Häusler, Rudolf, 137
Hearst, William Randolph, 38
Hedin, Sven, 42, 50, 208, 209, 210, 213–20, 219, 221
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, xiv, xv
Heine, Thomas Theodor, 38
Heines, Edmund, 280
Henty, G. A., 259
Hepp, Ernst, 12– 13, 18, 81
Hess, Ilse, 76
Hess, Rudolf, 67, 72, 76, 154, 156
Hiegl’s Handbook of Tanks, 193, 194
Himmler, Heinrich, 119, 189, 227, 235–6
Hindenberg, Paul von, 146
Histories and Whatever Else There Is to Report About Old Fritz, the Great King and Hero, 232n
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great (Carlyle), 223, 225, 228–33
Hitler, Adolf, 53, 219
Abrechnung of, 63
anti-Semitism of, 30, 38– 40, 50, 55, 67, 77, 78– 9, 92, 164, 221
biographers of, 79
bookcases of, 26, 50, 51, 52, 117, 229
on books, vii
Burckhardt’s negotiations with, 171– 3
casualty report of, 24
Catholicism and, 141, 143–4, 150–1, 155, 156–9, 163–5, 258–9
compartmentalized mind of, 138
on “education at state expense,” 68, 71
emotional transformation of, 12– 13
ex libris bookplate of, xvi, 207, 248, 262, 265
failed Bavarian coup of, 40, 62– 3, 65, 66, 78, 88, 119, 124, 220, 280
fiftieth birthday of, xvi, xviii
on Ford, 70
Foundations of National Socialism and, 154
on Gandhi, 68
in hospital, 23– 5, 26
Iron Crosses of, 14, 18
Lehmann read by, 131–6
marginalia of, xvii, xx, 68, 130, 134, 135, 136, 139–41, 167–8, 195, 203, 204, 205–6, 205, 207, 240
marriage of, 237
memory of, 137
Mercedes desired by, 74– 5
military books of, 191–5, 257, 262
as military tactician, 197– 202
on The Myth of the Twentieth Century, 144–5, 148, 149, 154
Nazi leadership given up by, 66
Nazi resignation of, 54– 5
Nazi salute by, 121
New Yorker profile of, 117
occult reading of, 165–70, 177–84, 258
personal papers of, 84
philosophy and, 67, 126–31, 183
and plan for Nazi merger, 47
political classes taken by, 31, 49, 52
poor spelling of, 52, 72, 126
in prison, 60, 63– 9, 64, 71, 72, 73, 74– 5, 86, 192
promotion to chancellor, 93, 124, 140–1, 146, 156
recommended reading list of, 56– 7, 57, 69
speeches of, 88, 92, 217, 220–2
on suicide, 169–70
suicide contemplated by, 63
suicide of, xix, 61, 167, 237–8, 246
“Target No. 589” of, 85– 6, 276
trial of, 40, 201
twenty-five-point program of, 46, 48, 56, 58
watercolors and sketches of, 17– 18, 19
will of, 236
on word Führer, 130
in World War I, 3– 18, 5, 15, 22, 25– 6
see also Mein Kampf (Hitler)
Hitler, Alois (father), 34– 5, 49, 74, 77– 8
Hitler, Alois (half-brother), 12, 74
Hitler, Angela, 12, 74, 92
Hitler, Mrs. (mother), 45, 74
Hitler, Paula, 12, 40, 42, 74, 78, 164
Hitler’s Second Book, 276
Hitler’s Watercolors, 18
Hitler Youth, 69, 120
Hoffmann, Heinrich, 17, 18, 19, 51, 120, 199
Hoheneichen V erlag, 28, 30, 40, 147, 149
Holland, 196–7, 199
Horst Wessel: A German Fate (film), 125n
“How to Succeed” (Schelbach), 265
Hudal, Alois, 142, 143, 147, 150–4, 159, 162, 241
Human Betterment Foundation, 111, 112
Humps, Traudl, 190
Ibsen, Henrik, 28
Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 144, 147–8, 149, 150, 158, 161
“interest slavery,” 31, 51
International Jew, The: The World’s Foremost Problem (Ford), xiv, 50, 56– 7, 69– 71, 97
Is the Swastika Appropriate as the Symbol of the National Socialist Party? (Krohn), 51
Jacobius, Arnold J., 256, 265
Jesus Christ, Rosenberg’s view of, 143– 4
Jews, xvii
alleged conspiracies by, 91
Faulhaber and, 155
Lagarde on, xvii, 116, 139–40
mistreatment in Amsterdam of, 120
in Racial Typology of the German People, 133
Riefenstahl on, 124–6
see also anti-Semitism
J. F. Lehmann V erlag, 131, 134, 194
Johannes Günther V erlag, 154
