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The Splendid Blond Beast

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by Simpson, Christopher; Miller, Mark Crispin;


  International Red Cross, 96, 224, 289

  Iraq, 30, 33, 35

  Ireland, Republic of, 78

  Islam, 29

  Istanbul, 33

  Italy, 49

  Operation Sunrise negotiations and, 199–205, 239–240

  Paris Conference and, 17, 26

  and prosecution of SS officers, 238–240

  ITT, 47, 53, 323–324

  Ittihad party (Turkey), 4, 28–37

  in Armenian Genocide, 5, 25, 28–29, 37, 282

  assassinations of members of, 36

  power lost by, 31

  power seized by, 28

  trials of members of, 31–33, 36, 192

  as “Young Turks,” 28

  J., Major, 187

  Jackson, Robert, 214, 229, 234, 237, 247, 257, 269

  Jaeger, Wilhelm, 91

  Jaruzelski, Wojciech, 126n

  Jasenovac, 208

  JCS 1067, 195–197, 248, 249–250, 260, 262, 264

  Jewish Labor Bund, 77

  Jews:

  Armenian Genocide and, 29, 34

  as beyond scope of UNWCC, 107, 110

  in Foreign Service, 51

  in Germany’s business elite, 55

  in mass deportations from Germany, 137–138

  Nazi Germany fled by, 60, 61, 68, 69

  Nazi taxes on, 67–68

  Palestine and, 101, 104, 139, 153

  U.S. refugee policy on, 5, 11, 52, 152, 160

  see also anti-Semitism; Holocaust

  J. Henry Schroder Bank, 273

  Johns-Manville Corporation, 263, 266

  Joyce, Robert, 238

  J. P. Morgan and Co., 49

  Justice Department, U.S., 56n, 149

  Antitrust Division, 196

  “just-world” thinking, 4

  Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 237

  Katyn massacre, 11, 126–130, 137, 145

  Kehrl, Hans, 72, 156

  Keiser, Guenter, 66

  Kelchner, Warren, 139

  Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), 112

  Kemal, Mustapha (Ataturk), 31, 33, 36

  Kemalists, 32–33, 36

  Kennan, George F., 134, 193

  and denial of Holocaust reports, 98, 99

  Nazi war crimes prosecution opposed by, 151–152

  and postwar German policy, 172

  and Soviet-U.S. relations, 52

  Keppler, Wilhelm, 72, 155

  Kerno, Ivan, 22, 275–277

  Kerr, Archibald Clark, 120

  Kershaw, Ian, 95

  Keynes, John Maynard, Lord, 45, 177

  Kharkov trials, 160

  Kilgore, Harley, 252–253, 266

  Kirk, Alexander, 206

  Kleine Arbeitskreis, 155

  Kodak, 53

  Kokosyn, Vasily, 162n

  Kolbe, Fritz, 218n

  Kolko, Gabriel, 122

  Kontinentale Öl AG, 202, 224–230, 290

  Kos massacre, 142

  Kranefuss, Fritz, 86, 155, 223

  Krasnodar trial, 159, 160

  Kristallnacht, 67

  Krupp, Gustav, 149

  Krupp companies, 85, 90, 91, 95, 155, 218, 269

  Krupp family, 54–55, 64

  Kuhn, Loeb & Co., 49, 50

  Labor Ministry, German, 89

  labor unions, 57, 154, 267

  Lane, Arthur Bliss, 52

  Lane, Chester T., 56n

  Lansing, Robert, 10, 21, 22, 23–26, 27, 39, 40, 44, 97, 183

  Latvia, 129

  Lausanne, Treaty of (1923), 36, 321–322

  League of Nations, 40, 111

  Lebensraum, 192n

  Lee, Higginson & Co., 49, 50

  Lehman Brothers, 50

  Leipzig trials, 39

  Lemnitzer, Lyman, 202, 239, 240, 242

  Leonhard Tietz Aktiengesellschaft, 50

  Lepsius, Johannes, 29

  Lidice massacre, 104

  Lindemann, Karl, 53, 55, 155

  “linkage groups,” 56

  Link-Hoffman Werke, 62

  Lippmann, Walter, 17, 104–105

  Lithuania, 129

  Llondovery Castle, 38–39

  Lloyd George, David, 26

  Lodz ghetto, 80

  Loeb, Rudolf, 69

  London Illustrated News, 170

  London International Assembly, 111–113, 178

  Long, Breckinridge, 99, 147, 164

  Lovett, Robert, 48, 267

  Lublin Jewish reservation, 80, 138

  Lueschen, Friedrich, 86

  Lusitania, 23

  McCarthy, Joseph, 243, 271, 274

  McCloy, John J., 179, 195, 271

  McDermott, Michael, 115

  McKittrick, Thomas, 219–220, 222

  Madison, Louis, 261–262

  Majdanek, 138, 170

