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as part of potential Soviet alliance, 521
Soviets offer Britain and France pact, 632
Tripartite Pact and, 619–620, 632
under Nazi occupationarmistice negotiations, 692–693
dependence of future role, 828–829, 864
food and commodity supply to Germany, 830
France required to participate in war on Britain, 705–706, 708
reprisal shootings, 772–773
resistance movements, 772
war on Britain and, 734–735
unreadiness for war, 636
war plans against, 587
Franco, Francisco, 456–457, 635, 707–708, 714–716, 719
François-Poncet, André, 341
Frank, Hans, 721as Governor-General of Poland, 757Lidice massacre, 819
Madagascar project, 700–701, 703
resettlement of Jews in Poland, 721
transfer of powers to Himmler, 818
as Nazi attorney, 207
as part of Hitler’s entourage, 559, 664–665
resignation of Reich Legal Office headship, 824–825
Frank, Karl Hermann, 532–533, 575–576, 818–819
Frankfurter, David, 440–441, 591
Fränkischer Kurier, 233–234
Frederick the Great, 116–117, 127, 295–296, 487–490, 789, 910–911, 943Goebbels draws parallels between Hitler and, 812–813
Freisler, Roland, 824, 926–927
Frick, Wilhelmas head of Munich police political department, 53, 83–84
arrest, 119
as member of Reich Defence Council, 642, 658–659
as Minister of the Interior, 271–273, 292–293, 318, 430anti-Jewish legislation, 433–434
Brüning and, 318–319
Church policy, 325, 372, 409
comments on price increases, 428–429
complaint about concentration camp system, 454
divorced of so-called mixed marriages, 860–861
Kerrl as Church Commissar, 430
Reich administrative reform, 511, 835
Reich governorships appointed, 303
removal from post, 882
as Nazi Reichstag leader, 218–219, 226, 264–265, 270ministerial post demands, 253–254, 270
support for DAP, 83–84
as Thuringian Interior and Education Minister, 194civil service purge, 194–195
implementation of Nazi policies, 194–195
removed from post, 195, 216
Fritsch, Theodor, 143–144
Fritsch, Werner von, 411–412, 536, C25, 541, 545–546argues against allowing Britain and France to be enemies, 535–536
Blomberg-Fritsch crisis, 535–536
doubts about rapidity of Reichswehr expansion, 417
homosexuality scandal, 541–542removal from post, 542–543
symbolic rehabilitation, 563–564
trial, 543
Fromm, Friedrich, 922
Frontbann, 131, 215–216
Führer (office of ), 500
Führer myth, 952–954
Führer principle, 101, 149, 152, 169–170, 206–207, 304–305, 307, 350
Funk, Walther, 259, 350, 541, 642, 658–659, 835, 924–925
Furtwängler, Wilhelm, 310, 484
Gablenz, Freiherr von, 789–790
Gailani, Raschid Ali al-, 735–736
Galen, Clemens August von, 764–765
Gansser, Emil, 95, 103
Ganzenmüller, Albert, 835
Gayl, Wilhel Freiherr von, 257–258
Gebhardt, Karl, 885
Geibel, Emanuel, 101
Geilenberg, Edmund, 907
Geisler, Fritz, 94–95
Gemlich, Adolf, 59–60
General German Language Society, 12–13
General German Trade Union Federation, 313–314
General Government, 667, 721, 830administrative guidelines, 664–665
establishment, 664–665
Galicia district, 775
Jewish reservation, 666–667, 702
Jewsextermination plans, 794, 807
murder programme, 818, 820–821
Jews deported to, 721, 773–774, 807–808, 820–821
Madagascar project and, 703
transport ban, 820
General Plenipotentiary for Total War, 929
Geneva Disarmament Conference, 338–339, 346, 358, 467German aims, 224
