Charmley, John, 323
Chesterton, G. K., 323–24
Chosen People concept, 312, 316
freedom and, 332–33
Christianity, Christians, 315, 319–36
guilt of, 328–29
Hitler’s anti-Semitism and, 321, 326–28
Judaic standards and, 333–34
Judaism vs., 320–21
Judas story of, 322, 324–26, 328–29, 334
Pauline doctrine and, 324–25
and responsibility for Holocaust, 319–24, 329, 330, 335, 336
Wandering Jew image and, 331–32
worship of Jesus by, 329–30
Churchill, Winston, 152, 323
Cohen, Peter, 217
Cohn, Norman, 347
cold war, 64, 71
Cole, Diane, 374
Collin, Rodney, 105–6
Commentary, xvi, xxviii, 295, 321, 382
Cosmic Religion, The (Einstein), 136
Cossman, Nikolaus, 54–55
Craig, Gordon, xxv, 217
Czechoslovakia, 50, 184, 203, 384
Dachau, xix, 155, 160–61, 166
Dacre, Lord, see Trevor-Roper, H. R.
Dahmer, Jeffrey, xiii, xxx, 190
Dawidowicz, Lucy, xii, xiv, xliv, 38, 95, 190, 191, 198, 363–64, 369, 373–89
background of, 374–75
in German consul encounter, 375–76
on Hitler’s consciousness of evil, 388–89
on Hitler’s “esoteric language,” 373–74, 376–85
Kristallnacht pogrom as seen by, 383
laughing Hitler imagery of, 379, 381, 385–88
Dead Sea Scrolls, 255
Death Dealer (Höss), 288
Death of Adolf Hitler, The (Bezymenski), 80
Death of Hitler, The (Petrova and Watson), 80
Defeated Leaders (Binion), 239–40
DeLillo, Don, xxvii
Des Pres, Terrence, 287
Destruction of Dresden, The (Irving), 227
Destruction of the European Jews, The (Hilberg), 342
Deuerlein, Ernst, xliv
Diski, Jenny, 123
Disputation, The (Maccoby), 320
Doctor #117641: An Auschwitz Memoir (Micheels), 268
Döllersheim, Austria, 5–7, 9, 10, 15, 16–17
destruction of, xxvi–xxvii, 4, 11–12, 27
Dollfuss, Engelbert, 27–28
Domansky, Elizabeth, 291
Donovan, William J., 27
“doubling” theory, 269
Downfall of the Anti-Semitic Political Parties in Imperial Germany, The (Levy), 353, 356–57
Dreyfus Affair, 302
Duel, The (Lukacs), 152
Dwork, Debórah, 217
Dykman, Shlomo, 393
East Help scandal, 49–50
Eckart, Dietrich, 190
Egypt, 225
Eichmann, Adolf, 96, 216, 347
extermination statement of, 222–26, 234
Einsatzgruppen, 371
Einstein, Albert, 136
Eisner, Kurt, xxxvii
eliminationist anti-Semitism, 328, 339–40, 341, 348, 350, 352, 362, 366
defined, 339
Eliot, T. S., 322, 323–34
Ellis, Havelock, 129, 134
Encounter, 66, 330
Encyclopedia of the Third Reich (Snyder), 125
Ensor, Robert, 70
Erickson, Steve, 128
Erzberger, Matthias, 14
euthanasia campaign, Nazi, 350–51, 372
evil, xx–xxx, 83, 93, 198, 201, 216, 272, 315
as art, concept of, 214–19
banality of, 216, 339
Bullock on, 86–87
of Christendom, 320
Christian concept of, 291
concealment, shame and, 212–13
consciousness of, 86–87, 96, 209, 211, 212–14, 291, 388–89
degree of, 269
exceptionalist argument and, 85
Fackenheim’s perception of, 291–92
God and, 93–94, 279, 283–85
of Hitler, xx–xxiii, xxvii, 207–8, 282, 285, 291–92
and Hitler’s self-image as artist, 215–17
and Hitler vs. Stalin, 392–93
human nature and, 91
imagination and, 215–16
