Brunner, Alfred, 69
Buchenwald, 454
Bulgaria, 712–715, 718, 725, 862, 873non-involvement in war, 723–724, 873
Soviet invasion, 928–929
territorial concessions to, 696, 706–707, 725
unwillingness to join Tripartite Pact, 714, 721–722
Wehrmacht movement through, 722
Bund Oberland, 90–91, 110, 112
Bürckel, Josef, 510, 547–549, 551–553, 558, 590, 607–608
Burckhardt, Carl, 629, 631
bureau, 234–235
Burhenne, Karl, 95
Buttmann, Rudolf, 129, 146, 372, 390
Canaris, Wilhelm, 572, 574, 655–656, 715–716, 919
Canary Islands, 706–708, 736–737
Carol II of Romania, 601–602, 696, 706–707
Catholic Action, 386–387, 390–391
Catholic Bavarian People’s Party, 50
Catholic Church, 453, 475–476, 481antipathy to Nazism and, 205
Austria, 552
avoidance of conflict during war, 766
Bolshevism as common enemy, 475–476
crucifix ban, 476
German Nationalism and, 12
Hitler andAH spurns potsdam service invitation, 296
anger at in early life, 26
attempts to conciliate, 390
ignores request about future church policy, 431
hostile policy (1936), 474–475
Mit brennender Sorge (anti-Nazi encyclical), 479
opposition to Nazism, withdrawal of, 335
religious and cultural associations, 390
religious and cultural organizations, 523subornment, 390–391
sexual prosecutions, 479
Vatican Concordat, 323, 330, 390aims, 323–324, 335
Catholic anti-Bolshevism and, 476
dissolution of Catholic political parties, 323, 337–338, 389–390, 956–957
Hitler’s influence on, 344–345
Hitler’s opinion, 338
initiallment, 336
negotiations, 427
opposition to, 478–479
Papen’s pursual, 335
political pressure to conclude, 336–337
termination, 481–482
terms and content, 336
Centre Party, 196–197, 242, 253–254, 274–275, 281, 298, 335dissolution, 323, 336–338
Hesse state government, 230–231
Hitler assures sanctity of judiciary, 298
Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor and, 254, 262–263
Nazi coalition negotiations, 242, 256–258, 271, 273, 281
Nazi Party and, Nazis demand support for Papen, 248
Nazi propaganda against, 250, 287–288
Presidential election (1931), support for Hindenburg, 236
Prussian state parliament (1932), 241–242
Reich Government (1930), 196–197, 208antipathy to Nazi coalition, 209–210
dependence on SPD, 225
Reichsrat, 282–283
Reichstag elections (1932), 252–253
rejection of Papen, 247
support for Enabling Law, 298–299, 318
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 133–134
Chamberlain, Neville, 579, 581–582Bad Godesberg meeting, 578–579Hitler rejects Chamberlain’s proposal to continue negotiations with Prague, 580
Hitler’s attack on, 674–675
Munich conference, 581–583, 587, 630
Obersalzberg meeting, 577upset at lack of transcript copy, 577–578
support for Poland, 612–613, 637, 643
Chelmno death camp, 808–809, 819
Christian Social Party, 11–12, 29–30, 79–80, 342–343
Churchill, Winston, 761–762, 793
Chvalkovský, František, 585–586, 602–604, 608–609
Ciano, Galeazzo, 454–455, 586, 621, 718–719, 722, 851, 872Anti-Comintern Pact, 530–531, 587
appointed Foreign Minister, 454–455
discusses peace with Soviet Union, 851
First Vienna Award, 582
French armistice negotiations, 691–692
Hitler blames Ciano for death of Italian Fascism, 872
Italian statement of neutrality, 559
Italian war preparations, 629–630
Italy attacks Greece, 709–710, 714–715
Italy declares war on Soviet Union, 742–743
joint protocol, 468
Madagascar project, 700–701
offers troops for Indian campaign, 777