German attempts to induce failure, 358, 367
German demands, 338–340
German withdrawal, 363Hitler threatens, 344–345
MacDonald Plan, 340–341
removal of permission for German rearmament, 341–342
Gereke, Günther, 272–273
Gerlich, Fritz, 387–388, 390–391
German Agricultural Council, 305
German Democratic Party (DDP), 92, 193, 196–197, 201, 204
German Faith Movement, 427
German Labour Front (DAF ), 314, 349–350, 450–451, 506–507, 553business interests, 506–507
leisure organization (Kraft Durch Freude), 349, 506–507
membership levels, 503, 506–507
Volkswagen project and, 450–451
German League for Protection and Defiance, 55
German Nationalism, 9–16, 28, 81, 218–219, 231, 254, 322
German Nationalist Party, 231, 247
German Nationalist People’s Party (DNVP), 69–70, 242, 271, 320agricultural interests, 175
Bad Harzburg conference, 228–230
Bayerische Mittelpartei and, 55, 92
defections to Nazis, 320
dissolution, 321–324
electoral performance, 192–193, 204, 237–238, 241–242, 252–253
expansion programme, 193
funding, 211
Harzburg Front, 236
Nazi attacks on, 308
Nazi cooperation with, 69–70, 177–178, 191–192, 194, 226–227, 291–292
Nazi propaganda against, 259, 261, 307–308
Prussian government, 248
in Reichstag, 197, 225–226Hitler government, 320
Papen government, 247
German National People’s Party, 69–70
German navy, 420, 606, 623–624, 737–738, 750Z-Plan, 680
German People’s Party, 12, 15–16, 323
German Revolution, 49, 188
German Socialist Party (DSP), 68–69, 87–89, 99–100
German Theatre Employees’ Cooperative, 310
German-Volkisch Freedom Movement (DVFB), 143–144
German-Völkisch Freedom Party (DVFP), 128–130, 132, 144–145, 154
German Workers’ Party (DAP), 63–65, 950Munich right-wing politics and, 64
Germany1918 revolution, 49
1929 referendum, 191
1931-32 economic crisis, 224–225, 231–232
declaration of WWI, 33–34
economy, 173–174, 232, 404–406, 464, 522, 546, 569, 912, 941, 958–959armaments spending, 404–405
ore mining, 407
petroleum products, 407
unemployment, 111–112, 196–197, 213–214, 250, 259, 282–284, 314–317, 377–379, 405, 658
national flag, 433
Gersdorff, Freiherr von, 859, 919
Gestapo, 919–920arrests of Jews, 592–593, 816, 880
cultural blacklists, 311
gas chamber, 666
Himmler as chief, 375–376
investigates coup attempt, 919–920
murders, 386–387
as part of police state, 504–505, 517, 657
preventative action against political subversives, 452–453
provocative action in Poland, 615
public morale and, 448
Wehrmacht cooperation, 655–656
Gibraltar, 699, 705–708, 712, 714, 716, 737–738
Giesler, Hermann, 492–493, 693–694
Glaise-Horstenau, Edmund, 546, 548–549
Globocnik, Odilo, 775, 794, 807, 820–821
Goebbels, Magda, 220–223, 230, 305, 309, 354–355, 443, 628, 938–939
Goebbels, SA and, 216
Goebbels, Strasser and, 155–156
Goebbels, Joseph, 202–204, 220–223, 485–486, 859–861, 871–872, 894–895, 912–913, 924–925, 940–941ambition for Nazi Party, 241–242
anticapitalism, 214–215
appointed Gauleiter, 155–156
at Bad Harzburg, 228–229
Below on, 581
as Berlin Gauleiter, 191–192, 202–203, 218–219, 553, 860–861Jewish persecution, 429–430, 571–572, 702, 771–772, 860–861
publishing control, 197–198
on Brüning, 245, 257
campaign against the occult, 729
civilian responsibilities, 833
Committee of Three and, 895–896
coup attempt and, 922
