Porsche, Ferdinand
Posse, Hans
Postal Service, Reich
Potsdam
Prague
‘Prague Manifesto’ (1934)
Prenzlau district
Press, Reich Association of the German
Press Chamber, Reich
Pretzel, Raimund
preventive medicine
prices; see also inflation
prisons
professionals
Prokofiev, Serge
propaganda
funding of
antisemitic
‘Night of the Long Knives’
Social Democrats’ criticism of Nazi propaganda machine
Nazi alarmist
treasonable verbal
and plebiscites
Nazis’ belief in positive power of
cult of Hitler
Triumph of the Will
radio
Bayreuth Festival
campaigns of early 1930s
cultural
and art
and German language
anti-Christian
Nazi propaganda in schools
against the physically handicapped
pronatalist
supposed mistreatment of Sudeten Germans by Czechs
claims of First World War
unremitting
see also Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, Reich Ministry of Property Transfer Office (Vienna)
Prora resort, Rügen island
prostitution
Protection of German Blood, Reich Committee for the
‘protective custody’; see also concentration camps
Protestant Church see Evangelical Church
Protzen, Carl Theodor
Prussia
Puccini, Giacomo
Punch magazine
quantum mechanics
‘racial defilement’ (Rassenschande)
racial hygiene, hygienists
Racial Observer (Völkischer Beobachter)
radio
Radio Chamber, Reich
Radio Luxemburg
Raeder, Admiral Erich
Railway Station Booksellers, Reich Association of German
railway system
rapists
Rath, Ernst vom
Rathenau, Walther
Raubal, Angela (‘Geli’)
Ravensbruck concentration camp
raw materials
rearmament
Reck-Malleczewen, Friedrich
Red Aid welfare organization
Red Army
Red Cross
Red Flag (Rote Fahne)
Red Front-Fighters’ League
Reduction of Unemployment, first Law on the (‘First Reinhardt Programme’)
Reduction of Unemployment, second Law on the (‘Second Reinhardt Programme’)
Reformation
Regensburg, Bavaria
Regional Leaders (Gauleiter)
Reich, The (Das Reich) magazine
Reich Chancellery
Reich Court, Leipzig
Reich School of the NSDAP Feldafing
Reich Security Head Office
Reich Statistical Office
Reich Supervisory Office for Insurance
Reichenau, General Walther von
Reichsbank
Reichsbanner
Reichsrat
Reichstag
accepts Hitler’s justification for the Röhm purge
Reichstag fire
state opening at Potsdam (21 March 1933)
effective elimination of
Hitler addresses on the Rhineland
Hitler addresses on the armed forces
Hitler’s speech on Czechoslovakia (18 March 1938)
Hitler announces abrogation of agreements with Poland and Britain
Hitler announces invasion of Poland
Reichstag elections see under elections
Reichstag Fire Decree (28 February 1933)
Reinhardt, Fritz
relativity
religion see Christianity
Remarque, Erich Maria
Remmele, Hermann
Renner, Karl
reparations
Respighi, Ottorino
Reuter, Vice-Admiral Ludwig von
Revolutionary Socialists of Germany
rheumatoid arthritis
Rheydt
Rhineland
African-Germans
remilitarization of
Rhineland-Westphalia
Rhine Metal company ,
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Richthofen, Colonel Wolfram von
Riefensthal, Leni
Ritter, Gerhard
Ritter, Dr Robert
Robert Ley (a ship)
Röhm, Ernst
Röhm purge see ‘Night of the Long Knives’
Röhricht, Eberhard
Romania
Romanies see Gypsies
Rome
Rome-Berlin Axis
Röontgen, Wilhelm
Rosenberg, Alfred
and Bishop Sproll
and Goebbels
and Fighting League for German Culture
editor-in-chief of the Racial Observer
similar views to Hitler on art and music
and Ditzen
denounces Barlach
and The Silent Woman
and the Degenerate Art exhibition
and music
declining influence
anti-Christian ideas
and universities
and homosexuality
and the Non-Aggression Pact
Rosenheim
Rosenheim, Julius
Rostock
Roth, Carola
Rothenberg, Franz
Rothfels, Hans
Rothschild family
Rowohlt, Ernst
rubber; see also buna
Rüdin, Ernst
Ruhr
Franco-Belgian occupation (1923)
armed left-wing uprising (1920)
Communists in
Schlageter shot
food shortages
African-Germans in
Catholics in
Ruler, The (Der Herrscher) (film)
Rummelsburg
Russia see Soviet Union
