However, my most profound thanks must go to the hundred or so eyewitnesses who allowed themselves to be interviewed for this project. Their memories are priceless. I hope they will forgive me for expressing my thanks to them collectively here—their names are already noted elsewhere in this book, as are their insights.
INDEX
Aachen prison
Abt, Else
Abwehr
Africa, deportation of Jews to
agriculture
Agudas Israel World Organization
Alexander, Vera
Alinka
Allies
Auschwitz bombing and
Brandi-Grosz mission and
Nazis vs.
Ambros, Otto
American Union of Orthodox Rabbis
Anschluss (annexation)
anti-Semitism
in Germany
Hitler and
Nazi
post-war
propaganda and
Stalin and
See also Jews
Antonescu, Ion
Arlt, Fritz
Artamans
Auschwitz
agriculture and
Auschwitz
beginning of
black market of
Block
Block
brothels (Block 24) at
Buna plant in
“Canada” and
as concentration camp
corruption in
crematorium at
culture of
as death camp
death march from
discipline in
disposal of bodies at
dual function of
escapes from
forced labor and
French Jews at
Groening and
Höss and
health at
industrial production and
Kapos system and
killing techniques at
liberation of
life in
medical experimentation at
purpose of
release from
servants at
Slovakian Jews at
Soviet POWs and
SS (Shutzstaffel) in
starvation at
sub-camps of
survivors of
See also Auschwitz-Birkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau
administration of
crematorium at
development of
dismantling of
Höss and
Hungarian Jews at
Kapos system at
killing process at
“The Little Red House”
“The Little White House”
purpose of
size of
Sonderkommando and
Soviet POWs and
See also Auschwitz
Auschwitz Protocols
Austauschjuden (“exchange Jews”)
Austria
Anschluss (annexation) with
Greater Geman Reich and
Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem
Baker, Else
Ballastexistenzen
Bartoszewski, Władysław
Battel, Albert
Bayer company
BBC. See British Broadcasting Corporation
Beaune-la-Rolande concentration camp
Becher, Kurt
Bełźec death camp
categories of workers at
development of
gassing at
Belarus
Belgian Jews
Bendera, Eugeniusz
Benjamin, Ernest
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
Auschwitz death march to
Berger, Oskar
Berlin Wall
Bernadotte, Folke
Bessarabia
Best, Werner
Biebow, Hans
Bielecki, Jerzy
Bier, Rudy
Big Three
Bischoff, Karl
Blatt, Toivi
post-war treatment of Jews and
Sobibór resistance and
Bormann, Martin
Bousquet, René
Bracht, Fritz
Brand, Hansi
Brand, Joel
Brasse, Wilhelm
Breder, Linda
Britain
Auschwitz Protocols and
Final Solution and
Jews from
Soviet Union and
World War II and
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
British War Cabinet Committee on the Reception and Accommodation of Refugees
Broad, Perry
brothels
Brown, William
Buchenwald concentration camp
Bulgaria
Burmeister, Walter
Cahana, Alice Lok
Cahana, Edith
“Canada”
cannibalism
Casper, Dr.
Chamberlain, Neville
Channel Islands, Britain
Chełmno death camp
children, killing of
China, Japanese crimes in
Christian X, King
Churchill, Winston
Anglo-Nazi partnership and
Auschwitz Protocols and
Final Solution and
World War II and
Yalta Conference and
Citrónová, Helena
Clages, Gerhard
Clauberg, Dr.
Cohen, Frederick
Communism
fall of
Germany and
Judaism and
Soviet Union under
Communists
French
Nazis and
World War I and
concentration camps
administration of
Beaune-la-Rolande
Bergen-Belsen
Buchenwald
Dachau
death camps vs.
function of
Mauthausen
necessity of
Ravensbrück
Sachsenhausen
work in
See also Auschwitz
Cross, William “Victor”
Czechoslovakia
Dachau concentration camp
Auschwitz and
conditions at
Höss at
Kapos system at
mental torture at
physical sadism in
work in
Dacko, Ryszard
Daltroff-Baticle, Odette
Danish Jews
post-war treatment of
rescue of
Dannecker, Theodor
Darwin, Charles
Davidson, Nathan
death camps
Bełźec
Chełmno
concentration camps vs.
