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by Ron Rosenbaum


  Charmley, John, 323

  Chesterton, G. K., 323–24

  Chosen People concept, 312, 316

  freedom and, 332–33

  Christianity, Christians, 315, 319–36

  guilt of, 328–29

  Hitler’s anti-Semitism and, 321, 326–28

  Judaic standards and, 333–34

  Judaism vs., 320–21

  Judas story of, 322, 324–26, 328–29, 334

  Pauline doctrine and, 324–25

  and responsibility for Holocaust, 319–24, 329, 330, 335, 336

  Wandering Jew image and, 331–32

  worship of Jesus by, 329–30

  Churchill, Winston, 152, 323

  Cohen, Peter, 217

  Cohn, Norman, 347

  cold war, 64, 71

  Cole, Diane, 374

  Collin, Rodney, 105–6

  Commentary, xvi, xxviii, 295, 321, 382

  Cosmic Religion, The (Einstein), 136

  Cossman, Nikolaus, 54–55

  Craig, Gordon, xxv, 217

  Czechoslovakia, 50, 184, 203, 384

  Dachau, xix, 155, 160–61, 166

  Dacre, Lord, see Trevor-Roper, H. R.

  Dahmer, Jeffrey, xiii, xxx, 190

  Dawidowicz, Lucy, xii, xiv, xliv, 38, 95, 190, 191, 198, 363–64, 369, 373–89

  background of, 374–75

  in German consul encounter, 375–76

  on Hitler’s consciousness of evil, 388–89

  on Hitler’s “esoteric language,” 373–74, 376–85

  Kristallnacht pogrom as seen by, 383

  laughing Hitler imagery of, 379, 381, 385–88

  Dead Sea Scrolls, 255

  Death Dealer (Höss), 288

  Death of Adolf Hitler, The (Bezymenski), 80

  Death of Hitler, The (Petrova and Watson), 80

  Defeated Leaders (Binion), 239–40

  DeLillo, Don, xxvii

  Des Pres, Terrence, 287

  Destruction of Dresden, The (Irving), 227

  Destruction of the European Jews, The (Hilberg), 342

  Deuerlein, Ernst, xliv

  Diski, Jenny, 123

  Disputation, The (Maccoby), 320

  Doctor #117641: An Auschwitz Memoir (Micheels), 268

  Döllersheim, Austria, 5–7, 9, 10, 15, 16–17

  destruction of, xxvi–xxvii, 4, 11–12, 27

  Dollfuss, Engelbert, 27–28

  Domansky, Elizabeth, 291

  Donovan, William J., 27

  “doubling” theory, 269

  Downfall of the Anti-Semitic Political Parties in Imperial Germany, The (Levy), 353, 356–57

  Dreyfus Affair, 302

  Duel, The (Lukacs), 152

  Dwork, Debórah, 217

  Dykman, Shlomo, 393

  East Help scandal, 49–50

  Eckart, Dietrich, 190

  Egypt, 225

  Eichmann, Adolf, 96, 216, 347

  extermination statement of, 222–26, 234

  Einsatzgruppen, 371

  Einstein, Albert, 136

  Eisner, Kurt, xxxvii

  eliminationist anti-Semitism, 328, 339–40, 341, 348, 350, 352, 362, 366

  defined, 339

  Eliot, T. S., 322, 323–34

  Ellis, Havelock, 129, 134

  Encounter, 66, 330

  Encyclopedia of the Third Reich (Snyder), 125

  Ensor, Robert, 70

  Erickson, Steve, 128

  Erzberger, Matthias, 14

  euthanasia campaign, Nazi, 350–51, 372

  evil, xx–xxx, 83, 93, 198, 201, 216, 272, 315

  as art, concept of, 214–19

  banality of, 216, 339

  Bullock on, 86–87

  of Christendom, 320

  Christian concept of, 291

  concealment, shame and, 212–13

  consciousness of, 86–87, 96, 209, 211, 212–14, 291, 388–89

  degree of, 269

  exceptionalist argument and, 85

  Fackenheim’s perception of, 291–92

  God and, 93–94, 279, 283–85

  of Hitler, xx–xxiii, xxvii, 207–8, 282, 285, 291–92

  and Hitler’s self-image as artist, 215–17

  and Hitler vs. Stalin, 392–93

  human nature and, 91

  imagination and, 215–16

  as incompleteness, 78, 93–94

  Jewish concept of, 291

  “radical,” 279–80, 285, 287, 291–92, 298

  rectitude argument and, xxii–xxiii, 69–72, 75–76, 188, 208, 209–13, 218, 388

  scale and, 91–92

  of Stalin, 203–4

  state of mind and, 91–92

  theodicy problem and, 283–85

  thoughtlessness vs. thoughtfulness as, 216

  Evolution of Allure, The (Hersey), 217–18

  Facing the Extreme (Todorov), 275

  Fackenheim, Emil, vii, xii, xiii, xiv, xxiii, xxiv, xxvi, 64, 69, 71, 85–86, 94, 208, 254, 259, 279, 280, 281, 284–98, 308, 312, 357, 374, 391–92

