Read Heinrich Himmler : A Life Online
Authors: Peter Longerich
Netherlands:
deportation of Jews 571, 620, 668
Dutch SS established 495
Himmler acquires influence in 493–4
Himmler’s first trip to 492–3
Himmler’s Germanic policy 495
invasion of 492
maintenance of independence of 495
repression by SS 655–6
counter-terror 705
reprisals for acts of resistance 544
Seyss-Inquart appointed Reich Commissar 493
Waffen-SS recruitment in 501, 606–7
national legion 603
Neuengamme concentration camp 242, 480, 481, 633, 731
Neurath, Konstantin von 393, 398, 399, 412, 490
Niedernhagen concentration camp 481
Nieland, Hans 158
Night of the Long Knives 173–4
Nisko, as transit camp for Jews 441
Nockermann, Hans 495
Nordland publishing house 260
Norfolk, Friedrich 225
North Africa:
Allied landings in 642, 647
Jews in 662–3
Norway:
deportation of Jews 624, 631
extension of SS jurisdiction 544
Himmler’s attempt to acquire influence in 491–2
invasion of 491
repression by SS 630–1
counter-terror 657, 705
reprisals for acts of resistance 544
Waffen-SS recruitment in 500
national legion 603
Nuremberg Laws (1935) 197
Obdach, Ludwig 159
obedience, as virtue of SS 307–8
Oberg, Carl-Albrecht 571, 624, 631–2, 668
background of 317
Marseilles punishment operation 649, 650, 651
opposes Himmler’s radical policy in France 652, 653
Oberländer, Theodor 390
occult:
Gestapo campaign against 519–20
Himmler’s interest in 282–5
Ohlendorff, Otto 212, 319–20, 471, 799n27
Oppenhoff, Franz 715
order police (Ordnungspolizei):
functions of 241
Himmler on functions of 206
pre-war development of 240–1
Soviet Union, role in invasion 521
Oshima, Hiroshi 719
Osten-Sacken, Gotthard Baron von 79
Oster, Hans 698
Pact of Steel (1939) 418
Pancke, Günther 348, 657
appointed head of Race and Settlement Main Office 417
background of 317
Denmark 655
Himmler’s intervention in marriage of 366–7
settlement policy:
racial selection 446–7
Sudetenland 414
Slovakia 458
Papacy,
Mit brennender Sorge
(‘With Burning Anxiety’) 223
Papen, Franz von 139, 143–4, 172
criticizes Nazi rule 172
meets with Hitler (1933) 144
threatens resignation 172–3
paramilitary organizations:
Himmler’s involvement with 28, 31–3, 54, 63, 66, 67, 87–8
incorporation into SA 171
partisans, Himmler gains responsibility for combating 617, 621–2
campaigns against 626–9
expanded areas covered by 658–9
link with Holocaust 625–6
obtaining labour through campaign against 660
Patzig, Conrad 189
Peiper, Joachim 492
Petri, Frank 608
Petzel, Walter 433
Pfeffer von Salomon, Franz 89, 90, 113, 117
Pflaum, Guntram 344, 535, 595–6
Pflaumer, Karl 159
Pfundtner, Hans 216
Phleps, Arthur 343, 674
Pinsk, massacre of ghetto 622
Planetta, Otto 178
Pohl, Oswald 257, 295, 417, 522, 632
appointed head of SS administration 169–70, 182–3
army organization 702
construction programme for SS 559
control of SS businesses 485
forced labour 560
armaments production 633–4
Friends of the Reichsführer-SS 259
responsibilities of 257, 258
poison gas,
see
gas
Poland:
German ethnic policy 391
‘Treatment of the Ethnically Alien Population in the East’ 450–2
Germanization 441–50, 572
racial selection 446–9
re-Germanization 452–4
German preparations for invasion 422
German-Soviet agreement on demarcation line 440
Hitler’s instructions on conduct of war against 427–8
Jews:
death penalty for leaving ghettos 546
deportation of 439–40, 666
deportation to General Government 444, 445, 455–7, 510
forced labour 510
ghettoization 510
mass murder of 432
mass murder of leading Poles 428, 429, 430, 438
Himmler’s defence of atrocities 464–5
murder of mental patients 431–2
penal code introduced 439
police courts 439
police organization established by Himmler 437–8
repression by SS 657–8, 659
settlement policy 434
war of racial extermination against 427
Warsaw destroyed 705
Warsaw ghetto uprising 664
see also
General Government
police force 206
amalgamation of police and SS 204–5, 249–51
extension and reorientation of 204
Himmler on duties of 206
Himmler’s model of soldierly civil service 205–6
Himmler’s opposition to legality 205, 206
see also
Kripo; order police; political police; Sipo
political police:
creation of centralized secret Reich police force 201
Himmler appointed acting Munich police chief 149
Himmler justifies mass arrests 150
Himmler takes control in Bavaria 150–1
Himmler takes control in German states 155–61
Nazi takeover of 148
Popitz, Johannes 697
Porsche, Ferdinand 558
Potthast, Hedwig:
background of 466
gives birth 334, 466, 467
last contact with Himmler 732
loyalty of 731
starts relationship with Himmler 375, 466
Potthast, Helge 334, 466
Potthast, Nanette-Dorothea 467
Pracher, Ferdinand von 18
Prague:
occupation of 412–13
reprisals for Heydrich’s assassination 569
preventive repression 181, 193, 194, 195, 199
abortion 203
communist threat 203
criminality 203
criminal police 227
asocial operation (‘Work-shy Reich’) 228, 229
in wartime 478–9, 636–8
development of concept 202–3
extension to all forms of opposition 203
homosexuality 203
role of security police 207–8
wartime regulations 479
prisoners of war:
Himmler’s responsibility for 702
treatment of Allied 662
treatment of Polish 475–6
Procreation Order 462–4
protective custody:
establishment of Dachau camp 151
Frick’s attempts to restrict 167, 191–2, 200
Göring’s attempts to restrict 167
Himmler’s justification of 150, 193–4
Himmler succeeds in institutionalizing 196
regulations on 167
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia:
deportation of Jews 546
ethnic policy in 457–8
Heydrich appointed Deputy Reich Protector 536
Heydrich’s assassination 568–9
reprisals 568, 569
land confiscated by SS 420
Land Office established 420
repression by SS 632, 654
security regime in 412–13, 490
settlement policy 420–2
state of emergency imposed by Heydrich 544
Protestant Church 222–3
Prussia, Himmler takes control of political police 161–8
Prützmann, Hans Adolf 522, 531, 533, 536, 585, 623, 714
Quadt, Count Eugen von 155
Quenstedt, Dr 29, 30
Quisling, Vidkun 500, 606
Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA, Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt) 182
Darré’s resignation 416–17
departments of 257
ethnic policy in Bohemia and Moravia 457–8
indoctrination of SS members 312, 313
settlement policy 413
Austria 414
change in 415
Sudetenland 414
racial policy:
Darré’s views on 127–8
Ethnic German List, annexed Polish territories 452–4
gypsies 230
preventive criminal policy 227–8
settlement policy 446–9, 454–5
racial selection:
arbitrariness of racial examinations 599–600
Ethnic German List 452–4
France 592
General Government 583
Soviet Union 585–6
membership of German nation 590–1
settlement policy 445, 446–9, 454–5
France 589–90
General Government 583–4
Poland 446–9
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 580
Soviet Union 585–6
SS membership 123–4, 126–7
racial theory 599, 600