Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

129; talks with Guderian 770; talks in Moscow (1939) 204, 205; in Warsaw 166; and Wiedemann’s mission 105

Richthofen, Colonel-General Wolfram Freiherr von 544

Riefenstahl, Leni 6

Riem racecourse 576

Riga 483, 485, 486

Ritter von Greim, Colonel-General Robert 738, 739, 812, 820, 821, 836

Rohland, Walter 440

Rohm, Captain Ernst xxxvii, 52, 53, 358, 814

Romania 174, 333, 617, 719, 734; collapse of 723, 724; an economic satellite of Germany 194; and the ‘Jewish Question’ 134; joins the Tripartite Pact 361; oil-fields 305, 328, 343, 347, 361, 388, 413, 414, 418, 549, 603, 635; protection of oil-fields 305, 328; Soviet designs on 332

Romanian army 384, 538, 543, 549, 554, 602, 625–6, 723

Rome 58; Allies take 638; German Embassy 600; Germany takes 600; Goring visits 68, 546; H in (1938) 98; Jewish community 604; planned occupation of 595, 598

Rominten, East Prussia 709

Rommel, Erwin 348, 514, 523, 524, 534, 538, 540, 546, 581, 586, 595, 599, 631, 638, 641, 642, 643, 649, 696, 717–18, 733

Roosevelt, Franklin D. 446, 536, 612, 782; armaments output claims 516–17; death 791; declares war on Japan 442; the Evian Conference 145; grant of fifty destroyers to Britain 310; H’s response to his telegram 189; meeting with Churchill at Casablanca 577; at Yalta 761, 778

Roques, General Karl von 467

Rosenberg, Alfred 39, 149, 184, 199, 205–6, 244, 265, 320, 374, 405–6, 433, 478, 479, 483, 491, 800, 837

Roslavl 451

Rostock 509–10

Rostov 345, 439, 441, 444, 529

Roter Frontkampferbund (Red Front Fighters’ League) 272

Rothschilds, Die (antisemitic film) 423

Rotterdam 295

Rover, Ganleiter Carl 515, 516

Royal Air Force (RAF): Battle of Britain 309; Bomber Command 597, 761; bombs the Berghof 809; and Dresden 761; and Dunkirk 296; first bombing raids on Berlin 309; German attacks on airfields of southern England 309; nightly raids intensified 535

Royal Navy: and the Anglo-German naval treaty (1935) xxxviii; destruction of French ships at Mers-el-Kebir 301; Germany’s challenge to supremacy of 178; and the ‘Madagascar solution’ 322; submarines in the Mediterranean 543; US grant of fifty destroyers 310

Royal Observer Corps 370

Ruhr 162, 186, 265, 277, 587, 719, 784, 791, 792

Runciman, Lord 108, 109

Rundstedt, Field-Marshal Gerd von 103, 268, 269, 270, 290, 296, 345, 393, 394, 408, 415, 441, 533, 617, 628, 639, 642, 649, 659, 688, 717, 733, 737, 760–61

Russia see Soviet Union

Russia-Centre 466

Russian Empire 355

Russian Revolution 205

Rust, Bernhard 800

Ruthenia (Carpatho-Ukraine) 157–8, 165, 166, 167

Ryti, State President Risto 525, 724

Rzhev area 531

S

SA (Sturmabteilung): and the armed forces xxxvii; dissatisfaction with the non-aggression pact 206; murder of leaders (1934) xxxix, 248, 358

SA-Reserve 139

Saar 81, 785; plebiscite (1935) 75, 76

Saar-Palatinate 315

Saarbrucken 297

Sachenhausen concentration camp 141, 274, 768

St Germain, Treaty of (1919) 65

St Lamberti Church, Munster 427

St Nazaire 660, 719

Salmuth, General Hans von 358

Salonika 361, 362, 366, 367, 595

Salzburg 70, 71, 202, 212, 643

Salzkammergut, near Salzburg 595

San Remo 16

San river 238

Sander, Lieutenant Ludolf Gerhard 673

Sanssouci 36

Saone river 722

Sardinia 586, 587, 592, 600

Sauckel, Fritz 563, 567–8, 707, 837

Saur, Karl Otto 633, 634, 823

Scandinavia 194, 286–9, 293, 332, 434

Schach, Gerhard 680

Schacht, Hjalmar 19, 89, 188, 225, 227, 320, 690; dispute with Darre 10; and Goring 11, 19; leaves the Economics Ministry 42, 46; opposes rearmament 9, 18; political impotence 146; replaced by Funk 58, 143; sacked as President of the Reichsbank 161; standing abroad 21–2

Schadle, Franz 833

Scharnhorst (battleship) 504

Scharnhorst, Gerhard von 644

Schaub, Julius 31–2, 140, 149, 235, 294, 643, 738, 797, 800, 805

Scheldt estuary 722–3

Schellenberg, SS-Brigadefuhrer Walter 689, 817, 819

Schenck, Dr Ernst Gunther 826

Schiller Theatre 150

Schirach, Baldur von 7, 315, 351, 482, 590, 755, 837

Schirach, Henriette von 590

Schlabrendorff, Fabian von 659, 661, 662

Schlegelberger, Franz 506, 508

Schleicher, Kurt von xxxvii, 814

Schleswig-Holstein (battleship) 222

Schlitt, Ewald 508–9, 510–11

Schlo? Belvedere, Vienna 360

Schlo? Hirschberg, near Weilheim 736

Schmidt, Ernest 299

Schmidt, Guido 68–9, 71

Schmidt, Otto 54, 55, 56

Schmidt, Dr Paul 110, 111, 114, 115, 116, 118, 120, 122, 170, 171, 213, 214, 219–20, 223, 322, 581, 627, 628, 683