delivery of Jews to
hiding of
Majdanek
Operation Reinhard and
Poniatowa
Sobibór
Trawniki
Treblinka
Dejaco, Walter
Denmark
culture of
rescue of Jews in
tolerance in
See also Danish Jews
Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Law)
Der Stürmer
DESt. See German Earth and Stone Works
Devecseri, László
disabled
Doenitz, Admiral
Drancy detention and assembly camp
Dubiel, Stanislaw
Duckwitz, Georg
Durchgangsstrasse IV,
Dutch Jews
Dyby, Knud
Eberl, Irmfried
Economic Four Year Plan
Eden, Anthony
Eichengreen, Lucille
Eichmann, Adolf
Auschwitz death march and
Auschwitz Protocols and
capture of
&
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Hungarian Jews and
Nisko plan of
Wannsee conference and
Eicke, Theodor
Eigi, Irma
Einsatzgruppen
Eintrachthütte armaments factory
Elias, Ruth
Emmanuel, Victor
Energie-Versorgun Obershclesien power plant
England. See Britain
Ertl, Fritz
escapes
ethnic Germans
Łódź ghetto and
emigration to Poland of
Nazi accommodation of
slave labor and
European Jews
extermination of
Final Solution and
“Explanatory Report regarding the Preliminary Draft for the Construction and Expansion of Auschwitz Concentration Camp”
Fürstengrube
families
at Auschwitz
killing of
separation of
Federal Republic of Germany
Felder, Josef
Feldhendler, Leon
films, propaganda
Final Solution
Auschwitz and
deportation of French Jews and
European Jews and
Heydrich and
Himmler and
Hitler and
of Jewish question
Wannsee conference and
Finkelstein, John Max
First Ukrainian Front
forced labor, industrial production and
France
German defeat of
German occupation of
World War II and
Frank, Hans
Freemasons
French Jews
deportation of
German occupation of France and
Frenkiel, Estera
Frentz, Walter
Fried, Walter
Friedrich, Hans
background of
invasion of Soviet Union and
Fritzsch, Karl
Gabbai, Dario
Gajowniczek, Francieszek
gassing
at Auschwitz
at Bełźec death camp
at Chełmno death camp
deception used when
“disinfection” and
Zyklon B and
General Government
deportation of Polish Jews to
Jews of
Genghis Khan
Gerhardt, Colonel
German Earth and Stone Works (DESt)
German Jews
in Łódź ghetto
deportation of
extermination of
Kristallnacht and
persecution of
Polish Jews vs.
violence against
yellow star and
Germans, ethnic
Germany
agriculture and
anti-Semitism in
Communism and
Depression in
France and
Greater German Reich and
invasion of Poland by
invasion of Soviet Union and
invasion of Soviet Union by
occupation of France by
Poland and
Soviet occupation of
Soviet Union and
World War I and
World War II and
Gestapo
ghettos
Łódź
Jewish resistance in
life in
Theresienstadt
Warsaw
Gilbert, Gustave
Globocnik, Odilo
Goebbels, Josef
deportation of German Jews and
emigration of Jews to Poland and
Jewish question and
Soviet Jews and
Goering, Hermann
deportation of Polish Jews and
Economic Four Year Plan and
extermination of Jews and
Final Solution and
forced labor and
Soviet POWs and
starvation and
Wannsee conference and
Goleszów cement works
Grabner, Max
Great Britain. See Britain
Greater Geman Reich
Greek Jews
Greiser, Arthur
Groening, Oskar
Auschwitz and
Auschwitz corruption and
background of
imprisonment of
justification of actions by
murder of children and
SS and
Grosz, Bandi
Gruenwald, Malkiel
Grunfeld, Marianne
Grynszpan, Herschel
Guernsey Evening Post
Gutterer, Leopold
gypsies
Höss, Frau Hedwig
Höss, Rudolf
abuse and execution of
appearance of
Auschwitz and
Auschwitz beginnings and
Auschwitz-Birkenau and
Auschwitz corruption and
