The Coming of the Third Reich (113 page)

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Authors: Richard J. Evans

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Night Edition
(
Nachtausgabe
) newspaper

Nikolaus, Paul

Noakes, Jeremy

Nolde, Emil

Nordic legend

Nordic racial ideas

Nordic supremacist groups

Noreia, battle of

North German Confederation

North Sea

Northeim

Northeim Sports Club

Noske, Gustav

‘November criminals’/‘November traitors’/ ‘Novembrists’

Nuremberg

huge parade of paramilitaries

Party Rally of 1929

Nuschke, Otto

Oberfohren, Ernst

Oberhausen

occultism

‘occupational chambers’

‘October Revolution’
see
Russian Revolution (1917)

Oldenburg

Opel car factory

operas

Oppenheimer, Max (Max Ophüls)

Oranienburg concentration camp

‘Organization Escherich’

orphans

Ossietzky, Carl von

Ostara (Zeitung für blonde Menschen): Newspaper for Blond People

Ottoman Empire

Pabst, G.W.

Pacelli, Eugenio (later Pope Pius)
see also
Pope, the

pacifism

Pan-German Association

Pan-German League (previously General German League)

Pan-Germanism

of Schönerer

and German-speaking minorities

extremists

Hugenberg a leading light in

antisemitism

Hitler influenced by

‘living-space’ theory

Pandora’s Box
(film)

Papen, Franz von

appointed Reich Chancellor

and the Centre Party

aims to roll back history

curbs the radical press

his cabinet

coup of 20 July 1932

Reich Commissioner, Prussia

bans public political meetings

death penalty decree

reluctant to accept Hitler as Chancellor

Communist motion of no-confidence in the government

resignation

Schleicher’s repeal of his wage and benefit cuts

and plan to oust Schleicher

becomes Vice-Chancellor

expects to be able to control Hitler

demands Centre Party’s dissolution

lack of commitment to democracy

condemns Hugenberg’s behaviour

and Jewish loss of citizenship

parenthood

parents’ associations

Paris

parliamentarism

Pasewalk military hospital, Pomerania

Pavlov, Ivan

pensions

People’s Association for a Catholic Germany

People’s Courts

People’s Party

Peters, Carl

Petrograd

Peukert, Detlev:
Inside Nazi Germany
(book)

Pfeffer von Salomon, Franz

Pfitzner, Hans

Pfiilf, Antonie

physically unfit

killing of

Pieck, Wilhelm

Pietzuch, Konrad

Pilsudski, General

Plus, Pope see also Pope, the

Plus, Pope
see
Paselli, Eugenio

Planck, Max

Plättner, Karl

Pleasure Gardens, Berlin

Ploetz, Alfred

Plötzensee prison, Berlin

pogroms

poison gas

Poland

former Kingdom of

Germany conquers (1915)

creation of new Polish state

hyperinflation

industrial production

and the Wartburg Festival

police

total control by

Metternich’s system

military models of behaviour

and Social Democrats

end of controls (1918)

Nazi resentment against

and Communists

political

bias of

professionalization

sympathy with Nazi attacks on Weimar Republic

Prussian

auxiliary

allowed to detain people indefinitely

and forcible suppression of the labour movement

and torture

and trade unions

and homosexuality

and prostitution

sex reformer meetings banned

and Berlin’s ‘ring associations’

and the press

Polish Corridor

Polish ethnic minority

attempts at Germanization of

in Russia

Pomerania

poor relief

Pope, the

Syllabus of Errors (1864)

Declaration of Papal Infallibility (1871)

1930 encyclical

see also Pius; Pius

population

pornography

Portugal

Posen

Post Office

post-Impressionism

Potempa, Upper Silesia

Potsdam

Potsdam station, Berlin

poverty

Prague

Presidential office, abolition of (1934)

press

‘boulevard press’

and business

political

popular

tabloid

Goebbels’ articles

Nazi

freedom compromised

bans

Catholic

reports of violence towards German population

musical

‘Jewish’-dominated

Communist

Social Democratic

press conferences

Pretzel, Raimund (‘Sebastian Haffner’)

Preuss, Hugo price reductions

Princeton University

printing technology

prisons

productivity

profiteers

Progressives

propaganda

enthusiasm whipped up by

directed at the masses

continuous and unvaried in its message

racist

directed at the farming community

Party Rally of 1929

and German Women’s Order

antisemitic

increased sophistication of Nazi propaganda

Communist

in 1930 elections

directed at workers

and Horst Wessel

in the Presidential election (1932)

July 1932 Reichstag election

November 1932 Reichstag election

of an imminent ‘German Bolshevik Revolution’

in the musical press

Goebbels defines

and radio

‘atrocity’

property

illegal confiscation of

appropriation legalized

Einstein’s property seized

bomb attacks on Jewish property

proportional representation

prosecution service

prostitution

Protestant church

Protestantism

Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The
(Tsarist police forgery)

Prussia

and the Holy Roman Reich

1848 Revolution

funding of its military machine

expanding state

army impacts on society in

landed aristocracy undermined

tensions with the Reich

moderate, pro-republican governments

Social Democrats’ policy

curbing of autonomy

civil service

bureaucratic paternalism

Hitler’s ban

Minister-President

virtues

political clashes (1932)

state elections (1932)

