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

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by William L. Shirer

Norwegian Army, 676, 678, 704, 708, 709

  Norwegian Leads, 696

  Noske, Gustav, 55, 60

  “November criminals,” 32, 38, 63, 69, 70, 112

  N.S. Briefe, 123

  N.S.D.A.P., see National Socialist German Workers’ Party

  Nuremberg, 26, 44, 50, 63, 90, 207, 340, 378–79, 987, 1106, 1107, 1111, 1141–43

  Nuremberg Laws (Sept. 15, 1935), 233, 274fn., 431, 439

  Nuremberg party rallies, 90, 207, 230, 264, 378, 382–83, 406, 425, 518, 562, 1107

  Nybergsund, 705, 706

  Oberg, Maj. Gen. Karl, 1060, 1075, 1076

  Oberheuser, Dr. Herta, 990

  Obersalzberg, see Berchtesgaden

  Occupied Eastern Territories, Ministry for the, 940, 952

  Ochs-Adler, Col. Julius, 750fn.

  Ochsner, Colonel, 869

  Oder river, 1097, 1103, 1106, 1109, 1120

  Odessa, 811

  Ohlendorf, Otto, 953, 958–62, 963fn.

  OKH, see Army High Command

  OKM (Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine, High Command of the Navy), 638

  OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, High Command of the Armed Forces), 318, 335, 363, 379, 400, 482, 795, 816, 825, 1027, 1047, 1049, 1050, 1072, 1115, 1130; Austrian, Czech invasion plans, 335, 360–61, 370, 375, 377, 378, 387, 393, 421, 428; Polish invasion, 469, 487, 518, 529fn., 532, 551, 595fn., 599, 629, 660–61; western front, 640, 644, 652, 656, 671, 716–20, 722, 723, 725–29, 731–35, 1038; Norway campaign, 673, 678, 679, 681, 696; activities in U.S., 684, 685, 749fn.; Battle of Britain, 761, 756, 758, 760, 763–68; Barbarossa, 797, 799, 810, 812, 822, 829, 831, 853, 856–58, 918fn., 919, 925, 929, 933, 952, 953; Mediterranean and N. Africa, 921, 922, 924; Italian defection, 996, 999, 1001, 1006; surrender, 1138; see also Jodl; Keitel

  Abwehr (Intelligence Bureau), 331fn., 374, 377, 462, 518, 558, 648–49, 654, 685, 693, 1018, 1019, 1024, 1026, 1029, 1036, 1043fn., 1045, 1072; see also Canaris; Oster

  Economic and Armaments Branch, 413fn., 517, 667fn., 799; see also Thomas, Gen. Georg

  Olav Trygverson (Norw. mine layer), 702

  Olbricht, Gen. Friedrich, 904, 1018–19, 1027, 1029, 1030, 1035, 1036, 1045, 1046–47, 1054, 1057, 1058–59, 1060–61, 1064fn., 1065, 1066–67, 1068

  Olden, Rudolf, 19fn., 26, 128

  Oldenburg, 163

  Olympic games (1936), 232–33, 234, 835

  Operations (code names):

  Aida, 913

  Alpine Violets, 821

  Attila, 820–21

  Axis, 1000, 1001

  Bernhard, 519fn.

  Black (Schwarz), 1000

  Citadel, 1006

  Dynamo, 735

  Eagle (Adlerangriffe), 774–75

  Flash, 1018–21

  Greif, 1090fn., 1092fn.

  Hercules, 913

  Himmler, 518

  Isabella, 817

  Marita, 823, 824

  Oak (Eiche), 1000, 1003

  Punishment, 826

  Student, 1000

  Sunflower, 821

  Typhoon, 859

  Winter Gale, 927

  Oppeln, 519

  Oppenheim, 1101, 1102

  Oradour-sur-Glane, 993

  Oran, 923

  Oranienburg, 272, 571

  Order Castles (Ordensburgen), 255

  Ordnertruppe, 42

  Orel, 854, 863, 1006

  Orleans, 1085

  Orne river, 1038

  Oshima, Gen. Hiroshi, 872, 885, 887–88, 889, 890, 891, 893, 895, 896

  Oskar, Prince of Prussia, 907

  Oskarsborg, 702–3

  Oslo, 614fn., 639, 676, 677, 681, 695, 697, 698, 701, 702–3, 704, 705, 708, 709fn., 710, 721

  “Oslo” powers, 561

  Ostend, 770

  Oster, Col. Hans, 374, 380, 381, 405, 406–7, 558, 563, 596, 648–51, 652, 654, 694, 715–16, 846fn., 904, 1017, 1024, 1073

  Osthilfe (Eastern Relief), 180, 181

  “Ostiand,” 832

  Ott, Gen. Eugen, 173, 174, 877, 878, 884, 886, 889, 893fn.

