Heinrich Himmler : A Life (197 page)

suggests Himmler’s appointment as C-in-C of army 716

total war 684, 700

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 29

Goltz, Rüdiger von der 53

Göring, Hermann
186
, 730

final solution, Heydrich’s draft plan (1941) 511–12

Gestapo, creation of 148

Jewish policy 216–17, 411

power struggle with Frick 166, 167, 176

Prussian Minister of the Interior:

appointment 148

auxiliary police 163, 164

political police 162, 163

regulations on protective custody 167

seeks ways to control Himmler 185–7

Gottberg, Curt von 347–8

alcohol abuse 323, 346–7

background of 346

combating partisans 628

Czech Land Office 420, 421

dependence upon Himmler 348

Grauert, Ludwig 166

Grawitz, Robert 330, 538

Greece:

deportation of Jews 663–4, 692

Himmler visits 519

invasion of 518

Jews in 619

reprisals for acts of resistance 544–5

Greifelt, Ulrich 229, 331, 442, 460, 542, 585, 588, 665

Greiser, Arthur 442, 443, 454, 542, 546, 595, 666

Gritschneder, Otto 12

Grohé, Josef 216

Gross, Theodor 421, 580

Gross-Rosen concentration camp 480–1, 711

Grothmann, Werner 1, 2, 257, 735, 736

Grynspan, Herschel 408

Guderian, Heinz 713

Guidi, Buffarini 460

Gündel, Günther 752n44

Günther, Agnes 44, 73

Günther, Christian 729

Günther, Hans 80

Gürtner, Franz 192, 193, 244, 473

Gutenberger, Karl 330

gypsies, persecution of 229–30, 668–72

Habicht, Theodor 177

Hácha, Emil 654

Haeckel, Ernst 78

Hagen, Herbert 217

Hager, Edi 19

Hager, Luisa 19, 31, 35

Halder, Franz 697

Hallgarten, Wolfgang 18, 59–60, 63

Halt, Karl Ritter von 259

Hamburg, Himmler takes control of political police 157–8

Handel-Mazzetti, Enrica von 44

Hanke, Karl 730

Hanstaengel, Putzi 138

Harmjanz, Heinrich 278

Harster, Wilhelm 495, 544

Hartl, Albert 221

Hausser, Paul 247, 342, 601, 610

health of SS members:

Himmler’s nutritional advice 334–5

psychological and psychosomatic problems 329–33

Heiden, Erhart 110, 113

Heidenstam, Verner von 44

Heider, Otto 357

Heinemann, Lt-Gen Bruno 89–90

Heinemann, Isabel 442, 595

Heinen, Johann 473

Heinrich von Bayern, Prince 13, 15, 22

Heisenberg, Werner 279

Heissmeyer, August 129–30, 295, 480, 499

Held, Heinrich 148

Henlein, Konrad 388, 391

Hennicke, Paul 325

Henze, Max 164

Herbert, Ulrich 40, 174

Hess, Rudolf 90,
453
, 483

anti-Jewish actions 216

Christian persecution 221

ethnic policy 388–9

flight to Scotland 519

SD (Security Service) 165

Sudeten German Control Centre 387

Heuss, Theodor 116

Heyde, Werner 153

Heydrich, Reinhard
207
, 295,
453
, 538

agreement with Canaris 189–90

appointed head of SD 125

assassination of 568–9

repercussions of 569–71

reprisals 568, 569

bans investigation of party affairs by SD 189

‘Basic Principles for Maintaining Internal Security During the War’ 474

becomes head of Gestapa 168

Belgium, influence in 496

Christian church, persecution of 221

concentration camps, categorization of 482

criminal police, asocial operation (‘Work-shy Reich’) 228

deportation of Jews to General Government 445

on enemies of Nazism 196–7

final solution:

draft plan for (1941) 511–12

expansion throughout Europe 563–4

France:

