The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

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by William L. Shirer


  Shakespeare, William, 243

  Shaposhnikov, Gen. Boris M., 504

  Shaw, George Bernard, 243, 784

  Shawcross, Sir Hartley, 961

  Sherwood. Robert E., 877fn.

  Shetland Is., 673

  Shkvarzev, Alexander, 617

  Shulman, Milton, 319fn., 732fn., 757fn.

  Siberia, 833, 840, 885, 886, 932

  Sibibor, 967

  Sicily, 912, 996, 999, 1002fn.

  Sidi Barrâni, 817

  Sidor, Karol, 440–41

  Siegfried Line, 1086, 1089

  Siemens, electrical company, 145

  Sievers, Wolfram, 980–81, 982

  Siewert, Lt. Col. Curt, 591

  Silesia, 212, 363, 463, 497, 518, 575, 626, 797, 944, 1096, 1097, 1098

  Silex, Karl, 245

  Silvertown, Eng., 780

  Simon, Sir John, 283, 288, 410, 453, 837

  Simović, Gen. Dušan, 823, 826

  Simpson, Gen. William H., 1105

  Simpson, Mrs., see Windsor, Duchess of

  Sinclair, Upton, 241

  Singapore, 873, 874, 876, 877, 883, 885, 893

  Sirovy, Gen. Jan, 391, 420, 421

  Six, Dr. Franz, 782–83

  Skagerrak, 695, 702

  Skorzeny, Otto, 519, 1003–4, 1066, 1068–69, 1090fn., 1092

  Skubl, Doctor, 337, 338

  slave labor, 111, 484–85, 497, 940, 946–51, 954, 966, 968, 975, 979, 1034

  Slavs, 21, 22, 83, 87, 88, 93, 97, 429–30, 937, 939, 950, 951

  Slovakia, 358–59, 421, 429, 437–43, 449, 450–51, 460, 519, 626, 911, 956

  Smigly-Rydz, Marshal Edward, 458–59, 583, 601

  Smith, Capt. Truman, 46fn.

  Smith, Gen. Walter Bedell, 1106, 1138–39

  Smolensk, 853, 856, 859, 1006, 1014, 1019, 1022, 1052

  Snow, C. P., 784

  Social Democrats; Austrian, 18, 22, 42, 325fn., 334, 337fn., 350

  Social Democrats, (Socialists), German, 31fn., 32–34, 37, 40, 55 96fn., 126, 129, 137, 138, 153, 155–57, 160, 165, 166, 172, 174, 178–79, 181, 185, 186, 190, 194, 195, 196, 198–99, 201, 210, 231, 237, 1044; proclaim Republic, 52; make deal with Army, 53–55, 60–61; largest party in nation, 55–56, 95, 112, 118; party dissolved, 201

  Socialists, Left, 52

  Soissons, 1039

  Sola airfield, Norway, 702

  Sola river, Poland, 971

  “Soldiers’ Councils,” 34, 54

  Solf. Anna, 1025

  Somme river, 30, 727, 728, 732, 737, 738, 759

  Sondergericht, see Special Court

  Sonderkommando, 970

  Song of the Nibelungs (Mell), 102

  Sonnenburg, 491

  South Africa, 957

  Soviet Congress of Germany, 54

  Soviet Union, 54, 57, 150, 209, 232, 280, 282, 299, 306, 307, 353, 455, 470, 550fn., 711fn., 752, 771, 783, 822, 827, 829, 843, 1033, 1044, 1070, 1098, 1104, 1116–17; Hitler’s aims toward, 82–84, 299, 383, 426, 464, 669, 774, 785, 795–99, 810–13, 818, 821, 822, 829, 830, 837–47, 849–50, 871, 873–79; France, pact and relations with, 285, 290–91, 295, 354, 389, 390, 392, 404, 427; German–Czech issue, policy on, 285, 346, 354, 361, 362, 364–68, 376, 377, 383, 389, 390, 392, 404, 409; collective security, talks with Britain and France, 353, 460, 479, 489–92, 495–96, 500–4, 506, 521, 523, 525, 531, 533–38, 541, 542, 610; Poland, relations with, 377, 458, 459, 461, 464, 468, 478, 482, 485, 513–16, 521–22, 533–38 (see also invasion of Poland, below); excluded from talks on Czechosl., Poland, 404, 409, 419, 427, 465fn., 466, 478, 481, 489; rapprochement with Germany, talks on trade and Poland, 476–77, 480–82, 489–96, 500–3, 505–7, 508fn., 510–12, 553, 556, 560, 617, 620–22, 626–31, 639–41, 645, 657, 666–70, 674, 687, 695fn., 747, 794–96, 800–5, 808–10, 839–40, 842, 844 (see also Nazi–Soviet Pact); and Baltic States, 495, 501, 502, 515, 521, 534, 539, 541, 542, 544, 630–32, 657, 665–66, 668, 683, 747, 793–94, 797, 801; relations with Japan, 521, 522, 876–77, 878, 886, 890–92, 895; invasion of Poland, 626–32, 641; war against Finland, 665–66, 676, 683, 806; activity in Balkans, 747, 800–3, 805–7, 817, 839, 841; German war against, 847–48, 853–54, 857, 859–63, 870, 880, 886, 901, 910, 1010–11, 1017fn., 1018, 1139; German occupation of, 830–34, 843, 846, 851, 854, 915, 937, 939, 940, 943–44, 947–48, 950, 954, 955, 957, 958, 962–66, 979, 993, 1029, 1139; Italy declares war on, 851; see also Russian Air Force; Russian Army

