The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (253 page)

W
ARLORD
: tells generals his plans re. Austria and Czechs,
303–8
; plans invasion of Austria,
331
,
335–37
; assumes command of armed forces,
318
; ousts
16
, transfers
44
generals,
318–19
; plans war on Czechs,
357–58
,
360–61
,
365–67
,
377–78
,
399
,
423
,
428–29
; rages at Czechs’ arming,
364–65
; meets generals’ opposition on war plans,
366–72
,
378–79
,
646–47
,
656
,
830–31
,
856–58
; rages against defeatist generals,
378–79
; plans occupation of Danzig,
456
; takes over Memel,
461–62
; plans Danzig seizure,
463
,
468
; plans war against Poland,
463
,
467–69
,
484–85
,
488–89
,
496–98
,
517–20
,
530–31
,
589
,
595–96
; prepares for war in west,
484–89
,
516
,
530–31
,
589–90
; holds up attack on Poland,
556
; begins war on Poland,
597–99
; directs war strategy,
619–20
; conquers Poland,
632
; limits naval operations,
636
; plans offensive in west,
633
,
643–47
,
651–52
,
656–59
,
670
,
671
,
717–19
; Polish occupation policy,
660–65
; plans for war on Russia,
669
; approves, leads Norway campaign,
673–74
,
678–83
,
694–97
,
709–12
; gets Duce’s promise to enter war,
690–92
; invades Low Countries,
714–16
,
720–26
,
729–31
; invades, conquers France,
726–29
,
731–45
; offers peace to Britain,
746–47
,
750–56
; plans invasion of Britain,
751–53
,
756
,
758–92
; promotes
12
to field marshal,
754
fn
.; plans invasion of Russia,
796–800
,
810–12
,
821–22
,
830–34
,
845–52
; strategy in Mediterranean, N. Africa,
812–21
; Balkan campaigns,
820
,
822–26
,
830
; N. African campaigns,
827–29
,
911–13
,
919–25
; his “Commissar Order,”
830–34
; directs Russian campaign,
851–70
,
908–11
,
914
—19,
925–33
,
1006–7
,
1097
; his “No retreat, no surrender” order,
861
,
865
,
867–68
,
920–21
,
930
; ousts generals who retreat,
861
,
865–66
,
903
fn
.,
917–18
; takes over C-in-C post,
866
; collaborates with Japan,
870–78
,
883–96
,
900
; policy toward U.S.,
871–72
,
875
fn
.,
878–85
,
887
; declares war on U.S.,
892–902
; takes over unoccupied France,
924–25
; his occupation policy,
937–94
,
passim;
meets with Duce,
995–96
; orders take-over in Italy, rescue of Duce,
998–1006
; refuses to visit bombed-out cities,
1008
; speculates on peace possibilities,
1011–12
; directs defense in west,
1036–41
,
1085–96
,
1098–1102
,
1105–6
; orders enemy beachhead “annihilated,”
1038
; orders total mobilization,
1087
; directs Ardennes counteroffensive,
1089–96
; relies on conflict among Allies,
1087
,
1091–92
,
1098
; issues “scorched earth” directive,
1103–4
; his last days, in Berlin bunker,
1107–35

Hitler (Schicklgruber) Alois,
7–9
,
11
,
14

Hitler, Alois Matzelsberger,
9
,
10

Hitler, Angela,
see
Raubal, Angela Hitler

Hitler, Edmund,
9

Hitler, Franziska Matzelsberger,
9

Hitler, Gustav,
9

Hitler, Ida,
9

Hitler, Klara Poelzl,
9
,
14
,
15
,
16–17

Hitler, Paula,
9
,
14
,
1127
fn
.

Hitler Youth,
120
,
249
,
252–56
,
1129
,
1130
,
1137

Hitzfeld, General,
1064
fn
.

Hodges, Gen. Courtney H.,
1086
,
1089
,
1105

Hoepner, Gen. Erich,
375
,
413
,
725
,
863
,
865
,
903
,
1028
,
1035
,
1048
,
1057
,
1058
,
1064
,
1066–67
,
1068
,
1070–71

Hoerlin, Kate Eva,
224
fn
.

Hoess, Rudolf Franz,
664
,
963
,
967–69
,
970
,
972–73

Hofacker, Col. Caesar von,
1047
,
1059
,
1072
,
1075–77

Hofer, Walther,
550
fn
.

Hoffmann, Heinrich,
49
,
760
fn
.,
1111

Hoffmann, Johannes,
33
,
34

Hoffmann-Schonforn, Colonel,
1088

Hohenlohe, Prince Max von,
750
fn
.

Hohenlychen,
1114

Hohenzollerns, the,
52
,
57
,
82
,
93
,
96
,
97
,
153
,
197
,
214
,
215
,
229
,
236
,
349
,
549
,
907

Holland,
see
Netherlands

Holstein,
94

Holzloehner, Doctor,
987

Hoover, Herbert C.,
136
,
152

Hoover, J. Edgar,
843

Hopkins, Harry,
892

Horak, Mayor,
992

Hore-Belisha, Sir Leslie,
677

Horst, Anna,
105

Horst Wessel song,
5
,
147
,
199

Horthy, Adm. Miklós,
377
,
449
,
1090
fn
.