deportation of Jews 563

establishes influence in 497

Freemasons 214

funeral ceremony
268
, 292, 569–70

Jewish persecution 216–17

Jewish policy, programme for expulsion 410–11

Kristallnacht 410

Norway, deployments in 491–2

‘Phases in Our Struggle’ (1935) 196–7

Poland:

deportation of Jews 439–40

frontier violations 425

liquidation of leading Poles 428, 429

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia:

appointed Deputy Reich Protector 536

deportation of Jews 546

imposes state of emergency 544

Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), establishment of 469, 470

reorganizes SD 164–5

on role of police 207–8

Slovakia, deportation of Jews 563

Soviet Union:

instructions on those to be executed 523

mass murder of Jews 526, 567–8

preparations for invasion 517, 518, 522

subhumanity 207–8

takes over Dept VI of Munich police 149

Wannsee conference 555–6

Hildebrandt, Friedrich 159

Hildebrandt, Richard 130–1, 330, 438, 479–80

Himmler, Agathe Rosina (née Kiene, HH’s grandmother) 12

Himmler, Anna Maria (née Heyder, HH’s mother) 13, 14,
17
,
55

Himmler, Ernst (HH’s brother) 13, 16,
17
,
55
, 379

Himmler, Gebhard (HH’s brother) 14,
17
,
55
, 732

birth 13

career in SS 379–80

engagement 73

Himmler’s interference in 73–4

First World War military service 22–3, 24, 26

Himmler, Gebhard (HH’s father)
17
,
55

advice to family members 14

birth 12

contradictory assessments of 11–12

death of 379

early career 12–13

fictional portrayal by Andersch 11

financial hardship 65

political views 61, 62

relationship with HH 58–9, 379, 737–8

teaching career 13, 15, 18, 29, 58

upbringing of children 13–14

Himmler, Gudrun (HH’s daughter) 412,
467
,
524

birth of 109

relationship with father 468

Himmler, Heinrich
55
,
111
,
186
,
207
,
328
,
356
,
432
,
467
,
524
,
565

abortion:

estimates of numbers of 231–2

hostility towards 231

as agricultural expert of Nazi Party (1926-30) 100–3

Artamanen movement 101–2

edits
Der Bundschuh
103

völkisch peasant policy 100–1

agricultural student at Munich Technical University 28, 30–1, 46

anxiety over exams 57–8

considers emigration 53–4

duelling fraternity 31, 47

fantasies of heroic future 57

final exams 65

first duel 63–4

frustration 54

military/paramilitary activities 31–3

motives for studying 28–9

premature completion of course 58

reading 41–3

social activities 46–8

work placement 29, 43–4, 45

Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Heritage) 275–9

Cosmic Ice Theory 277, 279–80

expansion of 276–7

indoctrination of SS members 276

investigates speed of German achievements 425

journalism 277

air-raid damage 620

alcohol abuse within SS 321–4

anti-Semitism 262

as agricultural student 33

anti-Jewish polemic (1935) 215–16

data collection 91–2

depicts Jews as subhuman 198

as deputy Nazi Propaganda Chief 93

development of 59–60, 78–9

Jewish-Bolshevik threat 262

Jewish membership of duelling fraternities 33–4

as Nazi agitator in Lower Bavaria 84, 85

paucity of pre- 1938 statements on 215

reading 42, 59, 78–9

appearance 136–8, 717

issues with 105

appointed Chief of the German Police (1936) 200–1

armaments production:

failure of projects 633–4, 684–5

rocket programme 687–9, 703–4

assassination attempt on Hitler (1939) 472–3

assassination attempt on Hitler (1944) 696–8

assessment of 747–8

astrology 77–8, 280

Atlantis 281

Austria
405

Anschluss 402–4

integration of police 404

investigation of abortive putsch (1934) 179

as Bavarian Gau leader 101

Bavarian People’s Party (BVP), support for 26, 27–8