Johst, Hans, 265
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), xiii
Julius Caesar, 51, 194
Junge, Hans, 189, 190
Junge, Traudl, 138–9, 165, 189, 235, 237
Jünger, Ernst, 80, 81, 82– 4, 83
Justice in Chains (Zarnow), 131
Justrow, Karl, 195
Kahr, Gustav von, 62– 3
Kallenbach, Hans, 64, 273
Kankeleit, Otto, 131
Kannenberg, Artur “Willy,” 188– 9, 190– 1, 195, 197, 202– 3
Kant, Immanuel, 50, 51, 52, 68, 126, 246, 262
Kapp, Wolfgang, 36– 7, 52, 271
Kehlsteinhaus, 171– 3, 174
Keitel, Wilhelm, 196, 196, 197, 198, 206
Kempka, Erich, 189, 190
Kershaw, Ian, xvii
King Lear (Shakespeare), 35
Knobelsdorff, Georg Wenzeslaus von, 21
Königgrätz, 187, 199
Krohn, Friedrich, 50– 1, 126
Kubizek, August, 51, 137
Kuh, Wilhelm, 16
Kundt, Hans, 257
Lagarde, Paul, xvii, 69, 116, 127, 135, 139–40
Lambach monastery, 152, 281
Landsberg am Lech prison, 60, 63– 9, 64, 71, 72, 73, 74– 5, 86, 192
Langbehn, Julius, 134
Langhans, Karl Gotthard, 20
“Law of the World” (Riedel), 163, 169, 170, 177–81, 180
Lawyer’s Mission, The (Finger), 131
League of Nations, 171, 173
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), xvi
Lebensraum, 78, 206
Lehmann, Julius Friedrich, 69, 131–6, 140, 141, 194
Leipzig, battle of, 129
Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung, 265
Lenz, Fritz, 111, 112
Ley, Robert, 259– 60
Leybold, Otto, 65, 67
“Library of a Dilettante, The: A Glimpse into the Private Library of Herr Hitler” (Beilhack), 263–6
Library of Congress, xv, xvi, xviii, 8, 27, 45, 56n, 60, 76n, 167, 170, 212n, 233, 247, 248, 256, 263
Lloyd George, David, 54
Locarno Pact, 88
Loog, Carl, 239– 41
Lorenzaccio (Eckart), 34, 35– 6, 40
Ludendorff, Erich, 50, 62, 77
Lussow, Otto von, 62– 3
Luther, Martin, 39, 50
Luther and the Jews, 50
Maag, Peter, 165, 247
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 246
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 147
Magic: History, Theory and Practice (Schertel), 136, 182
Magic Skin, The (de Balzac), xx
Manifesto for Overcoming the Interest Slavery of Capital (Feder), 51
Martens, Max, 17
Marxism, 67, 88
Mattern, Daniel, 117
Maurenbrecher, Max, 53
Maurice, Emil, 78
Max and Moritz (Busch), xiv
May, Karl, xiii, 42, 201–2, 213, 259
Mayr, Karl, 31
Mein Kampf (Hitler), xvi, xx, 12, 14, 26, 49, 58
– 9, 97, 103, 104, 105, 108, 144, 149, 244–5, 245, 246, 260, 263–4
choir memories in, 152
“cowardly submission” discussed in, 201
deluxe editions of, 60– 1, 65– 6
drafts of, 72, 73, 74, 76, 81, 85, 90, 163
excerpted in newspapers, 80
first volume of, 60, 76– 9, 80, 85, 86, 90
Günther’s influence on, 69
Hanfstaengl’s editing of, 75– 6
as Hitler’s gifts, 77– 8
Hitler’s military reading mentioned in, 192
income from, 60
“most revealing sentence” in, 163
Nazi Party in, 67, 86, 88
oratorical style used in, 76
original title for, 65, 66
Pius XI’s reading of, 152
poor grammar of, 71
preface to, 84
publication of, 75, 92
quoted in Foundations of National Socialism, 161– 2
reviews of, 76– 7, 79
sales of, 79, 92, 260
Schopenhauer in, 126
second volume of, 60, 78– 9, 80, 81, 84, 86
sources for, 69
theory of reading presented in, 114– 15
third volume of, 86– 92, 87, 92– 3
title chosen for, 76
vengeance as motivation for, 62, 64– 5, 67
writing of, 64– 5, 66– 7
Memorandum 10, 56
Menzel, Adolph, 25
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare), xii
Metaphysical Elements of Ethics (Kant), 50
Meyer, Adolf, 5, 6, 14, 15, 119
Meyer’s Encyclopedia, 139, 239
Michael (Goebbels), 92
Miegel, Agnes, 2 65
Miesbacher Anzeiger, 75
Miller, Lee, 244, 245
Miskolczy, Ambrus, 135– 6
Mitlstrasser, Margarete, 137– 8
