Reichswehr, 33, 34, 46, 60; becomes Wehrmacht, 285fn.; see also Army, German
Reich Theater Chamber. 242–43
Reichwein, Adolf, 1044, 1072
Reims, 1093, 1138–39, 1141
Reinberger, Maj. Helmut, 671–72
Reinecke, General, 1063, 1065
Reinhardt, Gen. Georg-Hans, 724, 731, 859
Reinhardt, Max, 242
Reitlinger, Gerald, 970, 973, 978, 1025fn.
Reitsch, Hanna, 1111, 1118–19, 1120, 1122, 1133
Remagen, 1101
Remarque, Erich Maria, 241
Remer, Maj. Otto, 1061–66, 1069
Rennes, 1037
Renthe-Fink, Cecil von, 700
reparations, German, World War I, 51, 58, 61, 64, 112, 117, 136, 137, 152, 154, 943
Republican Party (U.S.), 748
Repulse (Br. battleship), 901fn.
Reuben James (U.S. destroyer), 883
Reuters, 1122
Reventlow, Count Ernst zu, 123
Reynaud, Paul, 720, 726, 729, 738
Rheydt, 124
Rhine river, 634, 646, 723, 738, 1088–89, 1090, 1095, 1099, 1101, 1102, 1105
Rhineland, remilitarization of, 211, 282, 286, 290–96, 299, 302, 327, 378, 459, 530, 543, 635, 657, 714
Rhone Valley, 691, 740, 1086
Ribbentrop, Gertrud von, 1056fn.
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 233, 276, 302, 381, 406fn., 435fn., 507, 556–57, 560, 595fn., 596fn., 620, 672, 676, 741, 742, 751fn., 814, 924, 955, 1017fn., 1097, 1112, 1113, 1126, 1142–43; personal characteristics, 181, 298, 415, 436; ambassador to Britain, 288, 298, 335, 344–45; appointed Foreign Min., 319; and Goering, mutual dislike, 298, 469, 483, 1056; at Hitler-Schuschnigg meeting, 328, 347; and Czechoslovakia, 360, 364, 365, 376, 377, 405, 408, 409, 421, 429, 439–42, 444, 446–47, 449, 451–52; at Hitler-Chamberlain talks, 385, 396; pact with France, 437; negotiations with Poland, 455–57, 459, 460–61, 463–64, 499, 588; rejects British, French protests on Memel, 461–62; talks with Duce, Ciano on war co-operation, 436, 482–83, 508–10, 512, 548, 551–55, 564, 566, 687–90, 816, 821, 845, 910, 923; negotiations with U.S.S.R., 491, 492, 500, 501, 505, 513–14, 520–28, 531, 535fn., 537–41, 545, 547, 609, 621–22, 627, 629–31, 639, 674, 793–95, 801–9, 847–49; negotiations with West on Poland, 562, 570fn., 576–78, 580–83, 585fn., 586–89, 591, 602, 605–7, 613; relations with U.S., 637, 683, 686, 748, 871, 881–96 passim, 897fn.; rejects British, French ultimatums, 615–18; relations with Norway, Denmark, 696–98, 703, 704, 706; Windsor kidnap plot, 785–91; dealings in Balkans, 795, 800, 801, 823–24; declaration of war on U.S.S.R., 848–49; relations with Japan, 871–72, 874–78, 881–96; declaration of war on U.S., 900
Riccione, 851
Richardson, William, 852fn., 912
Richthofen Fighter Squadron, 49
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 684
Riess, Curt, 1063fn.
Riga, 794, 967
Rintelen, General von, 825
Rio de Janeiro (Ger. transport), 695
Riom trial, 609fn.
Ripka, Herbert, 390
Ritter, Gerhard, 1046fn.
Riviera, French, 740, 1086
Robeson, Paul, 784fn.
Robin Moor (U.S. freighter), 882
Rocca delle Caminate, 1005
Rockefeller, John D., 688
Roehm, Ernst, 4, 39, 46, 63, 120, 155, 159, 160, 313, 317, 371, 691, 834; background, 38; with Goering, organizes S.S., 49; in Beer Hall Putsch, 66, 71, 73, 75; break with Hitler (1925), 118; returns to party, heads S.A., S.S., 146–48; contact with Schleicher, 152, 161, 216; friendship with Hitler, 207, 216; named to Cabinet, 208; rift with Hitler over radicalism, 204–8, 213–17; purged, 219–22, 224–26, 273, 1056–57
Roenne, Colonel Freiherr von, 1030
Roepke, Wilhelm, 95, 99fn., 251
Rokossovski, Gen. Konstantin, 929
Roman Catholic Church, 23, 24, 55–56, 61, 64, 92, 119, 157, 166, 201, 234–35, 237–40, 326, 332, 341, 350, 355, 370, 374, 1048, 1060fn.
