Butler, Ewan
Canaris, Adm. Wilhelm
Carinhall (Göring’s residence)
Churchill, Odette
Ciano, Count Galeazzo
Concentration Camps; rival foundations (1933); Göring’s conception of; Himmler’s pre-war organization of; Himmler on prisoners in; Himmler’s attitude to; Himmler’s visits to; medical experiments in; wartime developments in, first phase; extermination of defective persons in; organization of slave labour in; instructions for executions in; looting from prisoners in; evacuation and liberation from; individual camps: Auschwitz; Bergen-Belsen; Birkenau; Buchenwald; Dachau; Flossenbürg; Gross-Rosen; Linz; Lublin; Natzweiler, Mauthausen; Oranienburg; Ravensbrück; Sachsenhausen; Treblinka
Concerzowo, Lydia and Bertha
Crinis, Prof. de
Daluege, Kurt
Darré, Walter
Das Schwarze Korps
Death’s Head Unit (later Division)
Degrelle, Léon
Diels, Rudolph
Dietrich, Sepp
Doctors’ Trial (Nuremberg 1946-7)
Doenitz, Grand Admiral Karl
Dollfuss, Engelbert
Dornberger, Maj.-Gen. Walter
Dulles, Allen
Eberstein, Freiherr von
Eden, Sir Anthony
Eichmann, Adolf
Eicke, Theodor
Einsatzgruppen (see Action Groups)
Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D.
Epp, Ritter von
Ernst, Karl
Falkenhausen, Gen. von
Farben-Industrie
Fegelein, Hermann
Fellgiebel, Gen. Erich
‘Final Solution’, the, Chap. V passim
Fischer, Dr Fritz
Franco, Gen. Francisco
Frank, Hans
Frankfurt Trial 1964-5
Frederick the Great
Freisler, Roland
Frick, Wilhelm
Fritsch, Gen. Baron Werner von
Fromm, Gen. Friedrich
Gebhardt, Karl
Gestapo (principal refs.): origin; under Goring; taken over by Himmler; later power of; and the Fritsch case; under Heydrich
Giesler, Paul
Gisevius, Hans Bernd
Globocnik, Odilo
Glücks, Richard
Goebbels, Joseph
Goerdeler, Carl
Goring, Hermann
Greim, Ritter von
Groeber, Archbishop
Grothmann, SS Col. Werner
Guderian, Gen. Heinz
Günther, Christian
Gürtner, Franz
Hacha, Emile
Hajji Iman, Mufti
Halifax, Lord
Hallgarten, Wolfgang
Hanke, Karl
Hassell, Ulrich von
Hauser, Paul
Haushofer, Albrecht
Hedwig (also known as Häschen, Himmler’s mistress)
Heiden, Erhard
Heiliger, Max
Herff, SS. Gen. von
Heinrich, Prince of Bavaria
Heinrich I (Henry the Fowler)
Heinrici, Gen. Gotthard
Held, Heinrich
Helge (Himmler’s illegitimate son)
Helldorf, Count Wolf von
Henderson, Sir Nevile
Hess, Rudolf
Hewitt, Abram Stevens
Heydrich, Frau Lina
Heydrich, Reinhard, SS. Gen.: character; first meeting with Himmler (1931); early relationship with Himmler; appointed Chief of S.D.; work for SS.; builds up S.D. files; establishes S.D. in Berlin; appointed Himmler’s Deputy (1934); and Roehm purge; appointed SS. Lieut.-Gen.; and Kaltenbrunner; and concentration camps; relations with Canaris and Abwehr; and the Tuchachewski affair; and the Blomberg-Fritsch cases; and the Anschluss; and Eichmann; and persecution of Jews; visits Mussolini; gradual independence from Himmler; contempt for Himmler’s obsessions; Gisevius on; Schellenberg on; Kersten on; Himmler on; uses brothel Salon Kitty to obtain information; possibility of Jewish blood; flies with Luftwaffe; and first conception of genocide; suspicions of Kersten; prepares for Russian campaign; receives extermination order from Goring; relation to Eichmann; appointed SS. General and Acting Reich Protector in Czechoslovakia; relations with Bormann; voices Himmler’s views in speech to Czechs; at Wannsee conference on ‘final solution’; assassinated (May, 1942); compiles medical evidence on Himmler; encourages Horia Sima at the expense of Antonescu
Himmler, Anna (mother)
Himmler, Ernst (brother)
Himmler, Gebhard (father)
Himmler, Gebhard (brother)
Himmler, Gerhard (foster-son)
Himmler, Gudrun (daughter)
Himmler, Heinrich: character, Chap. vi passim; contribution to Nazi regime; childhood and schooling; youth in Munich; diary; character in early youth; attitude to first world war; officer-cadet (1917); studies agriculture in Munich; character as student — social life, attitude to girls and sex, selfcriticism, parsimony, precision, early anti-semitism; initial relationship with Roehm; takes part in Munich putsch (Nov. 1923); initial contact with Hitler; joins Nazi Party (August 1923); joins Völkische movement; on Strassers’ staff; early contact with Goebbels; Goebbels on Himmler (1926); joins SS. (1925); appointed Deputy Reich Propaganda Chief and Deputy Commander, SS.; marries (1928); buys smallholding Waltrudering; daughter Gudrun born (1929); appointed Reichsführer SS. (1929)
