atrocities in occupied Germany
final battle for Berlin
and surrender of German forces
Red Cross
Red Front-Fighters’ League
‘Red Orchestra’
refugees
Polish
Jewish
French
Serbian
Soviet
German
Regensburg
Reich Chancellery
State Secretary
part ofservice
and invasion of France
and extermination of Jews
Hitler’s bunker complex
bombardment of
Reich Defence Commissioners
Reich Research Council
Reich School of the Nazi Party, Feldafing
Reich Security Head Office (
Reichssicherheitshauptamt
)
creation of
plans for removal of Jews from the Reich
General Plan for the East
forwards reports from Task Forces to Hitler
and development of genocidal policy
and deportation of Jews from Western Europe
orders arrest of Germans demonstrating friendliness to Jews
orders execution of looters
Reich
(journal)
Reich, Wilhelm
Reich-Ranicki, Marcel
Reichenau
Reichenau, Field Marshal Walter von
Reichsbank
Reichstag
Reichwein, Adolf
‘Reinhard Action’ camps
see also
Belzec; Sobibor; Treblinka
Reinhardt, General Hans-Georg
Remagen
Remer, Otto Ernst
Renown
(battle cruiser)
reparations
Request Concert
(film)
Rescuing Children and Protecting the
Health of Jewish Populations,
Organization for
Research Community, German (
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
)
Research Council, Reich
resistance movements
in France
in Czecho-Slovakia
in Belgium
in south-east Europe
in Poland
in Germany
Reynaud, Paul
Rheinmetall-Borsig (arms company)
Rhine, river
Rhineland
Rhodes
Rhodes, Cecil
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
at signing of French Armistice
plan to kidnap Duke and Duchess of Windsor
negotiations with Franco
and German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (1939)
and administration of Denmark
and refusal of Nazi allies to deport remainder of Jews
orders deportation of Italian Jews
and Hitler’s refusal to surrender
last days in the bunker
leaves Berlin
dismissed by Goebbels
trial and execution
Riedl, Colonel
Riefenstahl, Leni
Riegner, Gerhart
Riesenburg (Probuty)
Riga
Ringelblum, Emanuel
Ritter, Gerhard
Ritter, Robert
road-building
Robert Koch Institute
rockets
Rodenwaldt, Ernst
R̈hm, Ernst
Rokossovskii, Marshal Konstantin
Roman Observer
(newspaper)
Romania
Polish government flees to
ethnic German population transfer programmes
Jewish emigrants returned to
ceding of territories
Iron Guard uprising
oilfields
alliance with Germany
and German invasion of Soviet Union
genocide of Romanian Jews
declares war on USA
Romanian concentration camp guards
deportation of Jews from
German influence in
Legion of the Archangel Michael
deportation of Gypsies from
Hungarian Jews flee to
Red Army approaches
defects to Allies
Rome
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin
Roosevelt, Franklin.
leases destroyers to Britain
arms production programme
signs ‘Atlantic Charter’
supplies Soviet Union
and ‘Jewish world conspiracy’
Casablanca conference (1943)
protests at deportation of Hungarian Jews
death
Rosenberg, Alfred
Nazi Party ideologue
attacks on Christianity
Reich Minister for Occupied Eastern Territories
and extermination of Jews
confiscation of property
and partisan resistance
robbery of Jewish library in Rome
leaves Berlin
trial and execution
Rosenheim
Rostock
Rostov-on-Don
Rothschilds’ Shares in Waterloo, The
(film)
Rotmistrov, Pavel
Rotterdam
Rouen
Royal Air Force
and German invasion of France
Battle of Britain
Bomber Command
‘pathfinders’
‘Window’ (anti-radar device)
‘dam-buster’ raids
leaflet-dropping
and Warsaw uprising (1944)
see also
bombing raids, on Germany
Royal Navy
and German invasion of Norway
and planned German planned invasion of Britain
leasing of destroyers from USA
Mediterranean bases
evacuation of Crete
Atlantic convoys
destruction of German battleships
Arctic convoys
see also
submarines, U-boats
Royal Oak
(battleship)
Royzicki, Stanislav
Rozan
rubber
see also
buna
Rubinstein, Artur
Rubinstein, Helena
R̈gen
Ruhr
Rumkowski, Chaim
Rundstedt, Gerd von
invasion of Poland
and German advance through France
and invasion of Soviet Union
replaced by Reichenau
heart attack
donation from Hitler
and Allied Normandy landings
sacked
presides over court-martial following July 1944 bomb plot
capture and death
Rüsselsheim
Russia, Tsarist
Russian Revolution (1917)
Rust, Bernhard
Rybachi peninsula
Rzhev
SA (
Sturmabteilung
, Storm Division)
see also
brownshirts
Saale, river
Saar
ˇabac
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Polish academics deported to
Berlin Jews taken as hostages
Gross-Rosen sub-camp
loans for construction
prisoner labour
homosexuals in
Swingers sent to
medical experimentation
deportation of Slovakian Jews
Sagan
St Nazaire
St Petersburg (Leningrad)
Sajmiste
Salat, Alfred
Salerno
Saliège, Jules-G’rard, Archbishop of Toulouse
Salò
Salonika
Salzburg
San, river
Sardinia
Sarin (poison gas)
Sauckel, Fritz
Sauerbruch, Ferdinand
Saur, Karl-Otto
Sava dike
savings banks
Saxony
Scapa Flow
Schacht, Hjalmar
Scḧdle, Franz
Scḧfer, Ernst
Scharnhorst
(battleship)
Schaub, Julius
