Hitlerland

as democracy, 69, 137, 176, 309

Great Depression in, 118, 161

immigration to, 69, 87, 137, 263–65

industrial production of, 274, 299

isolationism in, 49, 97–98, 207, 237, 251, 252–54, 294, 305, 309

Jewish community in, 78–79, 189–91, 210

military preparations of, 204–5, 246–51, 274, 280–81, 299

popular culture of, 20, 50–52, 56, 65–67

race relations in, 17, 41, 78, 91–92

Soviet relations with, 2, 3, 7, 210–11, 325

in World War I, 5, 11, 12, 31–32, 35, 41, 256–57

in World War II, 4, 217, 242, 256–57, 274, 275, 280–84, 293, 299, 305, 309, 312–13, 316, 327

Universal News Service, 132, 163

Unter den Linden, 6, 14, 16, 243, 281

van der Lubbe, Marinus, 105

Versailles, Treaty of, 10, 16, 21, 80, 96, 116, 121, 138–39, 147, 176, 199, 252, 287

Vienna, 106, 225–26

Villard, Oswald Garrison, 125

Vinogradov, Boris, 181–84, 217–19, 325

Volkischer Beobachter, 41, 143, 189

Vossische Zeitung, 65

Wagner, Richard, 30, 40

Wannsee Conference (1942), 7–8

War Department, U.S., 197–98

Washington Herald, 50

Washington Times, 20

Watson, Thomas, 231

Watt, Donald B., 144–45

Wedemeyer, Albert C., 246–51

Wehrmacht, 239, 246–51, 261, 267–69, 287

Weimar Republic, 1–92

anti-Semitism in, 59–62, 78–80, 91–92

collapse of, 3, 9–11, 91–92, 183, 323–24

constitution of, 9, 105

crime in, 58–59

culture of, 1–2, 10–11, 20, 46–53, 56, 65–67, 168

decadence of, 4–5, 10, 11, 19–20, 51–53, 58–59, 73

economy of, 4, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, 28–29, 39, 41–42, 47, 49–50, 54, 62–67, 68, 70, 71, 73–74, 77– 78, 91, 96, 99–100, 105, 121, 220

education in, 70, 72–73

French relations with, 16–18, 28, 49–50, 74, 80

in Great Depression, 63–67, 70, 77–78, 96, 220

inflation rate in, 4, 9, 10, 41–42, 49, 65, 91

Jewish community in, 61–62, 65, 66, 78–79, 91–92

as parliamentary democracy, 9–10, 26, 68–69, 70, 308

political situation in, 9–12, 19, 20, 23–29, 64, 73

press coverage of, 56–57, 59

reparations paid by, 16, 21, 28, 49–50, 63–64, 74

unemployment rate in, 64, 68, 77–78, 99–100

U.S. loans to, 50, 62–64, 105

U.S. relations with, 4–5, 7, 11–16, 23, 49–50, 62–64

Welles, Sumner, 237–38, 281–82, 283, 284

Wendell, Otty, 319

Westphalia, Treaty of (1648), 286–87

White, Henry, 231

Why Hitler Came into Power (Abel), 147–149

Wieck, Dorothea, 179

Wiegand, Karl Henry von, 18–22, 27, 46, 50–51, 57, 61, 67–70, 86–87, 91–92, 93, 163, 171, 208–9, 254– 55

Wilde, Oscar, 307

Wilder, Thornton, 130

Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, 18–19, 179

Willicombe, Joseph, 177

Willkie, Wendell, 305

Wilson, Hugh, 12–13, 15, 16, 17, 61, 206, 228, 234–38, 239, 240, 245–46, 281

Wilson, Kate, 12, 15

Wilson, Woodrow, 120

Winner, Percy, 75

Wolfe, Thomas, 6, 184–87, 188, 191–92, 193

Wolff, Nathaniel, 109

World War I:

German defeat in, 2, 9–10, 13, 18–19, 22, 139, 147, 287–88, 324

World War II compared with, 237–38, 251, 256, 266–67, 287

World War II:

air power in, 202, 204–5, 272–73, 274, 297, 298, 299, 300–301, 320

blitzkrieg warfare in, 248, 251, 267–69

civilian casualties in, 285–86, 301

Eastern Front of, 8, 299–302, 309–12

French defeat in, 257, 287–88, 289

military strategy in, 246–51

outbreak of, 261, 262–70

“phony war” in, 272

Western Front of, 287–88, 298

Wosseng, Wolfgang, 256

Yale University, 14, 32, 51

You Can’t Go Home Again (Wolfe), 188, 191–92

Young, Owen D., 63–64, 119

Young Plan, 63–64

Yugoslavia, 298–99

Zuckmayer, Carl, 10, 47

Author Bio

Andrew Nagorski, award-winning journalist, is vice president and director of public policy at the EastWest Institute, a New York–based international affairs think tank. During a long career at Newsweek, he served as the magazine’s bureau chief in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome,