Read Heinrich Himmler : A Life Online
Authors: Peter Longerich
arrest of leaders of 173
deterioration of relations between 143
Night of the Long Knives 173–4
Röhm defines relationship between 120–1
second Stennes crisis (1931) 122
Stennes crisis (1930) 117–18
subordination to 113, 118, 119
Service Regulations (1931) 124–5
Soviet Union:
deployment in 530–1
mass murder of Jews 525–7, 531–4, 537, 538, 539
planning for role in invasion 517–19, 520–1, 522–3
sponsoring members or patrons 169
Friends of the Reichsführer-SS 258–60
SS cult 742–3
ceremonies 288–94
Himmler’s Germanic view of history 270–4
motives for adopting 274
sacred sites 294–8
symbols 286–8
SS judicial system 485–9
control of 487–8
expansion of jurisdiction 486
Himmler’s penal guidelines 489
Himmler’s right to confirm sentences 486–7
motives for introducing 485–6
punishment of SS members 488–9
sexual relations with alien women 486–7
Sudetenland, operations in 405–6
suicide in 329
symbolic gifts distributed within:
birth lights 288
brooch for mothers 288
death’s head ring 287–8
life lights 287
swords of honour 288
Yule lights 286–7
terror campaign against opponents (1932) 140
uniform 110, 124–5, 136
virtues of members 304–12
comradeship 308
decency 308–11
loyalty 304–7
obedience 307–8
Wehrmacht:
complaints over SS atrocities in Poland 433–4, 461–2
objects to military integration 491
relations between 181, 182, 247–8
see also
Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Heritage); Einsatzgruppen; Einsatzkommandos; Lebensborn (Spring of Life organization); Race and Settlement Main Office; SD (Security Service); Selbstschutz (Ethnic German Self-Defence Force); Waffen-SS
Stahlecker, Walter 159, 404, 413, 441, 492
Stahlhelm 122, 144, 171
state protection corps 424
amalgamation of police and SS 204–5, 249–51
concept of 204–5
influence of Himmler’s phobias and prejudices 251
Stauffenberg, Claus Schenk von 697
Steinacher, Hans 390
Steiner, Felix 331, 341–2, 554
Stennes, Walter 117, 121–2
Stevens, Richard 473
Stölzle, Paula 73–4
Storch, Hillel 724, 727
Strasser, Gregor 143, 174, 740, 768n60
appointed head of Reich Party Organization 91
appointed Reich Propaganda Chief 89
attitude towards Hitler 87
different views from Hitler 81
Himmler authorizes murder of 174
Himmler starts work for 81
Strasser, Otto 115, 225, 388, 768n60
Stratz, Rudolph 44–5
Streckenbach, Bruno 158, 437–8, 444
Streicher, Julius 216
Streseman, Gustav 66
Stroop, Jürgen 664
Stuckart, Wilhelm 223, 585, 590, 681, 682
Stumpfegger, Ludwig 492
Sudeten German Control Centre 387
Sudeten German Free Corps 406
Sudetenland 387–8
German ethnic policy 391
settlement policy 414
SS operations in 405–6
Sudeten Spring Ltd 484
suicide, among SS members 329
Sulza concentration camp 241
Súñer, Ramón Serrano 720
Swing Youth 635–6
Szálasi, Ferenc 706, 707
Sztójay, Döme 693, 694
Tamaschke, Günther 366
Terboven, Josef 491, 492, 544
Teutonic myths:
enthusiasm for 270
Himmler’s Germanic view of history 270–4
Himmler’s interest in 80–1, 266–7
Textiles and Leather Processing Company 482–3
Thälmann, Ernst 698
Theresienstadt, deportation of elderly Jews to 562, 571
Theweleit, Klaus 52–3
Thierack, Otto Georg 624, 636, 637, 638, 662, 671
Thoma, Ludwig 71
Thomas, Georg 545
Thomas, Max 496, 497
Thule Society 28
Thuringia 66
Tibet, Himmler’s interest in myth of 281–2
Tiso, Josef 547, 608
Todt, Fritz
453
Treblinka extermination camp 566, 573
mass break-out from 666–7
Triska, Helmut 615–16
Tuka, Vojtech 547
Turner, Harald 832n31
Uebelhoer, Friedrich 545–6, 669
Ukraine:
escalation of mass murder of Jews 621, 622–3
pogroms 526
Waffen-SS recruitment in 678
Ulex, Wilhelm 433
Ulrich, Curt von 143
Unger, Oberführer 322
United States:
Hitler declares war on 552
Hitler’s use of Jewish deportations to influence 543
universities, SS influence in 278
Veesenmayer, Edmund 693, 694
Verne, Jules 29
Vichy government, deportation of Jews 619–20, 624, 693
Vlasov, Andrei Andreyevitsch 660,
661
, 702–3
Völkisch Bloc 81, 82
Volksbund für das Deutschtum im Ausland (VDA) 388, 390
Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle,
see
Coordination Centre for Ethnic Germans (VoMi)
Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz,
see
Selbstschutz
Volkssturm (home guard) 711–14
motive for creation of 713–14
Volkswagen Company 558
VoMi,
see
Coordination Centre for Ethnic Germans (VoMi)
Wächter, Otto 620
Wäckerle, Hilmar 151
Waffen-SS 424
army corps established 601
creation of 427
establishment of new German SS divisions 672–3
expansion of 601
Himmler’s ambitions for 680
Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler 164, 174, 427
establishment of 156–7
Hitler’s ‘armband order’ 723
organizational structure 499
recruitment of non-Germans 498–504, 602, 679–80
Baltic units 677–8
ethnic aliens 674–9
ethnic Germans 609–16, 673–4
Germanic volunteers 605–9
Muslims 267, 675–7
national legions 602–5
Soviet Union, role in invasion 524
Wehrmacht, obliteration of boundaries between 699–700
Wagener, Otto 118, 302
Wagner, Adolf 148–9, 150, 191
Wagner, Eduard 518
Wagner, Robert 159, 497, 498, 588, 589–90
Waldeck and Pyrmont, Josias, Hereditary Prince of 132–3, 392
Walk, Joseph 477
Walz, Hans 259
Wannsee conference 555–6, 561
Wappenhans, Waldemar 140, 329–30
Warsaw, Himmler orders destruction of 705
Warsaw ghetto:
deportation of Jews from 573
final destruction of 666
Himmler orders destruction of 664
Warsaw ghetto uprising 664
war youth generation 22, 134, 315, 318, 738, 752n44
Weber, Christian 133
Wege, Kurt 130
Wegener, Hans 42–3, 53
Wehrmacht:
Himmler authorized to examine organization of 702
Himmler implicates in final solution 694–5
Himmler’s brutalization of military justice 703
Himmler’s criticism of General Staff 701
Hitler assumes supreme command 399
Hitler’s reconstruction of leadership of 399
Norway, invasion of 491
Poland:
complaints over SS atrocities 433–4, 461–2
involvement in mass murder 433
Procreation Order, agitation over 461, 462
Russian forces in 702–3
Soviet Union, instruction for conduct of war against 521–2
SS:
arming of 181
complaints over SS atrocities in Poland 433–4, 461–2
objection to integration of units of 491
relations between 181, 182, 247–8
Waffen-SS, obliteration of boundaries between 699–700
Weickert, Paul Magnus 135, 169
Weimar Republic:
Bavarian political crisis (1923) 66–9
crisis in relations with Bavaria 60–1
Hitler putsch (1923) 69
inflation 64–5
radical right’s opposition to 61
Rhineland reoccupation crisis 66
state of emergency declared (1923) 67
Weitzel, Erhard 548
Weitzel, Fritz 134, 135, 220, 491
Weizsäcker, Ernst von 393, 399
Wells, Captain C J L 2–3
Werewolfs 714–15
Wessel, Horst 154
Westerplatte 426
Wewelsburg 294–6, 522–3
Wichtl, Friedrich 30
Wiligut, Karl Maria (‘Weisthor’) 267, 282–5, 289
Wintersberger, Carl 151
Winzer, Paul 394
Wirth, Hermann 275
Wisliceny, Dieter 217, 359, 625, 708
witchcraft, ‘Special Witch Project’ 224–5
Wittje, Kurt 132, 400–2
Woermann, Ernst 393
Wolff, Alphons 49, 63
Wolff, Karl 128, 129, 136, 257, 289, 295, 334,
356
, 412,
467
, 492, 522, 533, 538, 572,
597
, 691