The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

by William Shirer

  Ciliax, Vice-Admiral, 914fn.

  Cincar-Marković, Aleksander, 823

  Circle of Friends of the Economy (Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft), 144–45

  Circle of Friends of the Reichsfuehrer S.S., 144–45

  City of Flint, S.S., 646

  Civil Service Act (1937), 249

  Civil Service Law (Apr. 7, 1933), 268

  Clark, Gen. Mark, 1001

  Clay, Gen. Lucius D., 1096fn.

  Clemenceau, Georges, 57–59, 82

  Cohen, Benjamin, 897fn.

  Cologne, 127, 148, 178–80, 934, 1034

  Colson, General, 617

  Columbia Broadcasting System, 467fn.

  Combat League of Middle-Class Tradespeople, 206

  “Commando Order,” 955

  Commerz und Privat Bank, 144

  “Commissar Order,” 830-31, 834

  Committee of Independent Workmen, 36

  Committee of Seven (Austrian Nazis), 323

  Communists in Czechoslovakia, 359, 438

  Communists in Germany: in post–World War I period, 33, 34, 40, 52, 54–55, 64, 65, 126, 129; in Reichstag, 138, 144, 146, 170, 179; brawls with Nazis, 147, 165, 174, 519; and Bruening, 152, 153; in 1932–33 elections, 157, 166, 172, 176, 195; suppression of, 179, 189, 190–91, 194–96, 199–200, 231; strategy of, an aid to Hitler, 185; and Reichstag fire, 192–93, 269, 274, and anti-Hitler plot, 1043–44

  Como, 1131

  concentration camps, 111, 223, 231, 232, 238, 270–72, 322, 351, 352, 497–98, 509, 518, 664–65, 953, 967–74, 979–91, 993, 1003, 1035, 1057, 1073, 1142; see also Auschwitz; Buchenwald; Dachau; Mauthausen; Sachsenhausen; Treblinka

  Condor Legion, 297

  Compiegne, 29, 741–42, 758, 759, 821, 852, 924, 1139

  Confessional Church, 236, 238, 239

  Congressional Record, 748

  Conspiracy against Hitler, see anti-Hitler conspiracy

  Constance, Lake, 1079fn.

  Conwell-Evans, Dr. Philip, 649

  Cooper, Alfred Duff, see Duff Cooper, Alfred

  Copenhagen, 681, 695, 697–700

  Corbin, Charles, 608, 612

  Corsica, 740, 924

  Cossack (Br. destroyer), 679

  Coulondre, Robert, 437, 443–44, 446, 451–52, 482, 540fn., 542, 543fn., 549–50, 568, 584fn., 602, 605–7, 613fn., 616–18

  Council of People’s representatives, 54

  Courageous (Br. carrier), 646

  Coventry, 781

  Coward, Noel, 784

  Cracow, 626, 663

  Craig, Gordon A., 162fn.

  Crete. 826, 828, 923

  Crimea, 857, 858, 865, 942, 1007

  Cripps, Sir Stafford, 795, 843–44, 848

  Croatia, 552, 824, 826fn.

  “Cromwell,” 769

  Croydon, 776

  Csáky, Count István, 507–8

  Cuno, Wilhelm, 144

  Curzon line, 459fn.

  Cvetković, Dragisha, 823

  Cyrenaica, 818fn., 819, 827, 911fn.

  Czech Broadcasting House, 383

  Czech Maginot Line, 382

  Czechoslovakia, 84, 282, 283, 295, 307, 336, 345–46, 353, 354, 356, 382, 399–400, 421–23, 437–54, 458, 472, 507, 544, 591, 632, 643; history, 358–59; Hitler’s war plans against, 211, 304, 306, 309, 332–33, 357–63, 365–68, 370, 375, 378–80, 382–88, 393, 399, 402, 405–7, 423, 424, 426–29, 437, 438, 714; pact with U.S.S.R., 285, 354, 362, 390, 392, 427; mobilizes against German threat, 363–64, 393–94, 401; British, French intervention, 364, 368, 376, 380–98, 402–4, 408–11, 414–27, 546 (see also Sudetenland); German occupation of, 448–54, 457, 459, 464, 466, 478, 498, 518, 519, 530, 543, 573, 579, 580, 657, 710, 938, 991–94, 1009, 1113

  Czechoslovakian government in exile, 784

  Czechoslovak National Bank, 439fn.

