The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

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by William L. Shirer


  Maas (Meuse) river, 721

  Maastricht, 724

  Mackensen, Field Marshal August von, 197, 225, 284

  Mackensen, Hans Georg von, 483, 553, 554, 565fn., 566, 568, 687, 890

  Mackesy, Maj. Gen. P. J., 707

  Maddalena I., 1003

  Madeira, 265, 817

  Madrid, 785–88

  Mafalda, Princess, 146, 352, 984fn., 1003

  Magdeburg, 1105

  “Magic,” 885, 886–87, 888fn.

  Maginot Line, 293, 294, 422, 531, 646, 718, 719, 720, 725

  Magistrati, Count Massimo, 553

  Maikop, 859, 909, 914

  Mainz, 400, 1101

  Maisel, Gen. Ernst, 1078

  Maisky, Ivan, 478fn., 495fn.

  Makins, R. M., 605fn.

  Malaya, 892, 901fn.

  Malcolm, Major General, 31fn.

  Maldon, 763

  Malkin, Sir William, 391

  Malmédy, 954, 1095fn., 1096fn.

  Maloyaroslavets, 868–69

  Malta, 912–13, 921, 922, 1002fn.

  Manila, 876

  Mann, Heinrich, 241

  Mann, Thomas, 241, 242

  Mannerheim, Marshai, 682fn.

  Manoilescu, Mihai, 800

  Manstein, Gen. Fritz Erich von (Lewinski), 284, 335, 345fn., 369, 370, 424, 488, 718, 726, 830fn., 840, 903fn., 926–27, 928, 1015, 1030

  Manteuffel, Gen. Hasso von, 1090, 1091, 1093, 1094

  Marahrens, Bishop, 239

  Marburg (Maribor), 13, 217

  Marburg, University of, 218, 219, 251

  Margival, 1039, 1040

  Marienbad, 251

  Marienburg, 255

  Marienwerder, 1072

  “Marita,” 823, 824

  Marne river, 727, 863, 1088

  Marseilles, 740

  Marshall, Gen. George C, 1001fn.

  Marx, Karl, 98

  Masarik, Dr. Hubert, 416–17, 418

  Masaryk, Jan, 404, 411, 784

  Masaryk, Tomáš Garrigue, 358, 359, 443, 444, 445, 448

  Masefield, John, 384fn.

  “master race” concept, 21–28, 81–82, 86–89, 93, 97, 98, 100, 103–9, 232, 236, 249, 250, 255, 286, 937, 939, 991

  Mastny, Dr. Vojtech, 346, 416–17, 418

  Matisse, Henri, 244

  Matsuoka, Yosuke, 839, 871, 873, 874–6, 877, 878, 883, 888, 892

  Matuschka, Capt. Count von, 1030

  Matzelsberger, Franziska (Frau Hitler), 9

  Maurice, Emil, 42, 79fn., 132, 221, 223

  Maurice, Maj. Gen. Sir Frederick, 31fn.

  Mauthausen, 272, 351, 955, 956, 967, 981

  Max, Prince of Baden, 32, 52, 55

  Maxwell-Fyfe, Sir David, 517

  May Day celebration (1933), 202

  Maydell. Baron Konstantin von, 685fn.

  McAuliffe, Gen. A. C, 1093

  McCarthy, Joseph R., 1095fn.

  McCloy, John J., 950fn., 1096fn.

  Mechelen-sur-Meuse, 671

  Mecklenburg, 161, 301

  medical experiments, Nazi, 979–91

  Medina Sidonia, Duke of, 914fn.

  Mediterranean, 301, 530, 554, 691, 757, 808, 812–13, 817–19, 827, 829, 912–14, 925, 995, 1007, 1008

  Mehlhorn, Doctor, 520

  Meinecke, Friedrich, 6

  Mein Kampf (Hitler), 80–81, 113, 129–30, 133, 134, 249; autobiographical material, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 18–22, 25–29, 34, 36, 39, 40, 44, 109–10; cited, 6, 22, 25, 26, 32, 41, 43, 44, 82–90, 97, 110–11, 209, 230, 234, 240, 243, 248, 279, 288, 307–8, 429–30, 454, 544fn., 549, 796, 941, 1124, 1131

  Meissner, Otto von, 4, 155, 168–69, 173, 175, 181, 183–84, 196

  Meli, Max, 102

  Memel, 428–29, 456, 461–62, 1033

  Mendelssohn, Felix, 242

  Merekalov, Alexei, 476, 479–80

  Mersa Matrûh, 817

  Mertz von Quirnheim, Colonel von, 1058, 1060, 1067, 1068

  Mesny, General, 1100

  Messerschmitt, Wilhelm, 835

  Metz, 1076, 1086

  Meuse river, 716–18, 723–26, 1086, 1090fn., 1092–93, 1094

  Mézières, 717

  Michael, King of Rumania, 800fn.