  actor theory of, 88, 290–91

  on danger of explanations, 287–88

  “double move” of, 288, 390, 394

  “Hitler within” argument opposed by, 286

  Jewish-blood explanation as seen by, 294–95

  Kristallnacht arrest of, 285–86

  radical evil as perceived by, 291–92

  “614th commandment” of, 287, 296–98, 303

  twenty years’ silence of, 286–87

  Waite criticized by, 289–90

  Fanfare, Die, 48, 109

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 184

  Fest, Joachim, 11, 17, 29, 130

  Field of Blood, 325

  Final Solution, xiii, xxviii, 39, 332

  charade of deniability in, 191

  consciousness of wrongdoing and, 212–13

  decision question and, 363–65

  dehumanization process in, 213–14, 218–19

  Genghis Khan as model for, 174–77

  germ theory of Jewishness in, 211–12

  Heydrich’s alleged Jewish ancestry and, 293–94

  Himmler’s Posen speech and, 210–11, 213

  Hitler’s responsibility and role in, 72–73, 95–96, 165–67, 189, 191, 193, 198

  “innocenticide” and, 235

  inventiveness of, 214–15

  lack of oral or written order for, 211, 282, 371, 386

  Lang on, 214–15

  language of concealment and, 373–74

  Munich Post’s early perception of, 42–43

  Nazi mind-set and, 189

  number of Germans engaged in, 340–41

  in Table Talk transcripts, 72–73, 198, 214–15, 388

  train transfer decision and, 212

  see also anti-Semitism; Holocaust

  Fischer, David H., xxv

  Fish, Stanley, 311

  Ford, Henry, xxxix, 55

  Foregone Conclusions (Bernstein), 241

  Foreign Affairs, 360

  Forster (detective), 101

  Forster, Edmund, xliv–xlv, 107

  Forward, The, 360–61

  For Your Own Good (Miller), xxxi

  Foxman, Abraham, 177

  France, 50, 90, 363

  anti-Semitism in, 302, 334, 345

  Frank, Anne, 235

  Frank, Hans, 11–12, 15, 30, 31, 41, 85, 116, 159

  memoirs of, 17–19, 21–27

  Frank, Niklas, 25, 159

  Frankenberger (alleged Hitler ancestor), 17, 20–21

  Frankfurter Zeitung, 42, 56, 121, 130

  Franziska (kitchen maid), 13

  Frau Lou (Binion), 240

  Freedom Party, Austrian, 12

  free will, 284

  Freud, Sigmund, 8, 137, 144, 151, 305–6, 331

  Frick, Wilhelm, 170

  Friedländer, Saul, xxv, xxviii, xli–xlii, 209, 352

  Fritsch, Werner von, 50

  Fromm, Erich, xxxii, xl

  Fuehrer, Der (Heiden), 56, 121, 131


  Führer-Ex (Hasselbach and Reiss), 220

  Gacy, John Wayne, xxix

  Gandhi, Mohandas K, (Mahatma), xiii

  Gatzke, Hans, 151

  Geheimnisträgers, 270

  Gelasius I, Pope, 324

  Gemlich (Hitler’s Munich correspondent), 139, 380

  General Staff, German, 50

  Genghis Khan, 173, 174–77

  Genghis Khan: Storm out of Asia, 174

  Genoud, François, 74

  Gerade Weg, Der, xix–xx, xliii–xliv, 42, 160, 164, 173

  Gerlach, Christian, 365

  Gerlich, Fritz, xix–xx, xliii–xliv, 42, 121, 153, 179, 197, 217

  alleged J’Accuse pamphlet of, 195, 196

  background of, 160

  Hitler caricatured by, 155–58, 167, 169, 173–77

  murder of, 152, 156, 166–67

  stigmata prophet and, 161–67

  “Trial of Hitler’s Nose” satire by, 157, 167–68, 170–73, 177–78, 187

  Gerlich, Sophie, xx, 167

  German language, 303, 334

  Germany, Federal Republic of, 71

  blame question and, 342

  Hitler’s Willing Executioners controversy in, 346–47, 358–60

  Germany, Nazi, xxxi, 50, 57, 106, 175, 326, 386

  Goldhagen’s eliminationist anti-Semitism theory and, 339–40, 341

  Jewish community of, 334–35

  Germany, Weimar, 46, 51, 156, 157, 170

  Gestapo, xx, xlv, 10, 156, 159, 166, 167, 243, 293

  Gestapo Cottage, 206–7

  Geyer (actor), 31

  Gidal, Nachum Tim, 105, 158

  Hitler photograph by, 169

  Gilbert, G. M., 18, 25–26, 27

  Glocke, Die (Schiller), 356

  God, 86, 316

  Chosen People concept and, 332–33

  evil and, 93–94, 279, 283–85

  as final Holocaust victim, 298–99

  Holocaust and, 282–83, 295–96, 334

  as Satan or nebbish (Bauer syllogism), 284–85, 295–96, 298

  silence of, xxvi, 296

  theodicy problem and, 283–85, 298

  Goebbels, Joseph, 28, 48, 65, 66, 74, 95–96, 157, 198, 217, 221, 231, 234, 318, 351, 389