Roman Empire, 104, 106, 305
Rome, 436, 450, 469–70, 746, 910, 996, 1001, 1002, 1004, 1005, 1006, 1036
Rome–Berlin Axis, 298, 301, 324, 353, 478–79, 482–84, 491, 508, 547, 665–66, 800
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin, 724, 999, 1000, 1085; in N. Africa, 827–29, 902, 911–15, 919–22, 934; in anti-Hitler plot, 1030–32, 1041–42, 1047, 1076–80; in Normandy, 1036–42; urges Hitler seek peace, is cashiered, 1039–41; wounded in air attack, 1041–42, 1047; suicide and funeral, 1078–80
Rommel, Frau, 1031, 1078–79
Rommel, Manfred, 107, 8
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 435fn., 544 fn., 684fn., 686fn., 688, 815fn., 827fn.,’ 828, 829, 871, 872, 874, 887, 888, 894–95, 907; peace efforts, 209–10, 400, 469–75, 508fn., 560–61, 574, 683, 684, 687, 714, 749; recalls ambassador, 433fn., 685; negotiations with Japanese, 873fn., 884–87, 892; Nazi gibes at, 470–75, 875fn., 897–900; Atlantic naval policy, 877fn., 880–82; war aims, 904, 1033fn.; death of, delights Nazis, 1110
Rosen, Count Eric von, 49
Rosenberg, Alfred, 39, 67, 73, 97, 108, 118, 122, 123, 149, 154, 236, 240, 253, 276, 835; background, 48–49; contact with Quisling, 676–78; and German occupation of Eastern Europe, 832–34, 939–42, 947–48, 952–53; plunder of art treasures, 945–46; Nuremberg trial and execution, 1142–43
Rosenman, Samuel I., 897fn.
Ross, Colin, 683fn.
Rossbach, Lieutenant, 66
Rosterg, August, 144
Rostock, Capt. Max, 992
Rostov, 859, 860–61, 865, 916, 928, 952
“Rote Kapelle,” 1043fn.
Rothschild, Baron Louis de, 351
Rotterdam, 721, 722–23, 769
Rovno, 841
Royal Oak (Br. battleship), 646
R.S.H.A. (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Reich Central Security Office), 782–84, 958, 1024, 1026, 1063; see also S.D.
rubber, synthetic, 282, 301, 840
Ruegen, 266
Ruge, Colonel, 704, 708, 709
Ruhr, 61–65, 112, 282, 301, 486, 517fn., 634, 635, 645, 793, 1088–89, 1096, 1097, 1098, 1102, 1105
Rumania, 283, 399–400, 530, 626, 799, 817, 823, 824, 909; relations with France, Britain, 295, 426–27, 469, 495; policy toward U.S.S.R., 478, 495, 534, 538fn.; Hungary takes Transylvania from, 800–1; Nazi–Soviet struggle for control of, 541, 609, 610, 632, 794, 795, 797, 800–1, 803–8, 810, 811, 815, 817, 820, 822, 823, 839, 842, 845, 847, 858; Nazi driven out by Red Army, 1007, 1085, 1098
Rumanian Army, 869, 911, 915, 926, 928, 932
Runciman, Lord, 376–77, 386, 388–89, 392, 416
Rundfunkhaus, see Broadcasting House
Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von, 165, 293, 355, 747, 757fn.; relieved of commands (four times), 318–19, 861, 865, 903fn., 1041, 1099; in Polish invasion, 488, 497; in Battle of France, 718, 726, 731–34; named Field Marshal, 755fn.; Britain invasion plan, 761, 762; Russian campaign, 830, 853, 855, 858–61, 865, 903fn.; and anti-Hitler plotters, 906, 1030, 1032; C. in C. West, 906, 918, 922, 923, 1036–41, 1086, 1087, 1089–91, 1094; sacked again, 1099
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, 46fn., 63, 67, 72–73, 371
Russell, Bertrand, 100fn., 784
Russian Air Force, 502fn., 855, 926, 1053, 1100
Russian Army, 502fn., 534, 797, 810, 811, 822; invades Poland, 627, 628; attacks Finland, 675 (see also Finland; Russo–Finnish War); seizes Baltic States, 794; takes over Bessarabia, Bucovina, 795; war with Germany, 852, 854, 855, 857, 859–60, 862–65, 869, 886, 909, 915, 939, 973, 1000, 1006–7, 1033, 1036, 1041, 1042, 1046, 1085, 1090, 1096, 1097, 1105, 1107, 1120; at Stalingrad, 915, 922, 926–33; meets Americans at Elbe, 1106, 1107, 1112; Battle of Berlin, 1106, 1108, 1112, 1117, 1118, 1129, 1130, 1132, 1134–36
Russo–Finnish War, 665–66, 668–69, 675, 676, 682, 683
Russo-Japanese neutrality pact, 876–77
Rust, Bernhard, 127, 248–49
Ruthenia, 440, 443, 449–50
/> Rzhev, 868
S.A. (Sturmabteilung, storm troopers or Brownshirts), 3, 4–5, 143, 146–48, 154, 159–60, 167, 169, 176, 183, 190, 191, 192, 194, 195, 199, 202fn., 237, 249, 263, 270, 271, 273, 1081; beginnings of, 38, 42–43, 49; and Beer Hall Putsch, 66–71; conflict with Army, 120, 143, 204–8, 213–16, 226, 317; Bruening’s ban on, 160–65; Hitler’s suppression of, 215, 217, 219–26; role in Austrian Anschluss, 327, 351
Saalfelden, 529fn.
