and ethnic cleansing in Poland, 18–19
and Final Solution, 65–66, 108, 110, 174–81, 219, 225
and forced laborers, 180, 522n78
and Himmler, 74, 175–76, 178
and Hitler, 104, 174–75, 178
and Madagascar Plan, 13, 24
and Reich Commissariat for the Strengthening of the German People (RKFDV), 93, 254, 256
and RSHA (Reich Security Main Office), 24, 65, 480, 485
and Security Service (SD), 13
at Wannsee Conference, 181
and Wehrmacht cooperation, 66–67, 70, 96
Himmler, Heinrich (Reichsführer-SS)
and Army Group Vistula, 446, 448–49
and colonial thinking, 62, 93, 477, 528n64
and deportation of Jews, 21, 65, 175, 176, 178, 219–20, 257, 362
and Final Solution, 66, 95, 101, 104, 106–7, 111, 175–80, 197, 218–19, 225, 257, 335–36, 361–62, 364, 485, 512n54
and forced labor, 260, 334–35, 364, 426
and Generalplan Ost, 62, 65, 93, 253–61, 477, 528n64
and Hitler, 19, 74, 104, 178–80, 197, 218, 361, 364, 397
and Madagascar Plan, 23–25
and partisan war, 104, 106, 108, 111, 180, 258–59, 332–34
population transfer programs, 19–25, 65, 92, 257–59 (see also Generalplan Ost)
Posen speech (October 1943), 335–36
and racial policy, 19, 21, 62, 65, 225, 254–61, 506n64
“Reflections on the Treatment of Peoples of Alien Races in the East,” (May 1940), 23–24, 254–55
and Reich Commissariat for the Strengthening of the German People (RKFDV), 93, 254, 256
and Speer, 333–36, 424
and SS economic empire, 65, 259–61, 334–35, 364, 426
and Volkssturm, 428–29
and Zamosc, 258–59
Hitler, Adolf
and Antonescu, 109, 435–36
armistice with France, 1–3
assassination attempt, 422, 428, 454
and Anti-Comintern Pact, 45
anti-communism of (see Bolshevism)
and Atlantic Charter, 109–10, 131
and Bagration (see Bagration)
and Balkans (see Balkans)
and Barbarossa (see Barbarossa)
and Blau (see Blau)
and Britain, 3, 6, 8–10, 12–14, 16, 32–33, 36–38, 40, 43, 63–64, 71, 75, 91, 156, 194, 217, 268, 296, 400, 402, 433, 475
and the British blockades: 1914–1918, xxiii, 6, 8, 12, 28, 35, 41, 60, 62, 69, 91, 473, 475, 478; 1939–1945, 60, 71, 83
and the Cherkassy pocket (see Cherkassy)
and Churchill, 32–34, 37–38, 46, 110, 131, 174, 328
and Citadel (see Citadel)
colonial thinking of, xxii, 6–8, 17–18, 33, 45–48, 62, 92–93, 105–6, 173, 241, 254–59, 476–81
and Caucasus operations (see Caucasus)
and the Crimea (see Crimea)
declares war on the U.S., 193–98
and defense of Berlin (see Berlin)
determination to invade the USSR (see Barbarossa)
directives (see Führer Directives; Operational Orders)
economic ideas, 6–8
and eugenics, 138
and euthanasia, 137–40, 177–78, 180, 483
and Final Solution (see Final Solution)
and Finland (see Finland)
and food supply (see Germany: food supply)
and forced labor (see forced labor)
and fortified places, 382, 393, 411, 418
and Four-Year Plan (see Four-Year Plan)
and France (see France)
and Franco, 46–48, 51
and German Navy (see German navy)
and Germany’s “India,” xxii, 91, 105, 175, 196
and Greece (see Greece)
and Halder, 18, 27, 52, 55–56, 67, 74, 84, 87, 112–13, 121, 126–28, 131–34, 142, 152–53, 189–90, 206, 263, 267, 270–71, 275, 280, 292