  Czernin, Countess Vera (Frau von Schuschnigg), 352

  Czerny, Josef, 85

  D’Abernon, Lord, 112fn.

  Dachau, 212, 223, 239, 271, 272, 352, 353, 655, 918fn., 968fn., 971, 975fn., 979, 981, 984–86, 988–90, 1092fn., 1095fn.

  Dahlem, 238, 239, 1048

  Dahlerus, Birger, 516–17, 569–74, 576–77, 583–85, 589, 592, 600, 601, 604, 614, 639–40, 686fn.

  Daladier, Edouard, 360, 384, 389, 390, 396, 410, 413–21, 423, 425, 443, 535, 537, 550, 568, 609, 610fn., 611–12, 617, 643, 682fn, 740

  Dallin, Alexander, 944fn.

  Dalmatia, 552

  Daniels, H. G., 288fn.

  Danner, General von, 71

  Danube river, 823, 1033, 1107

  Danzig, 41, 84, 169, 209, 212, 359, 438fn., 455–65, 468, 471, 484, 488, 497–99, 508fn., 509, 510, 511fn., 546, 563, 568, 569, 572-73, 575, 577, 582, 583, 588, 589, 600, 603, 606–8, 639

  Dardanelles, 804, 807–10

  Darlan, Adm. Jean, 609, 740fn., 923, 925fn.

  Darmstaetter und Nationalbank, 136

  Darré, Walther, 148, 204, 257–58

  Davies, Joseph E., 478fn., 544fn.

  Dawes Plan, 112, 136, 943

  Dawson, Geoffrey, 288fn.

  Decamp, General, 609fn.

  Decline of the West, The (Spengler), 61

  Defense Law, Secret (May 21, 1935), 259, 285fn.

  De Gaulle, Gen. Charles, 744, 817

  Degesch of Dessau, 972

  Dekanozov, Vladimir, 794, 848–49

  Delp, Father Alfred, 1072fn.

  De Luce, Daniel, 784fn.

  Democratic Party (Staatspartei), 55–56, 186, 201

  Denikin, Gen. Anton, 917fn.

  Denmark, 58, 94, 470, 494fn., 561; German plans for invasion of, 678, 681–83, 689; German conquest of, 694–700, 704fn., 710, 711fn., 712, 713, 716, 793; German occupation, 519fn., 775, 957, 1107; surrender of Germans in, 1138

  Der Angriff, 148, 245

  Der Deutsche Erzieher, 249

  Der Fuehrer (Karlsruhe newsp.), 564

  Derousseaux, General, 729

  Derna, 912fn.

  Der Stuermer, 26, 50, 106

  Der Totale Krieg (Ludendorff), 259

  Desna river, 859

  Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, 245, 615–16

  Deutsche Bank, 144

  Deutsche Kredit Gesellschaft, 144

  Deutsche Mathematik, 250

  Deutscher Kampfbund (German Fighting Union), 63, 66, 67, 73

  Deutscher Wehrgeist, 139

  Deutsches Jungvolk, 120, 253, 255

  Deutsche Zeitung, 157

  Deutschland (Ger. cruiser), 214, 215, 226

  Deutschland (Ger. pocket battleship, later renamed Luetzow), 462, 518, 520, 636, 646

  “Deutschland Erwache,” 44

  Deutschlandsender, 1064–1065, 1069

  “Deutschland ueber Alles,” 85, 147, 199

  De Valera, Eamon, 474

  Devonshire (Br. cruiser), 709

  Dickmann, Maj. Otto, 993fn.

  Didier Works, 971

  Die Chemische Industrie, 252

  Dieckhoff, Hans, 400–1, 433fn, 897

  Diehn, August, 144

  Diels, Rudolf, 192–93

  Dietl, Brig. Gen. Eduard, 701, 707, 709, 711, 810

  Dietrich, Otto, 143–44, 221, 224–25, 245, 854

  Dietrich, Sepp, 222fn., 855, 1005, 1090, 1095fn.

  Dill, Field Marshal Sir John, 1001fn.

