Meets Goring and Ribbentrop on Allied landing in Normandy; actions after attempt on Hitler’s life (July 1944); appointed Commander-in-Chief, Reserve Army; negotiates sale of Jewish liberties; deportations and evacuations from camps; as Army Commander; uses Free Russian forces in the East; helps found German Home Guard; fear of Hitler; negotiates with Bernadotte on release of prisoners from camps and on peace terms; discusses peace negotiations with Goebbels; final meeting with Hitler; meets Masur to discuss liberation of Jews; seeks meeting with Allied Commanders; considers founding new Party without Hitler; hopes Allies will join with Germany to crush Bolshevism; dismissal by Hitler; final relations with Doenitz; arrest and interrogation by British; suicide.
Described by Bernadotte; by Bormann; by Dornberger; by Goebbels; by Guderian; by Hitler; by Kersten, chap. vi passim; by Doris Mehner (secretary); by Schellenberg; by Westphal.
Himmler, Marga (wife)
Hindenburg, Field-Marshal Paul von
Hitler Adolf, character; leads Munich putsch (November 1923); in Landsberg castle; concept of the SS.; attitude to Himmler and other prominent Nazis up to 1933, et seq.; attitude to S.A.; intrigue prior to coming to power; action on coming to power; declares amnesty for political prisoners (1933); desires to centralize control; gives Himmler control of police and Gestapo; and Roehm purge; decrees independence of SS. from SA; becomes Supreme Head of State on death of Hindenburg; and murder of Dollfuss; compares Himmler to Loyola; permits limited military training for SS; relations with High Command during and after the Blomberg and Fritsch cases; in Austria after Anschluss; employs Himmler as diplomat; and Czechoslovakia; attitude to his leaders at the beginning of war; appoints Heydrich Chief of Reich Security Office; Reichstag speech on Poland; orders extermination of mentally unfit; campaign in the West (1940); restricts Waffen SS; prepares Russian campaign; reaction to assassination of Heydrich; and leadership principle; Himmler’s medical report on; leaders’ concern over his health; isolation at various headquarters; regains confidence in Himmler after misunderstanding; at time of Allied landings in Normandy; attempt on his life (July 1944); agrees to demotion of Himmler as Army Commander in East; last meeting with Himmler; decides to stay in Berlin; dismisses Goring; dismisses Himmler; suicide
Hoepner, Gen. Erich
Hoess, Rudolf
Hoffmann, Heinrich
Hossbach, Col. Friedrich
Höttl, SS. Col. Wilhelm
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Prince of
Hunsche, Eichmann’s associate
Immfeld, Mme.
International Military Tribunal (the Nuremberg Trial (1945—6))
International Tracing Centre (Arolsen)
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jodl, Alfred
John, Otto
Kaduk, Oswald
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, SS. Gen.
Kaminski
Kammler, Heinz
Kaufmann, Karl
Keitel, Field-Marshal Wilhelm
Keppler, Wilhelm
Kersten, Felix, chaps. vi and vii passim
Kersten, Frau Irmgard
Kiep, Otto
Kiermaier, Josef
Kogon, Eugen
Korherr, Dr
Kramer, Josef
Kripo (the Criminal Police)
Krosigk, Count Schwerin von
Krueger, Friedrich
Krumey, Eichmann’s associate
Lammers, Dr Hans
Langbehn, Carl
Lebensborn movement
Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler
Ley, Dr Robert
Lidice, martyrdom of
Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince
Loritz family (Munich)
Lüdecke, Kurt
Ludendorff, Gen. Erich, F. W.
Ludwig II, Prince of Bavaria
Luther, Martin
Macher, Major
Mähner, Doris
Masur, Norbert
Mecklenburg, Prince von
Meisinger, Josef
Mengele, Dr
Moltke, Helmuth Count von
Montgomery, Field-Marshal Lord
Morell, Dr Theodor
Mueller, Heinrich
Müller, Dr Josef
Munich putsch (November 1923)
Munich Pact (1938)
Murphy, Col. L. M.
Musi, Jean-Marie
Mussolini, Benito
Nanette-Dorothea (Himmler’s illegitimate daughter)
Nazi regime, nature of
Nebe, Artur
Neurath, Baron Constantin von
Nuremberg Trial (see International Military Tribunal)
Ofner, Dr Abram
Ohlendorf, Otto
Olbricht, Col. Gen. Friedrich
Papen, Franz von
Payne-Best, Capt. S.
Pohl, Oswald
Popitz, Johannes
Pringsheim, Fritz
Pruetzmann, SS. Gen.
Quisling, Vidkun
Race and Resettlement Office
Raeder, Adm. Erich
Rankine, Paul Scott
Rascher, Dr Sigmund
Rauter, Hans
Reichstag fire
Reitlinger, Gerald
Reitsch, Hanna
Remer, Otto Ernst
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Riss, Dr
Roehm, Ernst
Rommel, Gen. Erwin
Rosenberg, Alfred
Rote Kapelle
Rothschild, Baron Louis de
Rundstedt, Field-Marshal Gerd von
SA (Sturmabteilungen: Assault Sections)
Salon Kitty
Saradeth, Col.
Sarre, Puppi
Schacht, Dr Hjalmar
Schellenberg, Walter , chap. viii passim
Schleicher, Gen. Kurt von
Scholl, Hans and Sophie
Schroeder, Kurt von
Schulenburg, Gen. Graf von
Schuschnigg, Kurt von
SD (Sicherheitsdienst: Security Service): founded under Heydrich; Heydrich builds up intelligence files; Section relations with the Abwehr; and the Tukhacchewski affair; Himmler on SD; SD spy-ring abroad; and Operation Himmler; departments under Heydrich; becomes an official state organisation; wartime duties; wartime relations with High Command; under Schellenberg; telephone-tapping; later wartime development
Selvester, Capt. Tom
Semmler, Rudolf
Seyss-Inquart, Dr Arthur
Schirach, Baldur von
Sievers, Wolfram
Sima, Horia
Simon, Sir John
Six, SS Col. Prof. Dr Franz
Skorzeny, Otto
Skubl, Michael
Solf, Dr and Frau Wilhelm
Speer, Albert
SS (Schutzstaffeln: Protection Squads): initial formation; Himmler appointed Reichsführer SS; SS under Himmler (1929-32)et seq.: concept of elite corps; SS marriage code (1932); SS Junkerschule (Bad-Toelz); growth of the SS; relation to the SA; rival factions within SS; recruitment of aristocrats and prelates; Himmler reduces numbers (1934).
Sense of respectability in SS; independence from SA; relationship with the Army; SS as a racial elite: developments after 1934, as latter-day Teutonic Knights; loyalty oath to Hitler; health and sport in; Jesuitical basis to organization; work with the concentration camps; para-military nature of; origin of the Waffen-SS; Himmler on; and the Lebensborn movement; and the Jews; and the Action Groups in Poland; and euthanasia of the mentally-unfit; and the medical experiments; international recruitment to; and European Jewry; later developments in the Waffen SS; Himmler’s ‘philosophy’ of future role of SS in Germanic society, chap. vi passim; opposition to homosexuality in SS by Himmler