Mitlstrasser, Gretl, 176
Moeller von den Bruck, Arthur, 134, 135
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 151, 161
Moltke, Helmuth von, 195, 199, 200, 201
Montesquieu, Baron de, 50
Morgenstern, Christian, 42
Müller, Adolf, 75
Müller, Georg, xi
Munich, 12, 17, 35, 37, 38, 40n, 47, 49, 52, 55, 92, 117, 254
Hitler’s failed coup in, 40, 62– 3, 65, 66, 78, 88, 119, 124, 220, 280
Hitler’s library at, xv
Munich, University of, 31, 49, 52
Munich Agreement, 198
Mussolini, Benito, 62, 92, 184
My Life and Work (Ford), 244
My Political Awakening: From the Diary of a German Socialist Worker (Drexler), 32– 3, 33, 51
Myth of the Twentieth Century, The (Rosenberg), 77, 143, 144–5, 148, 156
Hitler on, 144–5, 148, 149, 154
on Index, 147– 8, 150, 158
Studies of Myth and, 148– 9
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 129, 138, 194, 212, 220, 257, 264
Nathan the Wise (Lessing), xii
National Gallery, Berlin, 10, 25
National Hero Day, 223, 224
Nationalism (Tagore), 51
National Socialist German Workers Party, 46
National Socialist Institute, 50, 56, 98, 126
National Socialist Party, see Nazi Party
National Theater, Berlin, 37
Navies of the World and Their Fighting Power, The, 194
Nazi Eher V erlag, 260
Nazi Party, xix, 30, 46– 8, 51, 56– 8
Archives of, 14, 18, 56
Catholic plot against, 142–3, 147, 150–4, 159–64
Central Publishing House of, 61
Dickel’s expulsion from, 55, 57– 8
Fichte and, 129
film tribute to, 120
headquarters of, 56
Hitler’s recommended reading list for, 56– 7, 57, 69
Hitler’s resignation from, 54– 5
immorality trials of, 258– 9
in Mein Kampf, 67, 86, 88
in 1928 election, 88
philosophy and, 130
press of, 65
Rosenberg in, 145
“Sieg Heil” used by, 189
twenty-five-point program for, 46, 48, 56, 58
Nazi Youth, 69, 120
“Nero Order,” 230
Netherlands, 196– 7, 199
Neurath, Konstantin von, 154
New Reich Chancellery, 174, 214, 223, 226, 232
News Chronicle, 214
New Yorker, The, 117
New York Times, 69
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 67, 126, 127–8, 127, 129, 130, 134, 183, 211
Nietzsche’s Political Legacy, 128
Night of the Long Knives, 146, 280
Normandy, France, 230, 235
North, Central and East Asia: Handbook of Geographic Science, xviii–xix
North Africa, 220, 221
Nostradamus, xvi, 51, 239– 41
Nuremberg rally, 77, 153
Obersalzberg, xv, 78, 84, 156, 170–3, 174, 175, 176, 183, 235, 249, 255, 265
“Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question, The” (Carlyle), 229
Oechsner, Frederick, 117, 191–2, 255, 257
Olympia (film), 120– 1
On War (Clausewitz), 50, 201
Operation Barbarossa, 174, 206
Origin of Species, The (Darwin), 147, 242
Osborn, Max, 3, 8– 11, 9, 15, 17, 19– 22, 25, 26, 27, 51, 126, 233
Osservatore Romano, L’, 147, 150
Palestine, xvii, 130, 139
Papal Fables of the Middle Ages, 50
Papen, Franz von, 146, 150– 1, 154, 160
Parsifal (Wagner), xvi, 51, 239
Passing of the Great Race, The; or, The Racial Basis of European History (Grant), 94, 96, 97, 101, 103–4, 105, 108, 110, 112, 115, 132
Peer Gynt (film), 125n
Peer Gynt (Ibsen), 28– 30, 29, 34, 37, 40– 5, 43, 45, 56
Pennsylvania, University of, 247
Peter III (tsar), 232
Petz, Friedrich, 4, 6, 7
Pius XI (pope), 152, 161
Poincaré, Raymond, 264
Poland, 156, 171–4, 178, 184, 185, 197, 199, 209, 214, 217n, 218, 220, 240
Pope, Alexander, vii
Popenoe, Paul, 112
Posthumous Fragments of a Young Physicist, (Ritter), xx
Prehistory of Roosevelt’s War, A (Dieckhoff), 239
Prince, The (Machiavelli), 246
Prophecies of Nostradamus, The (Loog), 239– 41
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 70, 71