  Hitler’s final decision and, 370–71

  Kristallnacht and, 191, 384

  Goethe, Johann von, 90, 334, 356

  Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah, xxxviii, 136, 189, 328, 336, 337–68

  Bauer’s criticism of, 344–46

  Browning’s criticism of, 346, 362–64

  decision theory and, 362–64

  eliminationist anti-Semitism theory of, 339–40, 341, 348, 350, 352

  Erich Goldhagen’s relationship with, 355–57

  on Germany’s national character, 352

  Hilberg’s conflict with, 342–44

  on Hitler’s anti-Semitism, 348–49

  Hitler’s exculpation and, 361–62, 366

  mainstream popularity of, 365–66

  on origin of German anti-Semitism, 353–54

  revenge thesis and, 358, 361–62

  scholars’ assault on, 337–38, 341–46, 352–53, 359

  “strangling” reference to, 338–39, 341–42

  Goldhagen, Erich, 351, 355–57

  Goldschagg, Edmund, 42, 43–44

  Goldschagg, Rolf, 44

  Göring, Hermann, 96, 157, 192, 193, 217, 223, 371, 384

  Hitler’s relationship with, 185–86

  Gospels, 324, 325–26, 328, 329

  Graef, Hilda, 163

  Grant, Robert, xli

  Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon), 128

  Great Britain, 50

  “underestimation syndrome” in, 322–23

  Great Depression, German, 100

  “Great Man” theory, xiii

  Greenberg, Irving, 283

  Greiser, Arthur, 370

  Gross, Felix, 182–83

  Gruber, Martin, 42, 48, 55–56, 58

  Grynszpan, Herschel, 383

  Günsche, Otto, 228

  Günther, Hans, 157, 170–71, 172

  Gürtner, Franz, 100, 102, 121

  Güstrow, Dietrich, xxx–xxxi

  Guttenberg, Karl Ludwig Freiherr von, xliv

  H., Herr, 201–5, 207

  Haider, Jörg, 12

  Halifax, Edward Wood, Lord, 184

  Hamann, Brigitte, xxxvi–xxxvii

  Hampton, Christopher, 330

  Hanfstaengl, Ernst “Putzi,” 84, 125–26, 129–30, 133, 137, 169, 192

  Hanussen (mystic), 165

  Harris, Robert, 76, 223

  Hasselbach, Ingo, 220

  hatred, 187–89, 197–98, 349, 390–91, 395

  Hausser, Louis, 164–65

  Hayman, Ronald, 192–97

  missing night theory of, 194–97

  Heiber, Helmut, 8

  Heidegger, Martin, 220, 334, 395

  Heidegger’s Silence (Lang), 220

  Heiden, Konrad, xix, 42, 56–57, 121–22, 125, 126, 128–32, 134

  New York Times obituary on, 130–31

  Heimsoth, Dr., 47, 48

  Heisenberg, Werner, 180

  Heisenberg’s War (Powers), 180

  Hell, Josef, 378

  Hentsch, Herbert, 52

  Hersey, George, 217–18

  Herzl, Theodor, 7

  Hess, Rudolf, 186, 222

  Heydrich, Bruno, 293–94

  Heydrich, Reinhard, 43, 73, 86–87, 94, 96, 214, 217, 223, 224, 225–26, 285, 388

  alleged Jewish ancestry of, 293–94

  Hitler’s final decision and, 370–71

  as potential successor to Hitler, 292–93

  Hiedler, Johann Georg, 4, 5, 9, 14, 22, 23, 33

  Hiedler, Johann Nepomuk, 5, 9

  Hier Ist Kein Warum, 265

  Hilberg, Raul, 342–44, 346

  Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 392

  Himmelfarb, Milton, xiii, xlii, 281, 292, 340, 343, 349, 391

  on demonization of Hitler, 394–95

  one exceptionalist question, 392–94

  Himmler, Heinrich, 10, 43, 73, 87, 94, 96, 174–76, 214, 217, 223, 224, 234, 293, 294, 365, 371, 384, 388

