Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

Gunsche, SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Otto 797, 827, 828, 830, 831, 833

Gurtner, Justice Minister Franz 55, 56, 59, 253–4, 256, 262, 506

Gustav V, King of Sweden 817

Gustloff, Wilhelm 136

Gypsies 234, 244, 318, 382

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Haase, Professor Werner 825, 826

Habsburg Empire: dismembering of 65; hostility towards Czechs 92; imperial crown lands 172

Hacha, Dr Emil 170

Hack, Dr Friedrich Wilhelm 26, 27

Hadamar asylum 261

Haeften, Lieutenant Werner von 671–2, 673, 676, 681, 682, 683, 689

Hafeld 197

Hagen, Lieutenant Hans 680

Hahn, Otto 731

Halder, General Franz 101, 123, 179, 207, 214, 215, 217, 220, 225, 236, 243, 262, 266, 267, 269, 270, 281, 296, 302, 303, 306, 308, 335, 344–5, 346, 356–7, 362, 365, 384, 391, 396, 399, 407–12, 414, 417, 418, 419, 433, 435, 438, 450, 451, 452, 456, 497, 514–15, 527, 528, 529, 531–2, 533–4, 690

Halifax, Lord 66, 67, 69, 73, 77, 99, 105, 109, 174, 213, 215–20, 306

Halle-Merseburg 765

Hamburg 597–8, 637, 800, 806

Hamilton, Duke of 370, 371, 373, 379

Hamm 791

Hanau 788

Hanke, Gauleiter Karl 759, 779, 823

Hanover 294, 791

Harlan, Veit 713

Harpe, Colonel-General Josef 758

Harris, Air Marshal Arthur 761

Harz mountains 402

Hase, Major-General Paul von 680

Hasselbach, Dr Hans-Karl von 235, 727

Hassell, Ulrich von 209, 226, 268, 551, 659, 664

Haus Wahnfried, Bayreuth 15, 198

Haushofer, Albrecht 378

Haushofer, Karl 378

Hawaii 444

Hefelmann, Hans 258, 259, 260

Heim, General Ferdinand 543

Heinemann, General Erich 643

Heinkel works, Rostock 509–10

Heinrici, Colonel-General Gotthard 759, 784, 793, 802

Heisenberg, Werner 731

Helldorf, Wolf Heinrich Graf von 52–3, 133, 135, 374, 691

Hendaye meeting (H-Franco) 328–30

Henderson, Sir Nevile 46, 73, 92, 99, 110, 116, 119, 120, 122, 206, 211–14, 216–21, 226, 228

Henlein, Konrad 46, 88, 96, 108, 109, 113, 218

Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria 245

Herber, Lieutenant-Colonel Franz 681 ‘Heroes’ Memorial Day’ 37, 505, 555, 565, 598, 631, 662, 783

Herrlingen 733

Hee, Rudolf 219, 245, 272, 298, 312, 315, 369, 381, 382–3, 786, 837; heads the central Party office 129; and the Spanish Civil War 15; mission to Scotland 369–80, 436; weak and ineffectual Party leadership 421

He?, Wolf Rudiger 369

Hessen 137

Heusinger, Colonel Adolf 396, 412, 672, 673

Hewel, Walter 170, 199, 212, 216, 226, 350, 594, 633, 797, 816

Heydrich, Reinhard 129, 134, 149, 252, 262, 318, 472, 476, 478; and the Anschlue 82, 84; appointed Deputy Reich Protector 488; approach to the ‘Jewish Question’ 139, 461–2; assassinated by Czech patriots 518–19, 526; concern with the ‘final solution’ 321–2, 471, 492–4; and the Einsatzgruppen 381, 382, 463; explains the ‘ethnic cleansing’ programme in Poland 243–4; ‘final evacuation’ of German Jews to the General Government 352; and the Fritsch file 54; grandiose resettlement scheme in Poland 279; heads the Central Office for Jewish Emigration 147; Jewish ‘emigration action’ 135; and Jews’ identification marks 473; and the ‘Madagascar solution’ 321, 324, 349; opens the Wannsee Conference 147–8, 492–3; and police state 278; and policy in Russia 468; and the ‘Polish’ assault at Gleiwitz 221; role with the Security Police 495; and ‘special tasks’ 353, 354; suggests a distinctive badge for Jews 144; and the Wannsee Conference 492–3