diaries, 150–151, 243–244, 248, 262–263, 289–290, 383–384, 386–387, 396–397, 469–471, 938–939, 941Schelicher offers Strasser Vic-Chancellorship, 265
diaryextracts published, 265
tampering, 265
discussions with Hitler, foreign policy, 555
Dollfuss putsch, 396
exclusion from economic policy meetings, 213–214
expansion of Der Angriff, 198
foreign policyJapan, 456
Yugoslavia, 724
foreign policy discussions, Soviet Union, 940
foreign policy positions, 431–432, 438
foreign policy views, 152–153
as Gauleiter of Berlin, appointment, 154
Geneva Disarmament Conference, 358
Himmler and, 896
on Hindenburg, 262–263
on Hitler, 264–265, 369acclaims Hitler as genius, 152
anger at DNVP, 197
Bishop Müller and, 371–372
on eve of war, 652
Geli’s death, 223
Hitler ponders Centre Party coalition, 253–254
Hitler’s health, 797, 895, 940
Hitler’s speeches, 154–155
Jewish policy, 436
Mussolini and, 454
Olympic Games, 461
Reichstag fire, 290
reverence for, 152–153
Stalhelm concessions, 187
as successor to Frederick the Great, 812–813
Hitler and, 197Hitler’s praise for Goebbels, 153
Magda Quant, 220–221
policy discussions, 409–410, 415–416, 418
presses for more concrete policy statements, 213
Rhineland occupation, 442–443
tour of SA pubs, 203–204
Italy and, 870–872
Jews and, boycott, 301
Kapp putsch, 216–217
marriage, 221–222affair with Lída Baarová, 590–592
Munich conference, 581
named as Hitler’s successor, 947–948
narcissism, 155–156
on Nazi economic policy, 214
on Nazi inability to form governments (1932), 241–242
as Nazi propaganda chiefappointment, 198–199
election campaign management, 201
party programme (1920), 213
as Nazi propaganda head, 286
on Nazi ralllies, 188–189, 415, 580–581, 925–926
Nazi-Sozi pamphlet, 218
on Palais Barlow, 200–201
Palais Barlow, 200–201
on Papen government, 251–254
personal ambition, 209–210
personal relationship with Hitlerencourages Hitler to put himself up for Reich Presidency, 236
Goebbels’ affair with Lída Baarová, 590–592
Hitler’s praise for Goebbels, 153
Magda Goebbels and, 220–223
presses Hitler toward socialism, 217
Plebiscite Law, 359–360
as Plenipotentiary for Total War, 833, 924–925, 929conscription efforts, 929
dissolution of Prussian finance ministry, 930
policy discussions, 443Church policy, 764–765
Czecheslovakia, 455, 579–580, 606–607
Final Solution, 786, 794–795
foreign policy, 602
judicial reform, 811
occupation policies, 695, 760–761
peace deals (1943), 886
Poland, 422–423, 642–643, 661
Soviet Union, 684–685
total war, 909–910
as Propaganda Minister (1933–1945), 294–295, 875–876anti-British propaganda, 618, 627–628
anti-Semitic propaganda, 761, 771, 779, 861–862, 865–866
Austrian Anschluss propaganda, 546–550, 557
book burnings, 311–312
church policy, 331–332
Church policy, 477–479
combination of party and state roles, 510, 514
creates Austrian Reich propaganda office, 551–552
cultural policy, 403–404
cultural portfolio, 295
cultural purge, 310–312
Czecheslovakia and, 559–560, 570, 575–576
Czecheslovak propaganda, 607–608
demands dissolution of Centre party, 336–337
Eastern front propaganda, 778–779, 861
food shortages, 440, 447–448
German Art Exhibition, 485–486
Hess and, 729–730
Hitler bows to Hindenburg, 296–297
Hitler’s 53rd birthday celebrations, 812–813
Hitler’s speeches, 894–895
Jewish persecution, 590–593
Jewish star marking, 764, 768
Nazi rallies, 580–581, 925–926