Schellenberg, Walter
Scheuer, Alois
Schieder, Theodor
Schiller, Friedrich
Schindler, Oskar
Schirach, Baldur von
Schivelbein
schizophrenia
Schlabrendorff, Fabian von
Schlageter
(Johst)
Schlegelberger, Franz
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein
(battleship)
Schmidt, Paul
Schmorell, Alexander
Schmundt, Rudolf
Schneidem̈hl
Schoenberg, Arnold
Scholl, Hans
Scholl, Sophie
Scḧnlanke
schools
suppressed in Poland
closure of Jewish schools in Reich
in concentration camps
in ghettos
closure of bomb-damaged urban schools
anti-Christian policies
decline in educational standards
Nazi elite schools
Reich School of the Nazi Party, Feldafing
Scḧrner, Ferdinand
Schreck, Josef
Schr̈der, Oskar
Schulenburg, Friedrich Werner von der
Schulenburg, Fritz-Dietlof von der
Schulte, Eduard
Schultz, Johannes
Schulz, Bruno
Schulz, Erwin
Schulze-Boysen, Harro
Schulze-Boysen, Libertas
Schuschnigg, Kurt von
Schwarz van Berk, Hans
Schwedler, Karl (’Charlie’)
Schweinfurt
Schwerin von Krosigk, Lutz
Schwetz (Swiece)
science
Scientific Registering of Serious Hereditary
and Congenital Illnesses, Reich
Committee for
‘scorched earth’ policy
Soviet
German
Scotland
Sealion, Operation
Seebruck
Selassie, Haile
Serbs, Serbia
Croatian genocide
Chetnik uprising
German army atrocities in
extermination of Jews and Gypsies
deportation of Jews to Auschwitz
political prisoners in concentration camps
killing of Gypsies
Sereny, Gitta
Sevastopol
Seven Years’ War
sex
sexual relations among T-4 staff
sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews
sexual relations between Germans and foreign workers
sexual offences(
see also
rape)
sexual morality
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur
Shakespeare, William
Shanghai
Shaw, George Bernard
Shell (multinational)
Shirer, William.
on German invasion of Poland
on Nazi Jewish policy
on ‘euthanasia action’ programme
on assassination attempt on Hitler (November 1939)
on Allied operation in Norway
on German advance through Holland and Belgium
on German conquest of France
on German ‘peace offer’
on Battle of Britain
on popular culture
on ‘radio crime’
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Siberia
Sicily
Siegen
Sierakowiak, Dawid
Silberhammer (Srebrzysk)
Silesia
see also
Lower Silesia; Upper Silesia
Sima, Horia
Simeon, King of Bulgaria
Six, Franz
Sixth Army
Skorzeny, Otto
slave labour
Slavs
Nazi racial policy towards
propaganda against
viewed as subhumans
and Hitler’s plans for ‘living space’
in concentration camps
Slovakia
Slovenia
Smolensk
Sobibor
labour camp
extermination camp
Social Darwinism
Social Democratic Party of Germany
and popular support for war
and minorities
vote for war credits in 1914
reports on foreign workers
political prisoners
on ‘comprehensive terror’
and resistance movements
postwar re-emergence
social workers
Socialist Reich Party
Soest
Sofia
Soldau
Solmitz, Friedrich
Solmitz, Gisela
Solmitz, Luise
diary
on German conquest of France
on German invasion of Soviet Union
on foreign workers in Hamburg
on bombing raids
on treatment of Jews
turns against Hitler
postwar life
Somaliland
Soman (nerve gas)
Somme, river
Sonnenburg
Sonnenstein
Sorge, Richard
South Tyrol
South-east Asia
Soviet secret police (NKVD)
Soviet Union
German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (1939)
invasion of Poland
and resettlement of ethnic Germans
atrocities in occupied Polish territory
German fear of invasion from
war with Finland (’Winter War’, 1940)
territorial gains
German plans for invasion
trade agreements with Germany
Hitler’s plans for ‘living space’
industrialization
intelligentsia
Soviet Union -
cont
.
Task Forces in
bombing raids on
German invasion (Operation Barbarossa)
prisoners of war
partisan groups
Hitler’s plans for occupied territory
State Defence Committee
German army’s atrocities in
relocation of industry
expulsion of ethnic Germans
murder of political prisoners
transport difficulties slow German advance
Battle of Moscow (1941-2)
supplies from USA
and ‘Jewish world conspiracy’
armaments production
Soviet civilian labourers in Germany
political prisoners in concentration camps
German summer offensive (1942)
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-3)
‘re-education’ of German prisoners of war
looting of artworks
Operation Bagration
and Warsaw uprising (1944)
and German resistance movements
revenge attacks in occupied Germany
and German surrender
and Nuremberg trials
postwar use of German military technological equipment and expertise
see also
Red Army; Russia, Tsarist; Russian Revolution (1917)
Spain
Civil War
Spandau prison
Special Operations Executive (British)
Speer, Albert
sight-seeing trip to Paris with Hitler
General Building Inspector
and G̈ring
succeeds Todt
rationalization of war economy
and the ‘New Order’
and mobilization of foreign workers
on Hitler’s rages
and Battle of Stalingrad (1942-3)
and ‘total war’ initiative
and bombing raids on Germany
on Hitler’s withdrawal from public view
and Wilhelm Furtẅngler