  Michael (Goebbels), 124

  Middle East, 828, 829, 912, 919; see also Arabia; Iran; Palestine; Syria

  Miklas, Wilhelm, 331, 332, 334fn., 338, 339, 340, 341–43, 346, 347

  Mikoyan, Anastas, 494

  Milan, 482, 740fn., 995, 1131

  Milch, Field Marshal Erhard, 484, 497, 733, 755fn., 947fn., 985, 986

  Militaer-Wochenblatt, 260

  Minsk, 621, 855, 962fn., 967, 973fn., 1020

  Mirabeau, Count Honoré Gabriel Victor Riqueti de, 93

  Mius river, 861

  Moabit prison, 239, 1025fn., 1068

  Model, Field Marshal Walther, 947, 1076, 1078, 1088, 1090, 1095, 1105

  Moellendorff, Captain von, 1049, 1053

  Moerdijk, 721, 722

  Molde, 708

  Moll, Sergeant, 970

  Molotov, Vyacheslav M., 490, 544fn.; named Foreign Min., 480–81; negotiations with Germans, 476, 481–82, 491–94, 501, 505, 506, 513–14, 520–28, 535fn., 538, 540, 562, 622, 626–31, 639, 667, 793–95, 844; with British, French, 495, 496, 503, 504, 537; Berlin visit, 800, 803–9, 818; replaced as Prime Min. by Stalin, 841–44; receives German war declaration, 846–49

  Moltke, Hans Adolf von, 377, 460, 462, 499

  Moltke, Field Marshal Count Helmuth von, 374, 657, 723, 1081

  Moltke, Count Helmuth James von, 374, 558, 908, 1015, 1016, 1025, 1036, 1072fn.

  Monckton, Sir Walter, 789, 791

  Monschau, 1092–93

  Montevideo, 669–70

  Montgomery, Gen. Sir Bernard Law, 919, 920, 1001, 1086, 1088–89, 1102, 1105, 1138, 1141

  Monthermé, 724

  Montoire, 814, 815fn., 816

  Mooney, James D., 686fn.

  Moravia, 359, 362, 428, 429, 438, 440, 443, 444, 448, 449, 451, 460, 598, 657, 686, 991

  Moravská-Ostrava, 383, 444

  Morell, Dr. Theodor, 444, 447, 1056, 1102

  Morgan, J. P., 688

  Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 897fn.

  Morison, Samuel Eliot, 883fn.

  Morocco, 297, 814, 923

  Morris, Leland, 900

  Mościcki, Ignacy, 560–61

  Moscow: German war plans against, 798, 810, 811, 937; rumors of German attack in, 842, 844; German drive toward and defeat at, 853–54, 856–61, 863–70, 891, 905, 952, 1006, 1007, 1081; evacuated by govt., 859–60

  Moscow Pact, see Nazi–Soviet Pact

  Moselle river, 1086, 1088, 1089, 1099

  motion pictures, Nazi control of, 247

  Mozdok, 914

  “Mr. X,” see Bryans, J. Lonsdale

  Muehlmann, Doctor, 340

  Mueller, Heinrich, 519–20, 595, 953, 1044

  Mueller, Hermann, 137

  Mueller, Dr. Josef, 648, 693, 1024

  Mueller, Ludwig, 235, 237, 238

  Mueller, Wilhelm, 250–51

  Muenchener Neueste Nachrichten, 223

  Muenster, 239; Treaty of, 644

  Muenstereifel, 720

  Muff, Lt. Gen. Wolfgang, 323, 340, 342

  Munch, Edvard, 698

  Munich, 38–44, 46–49, 112, 118, 120, 123, 128–29, 131, 132, 138, 148, 156, 225, 244, 271, 279, 406, 457, 694, 923, 1107; Hitler moves to, from Vienna, 27–28; Hitler returns to after war (1918), 31, 33–36; a magnet for anti-Republic forces, 34; Roehm purge in, 220–23; Hitler-Duce meeting in, 740–41; Hitler-Laval meeting in, 924; Cianos take refuge in, 1004–5; conspirators plan to take over, 1033, 1034; see also Beer Hallc Putsch

  Munich, University of, 48, 124, 1022–23

  Munich Conference and Pact, 384, 403, 407, 409–28, 436–37, 439, 440, 443, 445, 448, 450–53, 496, 506, 531, 543, 544, 557, 562, 565, 566, 570, 571, 580, 583, 603, 611, 619, 635