Initial plans for SS. — the élite corps; institutes SS. marriage code; made member of Reichstag (1930), development of racial obsessions and anti-semitism; claims peasant ancestry; employs Heydrich as principal assistant; relation with Goring after January 1933, appointed President of Police in Munich (1933); founds Dachau as ‘model’ concentration camp; relations with Hoess; concept of camp discipline; developing powers of; assumes control of German police and Gestapo (1934—5).
Residences (1934); relations with wife and family; and Roehm purge; and SS. in Austria; and murder of Dollfuss; purges ranks of SS. (1934); insistence on sport; and concept of Teutonic knights; founds Wewelsburg as SS. retreat; and Henry the Fowler; and Catholic Church; founds Ahnenerbe; responsibility for principle of concentration camps; relations with other Nazi leaders during midthirties; relation with High Command; and Blomberg and Fritsch cases; addresses High Command on function of SS. (1934)(1940); founds Lebensborn movement; has two children by mistress Hedwig; on SS.; on pan-Germanic culture; and the occult; and the Anschluss; appointment of Eichmann as specialist in Jewish affairs; persecution and extermination of the Jews: in Austria; first conception of genocide; on duties of Security Police; on necessity for genocide; extermination of Jews and Slavs in Russia; makes Auschwitz centre for extermination under Hoess; the ‘final solution’, chap. v passim; slave labour; instructions for executions; sale of emigration permits to rich Jews; and Warsaw Ghetto; and Theresienstadt Ghetto.
Conducts tour of Sachsenhausen; attitude to camps; sent by Hitler on diplomatic mission to Italy, and to Czechoslovakia; the attack on Poland — operation Himmler; relations with other Nazi leaders during war; their characterisation of Himmler; later relationship with Heydrich; increasing ill-health; subservience to Hitler; in Poland; appointed head of Reich Commissariat for Consolidation of German Nationhood; on policy in Poland; German racial re-settlement scheme; decrees forcible adoption of racially desirable children; and euthanasia of mentally unfit; promotes medical experiments in concentration camps; encourages controlled breeding by SS., later racial obsessions; parsimony and financial straits; and the campaign in the West (1940), wartime development of the Waffen-SS., of the Ahnenerbe; relations with Kersten; orders extermination of defective prisoners in the camps; orders collection of ‘sub-human’ skulls; extends powers during war; directed by Hitler to prepare for Russian campaign.
Oppressed by decision on genocide; reaction to Heydrich’s appointment to Prague; becomes increasingly subject to Schellenberg’s influence; on the Russian front; reaction to assassination of Heydrich; attempts to control industry; forms international SS.; plans for world domination by Germany; speech on destruction of Warsaw Ghetto; visits Auschwitz; briefs Skorzeny on rescue of Mussolini; applies Hitler’s leadership system to his own staff; sends reproofs to SS. officers; concern over Hitler’s health and sanity; first considers independent peace negotiations; fails to oppose Ribbentrop; later influence of Kersten on, chaps. vi and viii passim; extends military ambitions; admiration for Jenghis Khan; regains confidence of Hitler after misunderstanding; becomes Minister of Interior (August 1943); relations with Bormann; takes over V2 from Army; destroys Abwehr. Mature beliefs concerning medicine; on pan-Germanic culture; destruction of Bolshevism; alliance with other Nordic races to control world; on place and function of women; on homosexuality; on religion and the Churches; on the Jewish race; on violence; on genocide; on the leadership principle.