Read Heinrich Himmler : A Life Online
Authors: Peter Longerich
Serbia:
reprisals for acts of resistance 544, 545
Waffen-SS recruitment in 611, 612
effects of 615
settlement policy:
eastern occupied countries 535, 536, 577, 578, 579
extension of SS empire 415
female east European domestic staff 592–3
France 498, 588–92
General Government 444, 455–7, 581–4
General Plan East 577, 578
Germanization 441–50, 452–4, 572, 578, 582
Himmler gains control of 434–6
link with final solution 578–9
military peasants 443
military settlements 450
Poland 434
progress with 579
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 420–2, 580–1
racial selection 580
racial selection 445, 446–7
racial zones of Europe 575–7
re-Germanization 452–4, 592
female east European domestic staff 592–3
seizure of children 595–9
South Tyrol 417–20, 458–61
Soviet Union 527, 528, 535, 584–7
standardization of 575
Ukraine 622
Yugoslavia 577
Seydlitz, Walther von 697
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur 403, 404, 493, 495
Siebert, Ludwig 154
Sievers, Wolfram 275, 276, 280
Sima, Horia 505, 506, 651–2
Simon, Gustav 590
Sipo (Sicherheitspolizei, Security Police) 201
Heydrich on role of 207–8
Himmler on functions of 206
preventive repression 202–4
see also
Gestapo; Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
Six, Franz Alfred 212, 225, 360, 471, 799n27
Skorzeny, Otto 657, 690, 697, 714
Slovakia:
deportation of Jews 547, 562, 563, 705–6
halting of 625, 668
murder of 567
exchange of Jewish prisoners 708
German ethnic policy 391, 458
German occupation of 705
security regime in 490
Waffen-SS recruitment in 503–4, 608–9
Smith, Captain (British interrogation officer) 1
Sobibor extermination camp 548, 566, 567, 666, 667
Social Democratic Party (SPD) 66, 698
Sohst, Walter 163
South Tyrol, resettlement of ethnic Germans 417–20, 458–61
Soviet Union:
campaign against partisans 628–9
dead zones 659–60
securing labour through 660
deployment of SS and police units in 530–1
Heydrich’s instructions on those to be executed 523
Himmler’s intervention in extermination process 621–2
Himmler’s preparations for invasion of 517–24
ideological war of annihilation against 515, 517
invasion planning 515
Commissar order 522
deployment of SS and police units 520
instruction for conduct of war 521–2
role of SS 517–18
Wewelsburg conference 522–3
mass murder of Jews 525–7, 531–4, 537, 538, 539, 567–8, 667
escalation of 621–3
Himmler’s personal initiative in 539
mass murder of mental patients 534, 536
mass murder planned in 520, 522
seizure of children 595–6
settlement policy 527, 528, 535, 584–7
Spain, Himmler visits 504–5
‘special treatment’ (Sonderbehandlung) 474
Polish POWs and workers in Germany 474–6
Speer, Albert 688
on Himmler 302
total war 684, 700
use of concentration camp labour 243–4, 634
Spengler, Wilhelm 799n27
Spielhagen, Friedrich 42
spiritualism, Himmler’s interest in 78
SS (Schutzstaffel - Protection squad):
Administration Office 135–6
alcohol abuse in 321–4
archaeological projects 276,
283
armed units:
establishment of 156–7, 174, 181–2
functions of 247–8
integration into field army 426–7
military character of 248–9
numerical strength of 248, 249
pre-war expansion of 247–9
Sudetenland operations 405–6
assumes quasi-police role 148
Austria, abortive Nazi putsch in (1934) 177–9
autonomy of 112
businesses established by 260–1, 482–3, 484–5
brickworks 484
economic priorities 485
experimental farms 483–4
failure of armaments projects 632–4, 684–5
fuel production 685
Kok-Sagys cultivation 659, 660, 685–6
mineral water 484
unification of 485
ceremonies 288–94
funerals 292
marriage 288–9
name consecration 289
private nature of 293
responsibility for conducting 292–3
social gatherings 293–4
solstices 289–91
Yuletide 291–2
Christian church 218–20
claims to elite status 112–13, 121, 122, 124
as a clan 352–3
countering enemies of Nazism 196–7
Czechoslovakia, occupation of Prague 412
Death’s Head military units 152, 247–8
attack on Westerplatte 425–6
creation of 175
invasion of Poland 427
invasion of Soviet Union 521
development as mass organization 138
discipline:
punishments 343–4, 488–9
reprimands by Himmler 337–42
SS courts 344–5
disciplined image of 98, 114, 120, 121, 122, 127
establishment of 110, 111–12
exchange of Jewish prisoners 708–9
extermination camps, construction of 549
financial problems among members 324–7
financing of 135, 169, 258
Friends of the Reichsführer-SS 258–60
Flying Units 135
forced labour 557–61, 573
foreign policy, infiltration of diplomatic service 392–4
General-SS:
establishment of 181
Himmler’s ambitions for 182
Greater Germanic Reich 640–1
health of members, psychological and psychosomatic problems 329–33
Himmler appointed Deputy Reichsführer-SS 110
internal reorganization 113
Himmler appointed Reichsführer-SS 113–14
Himmler on functions of 248
Himmler’s central role in 4–5
Himmler’s speech on ‘Purposes and Aims of the SS’ (1931) 122–4
homosexuality 233–4, 238
ideological indoctrination 276, 286, 312–14
ideological influences 128
independence from SA 174
initial role of 110, 111–12
intelligence service,
see
SD (Security Service)
Jewish policy, development of 407
Kristallnacht 409, 410
leadership corps:
alcohol abuse 321–4
biographical backgrounds 128–35, 315–20
financial problems of 324–7
Himmler’s disciplining of 337–45
Himmler’s encouragement of 336–7
Himmler’s exploitation of 320–1
leadership course 136
psychological and psychosomatic health problems 329–33
surveillance of 315
university educated 318–19
war volunteer generation 315–18
war youth generation 318–20
willing instruments of Himmler 345–51
marriages within:
adultery 375–6
approval of 126–7, 250
approval procedure 353–8
ceremonies 288–9
divorce 375
Himmler’s examination of requests 358–65
Himmler’s intervention in 365–8
number of children 378
orders to marry by Himmler 377–8
second wives 376
membership 112
in 1929 114
growth of 126, 135, 168, 255
Himmler on typical career 303–4
oath sworn by 305
physical criteria 125
regulation of conduct 311–12
social profile 255
militarization of 181–3
mood after 1932 (July) elections 142–3
motto 118
Nuremberg party rally (1929) 114–15
as an order 256, 352–3
organizational structure 112, 121, 135–6, 169, 181, 182, 257–8
Pohl appointed head of administration 169–70
Poland, attack on Westerplatte 425–6
political police:
take control in Bavaria 150–1
take control in German states 155–61
take control in Prussia 161–8
rapid growth of 121
recruitment:
Himmler’s intervention in 302–3
racial examination 123–4, 126–7, 302, 303
requirements 302–3
SA complaints 121
repression in occupied countries 630–2
Belgium 657
contradictory policy 654
counter-terror 656–7, 705
Denmark 654–5, 657, 705
Netherlands 655–6, 705
Norway 657, 705
opposition to 652, 653
Poland 657–8, 659
Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 654
south of France 648–51
SA (Storm Troops):