as incompleteness, 78, 93–94
Jewish concept of, 291
“radical,” 279–80, 285, 287, 291–92, 298
rectitude argument and, xxii–xxiii, 69–72, 75–76, 188, 208, 209–13, 218, 388
scale and, 91–92
of Stalin, 203–4
state of mind and, 91–92
theodicy problem and, 283–85
thoughtlessness vs. thoughtfulness as, 216
Evolution of Allure, The (Hersey), 217–18
Facing the Extreme (Todorov), 275
Fackenheim, Emil, vii, xii, xiii, xiv, xxiii, xxiv, xxvi, 64, 69, 71, 85–86, 94, 208, 254, 259, 279, 280, 281, 284–98, 308, 312, 357, 374, 391–92
actor theory of, 88, 290–91
on danger of explanations, 287–88
“double move” of, 288, 390, 394
“Hitler within” argument opposed by, 286
Jewish-blood explanation as seen by, 294–95
Kristallnacht arrest of, 285–86
radical evil as perceived by, 291–92
“614th commandment” of, 287, 296–98, 303
twenty years’ silence of, 286–87
Waite criticized by, 289–90
Fanfare, Die, 48, 109
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 184
Fest, Joachim, 11, 17, 29, 130
Field of Blood, 325
Final Solution, xiii, xxviii, 39, 332
charade of deniability in, 191
consciousness of wrongdoing and, 212–13
decision question and, 363–65
dehumanization process in, 213–14, 218–19
Genghis Khan as model for, 174–77
germ theory of Jewishness in, 211–12
Heydrich’s alleged Jewish ancestry and, 293–94
Himmler’s Posen speech and, 210–11, 213
Hitler’s responsibility and role in, 72–73, 95–96, 165–67, 189, 191, 193, 198
“innocenticide” and, 235
inventiveness of, 214–15
lack of oral or written order for, 211, 282, 371, 386
Lang on, 214–15
language of concealment and, 373–74
Munich Post’s early perception of, 42–43
Nazi mind-set and, 189
number of Germans engaged in, 340–41
in Table Talk transcripts, 72–73, 198, 214–15, 388
train transfer decision and, 212
see also anti-Semitism; Holocaust
Fischer, David H., xxv
Fish, Stanley, 311
Ford, Henry, xxxix, 55
Foregone Conclusions (Bernstein), 241
Foreign Affairs, 360
Forster (detective), 101
Forster, Edmund, xliv–xlv, 107
Forward, The, 360–61
For Your Own Good (Miller), xxxi
Foxman, Abraham, 177
France, 50, 90, 363
anti-Semitism in, 302, 334, 345
Frank, Anne, 235
Frank, Hans, 11–12, 15, 30, 31, 41, 85, 116, 159
memoirs of, 17–19, 21–27
Frank, Niklas, 25, 159
Frankenberger (alleged Hitler ancestor), 17, 20–21
Frankfurter Zeitung, 42, 56, 121, 130
Franziska (kitchen maid), 13
Frau Lou (Binion), 240
Freedom Party, Austrian, 12
free will, 284
Freud, Sigmund, 8, 137, 144, 151, 305–6, 331
Frick, Wilhelm, 170
Friedländer, Saul, xxv, xxviii, xli–xlii, 209, 352
Fritsch, Werner von, 50
Fromm, Erich, xxxii, xl
Fuehrer, Der (Heiden), 56, 121, 131
Führer-Ex (Hasselbach and Reiss), 220
Gacy, John Wayne, xxix
Gandhi, Mohandas K, (Mahatma), xiii
Gatzke, Hans, 151
Geheimnisträgers, 270
Gelasius I, Pope, 324
Gemlich (Hitler’s Munich correspondent), 139, 380
General Staff, German, 50
Genghis Khan, 173, 174–77
Genghis Khan: Storm out of Asia, 174
Genoud, François, 74
Gerade Weg, