Read Heinrich Himmler : A Life Online
Authors: Peter Longerich
Italy:
establishes security apparatus in 690–1
German-Italian police conference (1936) 395
holiday in 395–7
lack of cooperation over Jews 663
official visit to 404
predicts Mussolini’s fall 690
Jewish policy:
considers mass sterilization 512, 520
danger of exclusion from decision-making 217
deportation of Jews to east 542–3
deportation of Jews to the east 666
exchange of Jewish prisoners 707–9
expels Polish Jews from Germany 408
gains control over in General Government 564–6
ghetto in General Government 510
Jews as hostages 407–8, 707–8, 724
Kristallnacht 409–10
mass murders in Soviet Union 525–7, 531–4, 537, 538, 539
paucity of pre- 1938 comments on 215
personal responsibility for Jewish murders 539
pre-war anti-Jewish decrees in Germany 411
radicalization of 528–30
see also
anti-Semitism; final solution
journalism 70–1
Kok-Sagys cultivation 659, 660, 685–6
leadership style 299–302, 742
artificial correctness 301–2
dispute resolution 343
encouragement 336–7
indoctrination of SS members 312–14
intervention in members’ lives 315, 365–7
intervention in recruitment process 302–3
mobility 92,
494
,
623
present-giving 302
punishment 343–5
regulation of conduct of SS members 311–12
reprimands 337–42
soldierly image
137
, 300–1
on typical career of SS member 303–4
unpredictability 299
virtues of SS members 304–12, 742
marriage
108
, 109, 741
birth of daughter 109
confesses weakness to Margarete 104–5
first meets Margarete 103
holiday in Italy 395–7
houses 373–4
pre-marriage correspondence with Margarete 103–8
waning enthusiasm for wife 265
marriages within SS
adultery 375–6
approval of 126–7
approval procedure 353–8
ceremonies 288–9
divorce 375
examination of marriage requests 358–65
intervention in 365–8
number of children 378
orders to marry 377–8
second wives 376
military career:
Commander-in-Chief army group Vistula 715–18
Commander-in-Chief of Upper Rhine 715
desire for 28–9, 36–7, 54
First World War 23–6
Free Corps membership 28
joins Residents’ Reserve 33
psychological explanation of appeal of 40
relieved of command 718
Reserve Army Commander 698–704
satisfaction in feeling like a soldier 32
Territorial army membership 31–2
Volkssturm (home guard) 711–14
mistress (Hedwig Potthast):
children by 334, 466, 467
starts relationship with 375, 466
as Nazi agitator in Lower Bavaria (1924-26) 81–2
agricultural issues 85–6
anti-Semitism 84, 85
distanced approach to Hitler 87
journalism 70–1
paramilitary activities 87–8
speaking activities 71–2, 83–4, 86
tensions with Munich headquarters 82–3
negotiations with Rosenberg over role in east 516
Netherlands 606–7
acquires influence in 493–4
Dutch SS established 495
first trip to 492–3
Germanic policy for 495
repression in 655–6
Norway:
attempt to acquire influence in 491–2
extension of SS jurisdiction 544
visit to 500
occult 282–5, 519–20
Operation Reinhardt 350, 571, 583
opposition to legality 205
paramilitary organizations:
Free Corps membership 28
involvement with 28, 31–3, 54, 63, 66, 67
joins Freiweg Rifle Club 63
psychological explanation of appeal of 40
William Tell Shooting and Hiking League 87–8
partisans:
campaign against 626–9
expanded responsibility for combating 658–9
gains responsibility for combating 617, 621–2
link between Holocaust and combating partisans 625–6
securing labour through campaign against 660
peace approaches 720, 746–7
context of 724
discussions with Goebbels 721–2
false presentation of events 727
Jews as hostages 724
negotiations with Bernadotte 724–5, 726–7, 728–9
negotiations with Masur 727–8
offers alliance with France 729
offers partial surrender 729
self-presentation as honourable negotiator 725–6
personality 3–4, 737
adopts role of outsider 73
appeal of military/paramilitary 40
arrogance 73, 74–5
attachment disorder 39, 40–1, 55, 738
development of 737–41
difficulties with personal relationships 39–40, 54–6, 308, 738
double standards 742
fantasy world 574
feels lack of emotional support 55–6
influence on state protection corps 251
insecurity 138
interference in other people’s lives 73–4, 739
megalomania 92
need for control 92
obsequiousness 98
overbearing manner 97–9
personalization of political power 743
reaction to failure 740
sadism 343–4
self-assessment 51, 54
self-confidence 138
self-control 36, 40, 734, 738
sense of inferiority 55
sexual repression 50–1
soldierly image
137
, 300–1, 738–9, 740–1
talks too much 138, 728
use of violence 741
utilitarian outlook 267, 408, 709, 741
Poland:
defends atrocities in 464–5
deportation of Jews 439–40
deportation of Jews to General Government 444, 455–7
destruction of Warsaw 705
directs Einsatzgruppen 429–30
elimination of intelligentsia 429
establishes police organization 437–8
Germanization 434
mass arrests 658
orders destruction of Warsaw ghetto 664
orders final removal of Jews 665
penal code 439
police courts 439
re-Germanization 452–4
repression in 657–8
shooting of insurgents 428
‘Treatment of the Ethnically Alien Population in the East’ 450–2
police force:
amalgamation of police and SS 204–5
on duties of 206
extension and reorientation of 204
model of soldierly civil service 205–6
opposition to legality 205, 206
political ideas:
agricultural issues 85–6
as agricultural student 33
anti-capitalism 92–3
conflict with Bolshevism 123
development of world view 77–81
racial selection 123–4, 126–7
reading 30, 42, 59, 77–81
uses term National Socialism 86
völkisch peasant policy 100–1
see also
Greater Germanic Reich; ideology
political police:
appointed acting Munich police chief 149
establishment of Dachau camp 151
justifies mass arrests 150
takes control in German states 155–61
takes control in Prussia 161–8
takes control of in Bavaria 150–1
politicization of 60–4, 739
power of 642
growth of 643, 647–8
preventive repression 181, 193, 194, 195, 199
abortion 203
communist threat 203
criminality 203
development of concept 202–3
extension to all forms of opposition 203
homosexuality 203
protective custody:
justification of 150, 193–4
resists attempts to restrict 191–2, 200
succeeds in institutionalizing 196
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia:
repression in 654
reprisals for Heydrich’s assassination 568, 570
security regime in 412–13, 490
publications,
The SS as an Anti-Bolshevik Fighting Force
261
racial policy:
Ethnic German List 452–4
gypsies 230
marriages within SS 353, 354, 358–9, 362–3
membership of German nation 590–1
minimal education 451
racial selection 454–5
racial zones of Europe 575–7
regulation of sexual intercourse 594–5
sex between Germans and ethnic aliens 593–4
‘Treatment of the Ethnically Alien Population in the East’ 450–2
as Reich Minister of the Interior 681–4
religion:
alternative world view 285–6
ancestor cult 267–8
belief in God 266