Prussia, 127, 224
Racial Typology of the German People (Günther), 69, 97, 111, 113, 132, 133
“Raise the Banner!,” 125
Ranke, Leopold von, 50
Raubal, Angela, 190
Raubal, Geli, 66, 92, 178
Raubal, Leo, 66
Rauch, Christian Daniel, 25
Realm of God and the Contemporary World (Maag), 165, 247
Recommendation for the Improvement and Consolidation of Accounting Procedures for Cigar Factories, also a Path to National Socialist Economic Methods, 119
Reflections on World History (Burkhardt), 61n
Reich Chancellery, 22, 61, 123, 124, 125, 160, 177, 190, 207–8, 214, 232, 246
burning of, 141
Reich Chancellery Library, 117, 128, 263, 279
Reichenau, Walther von, 200
Remarque, Erich Maria, 80
Rembrandt as Educator (Langbehn), 134
“Report on the Adolph [sic] Hitler Collection and Recommendations Regarding Its Arrangement” (Jacobius and Goff), 267– 8
Resurgence of the West (Dickel), 47, 48, 53– 4, 55, 58
Richard Wagner: The German as Artist, Thinker, Politician (Chamberlain), 134
Ride Across the Desert, The (Ride Through the Desert; May), xiii, 42
Riedel, Maximilian, 163, 169, 170, 177– 81, 180
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bsp; Riefenstahl, Leni, 120– 6, 122, 128– 9, 137, 189
Ring Publishers, 65
Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, The (Stoddard), 112
Ritter, Johann Wilhelm, xx
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), xi, 42
Rochs, Hugo, 186, 187, 187, 202– 3, 204, 206– 7, 228n
Roder, Lorenz, 65
Röhm, Ernst, 146, 257
Rolland, Romain, 68
Rommel, Erwin, 222
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 208, 215, 218– 19, 221, 227– 8, 233, 234
Roosevelt, Theodore, 192, 215, 257
Rosenberg, Alfred, 36, 56, 57, 69, 77, 81, 124, 136, 143– 5, 147, 148, 154, 156, 159, 260
on Hudal’s manuscript, 154
in Nazi Party, 145
Rothfels, Hans, 276
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 50
Rubens, Peter Paul, 15
Ruhland, Gustav, 264
Russian Revolution, 36, 50
Schaub, Julius, 84– 5, 189
Schelling, Friedrich, 52
Schertel, Ernst, 136n, 168, 169, 179, 181– 4
Schiller, Friedrich, xi, 126, 137
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich, 20
Schirach, Baldur von, 69, 119– 20
Schirach, Henriette von, 119–20, 124
Schleich, Carl Ludwig, 68, 136, 168, 169, 179, 181, 182
Schlieffen, Alfred Graf von, 186, 195, 197, 201, 202–3, 205– 6, 228
Schlieffen: A Study of His Life and Character for the German People (Rochs), 186– 9, 187, 202– 3, 204, 205– 6, 205, 228
Schlieffen Plan, 186, 199, 202, 203, 204
Schmidt, Ernst, 23, 25, 31
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 52, 67, 126–7, 128, 129, 130, 131, 134, 183
Schopenhauer and the Jews, 50
Schörner, Ferdinand, 225– 6
Schröder, Christa, 84, 138– 9, 189, 191
Schulte, Karl Joseph, 142– 3, 144, 156, 158
Schuschnigg, Kurt, 174
Schwind, Moritz von, 25
Secret Sciences, 166
Seisser, Hans Ritter von, 62– 3
Seven Years’ War, 224
Shakespeare, William, xi–xiii, xiii
Shaw, George Bernard, 137
Shirer, William, L., 112
Sidereus Nuncius (Galileo), 147
social Darwinism, 91
“Solution to the German Question, The,” xix
Somme, 10, 15, 23
SOS Iceberg, 124
Soviet Union, 174, 204, 205, 206, 210–11, 214, 218, 219, 227, 234, 235, 246
Spanish-American War, 192, 257
Speeches to the German Nation (Fichte), 129
Speer, Albert, 189, 202, 212, 230, 233, 234
Spengler, Oswald, 47, 50
Spinoza, 242
Stalin, Josef, xviii, 211, 221
Stalingrad, 210, 211, 213, 222
Stang, Walter, 65
Stein, Karl von, 194
sterilization, 111, 114, 143, 158
Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm von, 192, 257
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