  Otto, Crown Prince, of Austria, 304, 333–34, 335

  “Otto” (Code name), 810; see also Case

  Otto

  Oumansky, Constantine, 544fn., 843

  Oven, Margarete von, 1035

  Pacholegg, Anton, 985

  Pacific, 873, 875, 877fn., 901

  Pact of Steel, 482–84, 511fn., 553, 556, 565, 603

  Paderewski, Ignace, 784

  Palatinate, 1101

  Palestine, 747, 813

  Pan-American Neutrality Patrol, 880

  Pan-German Nationalists (Austrian), 22–25

  Papen, Franz von, 3, 4, 56fn., 167, 169, 170–75, 189, 191, 192, 196, 216, 227–29, 234, 321fn., 357, 1126; background, 164–66; intrigues with and against Hitler, 177–84; named Vice-Chancellor and Prussian Premier, 183–86; booted out of Prussian premiership, 204; protests Nazi excesses, 215, 218, 219; escapes purge, 222, 223; minister to Austria, 229, 280, 296, 319; role in Anschluss, 323–33, 338, 342, 343, 348; acquitted at Nuremberg, 1142–43

  Paris, 177, 404, 420, 423, 425, 430, 436–37, 487, 595, 726, 738, 741, 760, 794, 945, 1054, 1060, 1074–75, 1085

  Paris Peace Conference, 359

  Parsifal (Wagner), 103

  “Party Rally of Peace,” 467, 518, 562

  Pas de Calais, 762, 1037

  Pasewalk, 29, 32

  Pastors’ Emergency League, 238

  Patch, Gen. Alexander, 1086

  Patria, S.S., 377

  Patriotic Front, 338

  Patton, Gen. George S., 1076, 1085, 1086, 1089, 1093, 1094, 1101, 1102

  Paul, Prince Regent of Yugoslavia, 823

  Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich, 830, 840, 909, 918fn., 919, 926–27, 929–34, 1014–15

  Pearl Harbor, 870, 887, 888, 891, 892, 893, 894, 896, 899, 901fn.

  peasants, German, 91–94, 236, 256–57

  Pechel, Rudolf, 558

  Peenemunde, 1009

  Peiper, Col. Jochen, 1095fn.

  Peipus, Lake, 1052

  Pemsel, Maj. Gen. Max, 1038, 1039

  People’s Court (Volksgericht), 269, 375, 1023, 1025fn., 1060fn., 1068, 1070–71, 1072, 1073, 1074, 1076–77, 1079, 1080

  People’s Marine Division, 54, 55

  People’s Party, Bavarian, see Bavarian People’s Party

  People’s Party, German, see German People’s Party

  Pershing, Gen. John J., 750fn.

  Persia, see Iran

  Persian Gulf, 805, 809, 829, 915

  Perth, Lord, 408

  Pertinax (André Géraud), 390, 424fn.

  Petacci, Clara, 1005, 1131

  Pétain, Marshal Henri Philippe, 643fn., 737, 738, 741, 745–46, 747, 812, 814–15, 923–24

  Peter, King of Yugoslavia, 823, 826

  Peters, Dr. Gerhard, 972

  Petersberg, 391

  Petersdorff, Captain von, 942

  Petsamo, 811, 846

  Petzel, Gen. Walter, 557

  Pfaffenberger, Andreas, 984

  Philip, Prince of Hesse, 146, 336, 343, 352, 984fn., 1003

  Phipps, Sir Eric, 384, 610, 617

  Picasso, Pablo, 244

  Piedmont, 554

  Pichelsdorf, 1129, 1137

  Pierlot, Hubert, 729

  Piffraeder, Oberfuehrer, 1061

  Pilsudski, Marshal Józef, 209, 213, 458

  Pinder, Professor, 251

  Pissa river, 629, 631

  Pitman, Key, 478fn.