  Munk, Kaj, 957

  Munters, Vilhelms, 471

  Murmansk, 667,
695fn., 811, 859

  Murray, Gilbert, 784

  music, Nazi control of, 242

  Mussolini, Benito, 63, 209, 261, 344, 450, 507, 562, 640fn., 645, 657, 727, 735, 747, 819, 849–51, 872, 923fn., 995; meetings with Hitler, 217, 301, 740–41, 774, 815–16, 821–22, 995–96, 1049, 1055–57; sends troops to bar Austrian Anschluss, 280; invades Ethiopia, 289–90, 296; Hitler gains support of, 296–99, 301–2, 324, 327; approves German annexation of Austria, 302, 324, 327, 334–35, 336–37, 339, 343, 345, 347; role in Czech problem, 377, 400, 403, 407–10, 414–19; reluctance to risk war against West, 436, 482–83, 493, 508, 509, 511–12, 529, 547–48, 551–57, 564–68, 570, 665–66, 687–92; conquest of Albania, 469; attitude toward U.S., 469–70, 875fn., 889–90, 893; opposes Axis amity with U.S.S.R., 478–79; signs Pact of Steel, 482–83; mediation in war crisis, 587–89, 592, 603–8, 615–18, 620–21, 640, 643; criticizes Nazi policy toward U.S.S.R., 666, 683, 687, 688; promises to enter war, 689–92; war, armistice with French, 739–41, 745, 746; war with British, 733, 755, 812–14, 928; invasion of Greece, 815, 816, 818, 825, 826; in war against U.S.S.R., 851, 909–11; relations with Japan, 875, 889–90, 893; urges Hitler to make peace in east, 928, 995; deposed, arrested, 996–98, 1002, 1003; is rescued by S.S., 999, 1000, 1003–6; assassinated, 1131

  Myth of the Twentieth Century, The (Rosenberg), 149

  Nacht und Nebel Erlass (Night and Fog Decree), 957–58

  Naggiar, Paul-Émile, 537

  Namier, Sir Lewis B., 556fn., 593fn., 611

  Namsos, 708

  Namur, 717, 724, 725, 726, 1086

  Nansen, Fridtjof, 675

  Nantes, 956

  Naples, 1001, 1002

  Napoleon, 98, 111, 206, 448, 542, 629, 760fn., 769fn., 812, 829, 851–52, 853, 859, 860, 865, 867, 868, 1015, 1028

  Napoleon III, 95, 723

  Narew river, 497, 532, 541, 629, 631

  Narvik, 674, 676, 681, 695, 696, 700–1, 707, 708, 709, 711, 721, 752, 810, 930

  National Assembly, German, 31, 57, 59

  National Club, Berlin, 44

  National Liberais, 56

  National Political Institutes of Education, 255

  National Redoubt, 1105–6

  National Socialist Association of University Lecturers, 249

  National Socialist German Freedom Movement, 112, 118, 123

  National Socialist movement (ideology), 25, 36, 38, 39, 40–41, 83–85, 97–104, 108–9, 117, 120–21, 249, 1029, 1030, 1042, 1070–71, 1082, 1123, 1125, 1128

  National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party, or N.S.D.A.P., 3, 19, 22, 24, 63, 112, 121–23, 129, 154, 159, 160, 165, 168, 173, 184, 185, 189–92, 194, 240, 314–15, 372, 373, 430–31, 562, 563, 663, 834, 837, 1061, 1064, 1065, 1080; establishment and early growth, 41–51; “second revolution” and “socialism” in, 41, 123, 126, 128, 143, 147, 176, 180, 204–8, 213–15, 232, 261; Hitler’s dictatorship in, 44–46; suppressed after putsch attempt, 72, 75, 111–12; election campaigns, 118, 138, 152, 153, 156–59, 166, 171–72, 180–81, 194–96, 211–12; structure, 119–21, 252–53, 255, 263; factional strife in, 122–23, 126–29, 143–44, 147, 172, 174, 180, 181, 204–8, 216; financial aid from big business, 134, 142–45, 172, 176, 178, 179, 203; gains support in Army, 139–42, 146–49; activities in Reichstag, 162, 170–72, 174, 179, 181, 199; sole party in Germany, 201; control of churches, 234–40; of arts and professions, 242, 244, 246; of education, 249, 251; of farmers, 257; of labor, 263–64; of courts, 268–69; terror tactics, 194, 221, 226, 231, 233, 237, 239, 271, 276, 351, 369, 372, 956–63, 993, 1139; in Austria, 279, 280, 296, 323, 328, 330–33, 337fn., 340–41, 350, 351; in Sudetenland, 359, 360, 363, 376–77, 381fn., 383