Rust, Bernhard
SA see ‘Storm Division’
SA Man, The (Der SA-Mann), magazine
SA-Man Brand (film)
Saar plebiscite
Saarbrucken
Sachsenburg
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Sager and Woerner, engineering firm
Salamander shoe company
Salazar, Antonio
Salomon, Ernst von
Salzgitter
Sauber, Georg
Sauckel, Fritz
Sauerbruch, Ferdinand
Saxony
Schacht, Hjalmar
Schardt, Alois
Schaub, Julius
Scheel, Gustav Adolf
Schell, Colonel von
Schellenberg, Walter
Schemm, Hans
Schenzinger, Karl Aloys
Schiller, Friedrich
Schinkel, Friedrich von
Schirach, Baldur von
schizophrenia
Schlageter, Albert Leo
Schleicher, General Kurt von
appointed Chancellor
killed by the SS
allegations against him
Schlemmer, Oskar
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein (battleship)
Schlösser, Rainer
Schlotterbeck, Friedrich
Schlotterer, Gustav
Schmeling, Max
Schmid, Wilhelm Eduard
Schmidt, Otto
Schmidt, Waldemar
Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl
Schmitt, Kurt
Schmitt, Ludwig
Schmoller, Gustav
Scholtz-K
link, Gertrud
Schönberg, Arnold
Schönerer, Georg Ritter von
schools see education
Schopwinkel, Robert
Schreck, Julius
Schrödinger, Erwin
Schulenburg, Count Fritz-Dietlof
Schultze, Walter ‘Bubi’
Schultze-Naumburg, Paul
Schulz, Paul
Schuschnigg, Kurt von
Schwanenwerder
Schwarz, Franz Xaver
Schweinitz District News-Sheet (Schweinitzer Kreisblatt)
Schwerin von Krosigk, Lutz
science
Science and Education, Reich Ministry of
Scott, Sir Walter
sculpture
Secker and Warburg (publishers)
Seldte, Franz
Sembach, Emil
Sethe, Paul
sex offenders
sexuality
sexually transmitted diseases
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur
Shakespeare, William
Shanghai
Shirer, William.
shoe industry; see also cobblers
shopkeepers see under middle class
Shostakovich, Dmitri
show trials
Sibelius, Jean
Siberia
Siegerland
Siegfried Kroch Company
Siegfried Line see West Wall
Siemens, Georg von
Siemens-Schückert company
Signac, Paul
Silesia
Silverberg, Paul
Simon, John
Simson arms manufacturing company
Sinti see Gypsies
Six, Franz
Skoda works
smoking
Social Darwinism; see also racial hygiene
Social Democratic Party of Germany
membership
principles
and Grand Coalition
terror against
backs Hindenburg
suppression of
November 1932 Reichstag elections
and the Communists
mass arrests of leaders
exiled leadership in Prague
and Röhm purge
opposition to Nazism
Marxist ideology
and 1934 plebiscite
New Beginning and other groups
and denunciations
and journalism
propaganda
and the Hitler Youth
report on artisans and shopkeepers
loss of capacity for independent action
and Strength Through Joy
vast cultural apparatus
welfare
and the 1938 pogrom
see also concentration camps
social deviance
social welfare see welfare system
social workers
Socialist Flysheets (Sozialistische Blätter)
‘Socialist Front’
socialist realism
Socialist Workers’ Party of Germany
sociology
Solingen-Ohligs
Solmitz, Major Friedrich
Solmitz, Luise
Sonnemann, Leopold
Sonthofen Castle, Bavaria
Sotke, Fritz
South Africa, Jewish immigrants
Soviet Germany
Soviet Union
Revolution (1917) (‘October Revolution’)
agricultural collectivization
purges
show trials
deaths under Stalin
labour camps
cultural propaganda
socialist realism
unremitting war on individualism
German belief in backwardness of Slavs
Orthodox Russians
persecution of the Christian Church
becoming a threat in the ‘struggle of nations for life’
‘showdown with Russia inevitable’ (Göring)
Five-Year Plan
state ownership and centralized panning
civil war (1918-21)
state ownership of industry
restrictions on birth control
Jews
ethnic Germans in
invasion of (1941)
Polish attitude to
Spahn, Martin
Spain
SpanishWar
Spartacist uprising (Berlin, January 1919)
Special Courts
special schools
Speer, Albert
early life
becomes Hitler’s personal architect
General Building Inspector for the National Capital
plans for Berlin
earnings
and Strength Through Joy