  Makin, Roger, 101

  Manfeld coal and iron syndicate, 50

  Mannesmann steel combine, 54

  Margarine Union AG, 223

  Marshall Plan, 267–268

  Martin, James S., 263, 265

  Masaryk, Jan, 22, 231

  Matthews, H. Freeman, 100, 257, 258

  Mauthausen, 74, 91, 302–303

  media, 258

  Armenian Genocide and, 29, 34–35

  on denazification, 253, 266

  Holocaust discussed in, 195

  ideological blindness of, 230, 286

  intelligence services and, 17

  Meer, Fritz ter, 84, 86

  Mendelssohn & Co., 69

  mental patients, as Holocaust victims, 75

  Merck & Co., 21

  Messerschmidtt, 84, 189, 190, 272

  Metallgesellschaft AG, 56n

  Meyer, Emil, 155

  Middle East:

  1970s oil crisis and, 46

  post-World War I division of, 30, 32–33, 36, 40

  Mihailovich, Draja, 208, 209n

  Mikoyan, Sergo, 279

  Molotov, Viacheslav, 120, 202, 203, 212, 214

  Morgan, J. P., 45

  Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 11, 153, 265

  later career of, 272

  Long accused of anti-Semitism by, 147

  Nazi war crimes prosecution sought by, 149–150, 160, 171, 181

  postwar German reconstruction policy and, 173–178, 179, 185, 193–195, 197, 264

  Morgenthau, Henry, Sr., 29, 34

  Moscow Declaration on war crimes (1943), 145–146, 160, 161, 167, 184, 208, 215, 237, 246

  Mosely, Philip, 172

  Mosul oilfields, 33, 37, 40

  Munich, 49, 91, 96

  Murphy, Robert, 52, 99, 219, 230, 251

  background of, 193

  collaborators’ policy of, 193, 194–195, 230, 234, 235, 240–241

  denazification role of, 197

  Mussolini, Benito, 49, 147, 201

  Naatzweiler, 303–304

  Nacher, Ignatz, 61

  Nagasaki, 92

  National Association of Manufacturers, 265

  National City Bank of New York, 265

  National City Co., 49

  National Foreign Trade Council, 265

  Native Americans, 6

  Nazi Labor Front, 247

  Nazi party (Germany), 4, 5, 59, 60, 61, 72, 176, 180, 223, 226n, 246

  Aryanization role of, 65, 67–68, 69

  collaboration with, 189–192, 230

  denazification cases and, 259, 260, 262

  martyrdom and, 142

  see also Germany, Nazi; Holocaust; Nuremberg trials

  Neal, Jack, 240–241

  nebelgänger, 91

  neo-pagan movement, 196

  Netherlands, 80, 82, 106, 108, 109–110, 138

  Neuengamme, 96, 304–306

  Neumann, Karl, 38, 39

  New Republic, 180

  New York Herald Tribune, 35, 170

  New York Post, 274

  New York Times, 34–35, 181, 219, 223, 224, 230, 252

  Nicaragua, 21

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 3

  Nitze, Paul, 48, 50–5
1, 52

  NKVD, 119, 125

  Katyn massacre and, 126–127, 129

  North Africa, 101, 120

  North German Lloyd Steamship Co., 50, 53

  Norway, 82

  Nuremberg, 50

  Nuremberg race laws, 65

  Nuremberg trials, 7, 8, 61, 76, 85, 86n, 111, 153, 179, 214, 215, 225, 256, 289

  clemency granted after, 271

  corporate “necessity” defense at, 270–271, 378–379

  first tribunal, 237

  prisoner transfers and, 214–215

  of Schacht, 222, 228–229

  Subsequent Proceedings, 237, 269–271

  as symbolic measures, 270

  Wolff as informant at, 241

  Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 12–13, 22, 142, 204, 219, 229, 236, 276

  closing down of, 238

  collaborators’ amnesty program and, 189–191

  evaluation of intelligence Allen Dulles provided to, 218n

  separate peace tactics and, 121, 122–125

  Ohlendorf, Otto, 94, 156, 160

  oil, 46

  1970s crisis and, 46

  in Middle East politics, 32–37, 40, 282

  Nazi Germany and, 224–230

  “oleaginous diplomacy,” 32, 34

  Opel, Fritz, 47

  “open-door” policy, in Middle East, 32

  Operation Sunrise, 199–205, 236, 238, 240, 243

  Orlando, Vittorio, 26

  Orwell, George, 251

  OSS, see Office of Strategic Services Ottoman Empire (Turkey), 15, 30–31, 32, 33, 36