Hilger, Gustav 195

Himmler, Heinrich 104, 226, 227, 245, 262, 471, 478, 650, 753, 776, 798, 804, 806, 814; addresses Reichs- and Gauleiter (6 October 1943) 605; ambitions 57; and the Anschlue 76, 79, 82, 84; appointed Minister of the Interior 599, 709; approach to the ‘Jewish Question’ 139, 461–2, 469; authorized to deport Jews to the east 479; ‘Black Order’ 252; clashes with Forster 251; as Commander of the Reserve Army 716; commands Army Group Vistula 758–9, 779, 782, 787, 818; Commissar for Settlement 246, 279; conspirators want to eliminate with H 671; critical of Goebbels 148; delights in genocide of Jews 487; demands for ethnic Germans 319; driving out Jews 127; expelled from the Party 823; on extermination of Jews in the Ostland 486, 520; Forster on 316; and the Fritsch file 54, 55; General Plan for the East commissioned 462; on Germany’s ideological enemies 130; given command of the reserve army 677, 690; and the Hee affair 374; on Kiev 434; offer to surrender 816–19; policy in Russia 406, 468; ‘rejected by the Party’ 786; retreats to a convalescent clinic 782; role with the Security Police 495; secret overtures to the West 716–17; speaks to SS leaders (4 October 1943) 487, 559, 584, 604–5; statistics of Jews ‘executed’ 521; suggests deporting Jews to Africa 320–32; suicide 836; supports Ribbentrop in the Sudeten crisis 129; and Volkssturm 714, 716; and the Warsaw Uprising 725; ‘Some Thoughts on the Treatment of the Alien Population in the East’ 321

Hindenburg (airship) 6

Hindenburg, Field Marshal Paul von Beneckendorff und von xv, 814, 823

Hitler, Adolf: absolute power xxxvi; addresses the German people after the assassination attempt (1944) 684, 701; aims to destroy Czechoslovakia 87–8, 92, 93, 100, 116, 136, 158, 163–4; Anschlu? a watershed for H 83, 92, 94; appointed Chancellor (1933) xv, 23, 162; approach to Poland changes markedly 166–7; assassination attempt (1939) 263–4, 271–5, 278; assassination plans and attempt (1944) 86, 224, 358, 359, 651–84, 687–705, 706, 753; and the atomic bomb 731–2; authorizes deportation of Jews to the east 479, 481, 488, 494; awareness of the slaughter of Jews 520–23; Baldwin on 4; ‘Basic Order’ (January 1940) 290–91, 522; becomes a remote figure 501, 564, 565–6, 570, 571, 614; and the Blomberg scandal 52, 53–4; Brenner Pass talks 291–2; and the ‘Church struggle’ 39–41; cremation of his body 829–31; criticized for the first time (over Stalingrad) 551–2; crusade against Bolshevism 335, 384, 406, 505; daily routine 32–3, 105–6, 198–9, 396, 777; ‘Decree for the Implementation of the Four-Year Plan’ 23; ‘Destructive Measures on Reich Territory’ decree 785–6; disaffection with 95, 556–7; dismay at Britain’s ultimatum 223, 230; disposes of his possessions 821; draconian economic measures against Jews 143–4; effect of ‘Crystal Night’ on 150; the essence of his political ‘career’ 783; the euthanasia authorization 253; experiences in the First World War 403; favours a Polish rump state 238; fiftieth birthday (20 April 1939) 183–4, 187, 228, 806; fifty-fifth birthday 632; fifty-sixth birthday 794, 797, 799, 800; final meeting with his Gauleiter 779– 80; final proclamation to the soldiers of the eastern front (15 April 1945) 749, 792–3; foreign policy compared to that of Goring 67–8; the French armistice 298–9; the Fritsch affair 54–6; Fuhrer cult 94, 183, 184, 185, 198; Haider involved in a conspiracy 123, 179; health 36, 92, 411–12, 456, 473, 513, 541, 553, 556, 565, 577, 587, 611–12, 623,