Read Heinrich Himmler : A Life Online
Authors: Peter Longerich
Hindenburg, Paul von 139, 141–2, 143, 144, 172
Hinkler, Paul 165–6
Hinrichs, Carl 498
Hinzert concentration camp 481
Hitler, Adolf 66,
111
,
432
agreement with Schleicher 139
assassination attempt (1939) 472–3
assassination attempt (1944) 696
Austria:
abortive Nazi putsch in (1934) 177, 178
Anschluss 403, 404
becomes Chancellor 147
Blomberg-Fritsch crisis (1938) 398–9
Christian church policy 223
counter-terror 657
Czechoslovakia, occupation of Prague 412
executions ordered by 473–4
expansionist policy 397–8
final solution 551
expansion throughout Europe 564
instructs Heydrich to produce plan for 511
France 648
Führer cult, construction of 87
Goebbels’ criticism of 723
Hess’s flight to Scotland 519
Heydrich’s assassination, response to 568, 569
Himmler:
appoints as Reichsführer-SS 113–14
appoints Commander-in-Chief of army group Vistula 715–16
appoints Commander-in-Chief of the Upper Rhine 715
appoints Reich Minister of the Interior 681
appoints Reserve Army commander 698–9
commissions to conclude final solution 667
criticism of 722–3
expels from party and state offices 729
praised by 79
puts in charge of settlement policy 434–5
relationship with 87, 100
secures agreement on police reorganization 199
talks on role of SS 199
Hitler putsch (1923) 69
Italy, policy in South Tyrol 418
Jews:
annihilation of 386, 552
deportation from Reich 441, 623–4
deportation to east 542–3, 546
extermination of 538, 550, 552
leadership style 90, 100
meets with Hindenburg (1932, Aug) 141–2
meets with von Papen (1933) 144
Mein Kampf
, Himmler’s views on 87
Netherlands 655–6
occupation policy in east 527
partisans, gives Himmler responsibility for combating 625–6, 627
peace:
circulates rumours of separate peace 719–20
considers peace with Soviet Union possible 721
unprepared to consider 720
Poland:
conduct of war against 427–8
division of 440
invasion preparations 422
policy of legality 121, 140, 142
reconstruction of Wehrmacht leadership 399
re-founds Nazi Party 82
rocket programme 687, 688
SA (Storm Troops):
appoints Röhm as head of 118–19
assumes personal command 117, 118
intervenes in SA-party crisis 117
moves against 173
rejects military ambitions of 171
second Stennes crisis (1931) 122
South Tyrol, resettlement of ethnic Germans 417–18
Soviet Union:
ideological war of annihilation against 515, 517
instruction for conduct of war against 521–2
invasion planning 515
SS:
armed units 247, 248–9, 426–7
assumes personal command 117, 118
establishment of 110
expansion of Waffen-SS 601
foreign legions 604
oath of loyalty 305
removes from SA’s organization 174
suspends court martial proceedings in occupied countries 704–5
takes supreme command of Wehrmacht 399
total war 700
treatment of Polish POWs and workers in Germany 475, 476
United States, declares war on 552
Volkssturm (home guard) 712, 713
the war as ‘war against the Jews’ 529, 543
Hitler Youth, recruitment into Waffen-SS 672, 673
Hitzinger, Heinrich (name assumed by Himmler) 2, 734
Hofer, Franz 417, 418
Hoffmann, Johannes 27
Hoffmeyer, Horst 535, 584
Höfle, Hermann 338, 705–6
Hofmann, Otto 317, 325, 338–9
Höhn, Reinhard 212, 799n27
Holfelder, Hans 101, 102
homoeroticism, in masculine society 52–3, 234–6
homosexuality/homosexuals 237–8
Himmler’s hostility towards 38, 52, 231
Himmler’s views on 232–7, 238–9, 464
Hitler’s edict on 239
persecution of Catholic church 222
preventive repression 203
pursuit of 237–8
registration of 237–8
