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removes Funk from Economics post, 659–660
as Prussian interior minister, purge of democratic officials, 288
as Prussian Minister of the Interior, 271–273, 295, 303bans Communist Party meetings, 287, 290–291
Winterfeld and, 320
as Prussian Prime Minister, 303, 320, 375–376amalgamation of Prussian ministries, 375–376
raw materials production campaign, 461–462, 465
as Reich Commissioner for raw materials and foreign exchange, 449
as Reich Forestry Office chief, 375–376
as Reich Marshall, 542–543, 697–698
on Reichstag fire, 290
as Reichstag President, 257–258, 262–263, 274, 289
as SA commander, 383anti-Jewish attacks, 293–294
appointment, 110
leadership purge, 383–387
speeches, traitors, 412
Speer and, 884–885, 906–907, 911–912
support for Franco coup, 456
Göring, Hermann denounces military ‘traitors,’ 412
Graefe, Albrecht von, 128, 130, 132, 143–144
Graf, Ulrich, 85–86, 107–108
Grandel, Gottfried, 83
Graz, 493, 547, 557
Great Britain, 182, 422, 427–428, 472, 538, 561, 640–641, 644, 651–652, 674–675, 697–700, 738, 817air war against, 817, 833, 874, 907
air warfare against, 703–704rocket strikes, 908–909, 932
alliance prospects, 639–641, 955Hitler abandons, 527–528, 538
Ribbentrop on, 538
Austria and, 343
colonial possessions, 472, 708, 715–716, 961India, 705–706, 708–709, 734–735, 755, 777, 797–798
conscription introduced, 625
Czecheslovakia and, 536–537
declares war, 652
Finland and, 712
France and, 705–706, 708conflicting interests, 138
Geneva disarmament talks, 416–418
German alliance prospects, 137–139, 167–168, 181, 333–334, 428, 431–432, 462–463, 467, 469–470
German rearmament and, 442–443, 520–521
Germany andJewish persecution and, 427–428
naval restrictions, 419–422
trade with, 379–380, 405–406
government, 224–225, 416, 422, 446, 471–472, 575, 638–643, 652, 674
Hitler on, as opponent, 75
invasionEuropean occupation as prerequisite, 679, 693
German unreadiness for, 695
invasion plans, 623–624, 695, 699–700, 704, 710, 718–719, 734, 750–751
Italy and, 559, 642alliance prospects, 341–342
cooperation polucy, 454–455
Jewish refugees, 596
Locarno Pact, 441
Munich Conference, 582
naval power, 598
naval restrictions, 618, 627
naval warfare against, 751
Nazi propaganda against, 627, 630, 677, 720, 761–762
North Africa campaign, 735–736
as opponent, 534, 561, 565–566intervention prevention policy, 538
Poland and, 620, 637–638, 641–642British ultimatum, 652
Danzig question, 539
Poland requests British guarantee of support, 612–613
rejects German ‘appeal for peace,’ 698
Rudolf Hess flies to, 730
Soviet Union and, 632–633, 712, 718, 726, 741–742Societ-German alliance and, 697–698
Soviets as German ally, 699
war against Britain contingent on Soviet defeat, 740, 798, 940
United States and, 705, 730–731, 785, 962rivalry between, 182
unreadiness for war, 636
war against as focus, 767
war preparations against, 587–588
Great German Art Exhibition, 485–488
Greater Germanic Reich, 490–491, 611, 687, 800, 827–829, 863, 879, 961
Greece, 621, 712–716, 719–726, 744–745, 830, 862, 961
Greim, Robert Ritter von, 72–73, 946–947
Greiser, Artur, 663–664, 770–771, 774–775, 836
Grillmeier, Alois, 65–66
Gröber, Conrad, 335–336
Groener, Wilhelm, 227, 235–236, 240–241, 243–244
Grohé, Josef, 837–838
Grossdeutscher Jugendbund, 307
Grossdeutsche Volksgemainschaft (GVG), 127–130, 133, 144, 146–147
Grützner, Eduard, 487–488
Grynszpan, Herschel, 590–591
Grzesinsky, Albert, 290–291, 319
Guariglia, Raffaele, 872
Guderian, Heinz, 748–749, 888–889, 926
Günther, Hans, 194–195
Gürtner, Franz, 281, 409–410, 810–811
Gustloff, Wilhelm, 440–441, 474, 591
Gutberlet, Wilhelm, 67–68
Gutmann, Hugo, 39–40
Gypsies, 774, 825
Haake, Heinrich, 147–148
Haase, Ludolf, 132
Habicht, Theodor, 395–396
Habsburg Monarchy, 28
Hácha, Emil, 608–609
Halder, FranzBalkan capaign plan, 723
Belgium and Netherlands offensive, 675–677
on Britain, 698–700, 704
coup plans, 574, 675, 677
Czecheslovakia and, 574
Danzig question and, 640
dismissal, 847–848
Eastern front, 697, 717, 719–720, 726, 732, 744–750, 780, 814, 823–824, 846
on Hitler, 643, 681–682, 847Operation Sea Lion, 695–696
Hitler reproaches, 679
on Hitler’s plans for Poland, 655–656
post-Barbarossa plan, 734–735, 744
on Wagner and Heydrich, 654
Hall, Stephen King, 627–628
Hamburg National Club, 167, 211–212
Hammerstein-Equord, Kurt Freiherr von, 283–284
Hanfstängl, Ernst, 104–108, 118
Hanisch, Reinhold, 25–27
Hanke, Karl, 905–906
Harrer, Karl, 64–65, 69–71
Harzburg Front, 231, 236, 242, 261, 270, 274–275, 952–953
Hassell, Ulrich von, 418, 441–443, 445–446, 530–531, 600, 918–919
Haug, Hans, 160–161
Haug, Jenny, 161–162
Haushofer, Albrecht, 469
Haushofer, Karl, 86
Häusler, Rudolf, 31–32
Hayler, Franz, 884
Heidegger, Martin, 312
Heilmann & Littmann, 32–33
Heim, Georg, 98–99
Heimatdienst Bayern, 57–58
Heines, Edmund, 385–386
Held , Heinrich, 143
Helldorf, Wolff-Heinrich von, 571
Henderson, Nevile, 547–548, 638–640, 642–643, 652
Henlein, Konrad, 532–535, 555–556, 575–576
Hennig, Wilhelm, 143–144
Hepp, Ernst, 35, 42–43
Hermann Göring steel works, 533–534, 566–567
Hermine Reuss of Greiz, 230
Heroes’ Remembrance Day, 444
Hess, Rudolf, 85–87, 185, 266–268, 369–370, 372, 382, 501–503, 651–652, 728–730
Hess, Rudolf, essay on German dictator, 102–103
Heydebreck, Hans-Peter von, 386
Heydrich, Reinhard, 452, 654, 772
Hiedler, Johann Georg, 7–8
Hiedler, Johann Nepomuk, 7–8
Hierl, Konstantin, 66, 84–85, 193–194, 200–201, 213–214, 249, 295, 496–497, 513
High Pressure Pump (gun), 875
Hilgenfeldt, Erich, 347
Himmler, Heinrich, 268–269, 452–453, 769–770, 820–821concentration and death camps, 666
concentration camp reform, 454
concentration of power in, 833
ethnic policies, 513–514
expulsion of Polish Jews, 590
Final Solution, 774–776, 820, 883
as Gestapo head, 452–453
as h
ead of SS, 496–497, 664, 701, 731–734, 759, 825, 833, 935Einsatzgruppen pogroms, 759–760
forced SS recruitment, 828–829
orders insurgent executions, 654
Jewish deportations, 703, 770–771, 808, 818, 820–821
Madagascar project, 700–701
reputation for brutality, 758
resettlement programme, 667, 757–758
Hindenburg, Oskar von, 272
Hindenburg, Paul von, 196–197, 200, 210, 228, 232, 239, 262, 268–269, 272, 322–323, 952–953
Hitler, Adolf, 127, 139–140, 622–623ambition to become German Führer, 116–117
announcement of withdrawal from politics, 130
anti-Semitism, 17, 22–23, 26–27, 29–32, 39, 59–62, 76, 177–178in relation to other enemies, 31, 62
removal of Jews, 166
appointed Chancellor, 279
appointment as Chancellor, 275
architecture and, 21–22, 491–499considers joining architectural academy, 32–33