  Pittsburgh, Pa., 358

  Pius XI, Pope 235

  Pius XII, Pope (Eugenio Pacelli), 234, 561, 648, 693, 747, 1024

  Plettenberg, Countess Elizabeth von, 1026

  Ploen, 1134

  Ploesti, 1085

  Ploetzensee prison, 1071, 1076

  Poehner, Ernst, 71

  Poelzl, Klara, see Hitler, Klara Poelzl

  Poetsch, Dr. Leopold, 13

  Pohl, Dr. Emil, 974

  Pohl, Oswald, 963–64, 974

  Poincaré, Raymond, 61
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  Pokorny, Dr. Adolf, 979–80, 990

  Poland, 41, 84, 209, 211, 282, 283, 359, 466fn., 639–43, 657, 692, 693, 710; created by Versailles Treaty, 58, 458–59; nonaggression pact with Hitler, 212–13, 286; relations with France, 212–13, 295, 299, 306, 426–27, 457, 458; German plans for war with, 304, 437, 463, 467–69, 484–89, 491, 494, 496–99, 507–11, 513, 515–21, 525–32, 542, 556–57, 565, 589–91; policy toward Czechs, 362, 368, 377, 387–88, 417fn., 421; toward Russia, 377, 457, 459, 460, 464, 469, 478, 495, 460, 536–37, 543; Hitler demands 461, Danzig and Corridor, 455–61, 462, 463–71, 499, 500; British, French 463, representations in support of, 464, 464–66, 469, 472, 495, 504, 465, 506, 516–17, 533–38, 545–51, 466, 556–57, 562, 568–89, 591–93, 467, 600–2, 604–20, 634; Nazi–Soviet 468, talks on partition of, 482, 501, 469, 505, 515–21, 541–44, 562; Italy refuses to enter war against, 551—57, 564–68, 603–4; German propaganda campaign against, 563–64, 575–76, 593–95; German invasion and conquest of, 597, 600, 603, 619–20, 625–27, 632, 633, 635, 714–15, 719, 720, 838, 1124; Russian invasion of, 626–32, 639; German occupation of, 659–65, 687, 782, 796, 799, 808, 832, 839, 842, 904, 937, 938, 944, 945, 947–48, 950, 956–58, 964–68, 974–79, 993, 1009fn., 1139, 1143; liberation, 1007, 1041, 1090, 1096–97

  Polish Air Force, 600, 625

  Polish Army, 462, 469, 472, 520, 536–37, 542, 557, 620, 621, 625, 626, 633–35, 708

  Polish Corridor, 212, 455, 457, 461, 462, 464, 465, 471, 497, 509, 546, 563, 569, 572–73, 575, 576, 577, 582, 583, 608–9, 625

  Polish Navy, 695

  Political Workers’ Circle, 36

  Pomerania (Pomorze), 458, 460, 497, 625

  Popitz, Johannes, 373, 659, 670, 846fn., 904, 907, 908, 1017, 1023, 1072

  Porsche, Dr. Ferdinand, 266

  Portugal, 785, 788, 789, 792, 817

  Posen, 212, 458, 626, 659, 937–38, 944, 954, 966

  Potemkin, Vladimir, 482

  Potsdam, 3, 54–55, 166, 182, 196–97, 375, 413, 1072

  Pour le Mérite (Ger. decoration), 49

  Po Valley, 1107

  Prague, 332, 376–77, 383, 419, 420, 443–44, 446, 447fn., 448, 991, 992, 1064

  Pravda, 496

  Preuss, Hugo, 56fn., 241

  Preysing, Cardinal Count, 1048fn.

  Price, Ward, 280–81, 283

  Prien, Oberleutnant Guenther, 646

  Priess, Hermann, 1095fn.

  Priestley, J. B., 784

  Primo de Rivera, Miguel, 787, 788

  Prince of Wales (Br. battleship), 901fn.

  Prinz Eugen (Ger. hvy. cruiser), 914

  Pripet Marshes, 810, 811

  prisoners of war, 744, 854fn., 932, 940, 942fn., 946–47, 948, 949, 951–56, 969, 973, 979, 1029, 1086, 1095fn., 1100, 1105, 1114–15

  Progressive Party, 55–56

  Propaganda Ministry, 167, 196, 204, 244–45, 246, 247, 387, 636, 638, 1061, 1062–63, 1110, 1121–22, 1143; see also Goebbels

  Protestant Church, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 251

  Proust, Marcel, 241

  Prussia (kingdom), 92–98, 196–97, 236, 259, 1015, 1087

  Prussia (federal state), 154, 155, 159, 160, 165, 184, 186, 191, 200; see also East Prussia, West Prussia

  Pryor, Gen. W. W., 698–99

  Puaux, Gabriel, 334fn.

  Puch, 821

  Qattara Depression, 919

  Quisling, Maj. Vidkun Abraham Lauritz, 675–78, 701, 704, 705, 706, 709fn., 755fn.