  Spa, Germany, 54, 59, 153, 1092

  Spaak, Paul-Henri, 672, 713–14

  Spain, 281; civil war, 297–301, 304, 307, 373, 419, 566, 814; and World War II, 529, 642–43, 785–89, 791, 792, 814, 817, 819, 850, 911

  Spandau, 1066

  Spartacists, 52, 54–55; see also Communists in Germany

  Special Court (Sondergericht), 239, 269, 270

  Speer, Albert, 947fn., 1087, 1097, 1098, 1103–4, 1111fn., 1117–18, 1126, 1142–43

  Speidel, Gen. Hans, 1031–32, 1037, 1038, 1039, 1040, 1041, 1042, 1047, 1075, 1076–77, 1079, 1085fn., 1086, 1088

  Spender, Stephen, 784

  Spengler, Oswald, 61, 208

  Sperrle, Field Marshal Hugo, 325, 755fn., 775

  Spiller, Captain, 703, 704

  Spital, 7, 8, 9, 14, 23

  Spitfires (Br. fighter planes), 736, 775, 776, 913

  Sponeck, Gen. Count Hans von, 865–66, 903

  Sportpalast, Berlin, 157, 207, 237, 396, 397–98, 407, 415, 643, 779–80

  Spree river, 1137

  S.S. (Schutzstaffel), Blackshirts, 143–45, 160, 202fn., 205, 255, 263, 269, 276, 301, 348fn., 352, 369, 372, 444, 461–62, 1023, 1055, 1114, 1121, 1122, 1126, 1127, 1129, 1136–37, 1141; organization of, 120–21, 148, 270, 273; control police, 191, 274; conflict with Army, 214, 226, 315, 317, 355, 660, 1024; role in Roehm purge, 215, 220, 222, 224, 226; atrocities, 271, 272, 351, 430, 659–64, 834, 934, 937–38, 947, 953, 965–68, 971, 973–78, 980–81, 983–86, 990, 1029 (see also concentration camps; and see names of individual occupied countries); and anti-Hitler plotters, 374, 670, 1031, 1034, 1035, 1057, 1060–61, 1063–66, 1068, 1073–75, 1077; in Czechoslovakia, 388, 449, 991; Polish border “incident,” 518–19, 595, 599; Venlo incident, 652–55; and Britain occupation plan, 782–85; rescues Mussolini, 1003–4; arrests Goering, 1118

  Security Service, see S.D.

  Standarte 89, 279

  Waffen S.S., 976, 1015, 1121

  Waffen S.S. units:

  1st S.S. Armored (Panzer) Corps, 1005, 1095fn.

  1st S.S. Panzer Div., 1095fn.

  Sixth S.S. Panzer Army, 1095fn.

  12th S.S. Panzer Div., 1038

  Bodyguards (Leibstandarte), 553, 664, 905, 1005, 1040fn., 1049, 1051

  Das Reich Div., 993

  Panzer Lehr Div., 1038

  Staatspartei, see Democratic Party

  Stachiewicz, General, 536, 537

  Stadelheim prison, Munich, 221, 222fn.