Auschwitz expansion and
background of
capture of
Dachau and
end of WWII and
Himmler and
Hungarian Jews and
Jehovah’s Witnesses and
killing techniques and
mentality of
Nuremberg trials and
return to Auschwitz of
Soviet POWs and
SS and
Halder, Franz
Hantz, Stanislaw
Harris, Whitney
“Harvest Festival” killings
Hassebroeck, Johannes
Herman, Chaim
Hess, Walter
Heydrich, Reinhard
assassination of
Auschwitz-Birkenau and
Einsatzgruppen and
extermination of Jews and
Final Solution and
German Jews and
ghettos and
Nazi mentality and
Polish Jews and
Soviet POWs and
Wannsee conference and
Himmler, Heinrich
agriculture and
Auschwitz beginnings and
Auschwitz-Birkenau and
Auschwitz corruption and
Auschwitz expansion and
economic considerations and
emigration of Jews to Poland and
ethnic Germans and
extermination of Jews and
Final Solution and
German Jews and
Höss and
Hitler and
Hungarian Jews and
industrial production and
Jehovah’s Witnesses and
Jewish resistance and
Kapos system and
killing process and
medical experimentation and
Nazi racial policy and
Polish Jews and
Polish reorganization and
Posen speech of
suicide of
Wannsee conference and
Hingst, August
Hirohito
Hitler, Adolf
anti-Semitism of
background of
camp life and
deportation of German Jews and
deportation of Jews and
extermination of Jews and
Final Solution and
German anti-Semitism and
German occupation of France and
Himmler and
Hungary and
Jewish question and
leadership of
mentality of
Nazi racial policy and
radicalism of
Stalin and
suicide of
Versailles Treaty and
World War II and
Hitler Youth
Hodys, Eleonore
Holocaust, deniers of
homosexuals
Hoppner, Rolf-Heinz
Horror in the East (Rees)
Horthy, Admiral
Hungarian Jews
Auschwitz Protocols and
deportation of
“Jews for trucks” deal and
Nazis and
Huppert, Shmuel
Hussein, Saddam
I.G. Farben
Igiel, Samuel
Institute for German Development Work
Interpol
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jacobs, Benjamin
Japan
China and
psyche of
war crimes of
World War II and
Jaschke, Wilhelm
Jaster, Stanisław
Jeckeln, Friedrich
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Jersey Evening Post
Jewish Agency
Jewish Brigade
Jewish Chronicle
Jewish fighting Organization (Źydowska Organizacja Bojowa)
Jewish Military Union (Źydowski Zwiazek Wojskowy)
Jewish question
Final Solution of
Goebbels and
Hitler and
space and
See also Final Solution
Jews
Belgian
British
Danish
definition of
Dutch
European
French
Galician
of General Government
German
Greek
Hungarian
Polish
post-war treatment of
pre-war persecution of
restitution paid to
Slovakian
Soviet
World War I and
John Paul II, Pope
Joint Distribution Committee
Judaism, Communism and
Jud Süss
Juhl, Hans (“Gestapo Juhl”)
Küsel, Otto
Kabáč, Michal
Kalmyks
Kamiński, Yaacov
Kammler, Hans
Kapos system
Auschwitz and
Auschwitz-Birkenau and
Dachau and
Karmi, Ahron
Kasztner, Rudolf
Kaufmann, Karl
Kaunas, Lithuania
Keitel, Wilhelm
Kersten, Felix
Klein, Fritz
Knapczyk, Janek
Knochen, Helmut
Kolbe, Maximilian
Koppe, Wilhelm
Kor, Eva
Koso, Izidor
Kowalczyk, August
Krako, University of
Kramer, Josef
Krankemann, Ernst
Kripo
Kristallnacht
Landau, Benjamin
Lange, Captain
Lange, Herbert
Laskov, Haim
Laval, Pierre
Leguay, Jean
Lerner, Yehuda
Lichtheim, Richard
Liebehenschel, Arthur
Liedtke, Major
“life unworthy of life”
Lithuania
Łódź, ghetto
Chełmno death camp and
deportation of German Jews to
ethnic Germans and
food crisis in
German Jews in
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