Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

Central Office for Jewish Emigration 147–8

Chamberlain, Neville 116, 164, 772; Birmingham speech 174, 177; blamed for the Allied fiasco in Norway 289; blames H solely for the war 224; evaluation of H 112; letter to H (22 August 1939) 211–12, 216; the Munich Agreement 122, 123; pledges support of Poland 155, 177–8, 213; proposals on the Czech issue 119; rejects the ‘peace offer’ (12 October 1939) 239, 265–6, 267; talks with H over Czechoslovakia 110–14, 117; view of H 61, 157

Channon, Sir Henry ‘Chips’ 7–8, 211

Charlemagne 703

Charleville 296

Charlottenburg 816

Chefbesprechungen (discussions of departmental heads) 313

Chelmno, Warthegau 485, 490, 520, 838

Cherbourg 641, 642, 643, 720, 722

Chiang Kai-shek 55

Chiemsee 571

‘child-euthanasia’ 257–60

China: and a German-Japanese rapprochement 26–7; H anticipates a Japanese victory 44

Choltitz, General Dietrich von 722

Chotin 463

Christian, Gerda 804, 827, 833

Christianity, Jewry and 488

Christie, Group Captain 46

Church Struggle xxxvi, xxxviii–ix, 28, 39–41, 46, 81, 184, 185, 235

Churches: attacks on xxxvii, xl, 130, 424, 428, 429; and eastern expansion 449; and euthanasia 255, 257, 259; and ‘euthaniasia action’ 426–7; lack of protest against treatment of Jews 146; a pet theme for Goebbels 509, 516; Rosenberg attacks 199

Churchill, Sir Winston 383, 412, 536, 612, 760, 772, 782, 788; and America’s entry into the war 442; and the British Empire 298; concerned to speak to the British public 420; destruction of French ships at Mers-el-Kebir 301; and Dunkirk 297; during ‘Barbarossa’ 416; evokes resilience and idealism in the British people 286; First Lord of the Admiralty 230; and the Hee affair 370–1, 373, 375, 378, 379; H’s arch-enemy 286; meeting with Roosevelt at Casablanca 577; and Norway 288, 289; and the Russian war-machine 433; ‘warmonger’ 304, 306; at Yalta 761,778

Chvalkovsky, Franzisek 127, 152, 170

Ciano, Count (the ‘Ducellino’) 25, 26, 98, 121, 196, 198, 203–4, 291, 292, 298, 301, 304, 322, 327, 328, 347, 364, 366, 383, 387, 444, 513, 541, 542, 546

Cincar-Markovic, Aleksandar Yugoslav Foreign Minister 362

clergy: harassing of xxxvi; influence of xxxviii; led by public opinion xxxviii–xxxix

Cologne 760, 782; bombing of 524, 704; political activism 704, 705

colonization 244

Columbia 134

Comintern 211

‘Commissar Order’ (6 June 1941) 357–9, 658

Committee of Three (Dreierausschu?; Keitel, Lammers and Bormann) 569–70, 571, 574, 575, 577

Communism: in Czechoslovakia 88; and Fascism 17; murder of Communists in Russia 463, 464; the Spanish Civil War 14, 15, 16; in Stalingrad 534; suppression of xxxvi, xxxvii, xl, xlii; see also Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands

Community Foundation for the Care of Asylums 260

Community Patients’ Transport Service 260, 429

concentration camps: and the Church xxxix, 428; ‘euthanasia-centres’ 430; resistance members in xxxvii; and the Russian people 470; see also individual camps

‘Confessing Church’ 41

conscription xxxvii–xxxviii

conservative elites xxxvii, xxxviii, xlii

Conti, Dr Leonardo 259, 260

Copenhagen 288

Corsica 328, 542, 600

Cossack (destroyer) 287

Cotentin peninsula 640, 641, 643

Cottbus 798, 802

Coulondre, Robert 215

coup d’etat 263, 268

Courland 757, 759

Courland army 798

‘Court of Honour’ 688

Coventry 310

Cracow 244, 318, 320, 482

Craig, William 370

Cremona 594

Crete 367

Crimea 400, 401, 402, 413, 414, 415, 434, 440, 451, 455, 600, 602, 603, 617, 618, 630, 631, 650, 723

Cripps, Sir Stafford 379

Croatia 470, 782

Croydon airport 110

Crystal Night (9–10 November 1938) 130–1, 135, 142, 144, 146, 147, 148, 150, 184, 472

Csaky, Istvan 166

Cuba 145

currency, foreign 10

Cvetkovic, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia 360, 362

Cyprus 383

Czech army 88, 96, 115

Czechoslovakia 43, 133, 163; armament plants 89; arsenal 165; and Austrian refugees 85; British reaction to the invasion 173–4; ‘Case Green’ 88, 101, 106, 109; central Europe’s last, betrayed, democracy 71; Communism in 88; Czechs’ alleged oppression of Sudeten Germans 91, 96–7, 107, 111, 114; deportation of Jews 488; Einsatzgruppen 241, 246; eliminating Czech resistance 487–8; ethnic minorities 88; founded (1918) 88; generals discuss a potential invasion 102–3; German army enters (1939) 171, 225; the German Protectorate 172; ? aims to destroy 87–8, 92, 93, 100, 116, 136, 158, 163–4; Hacha signs agreement 171; Hacha’s meeting with H 170–1; H’s ultimatum 116–17, 119; industrial base 88, 161, 164; industries 164–5; the Karlsbad demands 106, 108, 109; Keitel’s plan for military action 97, 101; mobilization (May 1938) 99, 111, 115, 190; mobilization plans against 51, 115, 120; name changed to Czecho-Slovakia 164; a potentially hostile neighbour xlv; proposed German expansion 49–50, 61; raw materials 89, 164; Slovakian demand for independence 168–9; strategic position 97, 165; Sudetenland 136, 157, 160, 161, 164, 172–3, 241, 251, 664; crisis (1938) 44, 46, 61, 86, 87, 91, 95, 105, 109, 110, 116, 118, 121, 123, 124, 132, 147, 158, 179, 190, 200, 205, 218, 262, 655; treaties with France and Soviet Union 95; weakened by the incorporation of Austria 84; the ‘Weekend Crisis’ 99–100

D

D-Day 641, 723

Dachau concentration camp 141, 274, 768

DAF see Deutsche Arbeitsfront

Dahlem 7