  Stahlecker, Franz, 962

  Stahlhelm, 154, 157, 191

  Stalin, Joseph, 276, 427, 476–80, 496, 513, 514–15, 522, 526, 657, 689, 821, 839, 845, 852fn., 855, 939, 1029; German pact, trade negotiations, 526–28, 531, 535fn., 540, 538–44, 549, 562, 630–32, 665, 667–70, 799, 800, 803, 804fn., 805, 809–10, 839–44; warned by West of German attack, 544fn., 796, 843; invasion of Poland, 628–32; operations in Baltic and Balkan states, 665, 793–95, 797; suspicious of British, 835, 837–38; takes over as Prime Min., 841; signs neutrality pact with Japan, 876; war leadership, 909, 917, 995, 996, 1033, 1097; and German peace offers, 1011, 1012, 1017fn., 1033, 1135

  Stalingrad, 830, 857, 859, 861, 865, 909, 911, 914–19, 922, 924, 925–34, 975, 996, 1006, 1014–15, 1022, 1029, 1125

  Stark, Johannes, 250

  Statistical Year Book, 257

  Stauffenberg, Count Berthold von, 1047, 1048, 1072

  Stauffenberg, Lt. Col. Klaus Philip Schenk, Count von, 1027–31, 1033–36, 1042–55, 1057–61, 1064–65, 1067–71, 1072, 1075

  Stauffenberg, Countess Nin
a von, 1029

  Stauning, Thorvald, 698

  Stavanger, 677, 681, 696, 702, 707, 721

  Stavelot, 1092

  Stefanie, 15

  Stein, Lt. Walter, 662fn.

  Steiner, Gen. Felix, 1112–13, 1120

  Steinhardt, Laurence, 521fn., 544fn., 843

  Stempfle, Father Bernhard. 85, 133, 223

  Sternberg, 43

  Stevens, Maj. R. H., 653–55, 692

  Steyr, 11, 14

  Stieff, Gen. Hemuth, 1020, 1026, 1030, 1049, 1070–71, 1075

  Stockholm, 695, 843, 1017, 1024, 1026, 1122

  Stockmar, Baron Christian Friedrich von, 373

  Stohrer, Eberhard von, 785–86

  storm troopers, see S.A.

  Storting (Norw. Parliament), 703

  Stotzingen, Baroness, 222

  Strang, William, 391, 495–96, 503fn., 523, 533

  Strasbourg, 983

  Strasbourg, University of, 980–83

  Strasser, Gregor, 118, 122–29, 132, 143, 144, 146–49, 152, 154–55, 157, 159, 167, 171, 173, 174, 176–78, 180, 216, 222, 224, 691

  Strasser, Otto, 123, 126, 127, 147, 224

  Strauss, Gen. Adolf, 762

  Strauss, Richard, 242

  Streck, Major, 74

  Streicher, Julius, 26, 44–45, 50, 73–74, 106, 118, 253, 1142–43

  “Strength through Joy” (Kraft durch Freude) movement, 254, 265–66

  Stresa Conference, 285, 288, 289, 296

  Stresemann, Gustav, 56, 64, 66, 112, 136, 201, 212

  Stroelin, Dr. Karl, 1031, 1032

  Strones, 7

  Stroop, Juergen, 975–78

  Stuckart, Dr. Wilhelm, 347

  Studie England (naval invasion plan), 759

  Stuelpnagel, Gen. Karl Heinrich von, 378, 379, 591, 644, 957, 1031, 1032, 1047, 1059, 1060, 1074–77

  Stuka (Ger. plane), 720, 723, 725, 776

  Stumme, General, 920

  Stumpff, Gen. Hans-Juergen, 775

  Sturmabteilung, see S.A.

  Stuttgart, 1031

  Styria, 350

  Sudeten Free Corps, 387, 388

  Sudetenland, 358–61, 363, 365, 381fn., 382–83, 385–87, 392–95, 397, 398, 402–4, 406, 408, 410, 416–17, 421, 422, 425–28, 439, 444, 469, 476, 530, 543, 598, 657, 692, 693, 904; early Hitler designs on, 41, 84, 333, 359; never part of Germany, 358, 385fn.; Nazi agitation in, 359–60, 363, 383–84, 387–88; Runciman mission on, 376–77, 386–88; cession demanded by Britain, France, 389, 390, 402, 4, 16–17; Hitler’s “last territorial claim,” 397, 429, 454

  Suez Canal, 757, 768, 813, 817, 827, 828, 829, 913

  Sukhinichi, 869

  Sundlo, Col. Konrad, 676, 701

  Susloparov, Gen. Ivan, 1139

  swastika, 43, 44, 240

  Sweden, 400, 561, 674, 675, 681, 682, 696, 704fn., 711fn., 747, 750, 808, 810, 811, 1072

  Switzerland, 324, 359, 531, 563, 590, 648–49, 691, 896, 1017, 1018, 1024, 1025, 1033, 1072

  Sword, Colonel, 466fn.

  synthetics, 282, 301, 1098

  Syria, 473, 813

  Tallinn, 630, 794

  Tannenberg, 228, 530, 562, 760

  Tansill, Charles C, 303fn.

