of Gypsies in Germany, 205
of Italian Jews, 250
of Mischlinge, 150–51, 367
of Polish Jews, 186, 217, 266–67, 352–53
Preussische Zeitung, 57
Priestley, J. B., 332–33
Prinz, Arthur, 110
Prinz, Hermann, 126
Prinz, Joachim, 15–16, 146
Propaganda Ministry, German, 9, 10, 32–33, 61, 67, 117, 136, 321, 328
Property Transfer Office, 242, 243
“Propositions on the Aryan Question” (Niemöller), 45, 344
Protestant churches, Protestants, 107, 138, 209–10, 326
anti-Semitism and, 41–42, 43–46, 47, 59–60, 83, 189–90, 339–40
Nuremberg Laws and, 163, 164
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 94–95, 217, 303, 356, 357, 372
Prussian Academy of the Arts, 10–11, 12
Prussian Confessing Synod, 163
Prussian Evangelical Church, 44
psychoanalysis, 193, 343
public facilities and transportation, Jews banned from use of, 36–37, 122–23, 126–27, 138, 161, 166–67, 229, 230–31, 281–82, 285
public opinion, on Nazi anti-Jewish policies, 3, 4, 18, 22, 68, 69–70, 125–26, 162–67, 289, 294–98, 323–24, 331–32
publishing industry, Jews in, 24–25, 79–80, 130, 337
Raabe, Peter, 132
race:
Jews as, 118–20, 151–55
see also anti-Semitism, racial; blacks
Rachkovsky, Piotr, 94
Racial Manifesto, 250
Rafelsberger, Walter, 243, 245, 247
Randall, A. W. G., 299
Rapp, Alfred, 159–60
Rassenschande (race defilement), 159, 161–62, 163, 254, 325–26, 369–70
Rath, Ernst vom, 207, 236, 268, 271, 273, 274, 278, 279, 280, 292, 302, 387
Rathenau, Walther, 74, 75, 94, 108, 130, 356
refugees, Jewish, 248–49, 263–68, 299–305, 315
Reich Association of German Writers, 11
Reich Association of Jewish War Veterans, 15
Reich Board for Economic Management, 247
Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration, 319
Reich Chamber of Culture (RKK), 11, 32, 118, 131
Reich Flag Law, 142, 148
Reich Institute for the History of New Germany, Jewish Section of, 191–92, 227
Reich Labor Exchange, 319
Reich Office for Ancestry Research, 135–36
Reich Physicians’ Chamber, 258
Reichsbank, 25, 62, 315
Reichskulturkammer, 136–37, 365
Reichstag, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 28, 70, 74, 100, 105, 106, 308
Reichsvereinigung, 318
Reichswehr, 147
Reinhardt, Max, 12, 252
Religious Affairs Ministry, German, 326
Renteln, Theodor Adrian von, 19
Research Institute on the Jewish Question, 286
resorts, Jews banned from, 127, 139, 143, 227, 282
Revisionists, 304
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 223, 265, 267, 280, 300, 301, 315
right-wing movements, East European, 215
Ritter, Gerhard, 54, 297
Ritter, Robert, 205
ritual murder, 123–24
RKK (Reich Chamber of Culture), 11, 32, 118, 131
Road into the Open, The (Schnitzler), 81
Röhm, Ernst, 114, 206
Romania, 215, 263
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 21, 180–81, 248, 299, 311
Rosenberg, Alfred, 109, 131–33, 182, 183, 184, 192, 232n 253, 255, 256, 364, 372
Rosenfeld, Arnold, 41
Rosenfelder, Fritz, 37
Rothenberg, Franz, 243
Rothmund, Heinrich, 264
Rothschild archives, 255
Rothschild family, 260
Rublee, George, 249, 315, 316
Rumbold, Sir Horace, 68–69
Rundschau, 24, 25
Ruppin, Arthur, 64–65
Russia, Imperial, 81, 93, 218, 352–53
Russian Revolution, 2, 90, 94
Rust, Bernhard, 50, 57, 131, 252, 258, 284, 293, 298
Ruthen, Rudolf aus den, 195, 196
SA (Storm Troopers, Sturmabteilung), 20, 56, 253, 259, 286, 359, 388–89
anti-Jewish violence committed by, 18, 19, 23, 41, 111, 137, 138, 242, 243, 269–70, 273–74, 278, 387
