Prussia: bulwark of the Reich’s power xviii; Finance Ministry 574–5; and Frederick the Great 277; history 581; Ministerial Council 22
putsch attempt (Munich, 1923) 31, 60, 258; annual celebration of 37, 46, 51, 137, 139, 272, 273, 420, 436, 489, 539–40, 606, 614, 739–40, 840
Puttkamer, Captain Karl-Jesko Otto von 32, 235, 294, 738, 800, 816
Quisling, Vidkun 287, 289, 581
racecourses 575–7
racial determinism 19
racial struggle xli
Rademacher, Franz 321, 322
radicalism xliv, 73, 147, 148
radicalization xlvi, 43, 44, 64, 146, 234, 311, 314, 316, 317, 318, 324, 336, 421, 495, 508, 548, 562, 707, 708
radio
Radio Stockholm 816
Raeder, Admiral 43, 46, 47, 50, 94, 100, 176, 267, 286, 287, 289, 298, 301–2, 304, 307, 322, 326, 327, 341, 585, 837
Raj, the 401
Rangsdorf aerodrome 676
Rastenburg, East Prussia 334, 395, 502, 527, 602, 662, 671, 675
Rath, Ernst vom 136, 137, 138, 145
Rattenhuber, SS-Standartenfuhrer Johann 623
Raubal, Geli (H’s niece) 36, 197
Ravensbruck concentration camp 519
raw materials: in Austria 67, 68; the crisis xxxviii, xlv, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 45, 47, 49, 68, 161, 191, 193, 294; in Czechoslovakia 89, 164; in the Ukraine 414
Rechlin, Mecklenburg 197, 806, 820
Red Army 237, 305, 308, 335, 380, 383, 384, 394, 398, 399, 409, 412, 415, 422, 423, 431, 433, 435, 437, 466, 513, 525, 528–9; advances into Lithuania 714; advances towards the Carpathians 626; Army Group South Ukraine attacked 723; attack on Berlin 793, 794, 799, 800, 801, 808–9, 812, 813, 827; begins new big offensive in the east (‘Bagratian’) 646; bombardment before ‘Citadel’ 592; bridgeheads on the Dnieper 602, 616; build-up of forces (October 1942) 537, 538; in Bulgaria 723; fatalities 578; first major counter-offensive by 487; forced on the defensive in East Prussia 738; and German military tactics 687; the heavy panzers 447; High Command 83z; major advances 616–17; presses towards the borders of the Reich 658, 696, 698, 707; reports of starvation and cannibalism 509; spring offensive ends (1943) 630; ‘Stalingrad Front’ 543, 554; the tanks 448; unprepared for the German spring offensive 515; vengeance of 763; and Volkssturm 715; and Warsaw Uprising 724, 725; winter offensive (January 1945) 747, 756–60, 766, 767, 777, 779, 782, 787, 788, 791, 792
Redesdale, Lord 13
Regensburg: Gau Party Rally of the Bayerische Ostmark (1937) 37
Reggio di Calabria 599, 600
Reich Association of Asylums 260
Reich Chancellery, Berlin 32, 33, 34, 46, 47, 53, 55, 75–8, 107, 115, 116, 117, 120, 178, 183, 184, 187, 189, 190, 213, 215, 216, 218, 219, 220, 227, 245, 258, 260, 269, 273, 275, 288, 289, 355, 384, 385, 386, 426, 429, 431, 490, 509, 512, 515, 518, 568, 709, 769, 775, 776, 779, 783, 788, 794, 797, 798, 799, 800, 801, 809, 811, 812, 815, 816, 820, 825, 826, 827, 829, 830, 831
Reich Citizenship law 132
Reich Committee for the Scientific Registration of Serious Hereditary and Congenital Suffering
Reich Cultural Chamber 712
Reich Defence Commissars 575, 706, 707, 710, 786
Reich Defence Council (Reichsverteidigungsrat) 161, 311–12
Reich Food Estate 37
Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories 406, 486
Reich Security Head Office 382, 471, 486, 604, 667, 817
Reichenau, Field-Marshal Walter von 57, 58, 70, 75, 103, 268, 441, 455, 465
Reichsbank 161
Reichsgau Posen (Reichsgau Wartheland) 239, 245, 250, 261;
Reichsgau Wartheland
Reichstag: divided xlii; Fire 60; H declares war on the USA (11 December 1941) 444–6; H dissolves (1938) 82; H’s prophecy on 30
January 1939 459, 473–4, 478; H’s three-hour speech (1937) 38; last ever session 510–12; recall discussed (1942) 507; Resolution
Reichswerke Hermann Goring 161
Reichwein, Adolf 666
Reinhardt, Fritz 442
Reinhardt, Colonel-General Hans 758
Reisser, Obersturmfuhrer Hans 830–31
Reitsch, Captain Hanna 621, 812, 820, 821
Remagen 760, 782
Remer, Major Otto Ernst 679–80, 689–90
Rendulic, Colonel-General Lothar 758
Reschny, SA-Obergruppenfuhrer Hermann 75
Reserve Army 450, 689, 690, 706
Reuters 816, 817
Reval 483
Rheims 835, 836
Rhine river 106, 112, 113, 114, 696, 760, 779, 782
Rhineland, remilitarization xv, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxviii, xxxix, xlvi, 3, 4, 23, 38, 63, 64, 74, 83, 87, 91, 208
Rhineland-Westphalia 173
Ribbentrop, Joachim von 70, 199, 215, 218, 227, 298, 320, 446, 478, 513, 595, 601, 628, 723, 753, 776, 779, 798, 800; Ambassador in London 7, 23–4, 75, 76, 90; anti-British 44, 90, 159, 160, 325; arch-rival of Goring 123; assurances to Oshima 443–4; attempts to obtain peace (1945) 770–71; the Berlin Olympic Games 7; blamed for the war 226; contempt and loathing for 774; and Czechoslovakia 99–100, 114, 120, 121; and Danzig 158; devotion to H 90, 640; European-Asiatic Bloc proposal 331–2; and a German-Japanese rapprochement 26–7; the German-Russian non-aggression pact 205; and a German-Soviet agreement 194–6; hanged at Nuremberg 837; and the Hee affair 372, 375; the Hitler/Chamberlain talks 110, 111; and H’s ‘peace plan’ 3; ideas of a future European federation 584; influence on H 90–1; and the ‘Madagascar solution’ 321; meeting with Ciano at Fuschl 203–4; meeting with Henderson 219–20; and Memel 176; and Molotov 333–4; Mussolini on 98; the mutual assistance pact with Italy 98; the ‘Pact of Steel’ 193; pleads with H to negotiate with Stalin 539; presents H’s ultimatum to Schmidt 71; replaces Goring as H’s right-hand man 123; replaces Neurath at the Foreign Office 58, 60, 90; and the Soviet-German non- aggression pact 210–11; the Spanish Civil War 16; supports war to destroy Czechoslovakia 90, 104, 119, 120, 122,
