Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

Japan: the Anti-Comintern Pact 27; attack on Pearl Harbor (1941) 364, 442, 444, 445, 446, 448; attempts to broker a peace settlement between Germany and Russia 728–9, 730; and China 26–7; economic sanctions 443; H anticipates a victory over China 44; H places his hopes in 457; H seeks commitment to Japanese attack Singapore 363, 364; H’s approval of a German-Japanese alliance 448; H’s attitude towards 504–5; H’s view of Japan’s entry into the war 456, 516; imperial expansion 326; relations with the USA 442–3; and Russia 13; seeks an anti-Soviet alliance 193; Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact 364; Tojo replaces Konoye 443; Tripartite Pact (1940) 326

Japanese air force 443–4

Japanese General Staff 443

Japanese navy 443–4, 517

Jeckeln, Friedrich 486

Jeschonnek, Luftwaffe Chief of Staff Hans 543, 544, 545, 572

Jessen, Jens 664

‘Jewish Question’ 39, 41, 42, 136, 138, 144, 147, 235, 319, 323, 325, 350, 352, 462, 478, 570, 624, 625; and the decision to deport Jews to the east 479; first used by H in diplomatic discussions 583; Goebbels and 279, 472– 3, 474, 490; Goring on 131; H ‘pitiless’ (unerbittlich) concerning 494, 510; Hoppner’s memorandum 475–6; and the ‘Madagascar solution’ 321; in Poland 317, 324; police force and xliv; radicalization of thinking 318; SS involvement 86, 139

Jews: allegations against xliii, 150, 582; anti-Jewish ‘Blood Law’ 256; and the arts xlii; and Bolshevism 17, 19, 39, 42, 127, 153, 325, 339, 343, 350, 353, 354, 359, 382, 388–9, 399, 431, 461, 463, 465, 466, 620, 740, 749, 752, 781, 792; Central Office for Jewish Emigration 147–8; citizens’ behaviour in the pogrom 142–3; decision to deport Jews to the east 479–80; deportation from western Europe begins (July 1942) 493; deported to Vichy France 323– 4; draconian economic measures 143–4, 148; and Edward VIII 24; enforced takeover of Jewish firms 42–3; extermination camps 147, 484; ghettos 144, 244, 249, 319–20, 464, 479, 485, 520, 583, 588, 736, 837; H aims to destroy xli, 42, 130, 150, 152–3, 253, 323, 350, 459, 482–3, 588; H attacks lack of ability and creativity 489; H’s ‘prophecy’ of 30 January 459, 473–4, 478, 479; identification mark 144, 472, 473, 474–5; Jewry and Christianity 488; ‘Madagascar solution’ 134–5, 320, 324, 349, 350, 351, 383, 470, 521; massacres by the Einsatzgruppen 463–4, 467–9; massacres by Wehrmacht soldiers 246–7; Mischlinge 148; mounting discrimination against xxxix, xl; November pogrom (1938) 136–47, 148, 249; the Number One racial and social enemy 234; refugees 145–6; Reichkristallnacht (9–10 November 1938) 130–1, 135, 142, 144, 146, 147, 148, 150, 184, 472; ‘removal’ of xliii, xliv, xlv, 1, 41, 127, 134–5, 136, 151–2, 279, 317–19, 336, 349–54, 383, 462–3, 470–74, 476–82, 493; shooting of vom Rath 136, 137; ‘territorial solution’ 462–3, 472; treatment in Austria 84–6; Ukrainian 668; see also antisemitism; ‘Final Solution’; Hitler, Adolf: antisemitism and under individual countries

Jodl, General Alfred 51, 64, 69, 94, 96, 97, 100, 101, 159, 289, 291, 302, 307, 325, 335, 353, 354, 366–7, 396, 410, 411, 414, 417, 450, 513, 532, 533, 537, 580, 591, 593, 597, 616, 639, 642, 649, 718, 719, 732, 737, 740, 741, 771, 774, 779, 803, 805, 811, 814, 816, 820, 834–5, 837

Johannmeier, Major Willi 825

Johnson, Cornelius 7

Jud Su? (antisemitic film) 423

Junge, Traudl 801, 804, 821, 823, 824, 827, 828, 833

Juno Beach 640

Juterbog 104

Jutland 288

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Kaether, Colonel Ernest 808

Kalac 530

Kalisz 758

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst 628, 689, 698, 758, 770, 776, 798, 800, 837

Kaminski Brigade 725

Kannenberg, Arthur 31

Karinhall (Goring’s country house) 571

Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary), Congress of the Sudeten German Party (April 1938) 96, 108, 109

Karlshorst 836

Karnau, Hermann 830

Kassel 137

Kattowitz 318, 767

Katyn Forest, Poland 583

Kaufmann, Gauleiter Karl 598

Kaulbach, Wilhelm von: Entry of the Sun Goddess 32

Kaunas (Kowno), Lithuania 463

Kazakhstan 477

KDP see Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands

Keitel, Field-Marshall Wilhelm 52–3, 57, 70, 72, 75, 76, 78, 81, 94, 97, 99, 101, 159, 170, 214, 215, 219, 231, 245, 246, 269, 294, 298, 299, 312, 345, 350, 356, 357, 396, 405, 414, 465, 525, 532, 533, 566, 578, 618, 619, 642, 644, 650, 671, 672, 674, 676, 677, 678, 687, 688, 723, 733, 774, 779, 787, 788, 798, 799, 803, 805, 814, 816, 820, 825, 834–5, 836, 837; in the Committee of Three 568, 569, 570

Kempka, Erich 32, 660, 827, 829–30

Keppler, Wilhelm 45–6, 66, 72, 77, 78, 81

Kerch peninsula 455, 514, 515, 518

Kerrl, Hanns 11, 40, 256

Kesselring, Field-Marshal Albert 452, 533, 580, 581, 593, 597, 599, 617, 760, 788, 792, 834

Ketzin 809

Kharkhov 409, 410, 416, 515, 518, 524, 578, 581

Kiel 504

Kielce, Poland 769

Kie?el, SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Georg 690, 691

Kiev 400, 410, 413, 414–15, 434, 468; ‘Battle of Kiev’ 403, 417, 419; recaptured 603

Killy, Leo 568

Kirkpatrick, Ivone 116, 371, 377, 378

Kleist, Lieutenant Ewald Heinrich von 670

Kleist, General Ewald von 439, 441, 630, 670

Klemperer, Victor 8–9, 474, 766

Kiessheim Castle, near Salzburg 513, 514, 581, 582, 626, 633, 640, 670

Kluge, Field-Marshal Gunther von 450, 451, 452, 454, 455, 456, 531, 559, 579, 592, 596, 597, 600, 649, 661, 667, 670, 678, 696, 717, 719, 720–22

Knappertsbusch, Hans 512, 513, 632

Koblenz 760

Koch, Gauleiter Erich 261, 406, 715, 779, 837–8

Koch, Robert 470

Koeppen, Werner 433, 478

Kolberg 782, 788

Kolberg (film) 713, 782

Koller, General Karl 635, 739, 799, 801, 804, 807, 812

Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD) xxxvi, xxxvii, 211, 272

Konev, Marshal Ivan 756, 793, 802, 809

Koniggratz 433

Konigsberg, East Prussia 82, 210, 684, 738, 759, 762, 788, 791

Konigsbronn, Wurttemberg 271, 272

Konigswusterhausen 802