

  Sarin (poison gas)

  Sauckel, Fritz

  Sauerbruch, Ferdinand

  Saur, Karl-Otto

  Sava dike

  savings banks

  Saxony

  Scapa Flow

  Schacht, Hjalmar

  Scḧdle, Franz

  Scḧfer, Ernst

  Scharnhorst (battleship)

  Schaub, Julius

  Schellenberg, Walter

  Scheuer, Alois

  Schieder, Theodor

  Schiller, Friedrich

  Schindler, Oskar

  Schirach, Baldur von

  Schivelbein

  schizophrenia

  Schlabrendorff, Fabian von

  Schlageter (Johst)

  Schlegelberger, Franz

  Schleswig-Holstein

  Schleswig-Holstein (battleship)

  Schmidt, Paul

  Schmorell, Alexander

  Schmundt, Rudolf

  Schneidem̈hl

  Schoenberg, Arnold

  Scholl, Hans

  Scholl, Sophie

  Scḧnlanke

  schools

  suppressed in Poland

  closure of Jewish schools in Reich

  in concentration camps

  in ghettos

  closure of bomb-damaged urban schools

  anti-Christian policies

  decline in educational standards

  Nazi elite schools

  Reich School of the Nazi Party, Feldafing

 

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