  Dimitroff, Georgi, 193

  Dinant, 723, 724, 1093

  Dingfelder, Dr. Johannes, 40

  Dirksen, Herbert von, 319, 360, 364, 376, 454, 490, 503, 569

  Dirschau bridge, 589, 600, 601

  Djibouti, 740–41

  D.N.B., 280, 343, 511fn., 562–63, 627

  Dnieper river, 798, 811, 853, 857, 1007

  Dobrudja, 801fn.

  “Doctors’ Trial,” 979fn., 908, 985, 987, 988, 990–91

  Doeberitz, 1057, 1061, 1062, 1064fn.

  Doenitz, Adm. Karl, 637–38, 882; Navy C. in C, 1000, 1002fn., 1003, 1007, 1008fn., 1011, 1056, 1098–1100; commands forces in north, 1112, 1113, 1120–21; Hitler’s successor, 1126–30
, 1132, 1134–38, 1141, 1143

  Dohnanyi, Hans von, 693, 904, 1019, 1024, 1026

  Dollfuss, Engelbert, 223, 229, 279–80, 295, 296, 324, 325fn, 331, 334, 341

  Dollman, Gen. Friedrich, 1037

  Dombas, 708

  Don river, 860, 915–17, 919, 922, 925, 926, 928, 929, 1006

  Dondorf, 387

  Donets Basin, 811, 857, 909, 916, 1007

  Dordrecht, 721, 722

  Dortmund, 1008

  Dostler, Gen. Anton, 956

  Doumenc, General, 502, 533–38

  Dover Straits, 757, 764

  Drang nach Osten, 83–84; see also Europe, German expansion aims in

  Drax, Adm. Sir Reginald, 503, 534–36, 541

  Dreesen, Herr, 220, 392fn.

  Dreesen, Hotel, Godesberg, 391, 392, 394–96

  Dresden, 1105

  Dresdener Bank, 144

  Dressler-Andress, Horst, 247

  Drexler, Anton, 36–37, 39–41, 45, 119

  Dubno, 961

  Duesseldorf, 653, 1099

  Duesterberg, Theodor, 157–59

  Duff Cooper, Alfred, 396, 420, 779

  Duilio (It. battleship), 818fn.

  Dulles, Allen, 1018, 1026–27, 1033, 1071fn.

  Dunkirk, 728–39, 747, 770, 773, 777, 826, 1037

  Durcansky, Ferdinand, 437–38, 440, 441

  Dyle river, 716, 717, 724, 725

  Eagle’s Nest, 436

  Eastbourne, 764, 766, 767

  East Prussia, 162, 179–80, 183, 212, 215, 235, 1072; role in Hitler’s designs on Poland, 455, 458, 460, 463, 468, 497, 498, 557, 625; Russian drive on, 1041, 1046, 1085, 1090, 1096–97, 1103

  Ebbinghaus, Julius, 251–52

  Ebbutt, Norman, 288, 784

  Eben Emael, Fort, 725, 814

  Ebert, Friedrich, 34, 52, 53–54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 64, 65, 72

  Echternach, 1092

  Eckart, Dietrich, 38–39, 46, 49, 51, 97, 110, 118

  Eckener, Dr. Hugo, 294fn.

  Economics, Ministry of, 259–62, 310, 320, 497, 759

  Eden, Anthony, 214, 283, 288, 293–94, 344, 495, 779, 900, 1018

  Education, ministry of, 249

  Edward VIII, King of England, see Windsor, Duke of

  Eger, 386, 388, 402

  Egypt, 757, 813, 817, 818, 821, 827, 828, 850, 911–13, 915, 919

  Egypt, Khedive of, 751fn.

  Eher Verlag, 80, 246

  Ehrhardt, Captain, 43, 66

  Ehrhardt Brigade, 33, 34, 43

  Eichmann, Karl Adolf, 351, 963, 978

  Eicke, Theodor, 272

  Eidsvold, 705

  Eidsvold (Norw. naval vessel), 701

  Einsatzgruppen, 958–63, 964, 966, 974, 1061, 1139

  Einsatzkommando, 972

  Einsatzstab Rosenberg, 945

  Einstein, Albert, 241, 250–52, 1025

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 923–25, 995, 999, 1001, 1002fn., 1036, 1075, 1076, 1088–90, 1092fn., 1099, 1105–6, 1116, 1122, 1138–39

  Eisner, Kurt, 33

  El Agheila,911fn.