Pact of Steel, 620, 629–630, 708–709
personal meetings with Hitler, 468, 629–630, 694, 706–707, 851
Second Vienna Award, 706–707
Tripartite Pact, 708–709
Cincar-Markovic´, Aleksandar, 722
Class, Heinrich, 38–40, 68, 83, 87–88, 90, 94–95, 187–188, 304, 313
CologneCathedral, 445
RAF bombing, 817
Combat League for Breaking Interest Slavery, 68
Combat League for the Commercial Middle Class, 304
Committee of Three, 852–853, 859–860, 882, 895–896
Communist Party of Germany (KPD), 50, 195, 197, 209–211, 258, 260–261, 280–281, 283, 287, 289–292
concentration camps, 484Bergen-Belsen, 944
Czech prisoners, 818–819
Dachau, 93, 300, 384–385, 388–389, 454
forced labour, 568, 825, 875
Himmer’s, 513–514
Himmler’s reform, 454
initial establishment, 300
Jews imprisoned and murdered, 592–593, 816, 863, 903
Nazis imprisoned and murdered, 389
political dissidents, 388, 517, 657–658, 879
prisoners of war, 657–658, 907–908
Sachsenhausen, 454, 816
threat of imprisonment as political leverage, 432–433
conspiracy, 385–386, 392–393, 591, 594, 675, 677, 761–764, 914–915, 917, 919–920, 926–927
Conti, Leonardo, 670–671
Coulondre, Robert, 638
Crimea, 748as Eastern Goths’ Gau, 755–757
German surrender, 888
military operations, 781, 887, 891, 899, 901
Crispien, Arthur, 290–291
Croatia, 725, 828–829, 879, 940
Csáky, István, 602–603, 622
Cuno, Wilhelm, 208–209, 211–212, 226
Curtius, Julius, 227
Cvetkovic´, Dragiša, 621, 722–723
Czecheslovakia, Poland and, 539
Czechoslovakia, 455, 561, 589, 602, 614–616, 623, 644–645, 933annexation, 955
Carpatho-Ukraine, 585
destruction of, 555–556, 578, 614–615, 644–645
ethnic German population, 532
German diplomatic relations, 532–533
Hitler’s opinions onas artificial construct, 531–532
decision on military action, 534–535
inevitability of German invasion, 528–529
as Soviet ally, 468–469
Hungary and, 538–539, 574–575, 578, 585–586, 602, 622
invasionBlitzkrieg, 561
Czech mobilization as brinkmanship, 560–561
date set, 644–645
dependence on neutralisation of France, 548–549
destruction of state as aim, 538, 555, 584–585, 602–604, 645
hesitancy of military leadership, 572
Hitler commits to military action, 605–606
Hitler’s ultimatum, 579, 585–586
military preparations, 535–537, 559–561, 563–564, 575, 607–608
necessity of swift action, 561
risk of Western power intervention, 556, 563, 572–574
invasionsItalian neutrality, 559
Western powers state support for, 580
Jews, 603
Munich agreement, 645, 959
Nazi propaganda, 570, 575–576, 580Sudeten Germans, 528, 532–533, 560
as part of a
nti-Bolshevist front, 467
as part of Reich, 528
Poland and, 578
Slovakian question, 606–607
as Soviet ally, 469, 471, 521
Sudetenland ceded at Munich conference, 583
Weekend Crisis, 644–645
Yugoslavia and, 539
Dachau concentration camp, 93, 300, 384–385, 388–389, 454
Dahlerus, Birger, 639–642, 652, 660, 667
Daladier, Edouard, 341, 364, 582, 587, 630, 641
Daluege, Karl, 452
Danzig, 628dispute with Poland over, 333–334, 423, 537, 539, 586–587, 600–601, 612, 641Britain’s role, 636, 641–642
German annexation, 651–652
German takeover plans, 642
Hitler increases demands, 640, 643
Poland breaks off negotiations, 631
as pretext for war, 628
elections, 425
Hitler’s speeches, 627–629
Darányi, Kálman, 538–539, 585–586
Darlan, François, 736
Darmstädter und Nationalbank, 224–225
Darré, Richard Walther, 306–307, 329–330, 375–376, 405–406, 440, 447–448, 510, 514, 835, 859–860