Hossbach, Col. Friedrich,
305
,
308
,
309
,
315–16

Hoth, Gen. Hermann,
724
,
863
,
927–28

Houffalize,
1095

Household Year for Girls,
254

House of German Art, Munich,
244

Hradschin Palace, Prague,
363
,
383
,
420
,
448

Huber, Kurt,
1022–23

Huebner, General,
1101
fn
.

Huehnlein, Major,
71

Huetler, Johann von Nepomuk,
8
,
9

Huemer, Eduard,
13

Hugenberg, Alfred,
138
,
154
,
166
,
173
,
180
,
182
,
184
,
189
,
196
,
198
,
201
,
204
,
206
,
212
,
257

Hull, Cordell,
843
,
873
,
877
fn
.,
884–85
,
886
,
887
,
888
fn
.,
891
,
894
,
896

Hungary,
358
,
362
,
507–8
,
800
,
808
,
824
,
826
,
845
; encouraged by Hitler to seize Ruthenia,
377
,
387–88
,
400
,
417
fn
.,
421
,
427
,
429
,
440–42
,
449–50
; German occupation of,
839
,
842
; army units on Russian front,
869
,
909
,
911
,
915
; Nazis’ mass killing of Jews of,
972
; taken by Russians,
1090
fn
.,
1096
,
1098

Huntziger, Gen. Charles,
743–45

Hurricanes (Br. planes),
775
,
776

Huxley, Aldous,
784

Iceland,
879
,
880–82

I. G. Farben,
144
,
190
,
282
,
597
,
664–65
,
968
,
972
,
973

Igorka rivers,
839

Illustrious
(Br. carrier),
818
fn
.

Imredy, Bela,
387–88

India,
558
,
560
,
883
,
901
,
957

Indian Legion,
1102
fn
.

Indian Ocean,
810
,
915

Indochina,
884

Informationsheft
,
784

Innitzer, Cardinal,
350

Innsbruck,
75
,
335
,
553

Institute for Military Scientific Research,
980

Institute for Research (Forschungsamt),
338

Interior, Ministry of the,
275
,
497–98
,
1031

“International Commission” on partition of Czechosl.,
417
fn
.,
420
,
421

International Military Tribunal,
1142

Iran (Persia),
757
,
810
,
915

Iraq,
828
,
829
,
841

Ireland,
474
,
646

Irgens, Captain,
706

Iron Cross,
30
,
122
,
284
,
754
fn
.

Ironside, Gen. Sir Edmund,
504
,
682
fn
.

Iserlohn,
1129
fn
.

Istanbul,
1026

Istria,
1005

Italian Air Force,
556
fn
.

Italian Army,
554
,
556
fn
.,
817
,
818
,
825
,
826
,
827
,
850
,
869
909–11
,
912
,
915
,
920–21
,
925
,
928
,
929
,
996
,
1001
,
1002
,
1006

Italian Navy,
554
,
818
fn
.,
1000
,
1002
fn
.

Italian Social Republic,
1005

Italy,
97
,
291
,
294
,
307
,
359
,
436
,
478–80
,
490
,
501
,
511
,
529
,
530
,
539
,
800–1
,
803–4
,
806
,
807
,
850
,
924
,
995
,
996
; and Anschluss,
209
,
280
,
285
,
296–97
,
301
,
302
,
324
,
327
,
334–37
,
339
,
343
,
345
fn
.,
347
; prewar policy toward Britain, France,
284–85
,
289
,
296
,
298
,
301
,
400
,
436
,
508
,
603
,
687
; invasion of Ethiopia,
289
,
290
,
296–98
; aid to Spanish rebels,
297–99
,
307
,
814
; in Anti-Comintern Pact,
299
; role in German–Czech crisis,
377
,
403
,
404
,
408–10
,
414–21
; friction with Germany,
400
,
487
,
492
,
547–48
,
665–66
,
683
,
687
,
774
,
815
; invasion of Albania,
469
,
813
; military alliance with Reich,
482–84
(
see also
Pact of Steel); reluctance to take part in war,
493
,
507
,
508
,
510
,
512
,
551–57
,
561
,
564–68
,
598
,
603–8
,
620–21
,
642–43
,
645
,
657
,
687–92
; enters war against France,
739
,
740
,
743–44
,
746
,
877
(
see also
Franco–Italian armistice); war against Britain in Mediterranean, N. Africa,
740
,
757
,
813
,
817–22
,
836
,
900
,
912
,
914
,
921
; in Tripartite Pact,
802
,
808
,
889
; invasion of Greece,
816–18
,
821–23
; royal family of,
820
,
996
; gets slice of Yugoslavia,
824
,
826
; war against U.S.S.R.,
851
,
873
,
909–11
; war against U.S.,
871
,
885
,
889–90
,
894
,
898
,
900
; Allied landing and Battle of Italy,
921
,
956
,
995
,
1000
,
1001
,
1006
,
1008
,
1009
,
1033
,
1036
,
1043
,
1100
,
1107
,
1138
; ousts Duce, makes peace with Allies,
995–1001
,
1003
; German occupation,
1001
,
1003–5
,
1009
; Fascist Republican Party,
1005