  National Socialist Teachers’ League, 249

  Nationalists, see German National People’s Party

  Natzweiler, 981

  Naujocks, Alfred Helmut, 518–19, 594–95, 599, 653, 654

  Naval High Command, 636, 638, 844; see also Raeder, Adm. Erich

  Naval War Staff, 637, 679, 758–59, 763–64, 766, 768, 770, 772–73, 818, 829

  Navy, German, 58fn., 211, 305, 317, 318, 321, 354, 401, 529, 766–68, 772–73, 853, 1003, 1008, 1048, 1098, 1121–22, 1125, 1126, 1130; Hitler’s pledges to, 207, 214–15; rebuilding program, 281–82, 287–89, 299, 487–89; Memel, seizure of, 456, 461–62; preparations for war, 456, 468, 487–89, 518, 520, 524–25, 590; U-boats, 281, 289, 518, 520, 524, 571, 622, 635–36, 646, 667, 710, 879–83, 895, 902, 912, 913, 996, 1007, 1008, 1099; war operations: in Atlantic, 622, 635–38, 646, 879–83, 895, 902, 913, 1007, 1008, 1036, 1039; ship sinkings, 622, 635–36, 637–38, 646, 913, 1007; ship losses, 669, 707, 709, 711–12, 773, 781, 1000fn; Norway invasion, 673–75, 679, 681, 696–97, 701, 707, 709–12; invasion of Britain, 752, 756, 758–59, 761, 763–74, 781; Mediterranean offensive urged, 816–20, 828–29; operations against Russia, 845; surrender negotiations, 1138

  Nazi–Soviet Pact, 513–16, 520–28, 531, 535fn., 538–45, 547, 544–55, 562, 563, 566, 570, 578, 609, 626, 631, 794, 801, 802, 839, 847, 849

  Near East, 812

  Nebe, Arthur, 373–74, 1054–55, 1072

  Neff, Walter, 987, 988

  Netherlands, 281, 307, 470, 516, 531, 561, 590, 592, 640, 711, 717, 719, 723, 886; German war plans against, 486, 487, 519fn., 644–47, 649–52, 656, 658, 665, 669, 671, 672, 694, 710, 714–19, 739, 793; conquest of, 713, 720–24; German occupation of, 759, 943, 956–57, 969, 1090, 1099, 1126, 1138

  Netherlands Air Force, 955

  Netherlands Army, 718, 722, 723

  Neudeck, 181, 182, 214, 219, 228–229

  Neuhaus, 662fn.

  Neumann, Franz L., 60

  Neunzert, Lieutenant, 72

  Neurath, Baron Konstantin von, 164, 184, 229, 276, 283, 291, 295, 298, 301, 305, 308, 309, 310, 319, 320, 323, 335, 345, 365, 415, 448, 662, 991, 1032, 1142–43

  “Neville Chamberlain” (Masefield), 384fn.

  “New Beginning, A” (Hitler editorial), 118, 122

  Newton, Sir Basil, 390

  New York, 376, 685fn.

  New York Journal-American, 748

  New York Times, 245, 397fn., 477fn., 595fn., 748fn., 897fn.

  Nibelungenlied, 102

  Niblack (U.S. destroyer), 880, 883fn.

  Nidda, Krug von, 924

  Niederdorf, 918fn., 1074

  Niekisch, Ernst, 373

  Niemen river, 851–52

  Niemoeller, Rev. Martin, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 352, 655fn.

  Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102–3, 110, 111

  Nieuwe Maas river, 721, 722

  Nikitchenko, Gen. I. T., 959

  Nile river, 913, 914, 919, 925

  Noël, Léon, 536, 543fn., 586, 605fn., 743

  Nomura, Adm. Kichisaburo, 873fn., 884–87, 891, 892

  Nordic Society, 676

  Norge (Norw. naval vessel), 701

  Normandy, 1037, 1038, 1040, 1076, 1085, 1089, 1092

  North Africa, 740, 757, 812, 813, 817, 818, 820, 827, 829, 850, 902, 910–14, 919–25, 928–29, 995, 1009, 1029, 1079; Allied landing in, 921–25, 933

  North German Confederation, 95

  North Germanic Union, 769

  North Sea, 646, 673, 695, 720, 764, 768

  Norway, 561, 716, 805, 841; German war plans against, 673–83, 689, 694; Altmark incident, 679–80; invasion of, 698, 700–13, 719, 721, 793, 826; history of monarchy, 704fn.; German occupation of, 709fn., 752, 768, 775, 801, 811, 914, 956–57, 993

 

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