criticism of megalomaniacal building projects, 495
designs buildings, 18
Hitler’s tastes in, 21–22, 491–492
as immortalization of Nazi power, 353, 484, 491–492
town planning, 355–356, 493, 884
art and, 310ambiguity of opinion, 403–404
art collection, 489–490
artistic ambitions, 11, 16, 18–19, 23–24, 32, 134, 355–356, 488, 694, 938, 955–956
artistic aspirations, 11, 16, 18–19, 23–24, 32, 134, 355–356, 938, 955–956
attacks on modern art, 351, 403–404, 432–433, 485–487
Hitler as connoisseur, 346–347, 955–956
Munich as centre, 351–352
music, 19, 22
postcard painting, 25–27
programmatic statements, 487, 494–495
racial views on, 194–195, 403–404, 484–485, 487
taste in art, 356, 485, 487–489
unconvinced of merits of Nazi artists, 491
Vienna Academy of Fine Art, 19–25, 27–28, 310–311
assassination attempts, 905, 919–923, 926–927Bürgerbräukeller, 677–678
Ballerstedt attack, 93, 111
Beer Hall putsch, 115, 118release from Landsberg, 143
trial, C5–127
Berchtesgaden, 108, 136, 159–161, 181–182, 243–244, 354–356, 868, 943, 945–946
birthday celebrations, 115–116, 127, 308–309, 376–377, 460, 615–617, 626–627, 688, 812–813, 944–945
as Chancellor (1933-1934)abolishes political parties, 319–324
anti-Jewish initiatives, 301–303
appoints Goebbels minister of propaganda, 294–295
appoints Nazis to government roles, 295
attacks on Centre Party, 287–288
Church policy, 325–326
Enabling Law, 297–301
meets Reichswehr commanders, 283–284
rearmament programme, 285–286
SPD and, 299
as Chancellor, speeches, 298
claim to Chancellorship, 248, 253–254, 259–260, 268–269, 273–274, 333, 344–345, 959–960
criminal and imprisonmentdemonstrations against, 127
Landsberg imprisonment, 126
DAP andattends first meeting, 65
new procedural rules, 70
removal of Harrer as party leader, 69–70
death, 947–948
demands office of Chancellor, 255–256, 262
Deutscher Kampfbund and, 113
as dictator, establishment of dictatorship, C12, 279–291
Dinter and, 185
early life, Realschule, 11, 14–15
Edmund, 9–10
education, 11, 14–16
entourage, 77, 96–97, 110, 133, 157–158, 220–221, 353–356, 399–400, 459, 636, 785–7861922/1923, 107–108
Hoffmann, 106–107
family, 7–8father, 7–12
grandparents, 7–8
Jewish ancestry rumours, 7–8
mother, 7–11, 16, 18–22, 24–25
siblings, 8, 10
foreign policy, 138–139, 152–153, 178–179, 182–184, 333–334, 344–345, 415–416, 466–467, 520–522, 835, 954–955, 957
France and, 364
as Führer (1934-1945), 500
Goebbels andfriendship, 222–223
Hitler as instrument of divine fate, 155–156
newspaper expansions, 198
spells out demands for Centre Party coalition, 208
ideas, 166, 169–170
industry and business and, 232–234
intellectual influencesPoetsch, 15–16
Reichswehr indoctrination, 57–61
Rosenberg and Sceubner-Richter, 86–87
leadership style, 153, 157–158, 213, 502, 906direct rule, 832, 839–840
divide and rule, 218–219
as Führer, 249
personalization, 218–219, 249
unpredictability, 157–158
on Leningrad, 753–754
lifestyle, 25, 159–160, 220homes and property, 159
personal finances, 20–21, 27, 41, 96–97, 159–160, 220
living space thesis, 136–137, 178, 181, 260, 283–284, 531–532, 535, 537–538, 605, 622–624, 960–961
Ludendorff as, pushes for election as Reich President, 144–145
Mein Kampf, 14–17, 19–20, 24–25, 28–30, 32, 42–44, 133–140, 159–160, 169
military service, 33–44, 63AH’s reflections on, 40–41
avoidance of conscription, 33