  Raczyński, Count Edward, 551, 602

  radar, 775, 776, 781, 1007, 1037

  Raeder, Gr. Adm. Erich, 207, 214–15, 273, 305, 313, 314, 317, 321, 365, 401, 462, 484, 487, 488, 497, 515fn., 529fn., 622, 636–38, 646, 667, 670, 742, 873, 877, 878fn., 914, 915, 1080; naval building program, 281–82, 487, 622; Norway campaign, 674–79, 683, 696, 697fn., 710; Britain invasion plans, 752, 758–59, 763–68, 770, 771; urges concentration on Mediterranean area, 812–13, 818–21, 828–29, 912–13; urges attack on U.S. shipping, 879, 880, 882, 895, 901–2; ousted as Navy C. in C, 1000; sentenced at Nuremberg, 1143

  Ramsgate, 762, 763, 766, 767

  Rangsdorf, 1048, 1054–55, 1057, 1058

  Rapallo, 494

  Rascher, Dr. Sigmund, 984–90

  Rashid Ali, 828, 841

  Rassenkunde, 259; see also “master race” concept

  Rastenburg, E. Prussia, 101, 849, 863, 919, 920, 922, 925, 928, 932, 941, 998, 1001, 1002, 1004, 1010, 1015, 1020, 1026–27, 1034, 1058, 1062, 1066, 1069, 1070, 1075, 1077, 1080, 1107; attempt to assassinate Hitler at, 1045–57

  Rath, Ernst vom, 430–31

  Rathenau, Walther, 34, 51, 241, 245

  Rattenhuber, Oberfuehrer, 1049

  Raubal, Angela Hitler, 9, 131

  Raubal, Friedl, 131

  Kaubal, Geli, 9–10, 131, 132, 152, 153, 221, 223, 244fn., 1111

  Rauschning, Hermann, 169, 784

  Ravensbrueck, 272, 979, 989, 990, 992, 1025

  Réal, Jean, 105

  Reckse, Doctor, 1025

  Red, Case, 303

  Reed, Douglas, 784

  Regensburg, 71

  Regina Palace Hotel, Munich, 418

  Reich Broadcasting Corp., 247, 467fn.

  Reich Central Security Office, see R.S.H.A.

  Reich Chamber of Art, 244

  Reich Chamber of Culture, 241–44

  Reich Chamber of Films, 247

  Reich Chamber of Radio, 247

  “Reich Church,” 237, 238, 240

  Reich Committee of German Youth Associations, 252–53

  Reich Defense Council (Reichsverteidigungsrat), 208, 275, 281, 282, 290, 497–98

  Reich Defense Law, secret (May 31, 1935), 259, 285fn.

  Reich Economic Chamber, 262

  Reichenau, Field Marshal Walter von, 183, 325, 335, 626, 724, 725, 730, 755fn., 762, 763, 767, 861fn., 903fn.

  Reich Food Estate, 258

  Reich Governors, 200

  Reich Music Chamber, 242

  Reich Press Chamber, 246

  Reich Press Law (Oct. 4, 1933), 245

  Reichsbank, 145, 146, 204, 260, 261, 311, 351–52, 439fn., 973–74

  Reichsbanner, 160

  Reichsgericht (Ger. Supreme Court), 269

  Reichsgesetzblatt (official gazette), 434

  Reichskriegsflagge, 71, 72

  Reichsrat, 153, 198

  Reichstag, 95, 151, 153, 163, 173, 174, 176, 180, 194, 318, 560; Nazi representation in, 118, 119, 123, 138, 146, 148, 149, 166, 172, 186, 196; Nazi program in, 127, 144, 162, 167, 184, 196–201, 229, 237; dissolutions of, 137, 155, 161, 164–65, 170–72, 179, 181, 189, 294fn.; elections of, 138, 166, 172, 211, 237, 347; Goebbels expelled from, 157; support of Hitler-Papen govt., 182, 197–201, 210, 274; votes Hitler absolute power, 867; Hitler speeches in, 213, 234, 291, 562–63, 828, 834; repudiation of Versailles Treaty, 299, 300; on peace, 209, 280, 285, 290, 470–76, 641–42, 752–55, 761, 762; on 1934 purge, 220, 223, 224, 226, 268; on Anschluss, 348, 349; on Czech invasion, 365; on beginning of Polish war, 598–600, 603, 604; on war with U.S., 895–900; on annihilation of Jews, 964

  Reichstag fire, 146, 191–95, 196, 223, 269, 274, 653, 654

  Reich Statistical Office, 264

 

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