execution of members of, 111
murder of leaders of, 114–15, 137, 147, 206, 207
St. Louis, 299–300
Salengro, Roger, 223
Salzburg Festival, 252
Sarrault, Albert, 178
Schacht, Hjalmar, 24, 25, 69, 139, 140, 146, 179, 224, 236, 288, 315, 350
Schiff, Jacob, 230
Schillings, Max von, 11, 12
Schlatter, Adolf, 165–66
Schlegelberger, Franz, 29, 341
Schleicher, Hugo, 231
Schleicher, Kurt von, 110–11
Schlösser, Rainer, 67, 134
Schloss Wetterstein (Wedekind), 108
Schmitt, Carl, 54, 55, 192–93, 212, 374
Schmitthenner, Paul, 293
Schmitz, Oskar A. H., 44
Schnitzler, Arthur, 81, 130
Scholder, Klaus, 42, 47–48
Scholem, Gershom, 9
schools, Jews in, 30–31, 38, 149, 157, 168, 227, 256–57, 284–85, 298, 379
Schröder, Kurt, 198
Schüler, Winfried, 89
Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 239, 242
Schwarz, Ernst, 26
Schwarze Korps, Das, 122, 193, 195, 206, 209, 292, 312, 313, 314
schweigsame Frau, Die (Strauss), 131–32
Schweitzer, Hans, 104
Schwörer, Victor, 53
scientific research, 374
SD (Sicherheitsdienst), 3, 48, 63, 133, 139, 140, 167, 195, 233, 235, 255, 266, 270, 271, 291, 295, 304, 317, 318, 327, 359, 387
card index project of, 199
Jewish organizations investigated by, 199–201
reorganization of, 187–98, 374–75
Section II 112 (Jewish section) of, 135, 198–202, 210, 244, 245, 254, 261, 313
Second Reich, see Germany, Imperial
Security Police (Sipo), 195
Selz, Otto, 18
Senator, Werner, 61
Senger, Valentin, 323
Seraphim, Peter-Heinz, 186–87
Sereny, Gitta, 296
Serkin, Rudolf, 10
Seton-Watson, R. W., 93
sexual intercourse, definition of, 158–59
Sherrill, Charles, 181
Shirer, William L., 169
Siedler, Wolf Jobst, 296
Simon, Ernst, 75, 169
Simon, Hans, 296
Simon, Sir John, 68
Singer, Kurt, 65–66, 136
Sipo (Security Police), 195
“Situation of the Jews in Russia from the Revolution of March 1917 to the Present, The” (Heller), 191
Six, Franz Albert, 198, 199, 255, 313
Slawoj-Skladkowski, Felician, 218
Social Democratic Party, German, 74, 75, 76, 93, 106, 338, 356
socialism, 93
Socialist Party, German, 115, 138
SOPADE reports of, 138, 139, 253, 295, 302, 323
Solmssen, Georg, 33
Sommer, Walther, 225
SOPADE reports, 138, 139, 253, 295, 302, 323, 383–84
Soviet Union, 4, 185, 263, 265, 330
anti-Semitism in, 103, 186, 214
see also Russia, Imperial; Russian Revolution
Spanish Civil War, 178, 183, 184
Spartacists, 91
Spectator (London), 248
Speer, Albert, 260–61, 296
Spinoza, Baruch, 54, 256
Spitzemberg, Baroness Hildegard von, 79–80
Spotts, Frederic, 14
SS, 4, 17, 76, 122, 125, 126, 137–38, 147, 166–67, 187, 193, 202–3, 205, 207, 209, 244, 246, 278, 292
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Kristallnacht and, 273, 274–75, 387
racial purity in, 195–96, 197
Security Service of, see SD
SS-Leitheft, 196–97
Stabel, Oskar, 56
Stahlecker, Franz, 244, 245, 305
Stalin, Joseph, 103, 186, 214, 330
Starhemberg, Prince Ernst Rüdiger, 242
State Department, U.S., 21
Stavisky affair, 221
Steed, Harry Wickham, 80
sterilization law, 39–40, 207–10
Stern, Fritz, 81
Stern, Hermann, 41
Stern, Kurt, 197
Stern, Susannah, 269
Stöcker, Adolf, 191
Storm Troopers, see SA
Strasser, Gregor, 19
Strauss, Leo, 54
Strauss, Richard, 9, 67, 108, 131–32
Stresemann, Gustav, 106
Stuckart, Wilhelm, 148, 152, 158–59, 224
Sturmabteilung, see SA
Stürmer, Der, 118, 123–25, 127, 128, 135
Sudetenland, 214, 249, 255, 262, 263, 265, 267, 272, 280, 311