death camps, 775, 901–902Auschwitz, 808–809, 818–821, 860, 879, 901–902
Bełz˙ec, 775, 807–809, 820–821
construction, 794
deportations to, 807–808, 818–821, 826, 866
Jews in, 703, 808–809
Decree for the Protection of the Armaments Economy, 802
Defregger, Franz, 487–488
Denmark, 621, 630, 686–688, 827–830, 880–881
Detten, Georg von, 386–387
Deutsche Bürgervereinigung, 55
Deutsche Handlungsgehilfenverband, 96
Deutscher Kampfbund, 112–114, 117, 120–121, 127–128, 130–131, 279–280
Deutscher Schulverein, 12–13
Deutscher Sprachverein, 12–13
Deutscher Volkswille, 99–100
Deutsche Staatspartei, 241–242, 292–293
Deutsche Studentenschaft, 311–312
Deutsche Volksrat, 60–61
Deutsche Volksverlag, 67–68
Deutsche Werkgemeinschaft, 87–88, 99–100
Deutsche Zeitung, 81
Deutsch-völkische Schutz- und Trutzbund, 55–56, 67–72, 82, 84, 99–100DAP and, 70–71
Dickel, Otto, 87–89, 99–100
Dietl, Eduard, 66–67
Dietrich, Otto, 384, 551–552, 660, 767, 840
Dietrich, Sepp, 386
Dimitroff, Georgi, 365
Dingfelder, Johann, 71
Dinter, Artur, 146, 184–185
Dirksen, Herbert von, 208–209, 456
Dittmann, Wilhelm, 290–291
Dohnanyi, Hans von, 917–919
Dohrmann, Franz, 398–399
Dollfuss, Engelbert, 342–345, 366–367, 395–396
Dönitz, 868, 947–948
Dornberger, Walter, 874
Dorpmüller, Julius, 835
Dorsch, Franz Xaver, 906
Drexler, Anton, 63, 65–66, 69–70, 85–87Action Committee, 80–81
DSP and, 87
foundation of DAP, 64–65
founds National-Sozialer Volksbund, 147
as honorary party president, 90
Drexler, Antoninvites Hitler to join DAP, 63, 65
Münchener Beobachter transferred to, 83
objections to Hitler’s claim to be 7th DAP party member, 63–64
opposition to Hitler, 89–90
as party chairman, 70, 133
party programme, 71
responds to Hitler’s threat to quit party, 89
Drexler, Anton, Thule Society membership, 64–65
Duesterberg, Theodor, 188, 229, 236–238, 271, 273, 308–309
Dufter, Georg, 52
Düsseldorf Industry Club, 233
DVP, 193–197, 201, 211, 224–225, 227, 234–235, 252–253, 292–293
East Asia, 467, 635–636, 727, 730–731, 785, 793, 796–797
East Prussia, 205, 250–251, 254, 291, 397–399, 600–601, 612, 631–632, 653, 932–933, 935–936
Ebert, Friedrich, 92, 124–125, 144–145
Eckart, Dietrich, 55, 57, 85–86, 103, 115–116Auf gut Deutsch, 64–65
Bothmer and, 57–58
DAP involvement, 67, 89, 107–108
dramatic works, 67–68
Hitler and, influence on, 76
Kapp putsch, 72–73
Münchener Beobachter fundraising, 83
poetry, 101–103
as Schutz- und Trutzbund speaker, 55
Völkischer Beobachter editorship, 90, 108
Eden, Anthony, 376, 416–418, 421, 471–472
Edward, Duke of Windsor, 538
Egypt, 699, 710, 712, 714–715, 734–738, 961
Ehard, Hans, 120–122
Eher Verlag, 67–68
Ehrhardt, Hermann, 73–74, 91
Eichmann, Adolf, 590, 603, 667, 901–902
Eicke, Theodor, 389
Einsatzgruppen, 653–656, 666, 734, 759–760
Eiserne Faust, 65–66
Eisner, Kurt, 49–50, 56
El Alamein, battle of, 821–822, 845–846, 848
election, 129, 178–180, 200–203, 237–242, 247–248, 258–260, 269–270, 288, 445–446
Elser, Georg, 677–678
Eltz-Rübenach, Paul von, 272–273, 477–478, 482–483
Enabling Law, 300–301Church rights and, 324, 335
dependence on existence of coalition, 308, 320–321
extension, 501–502
Goebbels on plans, 253–254
Hitler on, prior to assuming Chancellorship, 262–263
Hitler’s monopoly of power through, 300–301
limits on Hitler’s power, 297
Reichstag consideration, 297
support for, 299
transfer of presidential powers and, 397
Engel, Gerhard, 693–694, 708, 847–848