Hörbiger, Hanns 279
Horthy, Miklós 706
Höss, Rudolf 480, 897n1
Hungary:
anti-Jewish legislation 694
deportation of Jews 625, 694, 706–7
resistance to 693
exchange of Jewish prisoners 708–9
German ethnic policy 391
German occupation of 693
Jews in 619
Second Vienna Award 501–2
SS organization established 693–4
Waffen-SS recruitment in 503, 614, 673–4
Ibsen, Henrik 41–2, 44
IG Farben, manufacturing plant at Auschwitz 480, 557–8
illegitimate births, Himmler’s views on 370–1
Procreation Order 462–4
inflation 64–5
Institute of Criminal Biology 471
Institute of Criminal Medicine 471
International Committee for Political Refugees 411
Iron Front 150
Islam, Himmler’s praise of 267, 677
Italy:
Croatia 625
deportation of Jews 691–2
German-Italian police conference (1936) 395
German occupation of 690
German policy in South Tyrol 418, 419, 420, 458–61
Himmler’s holiday in 395–7
lack of cooperation over Jews 663
official visit by Himmler 404
Pact of Steel (1939) 418
SS and police apparatus established in 690–1
Jäger, Karl 531, 567
Janka, Walter 246
Janko, Sepp 611
Jankuhn, Hubert 276
Jansen, Werner 80, 269, 270, 314, 422–3
Japan, declaration of war by 552
Jeckeln, Friedrich 306–7, 522, 524, 531, 536, 550
alcohol abuse 321
background of 131–2
mass murder of Jews 532–3
takes over Brunswick political police 160
Jehovah’s Witnesses:
Himmler’s respect for 267
persecution of 224
Jewish resistance 666–7
Warsaw ghetto uprising 664
Jewish World Congress 573
Jews:
in Austria, persecution of 407
in Belgium, deportation of 571, 620, 668
in Bulgaria 619
deportation of 625, 663–4
competing chains of command in Nazi policy 217
in Croatia:
deportation of 618, 668, 692
interned by Italy 625
in Denmark, attempt to deport 693
depicted as subhuman 198
deportation to the east 542–4, 545–6, 562–3
exchange of Jewish prisoners 707–9
in France, deportation of 545, 563, 571, 619–20, 624, 632, 663, 668, 692–3
in General Government:
death penalty for leaving ghettos 546
deportation of 572, 666
deportation to 444, 445, 455–7, 510, 562
extermination of 573–4
Himmler gains control of Jewish policy in 564–6
Himmler orders final removal from 665
Himmler orders ‘free of Jews’ 620
mass murder of Jews 546–7, 561–2, 566–7, 620, 665, 667
in Germany:
anti-Semitic legislation 411, 477
attacks on 408
compulsory registration 411
deportation of 440–1, 455–7, 562, 623–4, 664
deported to eastern occupied territories 538
emigration from 411, 456, 477
expulsion of 408, 455–6
forced to wear badges 530
Himmler sees as hostages 407–8, 707–8, 724
Kristallnacht 408–10
mass murder of 566–7
membership of student fraternities 33–4, 756n48
Nazi anti-Jewish actions (1933-38) 216
Nuremberg Laws (1935) 197
Gestapo’s role in persecution 216, 217, 477
in Greece, deportation of 663–4, 692
Heydrich’s role in persecution of 216–17
Hitler on annihilation of 386, 552
as hostages 407–8, 707–8, 724
in Hungary 619
anti-Jewish legislation 694
deportation of 625, 694, 706–7
exchange of Jewish prisoners 708–9
resistance to deportation 693
increased persecution of 406, 477
intensification of Nazi propaganda against 529–30
in Italy 663
deportation of 692
in Latvia, mass murder of 531, 549–50
in Lithuania, mass murder of 531
Madagascar project 508–10
mass sterilization considered by Himmler 512, 520
Nazi anti-Jewish actions (1933-38) 216
in North Africa 662–3
in Norway, deportation of 624, 631
in Poland:
death penalty for leaving ghettos 546
deportation of 439–40, 444, 445, 455–7, 510, 666