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Hitler

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by Peter Longerich


  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
2

  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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