Saar, 283, 286, 568, 569, 738, 1095, 1101
Saarbruecken, 291fn., 435
Sachsenhausen, 238, 239, 270, 272, 352, 655
Sack, Dr. Carl, 140
Saefkow, Anton, 1044
St.-Germain, 1077
St.-Germain, Treaty of, 41, 347
St-Hardouin, Jacques Tarbé de, 506
St.-Lô, 1076
St.-Omer, 728, 731
St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna, 19, 338, 350
St. Wolfgang, 509
Sakhalin, 809
Salerno, 1002
Salonika, 823
Salzburg, 8, 27fn., 325, 330, 333, 337, 348, 350, 509, 546, 552, 910–11, 928, 995
Sammler, Rudolf, 1064fn.
San river, 541, 626, 629, 631
Sandomierz, 626
Sanger, Margaret, 241
San Remo, 440
Santayana, George, 100
Sarajevo, 826
Sardinia, 1003
Sas, Col. J. G., 694, 715–16
Saturday, Hitler’s “surprise day,” 284, 300fn.
Sauckel, Fritz, 948fn., 951, 1142–43
Sauerbruch, Dr. Ferdinand, 251, 979fn., 1025, 1029
Saxony, 65, 363
Scapa Flow, 646
Schacht, Dr. Hjalmar H. G., 112, 145–46, 167, 189–90, 229, 351–52, 427, 918fn., 1073–74, 1115, 1142–43; plans for war economy, 259–61, 275, 285fn.; out of war economy post, 310–11, 320; in anti-Hitler conspiracy, 373, 405, 411–13, 517, 558, 560, 650, 659, 907
“Schaemmel, Major,” 653
Scharnhorst, Gen. Gerhard Johann David von, 1028, 1081
Scharnhorst (Ger. battle cruiser), 281, 711, 914
Schaub, Julius, 279, 1113
Schaumburg-Lippe, Prince, 519fn.
Scheidemann, Philipp, 34fn., 51, 52, 57, 60
Scheldt, Hans-Wilhelm, 678
Scheliha, Franz, 1043fn.
Schellenberg, Gen. Walter, 520fn., 653–55, 783–84, 785, 787fn., 788, 789, 791, 991fn., 1066, 1114
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von, 102
Scheringer, Lieutenant, 139–42
Scheubner-Richter, Max Erwin von, 67, 69, 70–74, 118
Schicklgruber, Alois, 6, 7, 1123
Schicklgruber, Maria Anna, 7
Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von, 97, 243
Schirach, Baidur von, 149, 252–53, 275, 348fn., 1142–43
Schkopau, 282
Schlabrendorff, Fabian von, 373, 374, 380fn., 558, 648, 905, 1014fn., 1019, 1020–21, 1022fn., 1024, 1026, 1029, 1049, 1071–72, 1073/7!., 1074
Schlageten Leo, 967fn.
Schleicher, Gen. Kurt von, 3, 56fn., 137, 150–55, 159–67, 169–70, 172–75, 182, 183, 216; background, 150–52; his chancellorship, 175–82, 229; purge victim, 222, 224, 320, 414
Schleswig, 58, 94, 1134
Schleswig-Holstein, 516
Schlieffen plan, 717
Schmid, Dr. Willi, 223, 224fn.
Schmidt, Gen. Arthur, 931
Schmidt, Charlotte (Frau von Brauchitsch), 319
Schmidt, Dr. Guido, 325, 326fn., 328, 329–30, 344fn.