  Greeks in, 29, 33, 34, 37

  see also Armenian Genocide; Ittihad party

  Padover, Saul, 186–188, 195, 249

  Page, Arthur, 267

  Palestine, Jewish immigration to, 101, 104, 139, 153

  Paris Conference (1919), 15–26, 31, 104, 181

  reparations as issue at, 16–17, 19–20, 26, 41, 43–46

  war crimes as issue at, 15, 17, 18, 23–26, 27, 37

  Parrilli, Baron Luigi, 201

  Paxton, Robert, 191–192

  Pearson, Drew, 181

  Pehle, John, 177, 179

  Pell, Claiborne, 272

  Pell, Herbert, 149, 150, 153, 162–163, 168, 256, 265

  background of, 130, 133–134

  character of, 133–134

  death of, 272

  dismissal of, 178, 182–184, 185, 195

  Hackworth as author of Roosevelt and Hull’s letters to, 165–166, 167, 177

  Hackworth’s relationship with, 135, 137, 138–139, 140, 141, 165–166, 177, 178

  Nazi war crimes prosecution sought by, 140–141, 164, 171, 177, 178, 179, 181

  UNWCC appointment of, 131

  Penrose, E. F., 172

  Perry, Percival L. D., 63

  Petschek, William, 69

  Philipp Holzmann, 272

  Philippines, 18

  Pius XII, Pope, 200, 208

  Plieger, Paul, 61, 86

  Plimpton, George, 35

  Plumley, Charles, 268

  PM, 185

  pogroms, 119

  cold, 75, 83n

  Kristallnacht, 67

  Pohl, Oswald, 85, 86

  poison gas, 18, 20, 75, 80, 82, 83n

  Poland, 49, 50, 98, 101, 106, 121–122, 192, 203, 225

  concentration camps in, 75, 91, 103, 110, 138

  currency clearing in, 220–221

  government-in-exile of, 127–128, 129, 145, 256

  Nazi invasion of, 76, 77, 78, 82, 83, 107–108

  Polish National Council, 83n

  political dissent, genocide and, 6, 7–8

  Porsche, Ferdinand, 86

  Potsdam Conference (1945), denazification provisions of, 244, 245, 246, 249, 250, 252–253, 260, 264, 265

  Pravda, 119–120, 128, 170

  President’s Emergency Fund, 182

  Preuss, Lawrence, 137, 166, 167, 183

  prison camps, of Kontinentale Öl, 224–225

  prisoners of war, 19, 24, 60

  in concentration camps, 76, 80, 88, 89, 97

  Geneva conventions on, 7, 20, 97, 281

  interrogation of, 161, 166

  Soviet, 161–162, 212, 214

  Stalin’s son as, 162n

  UNWCC and, 110

  war crimes trials threatened against, 102, 146, 159, 161, 179

  prisoner transfers, 211–214, 256, 275

  London International Assembly’s recommendation on, 113

  Moscow Declaration’s provisions for, 184, 208, 215, 237

  trials avoided through blocking of, 184, 208–211, 234–244

  Propas, Frederic, 52

  prostitutes, as Holocaust victims, 75

  Pruessen, Ronald, 21, 49

  Prussia, 172

  prussic acid (poison gas), 82, 83n

  psychological warfare, 142, 145

  Quebec Conference (1944), 176

  Queen Mary, 141

  Quester, George, 92

  quislings, 207, 208, 210; see also collaborators

  Rasche, Karl, 61, 155, 330

  rations, for coal miners, 249

  Rauff, Walter, 160, 236, 238–240, 244

  Ravensbrück, 96, 306–307

  realpolitik, 281

  Reams, R. Borden, 100, 103, 104, 114–116, 142, 152

  Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 267

  Red Army, 157, 190, 200, 204

  Red Cross (Geneva) conventions (1864 and 1906), 18, 19, 24, 28, 97, 281

  Reed, Philip D., 52, 265, 267

  Reemtsma, Philipp, 156

  refugees, from Eastern Europe, 211

  Reich, Das, 93

  Reich flight tax, 68

  Reichsbank, 46, 219, 220–221, 223–224, 228

  Reichskredit Gesellschaft (RKG), 70–71, 72, 155

  Reinhardt, Charles, 252

  reparations:

  Armenian Genocide and, 36

  business and, 44–45, 46

  politics and, 44

  after World War I, 16–17, 19–20, 26, 41, 43–46, 177, 178, 219

  after World War II, 172, 176, 244, 245

  Report on Germany, A (Brown), 263

  Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of This Government in the Murder of Jews, 146