hopes for split in Allied coalition, 360, 424, 434, 441, 486
and Horthy, 362, 437
and Hungary (see Hungary)
and the hunger policy (see hunger policy)
ideology (worldview) (see Bolshevism; Lebensraum)
and invasion of Britain, 33–35, 38–39, 43
and Italy, 38, 45–49, 58, 234, 337, 341, 350–51, 354
and Japan, 34, 42–43, 45, 51, 71–72, 91, 179, 193–97, 217, 235
and Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 179, 193–97, 484
and Jews: anti-Semitism, xxi, 4–6, 13–17, 21–22, 105, 108, 155, 178–80, 181, 196–97, 217–18, 220, 231, 254, 257, 360, 362, 476–77, 479, 485, 488
belief in Jewish conspiracy, xxiii, 2, 5–7, 11–12, 15, 20–21, 26, 31–32, 35, 40, 42, 64–66, 74–75, 78, 94, 105, 107, 110, 136, 155, 179–80, 181, 194, 196–97, 217–18, 254, 300, 328, 360–63, 439–40, 449, 453, 455, 473–76, 480, 486–87, 512n56, 528n63
prophesies against, 15–17, 64, 73, 104, 109, 173, 179, 181, 218, 281, 296, 300, 360, 475
sanctions deportation of from Germany, 109–10, 150, 173–76
leadership style, 22, 25, 107, 329, 422
and Lebensraum (see Lebensraum)
and Leningrad operations (see Leningrad)
and Madagascar Plan (see Madagascar Plan)
and Mediterranean strategy (see Mediterranean strategy)
Mein Kampf, 4–5, 7, 15, 105, 179, 473, 478
as military commander, 422
and Moscow offensive (Typhoon) (see Typhoon)
and Mussolini, 36, 46–49, 72, 232
and Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 9, 19, 32, 36, 45
“Nero Order” (March 1945), 457–58
and Normandy invasion (see Normandy)
and North Africa (see North Africa)
obsession with November 1918, xxiv, 1–2, 4–5, 16, 28, 40–41, 60, 64, 68–69, 135–36, 179, 197, 223, 230, 325, 331, 336, 359–60, 363, 399, 403, 418, 439, 454–55, 471–72, 480, 486, 527n45
occupation policy (see Germany: occupation policy)
and partisan war (see German army)
peace offer to Britain, 25, 33–35, 37, 40, 45, 326, 363, 484
peace offer to Stalin, 131, 195, 300, 363, 550n51
and Petain, 47–48
physical deterioration of, 131, 217, 230–31
and Poland, 9–10, 18–26, 60, 65–66, 73, 139
political testament, 105, 486
and possible Anglo-American landings (see second front)
and Reichel incident, 263–64
and relations with his generals, 18, 27, 31, 39, 55–56, 59–60, 67, 74, 84, 87, 113, 121, 126–28, 131–34, 141, 152, 189, 206, 208–9, 263–67, 270–71, 280, 292, 312, 320–21, 323, 340, 350–51, 367–68, 376, 384, 388, 395–97, 399, 417, 422, 443, 445, 541n64
and Roosevelt, 15, 32, 40, 45, 107, 110, 174, 194, 196–97, 458, 474–75, 512n56
scorched earth policy (see German army)
Second Book, 4, 194, 474–75
and second front (see second front)
social Darwinism of, 4, 7–8, 12, 17, 19, 70, 91, 138, 455, 457, 475, 479, 486
and Spain (see Spain)
speeches, 6, 16, 32–34, 63–65, 155–56, 179, 181, 193, 196–97, 218, 296–98, 300, 307, 360, 439, 476, 521n75
and “stab-in-the-back” myth, 69, 474, 480
and Stalin, 32, 38, 66, 75, 78, 90–91, 110, 131, 155, 231, 300, 475–76, 484
and Stalingrad (see Stalingrad)
suicide, 467
and summer campaign, 1943 (see Citadel)