  El Alamein, 911, 913, 914, 919, 920, 922, 933, 934

  Elbe river, 1105–7, 1112

  Elberus, Mount, 914

  El Gazala, 911fn.

  Elizabeth, Queen (Consort), 787

  Ellis, Havelock, 241

  Ellis, Maj. L. F., 732fn.

  Elser, Georg, 654–56

  Eltz-Rubenach, Baron von, 164

  Elverum, 703, 705

  Emden (Ger. light cruiser), 702

  Enabling Act (Mar. 23, 1933), 196, 198–200, 229, 274

  Enderis, Guido, 897fn.

  Engelbrecht, Gen. Erwin, 703

  England, see Britain

  English Channel, 646, 718, 723, 726–28, 731, 737, 746, 752, 761, 762, 764, 768, 770, 772–75, 781, 812, 813, 819, 913, 914, 995, 1012, 1031, 1033, 1036, 1037

  Epp, Gen. Franz Ritter von, 46, 120, 200

  Ernst, Karl, 192, 220–23

  Erxleben, Father, 1025

  Erzberger, Matthias, 34, 43, 51, 58

  Espirito Santo Silva, Ricardo do, 789–90

  Essen, 220, 949

  Esser, Hermann, 49–51, 118

  Estonia, 494fn., 495, 541, 542, 544, 630–31, 794, 833, 962

  Ethiopia (Abyssinia), 289, 290, 296, 297, 301, 469, 566, 741

  Europa, S.S., 768

  Europe, German expansion aims in, 82–84, 256, 280, 286, 305, 308, 405, 427, 429–30, 435fn., 437, 484, 488, 795, 796, 799, 833, 836, 839, 1131; German rule over, 5, 95, 426–27, 746, 757, 795–96, 820, 937–95, 1008, 1082, 1141, 1142; Nazi–Soviet division of East, 514, 515, 523, 541, 549, 562, 631, 639, 795, 808–10; post-war settlement, 1011, 1016, 1032–33

  Excalibur, S.S., 791

  extermination camps (Vernichtungslager), 664–65, 967–74

  Falaise, 1076

  Falkenhausen, Gen. Alexander von, 906, 1031, 1047, 1074

  Falkenhorst, Gen. Nikolaus von, 680–82, 696, 706fn., 709fn.

  Falkenstein, Maj. Frh, von, 879

  Fall Gelb, see Yellow, Case

  Fall Gruen, see Green, Case

  Fall Rot, see Red, Case

  Fall Weiss, see White, Case

  Fallersleben, 267

  Fatherland Front, 37

  F.B.I., 843

  Feder, Gottfried, 35, 36, 39–41, 84, 127, 143, 144, 203–4,261, 759

  Fegelein, Gen. Hermann, 1114, 1121, 1122

  Feiling, Keith, 302fn., 460fn.

  “Felix,” 817, 819

  Fellgiebel, Gen. Erich, 1030, 1034, 1049, 1052–55, 1057, 1058, 1072

  Feltre, 996

  Femegerichte, 65fn.

  Fermi, Enrico, 252

  Feuchter, George W., 773fn.

  Feuchtwanger, Lion, 241

  Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 97–99

  “Final Solution” of Jewish problem, 936–68, 978, 991

  Finke, Doctor, 987

  Finkenkrug, 719, 720

  Finland, 281, 495, 502, 541, 542, 544, 561, 630, 680, 687, 710, 711fn., 798, 806, 810, 942, 1085; German arms, troops in, 801–6, 809–11, 845, 856–57, 859; Soviet attack on, 665–66, 668, 675, 676, 682, 683

  Firebrace, Colonel, 502fn.

  Fischer, Dr. Fritz, 979fn.

  Fischer, Louis, 784fn.

  Fischboeck, Doctor, 328

  Fischlham, 10

  Fish, Mildred, 1043fn.

  Flandin, Pierre Etienne, 293

  Fleming, Peter, 785

  Flensburg, 656, 1139, 1141