176–78, 179, 196, 208–15, 295, 313, 323–24, 326
Hanfstaengl, Helen (Helene) Niemeyer, 36–39, 43–46, 81–82, 212, 323–24, 326
Hanfstaengl, Katharine Sedgwick, 30
Hans (labor organizer), 77–78
Harnack, Arvid, 182, 218, 296–97
Harnack, Mildred, 182–83, 218, 296–98
Harsch, Joseph, 270–72, 275, 280–81, 289–90, 298, 303–4, 309
Harvard University, 29, 30–31, 33, 40–41, 86, 208, 210, 211, 222, 326
Haushofer, Karl von, 93
Hawley, Hudson, 135
Hearst, William Randolph, 18, 19, 21, 56–58, 163, 171, 175–77, 193, 208, 209, 254
Heath, Donald, 296, 300–301
Hecht, Ben, 11, 32, 52, 59–60
Hegger, Grace, 55–56
Heidelberg, 79–80, 143–44, 221, 224
Heidelberg University, 62
Heine, William, 30
Heines, Edmund, 157–58
Helms, Richard, 175, 194, 325–26
Hemingway, Ernest, 55, 107, 161
Henderson, Nevile, 261, 265
Heppler, Fritz, 303
Hess, Rudolf, 80, 242, 249
Himmler, Heinrich, 170, 242, 315
Hindenburg, Paul von, 54–55, 75–76, 85, 93, 94–95, 97, 102, 104, 140, 157, 162, 164, 233
Hitler, Adolf, 43–44, 88, 169–70, 236
anti-Semitism of, 22, 24, 28, 33, 35, 37, 41, 60–61, 69, 85, 87, 96–101, 111–112, 149–50, 151, 225, 229, 250, 254, 310
Armstrong’s interview with, 114–18
arrest and imprisonment of, 34, 45–46, 53–55, 68, 81, 84, 97, 148, 323–24
assassination plots against, 170, 174, 238–40, 249, 323
background of, 21–22, 24, 36, 54, 82–83, 85, 87, 88, 174–75, 236
Beer Hall Putsch led by, 41–46, 53, 55, 68, 96, 104, 148, 157, 158, 173, 212, 242–43, 323–24
Berchtesgaden retreat of, 86–88
Berlin visited by, 3, 11, 84–85, 101, 104–105, 176–78
birthday of, 113, 115, 256
bodyguards of, 170, 174, 177, 192
as chancellor, 89–90, 94–106, 115–18, 146, 162–63
death of, 288, 323–24
as dictator, 3, 5, 6, 11, 22, 26, 71, 75–76, 84, 87–88, 90, 104–5, 114, 119–20, 138–39, 144–55, 162–63, 172–77, 205–6, 208, 220–22, 228–30, 232, 253–55, 265–66, 288, 308, 323–24
Dodd’s meetings with, 138–41, 215
economic programs of, 60, 68, 104–5, 115, 137, 146, 165–66
Hanfstaengl’s support for, 33, 34–39, 43–46, 81–83, 84, 86, 101–2, 115, 117, 176–78, 208–15, 313, 323– 24, 326
Hearst’s meeting with, 175–77
Hoover’s meeting with, 228–30
Huss’s interviews with, 169–71, 309–10
ideology of, 21, 35–36, 37, 41, 53–54, 60, 95, 97, 100–101, 111–12
Iron Cross awarded to, 42, 236
at Kaiserhof Hotel, 84–85, 101, 177–78
Kaltenborn’s interview with, 86–88
Kindlkeller speech of, 33, 34–36
as “Little Man,” 85, 97, 100, 167–68
McDonald’s meeting with, 111–12
messianic adulation of, 149, 153, 164–65, 167–68, 173–74, 192, 197, 204, 288
militarism of, 119–20, 125, 140, 152–54, 252–55, 327
military offensives of, 251–55, 261, 265–66, 267, 279–82, 284–88, 289, 298–300, 309–12
military service of, 21–22
monologues of, 80–81, 85, 87–88, 96, 115–18, 138–39, 228–29, 230
in Munich, 3, 20–29, 33–39, 40, 41–46, 67–70, 92, 140–41
as Nazi leader, 3–4, 20–29, 32–33, 41–46, 53–55, 73, 74–77, 80–81, 87–95, 100, 119–20, 127, 141, 142, 149, 162, 169, 172–75, 208, 242–43, 265–66, 275, 288, 305, 323–24
at Nuremberg rallies, 172–75, 176
Obersalzberg chalet of, 169–71
as orator, 22, 24, 33, 34–36, 37, 40, 53–54, 76, 95, 119–20, 253, 265–66, 289–90, 312–13, 316
Papen’s relationship with, 89, 94–95, 104–5
parliamentary democracy opposed by, 68–69, 87–88, 96–97, 146–47, 222, 226, 229, 253–54
peace proposals of, 116, 119–20, 124, 140, 146, 151–52, 154, 226, 273, 282, 289–90
personality of, 3–4, 21–22, 23, 24, 26, 33–39, 40, 42, 75, 80, 81–82, 83, 85, 87–88, 100–101, 108–9, 112, 116, 169–71, 174–75, 177–79, 208, 228–29, 230, 233–34, 236, 254, 282, 288, 309–10
photographs of, 138, 236, 282, 294, 315
physical appearance of, 21, 34, 40, 85, 112, 115–16, 138, 173–74, 178–79, 236, 265, 282
political comeback of, 64, 67–88, 96–97, 100–101
political repression by, 89–95, 105–10, 119–20, 122–29, 139, 141–60, 165–67
as politician, 3–4, 20–29, 70–71, 73, 75–77, 79, 238–40, 254–55, 288
popular support for, 75, 97, 99–101, 238, 269–70, 275, 280–81, 282, 288, 289–90, 308–9
press coverage of, 20–22, 24–25, 33, 36, 39–40, 41, 42, 46, 60, 67–70, 71, 74–75, 82–86, 95–98, 101, 114–18, 139, 254
rearmament program of, 74, 75, 116, 119–20, 140, 146, 152, 196–207, 221–22
as revolutionary extremist, 41–46, 53–54, 71, 81, 82, 84, 87–88, 94–95, 97, 112, 157, 162–63, 166–67, 170–71, 206
Rhineland occupation ordered by, 251–52
rise to power of, 3–4, 20–29, 33–39, 46, 71, 73, 74–75, 84, 89–112, 144–49, 157, 233, 323–24, 327
rivals eliminated by, 76–77, 155–63
Sackett’s meeting with, 80–81
sexuality of, 44, 75, 81–82, 177–78
Smith’s meetings with, 7, 22–26, 27, 32–33, 35, 196, 197–98, 281
suicide attempt of, 45, 46, 212, 323–24
tantrums and tirades of, 228–29, 230
territorial ambitions of, 80, 171, 237, 238–40, 279–80
Thompson’s interview with, 83–86, 164
underestimation of, 83–88, 89, 90, 96–97
U.S. as viewed by, 2, 8, 56, 60, 210–11
Versailles Treaty denounced by, 80, 96, 116, 138–39, 252, 287
Welles’s meeting with, 281–82
Wiegand’s meetings with, 20–22, 67–70, 71, 254
at Wolf’s Lair, 309–10