suicide, 12, 37, 42, 73, 114, 173, 224, 239, 276, 305, 318
Supreme Court, German, 159, 276
swastika, 18, 64, 142, 238–39
swimming facilities, 122–23, 127, 138, 161, 229, 230–31, 285
Switzerland, 9, 24, 26, 114, 181, 206, 236, 245, 263–65, 266, 303
Szamuely, Tibor, 93
Thannhäuser, Ludwig, 117
Three Speeches on Judaism (Buber), 118
Thule Society, 92
Times (London), 80, 95, 103, 246, 300
Tivoli program, 34
Toscanini, Arturo, 9–10, 252
“Toward Eliminating the Poison from the Jewish Question” (Prinz), 110
trade unions, abolition of, 17
Tramer, Hans, 14–15
Tübingen, University of, 50, 157–58, 165, 205
Tuchler, Kurt, 63
Tucholsky, Kurt, 172–73
Turkey, 368
Udet, Ernst, 37
Ullstein, Leopold, 65
Ullstein publishing empire, 24–25, 65, 79, 138
Umfried, Hermann, 41–42, 59
United States:
boycott of German goods in, 139
isolationism in, 213
Jewish organizations in, 21, 339
Jewish refugees and, 248, 299–300
relations between Nazi Germany and, 20, 300–301, 309, 310
universities, Jews in, 30–31, 36–37, 49–60, 145, 149, 157–58, 218, 228–29, 285, 293, 345–48, 379–80
Vallat, Xavier, 222
Vatican:
Concordat signed between Hitler and, 46–47, 48–49, 69, 70
see also Catholic Church, Catholics
Verschuer, Otmar von, 32
Vichy government of France, 220, 222, 302
Vienna, 11, 80, 96, 239, 241, 243, 244, 245, 255, 266, 353–54
Völkischer Beobachter, 22, 30, 141, 143, 246, 249, 271, 280
Wagener, Otto, 19, 359
Wagner, Adolf, 139–40
Wagner, Cosima, 88, 89, 90
Wagner, Gerhard, 20, 148, 149
Wagner, Richard, 67, 87–89, 90, 252, 355, 372
Wagner, Robert, 51
Wagner, Winifred, 14
Walter, Bruno, 9
Warburg, Max, 26, 65, 74–75, 170, 321
Warburg, Otto, 51–52, 153
Wasserstein, Bernard, 304
Wassermann, Jakob, 109–10, 130
Wassermann, Oskar, 25, 42
Webster, Nesta, 90–91
Wedekind, Frank, 108
Wehrmacht, 115, 117, 137, 153, 177, 236, 241, 265, 291, 304, 330
Weise, Georg, 50
Weiss, Bernhard, 104
Weissler, Friedrich, 190
Weizmann, Chaim, 170, 313
Weizsäcker, Ernst von, 238, 316
Weltsch, Robert, 129–30, 349
Wenn ich der Kaiser wär (Class), 34
Werfel, Franz, 11–12
Westdeutscher Beobachter, 122, 219
Wiedemann, Fritz, 117, 143
Wiese, Benno von, 55
Willstätter, Richard, 347
“Will the Jew Be Victorious Over Us?” (Schlatter), 165–66
Wilson, Hugh R., 261, 299, 316
Winter, Karl, 256
Wise, Stephen, 180–81, 217
Wisliceny, Dieter, 198
Wohlthat, Helmut, 315
women, victimization of, 369
World of Yesterday, The (Zweig), 81
World Revolution (Webster), 90–91
World War I, 2, 90, 309
Jewish military service in, 15, 16, 28, 29, 55, 58, 61, 73–75, 117, 292–93
World War II, 366
outbreak of, 330–31
prelude to, 177–78, 304–5, 311
World Zionist Organization, 170, 313
Wurm, Alois, 43
Würzburg, 104–5, 161
Yiddish, 37, 217, 218
Yishuv, 63, 65, 170
Zionist Federation for Germany, 21
Zionist Organization, 61, 63, 64
Zionist Pioneer, 61
Zionist Rundschau, 244
Zionists, Zionism, 15, 61–65, 78, 93, 119, 141, 151, 165, 167–68, 170, 198, 201, 217, 270, 304
Zionist Youth Emigration Organization, 55
Zöberlein, Hans, 122
Zschintsch, Werner, 252
Zweig, Arnold, 9, 65, 171, 172
Zweig, Stefan, 81, 131–32
About the Author
Born in Prague, SAUL FRIEDLÄNDER spent his boyhood in Nazi-occupied France. He now divides his time between professorships at Tel Aviv University and UCLA. He has written many other books on Nazi Germany and World War II, including a moving personal memoir, When Memory Comes.
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