The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (260 page)

Porsche, Dr. Ferdinand,
266

Portugal,
785
,
788
,
789
,
792
,
817

Posen,
212
,
458
,
626
,
659
,
937–38
,
944
,
954
,
966

Potemkin, Vladimir,
482

Potsdam,
3
,
54–55
,
166
,
182
,
196–97
,
375
,
413
,
1072

Pour le Mérite (Ger. decoration),
49

Po Valley,
1107

Prague,
332
,
376–77
,
383
,
419
,
420
,
443–44
,
446
,
447
fn
.,
448
,
991
,
992
,
1064

Pravda
,
496

Preuss, Hugo,
56
fn
.,
241

Preysing, Cardinal Count,
1048
fn
.

Price, Ward,
280–81
,
283

Prien, Oberleutnant Guenther,
646

Priess, Hermann,
1095
fn
.

Priestley, J. B.,
784

Primo de Rivera, Miguel,
787
,
788

Prince of Wales
(Br. battleship),
901
fn
.

Prinz Eugen
(Ger. hvy. cruiser),
914

Pripet Marshes,
810
,
811

prisoners of war,
744
,
854
fn
.,
932
,
940
,
942
fn
.,
946–47
,
948
,
949
,
951–56
,
969
,
973
,
979
,
1029
,
1086
,
1095
fn
.,
1100
,
1105
,
1114–15

Progressive Party,
55–56

Propaganda Ministry,
167
,
196
,
204
,
244–45
,
246
,
247
,
387
,
636
,
638
,
1061
,
1062–63
,
1110
,
1121–22
,
1143
;
see also
Goebbels

Protestant Church,
235
,
236
,
237
,
238
,
239
,
240
,
251

Proust, Marcel,
241

Prussia (kingdom),
92–98
,
196–97
,
236
,
259
,
1015
,
1087

Prussia (federal state),
154
,
155
,
159
,
160
,
165
,
184
,
186
,
191
,
200
;
see also
East Prussia, West Prussia

Pryor, Gen. W. W.,
698–99

Puaux, Gabriel,
334
fn
.

Puch,
821

Qattara Depression,
919

Quisling, Maj. Vidkun Abraham Lauritz,
675–78
,
701
,
704
,
705
,
706
,
709
fn
.,
755
fn
.

Raczyński, Count Edward,
551
,
602

radar,
775
,
776
,
781
,
1007
,
1037

Raeder, Gr. Adm. Erich,
207
,
214–15
,
273
,
305
,
313
,
314
,
317
,
321
,
365
,
401
,
462
,
484
,
487
,
488
,
497
,
515
fn
.,
529
fn
.,
622
,
636–38
,
646
,
667
,
670
,
742
,
873
,
877
,
878
fn
.,
914
,
915
,
1080
; naval building program,
281–82
,
487
,
622
; Norway campaign,
674–79
,
683
,
696
,
697
fn
.,
710
; Britain invasion plans,
752
,
758–59
,
763–68
,
770
,
771
; urges concentration on Mediterranean area,
812–13
,
818–21
,
828–29
,
912–13
; urges attack on U.S. shipping,
879
,
880
,
882
,
895
,
901–2
; ousted as Navy C. in C,
1000
; sentenced at Nuremberg,
1143

Ramsgate,
762
,
763
,
766
,
767

Rangsdorf,
1048
,
1054–55
,
1057
,
1058

Rapallo,
494

Rascher, Dr. Sigmund,
984–90

Rashid Ali,
828
,
841

Rassenkunde
,
259
;
see also
“master race” concept

Rastenburg, E. Prussia,
101
,
849
,
863
,
919
,
920
,
922
,
925
,
928
,
932
,
941
,
998
,
1001
,
1002
,
1004
,
1010
,
1015
,
1020
,
1026–27
,
1034
,
1058
,
1062
,
1066
,
1069
,
1070
,
1075
,
1077
,
1080
,
1107
; attempt to assassinate Hitler at,
1045–57

Rath, Ernst vom,
430–31

Rathenau, Walther,
34
,
51
,
241
,
245

Rattenhuber, Oberfuehrer,
1049

Raubal, Angela Hitler,
9
,
131

Raubal, Friedl,
131

Kaubal, Geli,
9–10
,
131
,
132
,
152
,
153
,
221
,
223
,
244
fn
.,
1111

Rauschning, Hermann,
169
,
784

Ravensbrueck,
272
,
979
,
989
,
990
,
992
,
1025

Réal, Jean,
105

Reckse, Doctor,
1025

Red, Case,
303

Reed, Douglas,
784

Regensburg,
71

Regina Palace Hotel, Munich,
418

Reich Broadcasting Corp.,
247
,
467
fn
.

Reich Central Security Office,
see
R.S.H.A.

Reich Chamber of Art,
244

Reich Chamber of Culture,
241–44

Reich Chamber of Films,
247

Reich Chamber of Radio,
247

“Reich Church,”
237
,
238
,
240

Reich Committee of German Youth Associations,
252–53

Reich Defense Council (Reichsverteidigungsrat),
208
,
275
,
281
,
282
,
290
,
497–98

Reich Defense Law, secret (May
31
, 1935),
259
,
285
fn
.

Reich Economic Chamber,
262

Reichenau, Field Marshal Walter von,
183
,
325
,
335
,
626
,
724
,
725
,
730
,
755
fn
.,
762
,
763
,
767
,
861
fn
.,
903
fn
.