and ‘one-pot Sunday’
and the Olympic Games
Sperrle, General Hugo
Spilker, Inge
Spoerl, Heinrich
Sports Palace, Berlin
Sproll, Bishop Joannes
SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squad)
prosecutions
nominally a part of the SA
‘putsch’ warning
Hitler’s bodyguards
‘Night of the Long Knives’
murder of Schleicher
built up by Himmler
compared to the SA
hierarchy
uniforms
sponsorship
purges
marriage issue
educational level
begins to merge with police
and concentration camps
‘Death’s Head Formation’
employed by Gestapo for brutal interrogations
at Nuremberg Rally
Frankfurt Newspaper raided
roots out books by proscribed authors
in Sachsenhausen
and Catholics
and religion
Himmler’s plans
attacks Haupt
Rust and
Stark and
boycott of Jewish firms
aristocrats in
doctors
and Strength Through Joy
and Winter Aid
and racial hygiene
and master-race
and homosexuality
treatment of Jews in Austria
Eichmann joins
and Czechoslovakia
SS Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst or SD)
Heydrich leads
Ohlendorf heads the economics section
established by Himmler
personnel in political police service posts
Koblenz branch
on German radio
and ‘degenerate’ art
and Hitler Youth
on universities
and Heisenberg
on historians
exhortations not to buy from Jewish businesses
on theservice
Jewish Affairs Division
and Polish Jews resident in Germany
on ‘war psychosis’
and Czechoslovakia
Stäbel, Friedrich Oskar
Stade, North Germany
Stadelheim gaol, Munich
Stalin, Josef
purges
secret police
Soviet military preparedness
Five-Year Plan
Stark, Johannes
Stauffenberg, Lieutenant Claus von
Stauss, Emil Georg von
Steed, Henry Wickham
steel
Steel Helmets: League of Front-Soldiers
Steinbeck, John
Steinhäusl, Otto
Stelling, Johannes
sterilization
Stern scrap metal company, Essen
Sternberger, Dolf
Stettin
Stoeckel, Walter
‘Storm Division’ (Sturmabteilung, or SA; brownshirts; stormtroopers)
violent activism
and the Communi
st Party
and the Social Democrats
unemployment
enrolled by Goring as auxiliary police
membership statistics
Köpenick blood-week (June 1933)
finds itself without a role
Steel Helmets incorporated into
own justice system
prosecutions
Röhm envisages as national militia
Hotel Kaiserhof incident
threat to the army
obstacle to Himmler’s ambitions 1934 purge of
decline in membership
compared with SS
and plebiscites
at 1934 Nuremberg Rally
and jazz
uniformed presence at church services
and Catholics
and Hitler Youth
and education
and shortages of raw materials
demands for donations
attack on stores
action against Jewish-owned shops
robbery from Jewish homes
candidates for jobs
Prince August Wilhelm in
Körle cycling club incident
medical services
and welfare collections
and homosexuality
antisemitism
and the 1938 pogrom
Stormer, The (Der Stürmer)
Strait Way, The (Der gerade Weg)
Stralsund
Strasser, Gregor
resignation from the Nazi Party
shot at police headquarters
Hitler’s allegations against
sets up Economic Policy Division
Strasser, Otto
Straubing
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor
Streicher, Julius
antisemitic paper The Stormer
antisemitic speech in Hamburg
‘Strength Through Joy’
‘Strength Through Joy car’ (later Volkswagen)
Stresa Front (1935)
Stresemann, Gustav
Stuckart, Wilhelm
Stuckenschmidt, Hans-Heinz
students see universities
Stuttgart
Styria, Austria
Sudetenland
Suhr, Otto
Supreme Censorship Authority for Dirty and Trashy Literature
swastika symbol
Sweden
swing, ‘Swing Youth’
Switzerland
Syllabus of Errors (1864)
Tack (shoe firm)
Tanganyika (later Tanzania)
Tannenberg League
taxation
teachers; see also education
technology
Telegraph Union
Ten Commandments
Teschen, Czechoslovakia
Tessenow, Heinrich
textiles
Thälmann, Ernst
theatre
Theatre Chamber, Reich
theology
Thieme, Emma
Thierack, Otto-Georg
Thingspiel (‘meeting-play’)
Third Republic (France)
Thirty Years’ War
Thomson, Joseph John
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