Polish propaganda, 646–647
press interventions, 656–657
propaganda guidelines, 840
radio broadcasts, 295, 350, 741
Reich Chamber of Culture, 351
seizure of power celebrations, 853–854
Soviet propaganda, 760–761
structure of Propaganda Ministry, 295
total war propaganda, 852–853, 855–860, 883
winter clothing collection campaign, 792
quotes Hitleranti-Semitism, 571
on Austrian Anschluss, 528–529
Battle of Monte Casino, 891
on Benes, 576
Blomberg-Fritsch affair, 542–543
on Brauchitsch, 788
on Catholic Church and homosexuality, 474–475
Church policy, 557
on Church policy, 478–480
on Czecheslovakia, 577–578
on division of Europe, 469–470
on Eastern front, 816–817
at end of war, 938–939
fight against Bolshevism, 467
on Final Solution, 808
on foreign policy, 611
on Franco, 708
on generals as rubber men, 790
House of German Art, 485
on Hungary, 898–899, 902
on Italy, 467, 908
on Jewish persecution, 571
on Jews, 854–855
on Leningrad, 753–754
on Mussolini, 877
occupation of Rhineland, 441–443
on offer to Britain, 697–698
Operation Barbarossa, 766–767
on Poland, 618
on Reich as continuation of Holy Roman Empire, 683
on total war, 860
on war with Britain, 674–675, 683
radio broadcasts, 281, 287, 791
Reich inspector of civilian air war measures, 893
Reichstag fire, 289–290
relationships, Magda Quant, 220–223
Ribbentrop and, 470–471
Rosenberg and, 403–404
SA and, 203–204, 383–387
speeches, 152, 349, 362Church policy, 480
on culture, 486–487
Hindenburg and, 313
Hitler critical of, 529
introducing Hitler, 444–445
K
ristallnacht, 592
on total war, 856–857
vetted by Hitler, 869
Speer and, 896, 912–913
on Strasser, 265, 267
suicide, 945
total war, purge of generals, 925–926
total war and, 924–925
Goerdeler, Carl Friedrich, 257, 407, 429, 432–433, 439, 461–462, 512, 918–919
Goering, 267
Goltz, Rüdiger von der, 188, 208–209, 226, 229
Gömbös, Gyula, 366–367, 468–469
Göring, Carin, 110
Göring, HermannAustrian Anschluss and, 545, 549
Blomberg-Fritsch affair, 541
as Commissar for Raw Materials and Foreign Exchange, 466, 474, 522–524, 536establishes Hermann Göring steel works, 533–534, 566–567
rearmament plans, 565, 569, 588, 597
Committee of Three and, 859–860
contentration of power in, 924–925, 958
creates Jewish Emigration Office, 603
Cuno as Reich President candidate, 208–209
diplomatic missionsBritain, 639–640, 642, 685
Hungary, 468–469, 574–575, 580–581
Mussolini, 366–367, 528, 544
Poland, 422–423, 539
direct contact with Hitler, 839
exclusion from economic decision-making, 833
food industry foreign exchange mediation, 440, 447–449
Four-Year Plan, 470, 512–514, 566, 588, 758, 801, 958anti-Jewish measures, 595
Economics Ministry assigned to Göring, 541
Kristallnacht clearup, 594–595
Speer’s central planning committee, 802
General Government and, 663–664
Hitler on, 470names Göring successor, 501–502, 542–543, 651–652
industrial and business contacts, 212, 218–219, 226, 470
Jewish policy, 596, 655–656Madagascar Plan, 701
Kapp putsch, 119
Kristallnacht and, 594–595
as Luftwaffe head, 416–417, 457, 849–850, 924–925Ju-88 programme, 680
Me-262 bomber programme, 907
as Military Court Chairman, 543
as Minister without portfolio, 272–273
personal relationship with Hitler, 105–106, 208–209
powers and prestige, 513–514, 542, 833as Hitler’s deputy, 501–502, 659, 729, 946