  “reprisal,” doctrine of, 19

  Republican party (U.S.), 13, 122, 181–182, 264, 268, 274

  Republic Steel Corporation, 249

  Riddleberger, James, 211, 257–258

  Riga Axioms, 52, 341

  Riga-Kaiserwald and Baltic KLs, 307–308

  RKG (Reichskredit Gesellschaft), 70–71, 72, 155

  Rockefeller family, 48, 273

  Rodal, Alti, 276

  Roessler, Oswald, 218

  Roman Catholic Church, 38, 208

  in Operation Sunrise negotiations, 199–205

  Rauff aided by, 239

  Romania, 22, 23, 108, 142, 144, 147, 166, 203

  Romanis (Gypsies), as Holocaust victims, 75, 76, 80, 115

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 7, 52, 64, 98, 101, 103, 122, 124, 137, 149, 180, 194, 275

  Allen Dulles as personal representative of, 121

  and bombing of German cities, 92

  death of, 194–195, 204

  Foreign Service’s relationship with, 134, 172

  Hackworth as author of Pell’s letters from, 165–166, 167

  health problems of, 171

  Nazi atrocities condemned by

  Churchill and, 100, 101

  Nazi war crimes prosecution favored by, 11

  1944 reelection of, 182

  Operation Sunrise negotiations and, 202–203, 205

  Pell and, 130, 131, 134–135, 138, 139, 164–166, 182, 183, 184

  postwar German reconstruction opposed by, 175–176, 178, 181–182

  Soviet policy of, 134, 157

  war crimes commission proposed by Churchill and, 105, 106, 137, 141

  Roots of Evil (Staub), 4n

  Rothschild family, 70

  Rusin
ovic, Nikola, 210–211

  Russia, Imperial, 281, 286–287

  Armenian Genocide and, 30

  World War I casualties suffered by, 16

  Russian revolution, 15

  SA (Sturmabteilung), 178

  Sachs, Harvey, 84

  Sachsenhausen, 80, 91, 96, 162n, 308–309

  St. James, Declaration of, 100–101, 103

  Sargent, Orme, 101

  Sauckel, Fritz, 86n–87n, 88, 89

  Schacht, Hjalmar, 71, 154, 223, 230, 331

  Aryanization role of, 65–66, 156

  Nuremberg acquittal of, 228–229

  Schamparagraphen, 37, 38

  Schellenberg, Walter, 124

  Schippel, Hans, 55

  Schlesinger, Arthur, jr., 134

  Schmidt, Erhardt, 65

  Schmidt brothers, 189–190, 193, 230

  Schmitz, Hermann, 56n, 156

  Schnitzler, Georg von, 156

  Schoenfeld, Rudolf, 234

  Schroeder, Kurt von, 155

  Schulte, Eduard, 82, 83n, 84, 103, 114, 116

  Schuster, Ildefonso Cardinal, 200–201, 204, 239

  Schutzstaffel, see SS

  Schweitzer, Arthur, 68

  Scott, James B., 23

  SD (Sicherheitsdienst), 95, 259, 260

  Securities and Exchange Commission, 56n

  Senate, U.S., 252, 284

  Serbian National Federation, 208n–209n

  Sèvres, Treaty of (1920), 33, 36

  SHAEF, handbook on postwar Germany of, 173, 175, 181

  Sicherheitsdienst (SD), 95, 259, 260

  Siemens, 5, 47, 54, 71, 328

  Aryanization role of, 62, 330

  concentration-camp labor contracted by, 62n, 86, 157

  Sikorski, Wladyslaw, 127–128, 129

  Simon, Lord, 106–107, 169

  Simon Wiesenthal Center, 69, 239

  Slovakia, 80, 110

  Slovenes, 22, 208

  Smith, Bradley F., 179

  Smith, Walter Bedell, 243

  Smyrna, 33

  Sobibor, 80, 91, 108, 138, 151

  Social Democratic party (Germany), 187

  Sommer, Karl, 86

  Sonderkommandos, 76

  South Africa, Republic of, 129

  South America, 6, 18

  Soviet Army, 157, 190, 200, 204

  Soviet Union, 11, 12, 24, 101, 102, 106, 115, 157, 176, 192, 213, 222, 245, 264

  Holocaust victims in, 78, 138

  Nazi invasion of, 76, 82, 118, 340–341

  UNWCC and, 125, 128–130, 137, 139

  war-crimes trials held by, 159–160

  Soviet-U.S. relations, 171

  denazification and, 246–247, 258, 268, 279–281

  Nazi war crimes prosecution and, 151

  Operation Sunrise and, 199, 200, 202–207

  postwar German reconstruction and, 174, 191, 195

  prisoner transfers and, 237, 243

  Riga Axioms and, 52, 341

  Roosevelt’s policy on, 134, 157

  Trieste clash and, 205–207

  World War II mistrust in, 117–130

  Spain, 21

  Speer, Albert, 85, 87, 89

  SS (Schutzstaffel), 4, 13, 54, 59, 60, 72, 74, 176, 178, 180, 224, 246

 

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