Reich Food Estate,
258

Reich Governors,
200

Reich Music Chamber,
242

Reich Press Chamber,
246

Reich Press Law (Oct.
4
, 1933),
245

Reichsbank,
145
,
146
,
204
,
260
,
261
,
311
,
351–52
,
439
fn
.,
973–74

Reichsbanner,
160

Reichsgericht (Ger. Supreme Court),
269

Reichsgesetzblatt
(official gazette),
434

Reichskriegsflagge,
71
,
72

Reichsrat,
153
,
198

Reichstag,
95
,
151
,
153
,
163
,
173
,
174
,
176
,
180
,
194
,
318
,
560
; Nazi representation in,
118
,
119
,
123
,
138
,
146
,
148
,
149
,
166
,
172
,
186
,
196
; Nazi program in,
127
,
144
,
162
,
167
,
184
,
196–201
,
229
,
237
; dissolutions of,
137
,
155
,
161
,
164–65
,
170–72
,
179
,
181
,
189
,
294
fn
.; elections of,
138
,
166
,
172
,
211
,
237
,
347
; Goebbels expelled from,
157
; support of Hitler-Papen govt.,
182
,
197–201
,
210
,
274
; votes Hitler absolute power,
867
; Hitler speeches in,
213
,
234
,
291
,
562–63
,
828
,
834
; repudiation of Versailles Treaty,
299
,
300
; on peace,
209
,
280
,
285
,
290
,
470–76
,
641–42
,
752–55
,
761
,
762
; on 1934 purge,
220
,
223
,
224
,
226
,
268
; on Anschluss,
348
,
349
; on Czech invasion,
365
; on beginning of Polish war,
598–600
,
603
,
604
; on war with U.S.,
895–900
; on annihilation of Jews,
964

Reichstag fire,
146
,
191–95
,
196
,
223
,
269
,
274
,
653
,
654

Reich Statistical Office,
264

Reichswehr,
33
,
34
,
46
,
60
; becomes Wehrmacht,
285
fn
.;
see also
Army, German

Reich Theater Chamber.
242–43

Reichwein, Adolf,
1044
,
1072

Reims,
1093
,
1138–39
,
1141

Reinberger, Maj. Helmut,
671–72

Reinecke, General,
1063
,
1065

Reinhardt, Gen. Georg-Hans,
724
,
731
,
859

Reinhardt, Max,
242

Reitlinger, Gerald,
970
,
973
,
978
,
1025
fn
.

Reitsch, Hanna,
1111
,
1118–19
,
1120
,
1122
,
1133

Remagen,
1101

Remarque, Erich Maria,
241

Remer, Maj. Otto,
1061–66
,
1069

Rennes,
1037

Renthe-Fink, Cecil von,
700

reparations, German, World War I,
51
,
58
,
61
,
64
,
112
,
117
,
136
,
137
,
152
,
154
,
943

Republican Party (U.S.),
748

Repulse
(Br. battleship),
901
fn
.

Reuben James
(U.S. destroyer),
883

Reuters,
1122

Reventlow, Count Ernst zu,
123

Reynaud, Paul,
720
,
726
,
729
,
738

Rheydt,
124

Rhine river,
634
,
646
,
723
,
738
,
1088–89
,
1090
,
1095
,
1099
,
1101
,
1102
,
1105

Rhineland, remilitarization of,
211
,
282
,
286
,
290–96
,
299
,
302
,
327
,
378
,
459
,
530
,
543
,
635
,
657
,
714

Rhone Valley,
691
,
740
,
1086

Ribbentrop, Gertrud von,
1056
fn
.

Ribbentrop, Joachim von,
233
,
276
,
302
,
381
,
406
fn
.,
435
fn
.,
507
,
556–57
,
560
,
595
fn
.,
596
fn
.,
620
,
672
,
676
,
741
,
742
,
751
fn
.,
814
,
924
,
955
,
1017
fn
.,
1097
,
1112
,
1113
,
1126
,
1142–43
; personal characteristics,
181
,
298
,
415
,
436
; ambassador to Britain,
288
,
298
,
335
,
344–45
; appointed Foreign Min.,
319
; and Goering, mutual dislike,
298
,
469
,
483
,
1056
; at Hitler-Schuschnigg meeting,
328
,
347
; and Czechoslovakia,
360
,
364
,
365
,
376
,
377
,
405
,
408
,
409
,
421
,
429
,
439–42
,
444
,
446–47
,
449
,
451–52
; at Hitler-Chamberlain talks,
385
,
396
; pact with France,
437
; negotiations with Poland,
455–57
,
459
,
460–61
,
463–64
,
499
,
588
; rejects British, French protests on Memel,
461–62
; talks with Duce, Ciano on war co-operation,
436
,
482–83
,
508–10
,
512
,
548
,
551–55
,
564
,
566
,
687–90
,
816
,
821
,
845
,
910
,
923
; negotiations with U.S.S.R.,
491
,
492
,
500
,
501
,
505
,
513–14
,
520–28
,
531
,
535
fn
.,
537–41
,
545
,
547
,
609
,
621–22
,
627
,
629–31
,
639
,
674
,
793–95
,
801–9
,
847–49
; negotiations with West on Poland,
562
,
570
fn
.,
576–78
,
580–83
,
585
fn
.,
586–89
,
591
,
602
,
605–7
,
613
; relations with U.S.,
637
,
683
,
686
,
748
,
871
,
881–96
passim
,
897
fn
.; rejects British, French ultimatums,
615–18
; relations with Norway, Denmark,
696–98
,
703
,
704
,
706
; Windsor kidnap plot,
785–91
; dealings in Balkans,
795
,
800
,
801
,
823–24
; declaration of war on U.S.S.R.,
848–49
; relations with Japan,
871–72
,
874–78
,
881–96
; declaration of war on U.S.,
900