Papen’s coup ofJuly 1932

Papen appointed Reich Commissioner

Prussian parliamentary elections (April 1932)

and the Communist Party’s Central Committee

arrests in (March-April)

judiciary

purge of artists

Prussian Academy of the Arts

Prussian Academy of Sciences

Prussian Health Council

Prussian Interior Ministry

Prussian State Bank

Prussianism

public welfare

Puppe (storm leader)

racial hygiene, racial hygienists

Racial Hygiene Society

Racial Observer
(
Völkischer Beobachter
) newspaper

racial utopia

racism

opposition to

Pan-German

and black musicians

and colonial troops

of Gobineau

Radek, Karl

radio

Ragnitz commune, East Prussia

railways

Rathenau, Emil

Rathenau, Walther

rationalization

Rauschning, Hermann

rearmament

Red Army (Germany)

Red Army (Russia)

Red Cross

Red Flag
(
Rote Fahne
) newspaper

Red Front-Fighters’ League

‘Red Swastika’

Reformation

Reich, Wilhelm

Reich Association of German Industry

Reich Association of the German Press

Reich Chancellor

office created by Bismarck

aservant beholden to the Kaiser

Brüning appointed

Hitler sworn in

Reich Corporation of German Industry

Reich Council

Reich Court

Reich Criminal Code

Reich Defence Council

Reich Film Chamber

Reich Land League

Reich Law for the Restoration of a Professional Civil Service

Reich Press Office

Reich Radio Company

Reich Supreme Court, Leipzig

Reich War Flag

Reichenau, Colonel Walther von

Reichsbank

Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold

Reichsrat

Reichstag

derives from the Holy Roman Reich

growth of influence

and army budget

debate on army behaviour

Ahlwardt elected to

approves expansion of German navy

sidelining or elimination of

parliamentary proceedings degenerate

Ebert enters

President’s power to dissolve (Article)

proportional representation

Criminal Law Reform Committee

and Hindenburg’s emergency powers

Bruning and

sits less and less often

dissolved (July 1932)

Göring’s cavalier treatment of

marginalized

Schleicher’s plans

Communist seats (1933)

Reichstag fire

state opening at Potsdam

Reichstag elections
see under
elections

Reichstag fire decree

‘Reign of Terror’ (Jacobins)

Reiner, Fritz

Reinhardt, Max

Reinhardt, General Walther

religion

abolished in Russia

the religious divide

Remarque, Erich Maria

All Quiet on the Western Front
(novel and film)

Rentenmark

reparations

representative government

Republican Defence Units

Rhine district

Rhine river

Rhineland

and Treaty of Versailles

French-backed separatists

colonial troops in

Goebbels’ role in

Richthofen, Manfred Freiherr von (Red Baron)

Riezler, Kurt

right of assembly and association

‘ring associations’

Ritter von Epp, Colonel Franz

Ritter von Seisser, Hans

‘Roaring Twenties’

Rockefeller Foundation

Rohlfs, Christian

Röhm, Ernst

Romania

Romanov empire

Rome, march on

Rosenberg, Alfred

The Myth of the Twentieth Century

Rothschild family

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Roxy nightclub, Berlin

Royal Navy

Ruck, Michael

Rückert, Erwin

Rüdin, Ernst

Ruhr

Rumbold, Sir Horace

Russelsheim, near Frankfurt

Russia

authoritarian monarchy

compared with Germany before the First World War

seen as a land of backwardness and barbarism

Tsar replaced by a Provisional Government

Bolshevik coup (1917)

civil war

‘Red Terror’ (1918-21)

war deaths

antisemitic pogroms

Christianity attacked by Bolshevism

and Hitler’s ‘living-space’ aim

see also
Soviet Union

Russian armies

Russian Revolution (1905)

Russian Revolution (1917) (‘October Revolution’)

Russo-Polish War

Rust, Bernhard

SA see ‘Storm Division’

Saarland

St Petersburg

St Quentin

Sax, Adolphe

Saxony

Saxony-Anhalt

Schacht, Hjalmar

Schallmeyer, Wilhelm

Schemann, Ludwig

Scherl newspaper firm

Scheubner-Richter, Max Erwin von

Schicklgruber (Hitler), Alois (Hitler’s father)

Schicklgruber, Maria (Hitler’s paternal grandmother)

Schiele, Martin

Schiff, Else

Schinkel, Karl Friedrich

Schirach, Baldur von

background

and brother’s suicide

converted to Nazism

poetry by

joins National Socialist German Students’ League

leads the Hitler Youth

devotion to Hitler

Schlageter, Albert Leo

Schleicher, General Kurt von

Schlemmer, Eva

Schlemmer, Oskar

Schleswig

Schleswig-Holstein

Schlotterbeck, Friedrich

Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl

Schmitt, Carl

Schnabel, Artur

Schoenberg, Arnold

Scholtz-Klink, Gertrud

Schönerer, Georg Ritter von

Schrader, Karl

Schreck, Julius

Schreker, Franz

Schrödinger, Erwin

Schuler, Alfred

Schultze-Naumburg, Paul: Art and Race

Schumacher, Kurt

Schurtz, Heinrich

Schuster, Joseph

Schutz, Walter

Schwerin von Krosigk, Lutz Graf

Schwesing, Schleswig-Holstein

Scientific-Humanitarian Committee

Second Reich

Second World War

secret ballot

secularization

of thought

of education

Sedan, battle of

Seeckl, General Hans Yon

Seldte, Franz

self-employed, and 1930 elections

Selz, Otto

serfdom

Serkin, Rudolf

service sector

‘Seven Weeks’ War’ (1866)

Severing, Carl

sex counselling clinics

sexual freedom

sexual reform movement

shares

Shirer, William.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

shooting societies

Siebeck, Richard

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