  Greiser letter of, 370

  Posen speech of, 210–11, 213

  Hindenburg, Oskar von, 49, 50

  Hindenburg, Paul von, xix, 49–50, 100, 156, 366–67

  Hinduism, 333

  Hirsch, David, 361

  Hirschberg, Klaus, 119–20

  History and Memory, 291

  Historikerstreit, 70, 176, 203, 346

  History of Childhood Quarterly, 245

  “History of Evil and the Future of the Holocaust, The” (Lang), 208, 219

  History of National Socialism (Heiden), 130–31

  History of the Holocaust, A (Bauer), 280

  Hitler, Adolf:

  as actual murderer, 193

  alleged genital incompleteness of, xxvi, 78–79, 80, 81

  alleged nose job of, 186–87

  art ambition of, 204–5

  artistic consciousness of, 215–17

  autopsy of, 79, 80–81, 141

  baby pictures of, xv, xvi–xviii

  billy-goat bite theory and, xxx–xxxi

  birthplace of, 7

  blackmail culture and, 48–51, 115

  Chaplinesque image of, 71

  charisma of, xxxiii–xxxiv, 65, 77, 82, 89, 95, 168, 227, 229, 303, 317–18, 350

  as culmination of European civilization, 305–6

  deathbed testament of, 289–90

  death of, xii, 79–80

  demonization of, 394–95

  economic success myth of, 368

  fictional representations of, xxv–xxvi, xxvii–xxviii

  German language and, 303–4

  “Heil Hitler” incantation and, 165–66

  “Hitler within” explanation of, 286

  image control by, 168–70

  Jewish blood issue and, xvii, xxix, xxxv, xlv, 85, 131, 132, 138, 156, 171, 174, 181, 292, 294–95


  junior high school days of, 305–6

  laughing image of, 379, 381, 385–88

  lost Vienna period of, 204–5

  at Männerheim, 204–5

  mesmeric power of, 65, 67–68, 113, 303

  military courage of, 318

  “moral cretinism” of, 87–88

  mountebank characterization of, 68–71, 77

  mustache styles of, 111–12

  as mystic, 166–67

  name of, 7

  as “one of us,” 94

  Pasewalk episode and, xiv–xv, xliv–xlv, 54, 107, 166, 374, 376, 377

  in popular culture, xxvii–xxx, 66–67

  psychoanalytic studies of, xxviii–xxix, xxxii–xxxiv, xl–xlvi, 136–51

  in rise to power, 366–67

  safe-deposit box myths of, xl–xlvi

  as savior of Jews, 309–10

  sense of destiny of, 126

  as serial killer, xxix–xxx

  Stalin’s evil compared with that of, 203–4

  syphilis explanation of, xxxiv–xxxv

  thought-world of, xii–xiii, xxx, xxxiii, 32, 36

  unnaturalness of, 165–66, 170

  victim rhetoric and, xxix–xxiv

  wartime failure of, 90

  “Wolf” pseudonym of, 113

  worldview of, 288–89

  Hitler, Adolf, anti-Semitism of, xii, xiii–xiv, xxxiv–xxxvii, 95–96, 282

  Austrian anti-Semitism and, 302, 347–48

  Bullock on, 83–84

  Christianity and, 326–28

  Goldhagen on, 348–49

  Jewish ancestor story and, 17–27, 30, 32, 35, 292

  Jewish doctor episode and, 146–49, 243–49

  Protocols of the Elders of Zion and, 55

  and seed of Hitler’s metamorphosis, 240, 244–45, 250

  Wagner and, 31

  Hitler, Adolf, family history of, xii, xxi, xvii

  alleged Jewish ancestor and, 5, 11–12, 14–15, 17–18, 20–29, 30, 32, 35

  anti-Semitic press and, 30–31

  Baron Rothschild variation of, 8–9, 13, 27–29

  blackmail attempt and, 32–36

  borderland origin and, 7–8

  chain of uncertainty in, 30–31

  English branch of, 19

  family-romance fantasy and, 8–9, 12–14

  Frank’s memoir and, 11–12, 17–27, 31

  incest in, 14

  name change and, 10–11

  Nazi inquiries into, 10

  paternal grandfather question and, 4–5, 8–10, 17–18

  Hitler, Adolf, sexuality of, xii, xxi, xxix, 181

  Bullock on, 83–85

  criminal pathology and, 106–7

  Freudian theory and, 136–37

  in Hitler-Geli relationship, 137–38, 139, 151

  Jewish blood issue and, 138–39

  lost-testicle theory and, 140–49

  perversion myth and, 128–34

  primal scene theory and, 149–51

  Raubal affair and, 104–7, 110, 115, 117, 127–28

  Hitler, Alois (father), xxxii, 4, 5, 7, 9–10, 13, 14, 35, 150

  Hitler, Alois, Jr. (half brother), 19–20, 28, 35

 

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