  Taranto, 818fn.

  Tass, 525, 844

  Tauroggen, Convention of, 1015

  Taylor, Gen. Maxwell D., 1002fn.

  Taylor, Telford, 32fn., 378fn., 732fn., 738

  Teddy’s Perspiration Powder, 19

  Tegernsee, 166, 221, 1129fn.

  Teleki, Count Paul, 507–8

  Televaag, 993

  Tempelhof Field, 202

  Terboven, Josef, 220, 709fn.

  Teriberka, 667

  Terneuzen, 728

  Tesch, Bruno, 972

  Tesch & Stabenow, 972

  Teschen, 377, 388, 421, 458

  Teutonic Knights, 83, 255

  Texas (U.S. battleship), 880

  Thadden, Elisabeth von, 1025

  Thaelmann, Ernst, 157–59

  Thailand, 886, 892

  Thames river, 763, 768

  Theresienstadt, 991

  Thiele, Gen. Fritz, 1057, 1059, 1072

  Thirty Years’ War, 91–92

  Thoma, Gen. Wilhelm Ritter von, 920

  Thomas, Gen. Georg, 259, 413fn., 488–89, 497, 517–18, 530, 559–60, 644, 649, 659, 667fn., 693, 799

  Thompson, Dorothy, 1016

  Thomsen, Hans, 471fn., 684–85, 686fn., 747–50, 894fn., 896–97

  Thorkelson, Congressman, 748

  “Thousand-Year Reich,” 5, 230, 916, 1139

  Thuengen, General Freiherr von, 1035, 1061, 1073

  Thuringia, 65, 148, 173, 176, 375

  Thyssen, Fritz, 134, 144, 145, 146, 176, 190, 206, 261, 263

  Tiergarten, Berlin, 5, 1065, 1102fn., 1117, 1118, 1120, 1129, 1133

  Tilburg, 722

  Timoshenko, Marshal Semën K., 854, 856–57, 864

  Tippeiskirch, Werner von, 427, 802, 803, 839, 868

  Tirpitz, Grand Adm. Alfred von, 288, 373, 1043fn.

  Tirpitz (Ger. battleship), 467

  Tiso, Monsignor, 440, 441, 442

  Tobruk, 827, 911

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 103

  Todt, Doctor, 378, 515fn.

  Togo, Shigenori, 886–87, 889, 891, 893fn.

  Tojo, Gen. Hideki, 885

  Tokyo, 877, 878

  Tolischus, Otto D., 101fn.

  Tomaschek, Rudolphe, 250

  Topf, I. A., & Sons, 971

  Torgau, 1106

  Torgler, Ernst, 170, 193–94

  Toscanini, Arturo, 333

  Total War (Ludendorff), 259

  Toulon, 740, 821, 924–25

  Toussaint, Col. Rudolf, 363, 401

  Toynbee, Arnold, 504fn., 632fn.

  Toyoda, Admiral, 878fn., 884, 885

  trade unions, 34, 134, 153, 155, 157, 160, 165, 172, 174, 180, 185, 186, 201–3, 231, 263, 267, 373; see also labor, German

  “Transport Exercise Stettin,” 462

  Transport Ministry, 497

  Trans-Siberian Railway, 799fn., 878

  Transylvania, 800

  Traunstein, 34

  Treblinka, 272, 967, 968–69, 975, 977, 978

  Treitschke, Heinrich von, 95, 97, 99

  Tresckow, Maj. Gen. Henning von,-905, 1018–19, 1020–21, 1022, 1026, 1029, 1035, 1042–43, 1049, 1052, 1074

  Tresckow, Erika von, 1035

  Trevor-Roper, H. R., 1111, 1129fn., 1131fn.

  Trier, 291fn., 1092

  Trieste, 1005

  Tripartite (Three-Power) Pact, 803, 805, 808, 823, 871, 872, 873, 874, 875, 884, 885, 889, 890, 894, 900

  Tripoli, 821, 914, 922

  Tripolitania, 827

  Tromsö, 708, 709

  Trondheim, 681, 696, 701, 707, 708, 710, 721, 752

  Troost, Professor, 156

  Trotha, Admiral Adolf von, 253

  Trott zu Solz Adam von, 558, 1018, 1047, 1072fn,

  Truppenamt, 62, 285fn.

  Tsaritsyn, 917fn.

  Tschirschky, Baron, 348fn.

  Tuebingen, University of, 1031–32

  Tuka, Dr. Vojtech, 359, 439–40, 449

  Tula, 863, 864

  Tunisia, 740, 746, 924, 925, 995, 996, 1029

 

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