secret weapons
Seelow Heights 302
Seldte, Franz (Labour Minister under Donitz) 360
Sey?-Inquart, Arthur (Reich Commissar in Netherlands) 358
Allied powers, his negotiations with 358–9, 363
Sicherheitsdienst (SD; Security Service) 18, 25, 31, 61, 73, 99, 117, 191, 261, 271, 316, 356, 359, 380
Silesia 214, 252
evacuation of 182–3, 189–90, 262
Gro?-Rosen concentration camp 232–3, 329
Silesian industrial area 167, 168, 172–3, 182, 187, 190, 195, 244, 252, 287
Simon, Gustav (Gauleiter of Koblenz-Trier) 65–6
Smend, Oberstleutnant Gunther 29
Smith, General Walter Bedell
Sobibor extermination camp 214
Solingen 297, 314–15
Soviet air force 169, 173, 179, 180, 301
Soviet army
Soviet Union 15, 18, 31
German fear/hatred of 70, 98–9, 120, 121–2, 222–3, 256, 271–2, 282, 306, 310, 349, 351, 362, 368, 373, 385
German invasion of (June 1941) (Barbarossa) 13, 46, 120, 359; Stalingrad, battle for (1942–3) 13, 23–4, 29, 46, 92, 94, 208
German prisoners of war in 94, 254, 368, 369, 371, 375; deaths among 375
German propaganda against 98, 187, 195, 223–4, 313, 356
Goebbels proposes separate peace with 95–6
Hitler on 130
as an occupying power 379
under Stalin 95–6, 154, 246, 371–2
Spaatz, General Carl, German surrender, signatory to 372
Spain
Speer, Albert 11, 25, 64, 90, 134–6, 138–42, 244, 346
as an architect 24
as Armaments Minister 11, 23, 24, 25–6, 35, 43–4, 53, 77, 78–83, 134, 140–42, 170, 287–8, 291, 396
Bormann and 77, 78, 83
character/personal appearance 24, 80, 82, 83, 134, 141, 164–5, 244, 289, 336
criticism of 77–8
on defence of the Reich 288–9
Donitz as Reich President and 352, 360, 378
on economic collapse 244, 258, 287–8, 289
exit strategy 286, 336
Gauleiter, relationship with 290–91
Goebbels and 24, 25, 43, 75, 76–9, 83, 146, 244, 287–8
Guderian and 398
Hanke and 321
Heinrici and 309
Himmler and 240–41
Hitler and 38, 42–4, 77–8, 160, 289, 291, 292, 399
Hitler, mentions possible assassination of to Heinrici (April 1945) 309
on labour supply 25–6, 37, 38, 76–9
Model and 290–91
post-war interrogation/statements 134, 289, 398
scorched earth policy, opposition to 390–91, 303, 309
his Status Report (January 1945) 244
Western Front, visits to 78, 80–81, 138–40, 287, 290–91
sporting activities 6
Sprenger, Jakob (Gauleiter of Hessen-Nassau) 261
SS (Schutszstaffel) (Protection Squad) 69, 84, 86–7, 180, 219, 263, 279, 296, 320, 322, 324, 341, 359, 370, 389, 391
as concentration camp guards 228, 229, 230, 332, 333–4
concentration camps, evacuation of
criticism of 212
Himmler as head of
as Hitler’s bodyguards 253, 284
morale 153, 210
power/influence 208
suicide among (April 1945–on) 356
transfers from, to Wehrmacht 308
Waffen-SS
in Warsaw 93
Wehrmacht and 23
young recruits to 313–14
SS Railway Construction Brigade 143
Stalin, Joseph 95–6, 104, 246
the west, his suspicion of 371–2
Stalingrad, battle for (1942–3) 13, 23–4, 29, 46, 92, 94, 208
state penitentiaries 391
execution of prisoners in 328
von Stauffenberg, Count Claus Schenk Graf 33–4, 35
Hitler, plot to assassinate (July 1944) 12, 13, 14, 29–35, 36, 43, 44, 46, 48–9, 53, 268, 387, 396; effect of 379, 385, 388–9, 394; public opinion on 31–3
steel production
Steiner, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Felix 339, 352
Stettin 250
Strasbourg 131
Strolin, Karl (mayor of Stuttgart) 325
Stuckart, Wilhelm (Secretary of State, Ministry of the Interior) 38, 102, 216, 359
Donitz as Reich President and 359, 378
Student, Colonel-General Kurt 253
Stumpff, Colonel-General Hans-Jurgen, German surrender, signatory to 372
Stuttgart 6, 117, 124, 299–300, 325
Strolin as mayor 325
Stutthof concentration camp 184, 234
evacuation of 234, 329
Sudetenland 252
suicide