Battle of Arras, 39
Battle of the Marne, 39–40
as Corporal, 37–38
as council representative, 50
decoration, 38–40
discharge, 82–83
First Battle of Flanders, 35–37
hospitalization and end of WWI, 44
military discipline and, 43
performance and reputation, 38, 40
propaganda speaking, 58
sense of purposefulness, 34
Traunstein POW camp, 49–50
trench warfare, 37
wounding, 39
Nazi party andambition to establish national party, 147
as Führer, 115–116
fundraising, 103
joins DAP, 63
as party chairman, 153
as propaganda chief, 79–81
re-establishment guidelines, 145–146
Nero Order, 941–942
Pan-Germanism, 28–29, 61–62
paramilitary organizations and, 156, 177
personal finances, 20–21, 27, 41, 96–97, 159–160, 220
personality, 7, 10–11, 17–19, 41, 43, 78, 80–81, 157–158, 163, 949–950, 954charisma, 840–842
childishness, 44
depression, 45
disorganization, 43
grandiosity, 24
megalomania, 78–79, 136, 158
narcissism, 10–11, 256
rhetorical talent and, 78–79
Poland and, 365
political and intellectual viewsMunich years, 32
on propaganda, 79–80
political ideaslack of specificity, 239–240
living space, 169, 260
political influencesLueger, 26, 29–30
Schönerer, 14, 26, 28–30
political opinions, German defeat in WWI, 44–45
political testament, 104, 947–948
political viewsantipathy to socialism, 62
during WWI, 42
Vienna, 28–31, 62
publications, second book, 181–182
public imagepersonal appearance, 27–28, 106, 158–159, 298, 331
photographic images, 107, 158–159
as statesman, 220
radio broadcasts, 293–294, 359–360, 415, 762, 770, 876–877, 894–895
rearmament and, naval expansion, 420
road-building programme, 315–316
Röh
m and, 131
SA and, 203, 207, 215–216, 403AH’s view on role of SA, 156
Schleicher and, 263
self-image, 24–25, 30–31, 41, 45, 61, 88–89, 107, 127, 133–134, 237as Bavarian, 93–94
as Führer, 101, 115–116, 124–125
as genius, 7, 24, 133–134, 158, 220, 488, 927–928, 938, 949–950
as great German, 116–117
as heroic leader, 122–123
on socialism, 62
social relationships, 108, 154, 160–161, 428, 441, 527, 531, 538, 651–652, 661, 724and status as Führer, 353–354
speeches, 75, 95–96, 166–167, 169, 172, 419, 481–482, 497, 508, 576, 635, 793–794, 8121925 ban on, 147
1930 Reichstag elections, 201–202
agricultural audiences, 175–176
anti-Semitism, 75, 165, 177–178, 195–196
Appeal to the German people, 282
audience numbers, 167–169
Beer Hall putsch trial, 123, 125
business audiences, 166–168, 211–212, 233
as Chancellor (1933-1934), 286–287
Circus Krone (1921), 84
Düsseldorf Industry Club, 233
early DAP speeches, 69
early Nazi meetings, 75–79
early Nazi party, 84
entrance fees, 171
frequency, 164, 170
government statements, 359–360, 373
Hamburg National Club, 167, 211–212
key themes, 171
living space motif, 178, 196
Nazi party re-establishment, 146
party members as audience, 165
Party Rallies, 169–170
peace speeches, 318, 339–340, 344–345, 419, 423, 443–444
Poland, 622–624
to Reichswehr commanders, 283–284
Reichswehr indoctrination, 58–59
Saxon parliament elections (1930), 195–196
setting and stage-management, 164, 170–172
structure, 171–172
talent as public speaker, 76–79
United States and, AH’s opinion, 181–182
Volkswagen project, 450
as Wehrmacht commander, assumes command, 542–543
women and, 23, 41, 160–161, 163, 220Eugenie Haug, 160–161
Geli Raubal, 162, 220, 223, 489, 626–627