Schmidt, Hans, 316, 317, 354
Schmidt, Dr. Paul, 293, 301, 408, 409, 436fn., 437, 441fn., 538, 551, 555, 556, 580–82, 606–7, 613–14, 639, 684fn., 686, 688–89, 744, 804, 805, 807, 814, 815, 834, 848–49, 874; on Hitler-Chamberlain negotiations, 385, 386, 392, 394, 395, 397, 398, 399fn., 401, 415, 419, 549; anti-Hitler conspirator, 406; at Hitler-Hácha meeting, 445, 447; at Hitler-Duce meetings, 816, 996, 1055–56; at Hitler-Matsuoka meeting, 876; on Hitler’s declaring war on U.S., 896
Schmidt, Theresa, 14
Schmidt, Willi, 223–24
Schmitt, Dr. Karl, 206, 261
Schmundt, Gen. Rudolf, 357, 360, 378, 484, 485, 1019, 1022, 1054fn.
Schneidhuber, Obergruppenfuehrer, 221, 222
Schniewind, Adm. Otto, 484, 766
Schnitzler, Arthur, 241
Schnitzler, Georg von, 144, 190
Schnurre, Dr. Julius, 476, 481, 495, 500, 501, 505, 506, 513, 525, 667, 668, 839–40
Schobert, Gen. Eugen Ritter von, 355
Schoenaich, General Freiherr von, 32fn.
Schoenerer, Georg Ritter von, 23
Schoenfeld, Dr. Hans, 1017, 1018
Schoerner, Field Marshal Ferdinand, 1113, 1121, 1129
Scholl, Hans, 1022–23
Scholl, Sophie, 1022–23
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 103
Schrader, Col. Werner, 1027
Schreiber, Capt. Richard, 676, 702
Schroeder, Baron Kurt von, 144, 178
Schulenburg, Herr von, 228
Schulenburg, Count Friedrich Werner von der, 376, 476–77, 481–82, 490–94, 496, 500, 501, 505, 513, 514, 520, 521fn., 522–28, 540fn., 621, 627–31, 793, 795, 801, 803, 839, 840–41, 842, 844, 847–49, 876; in anti-Hitler conspiracy, 1033, 1072
Schulenburg, Count Fritz von der, 413, 1047, 1072
Schultze, Capt. Herbert, 636fn.
Schulung, 290, 291
Schultz, Dr. Walther, 74
Schulze-Boysen, Harold, 1043fn.
Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 180, 280, 295–96, 351, 385, 456, 457, 578–79; Anschluss, 323–44, 345fn., 346–52; meets with Hitler, 325–30; appeals to Mussolini, 334–35, 339, 343; resigns, 341; arrested, 352; in concentration camp, 353, 918fn., 1074, 1115
Schuschnigg, Vera (Countess Czernin), 352
Schutzbar, Baroness Margot von, 355
Schutzstaffel, see S.S.
Schwaegermann, Guenther, 1136
Schwaerzel, Helene, 1072
Schwarz, Franz Xavier, 133
Schwerin von Krosigk, Count Lutz, 164, 260, 434, 943, 1107, 1109, 1110, 1126
Science, Education and Popular Culture, Reich Ministry of, 248–49
Scotland.675, 682, 834, 913
S.D. (Sicherheitsdienst, S.S. Security Service), 271, 273–74, 315, 430, 518–19, 520fn., 654, 782fn., 783, 785, 952, 953, 955, 956, 958, 960, 963fn., 965, 991–93, 1060–61, 1063, 1066, 1074–75, 1077
“Sea Lion.” code name for invasion of Britain, 753
Sebekovsky, Doctor, 383
Second Reich, see Germany, Second Reich
Secret Cabinet Council (Geheimer Kabinettsrat), 275, 319fn.
Security Service, see S.D.
Sedan, 718, 723, 724
Seeckt, Gen. Hans von, 34, 55fn., 60, 64–65, 66, 71, 139, 142, 150, 212, 458, 459, 494
Seeds, Sir William, 477fn., 480, 504fn., 534, 535
Seidlitz, Gertrud, 46
Seine river, 1037, 1085, 1086
Seisser, Col. Hans von, 65–72, 75–76
Seldte, Franz, 184
Semmering, 915, 919
Senne, 1102
Serafimovich, 926
Serbia, 824, 841
Serrano Suñer, Ramón, 787, 788, 814
Seven Years’ War, 1108, 1110
Severn river, 763
Sevez, Gen. François, 1139
Seyss-Inquart, Dr. Arthur, 296, 328, 331–33, 337–42, 347, 441, 442, 661, 677, 1126, 1143
SHAEF, 1105, 1106
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