Engelhardt, Philipp, 38
Epp, Franz Ritter von, 65–66, 83, 200–201, 208, 293, 303
Erhardt. Hermann, 114
Ernst, Karl, 386–387
Ernst, Max, 485–486
Erzberger, Matthias, 92
Esser, Hermann, 51–52, 65–66, 85–86, 89–90, 147, 149–150
Esser, Thomas, 90, 102, 107–108, 127–128, 130, 133, 146, 149–153, 257
Estonia, 621, 827
eugenics, 139–140, 437
euthanasia programme, 668–673, 701–702, 762–766, 774–775, 956–957
Evangelisches Jugendwerk, 372
Evian conference, 589–590, 595–596
extermination, 96, 731, 775, 793–794, 833, 857, 961, 963–964
Falkenhausen, Alexander von, 772
Falkenhayn, Nikolaus von, 687
Falkenhorst, Nikolaus von, 788
Falter, Jürgen, 204–205, 253
Farinelli, Roberto, 870–871
Farouk I of Egypt, 735–736
Faulhaber, Michael von, 475–477, 479
Feder, Gottfried, 55, 65–66, 68, 107–108, 146, 150–151anti-capitalism, 211
anti-Semitism, 57–58, 60, 67, 75
chairmanship of Economic Council, 214–215
dismissal from Ministry of Economics, 412
as economics spokesman, 259
fury at dissemination of party programme, 150–151
importance in Munich völkisch scene, 68
speeches, 57–58, 63, 69–71, 154–155
Fegelein, Hermann, 947
Feininger, Lyonel, 485–486
Feuerbach, Anselm von, 488–490
Fick, Roderich, 493
Filchner, Wilhelm, 484
Filoff, Bogdan, 722, 873
Final Solution, 672–673, 807
Finland, 699–700, 712arms exports to, 707
German diplomatic relations, 707
Soviet-German relations and, 712–713, 732, 739, 741–74
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Soviet invasion, 686–687, 742
Fischböck, Hans, 596
Flag Law, 433
Flammenwerfer, Der, 250
Flanders, first Battle of, 35–37
Flick, Friedrich, 233–234
Fobke, Hermann, 126, 130–133
Forster, Albert, 628–629, 631–632, 642, 663–664
Förster, Helmuth, 789–790
Four-Year Plan, 513–514
FranceAllied invasion, 907–909, 927–928, 935–936German withdrawal from, 928
Alsace-Lorraine dispute, 39–40, 333–334, 341, 364, 555, 702–703, 827, 928
Anglo-German cooperation against, 138
armaments expenditure, 625
attempted rapprochement, 345
Belgium and, 674
blamed for starting war, 643, 661–663, 674–675
Britain and, 539diplomatic tensions between, 561
colonial possessions, 708, 710, 714, 736
communism in, 467, 469–470, 539
Czecheslovakia and, 531–532, 539, 548–549, 555, 560–561, 573, 644, 955
diplomatic isolation of Germany, 366
as enemy of Germany, 561
as enemy of National Socialism, 209–210
Geneva disarmament talks, 364, 366, 416–418
German invasion, 691–693
German naval expansion and, 420–421
German trade with, 405–406
Goebbels on, 548
guarantees Greek and Romanian independence, 619
Hitler andAlsance-Lorraine dispute, 341
French interviews, 364
opposes Streseann’s rapprochement policy, 208–209
renounces territorial demands, 415, 651–652
Hitler on, willingness, 341
Hitler’s opinions on, 75Italy as suitable ally, 196
Italy and, 182, 366Italian occupation zone, 880, 964–965
Italy as suitable German ally, 183
Jews, 770, 775, 808, 818–820, 866, 880
joint declaration of German contravention of Versailles Treaty, 418
Madagascar plan and, 701
Munich Conference, 581–582
Neurath on impossibility of German alliance, 333–334, 341
Poland and, 423, 612–613
popular front government, 467
as potential opponent, 535–536
prisoners of war, 830
Saar dispute, 413, 415
south of, German replacement of Italian troops, 871, 876–880
Soviet Union and, 283–284Franco-Soviet pact, 425–428, 441–444
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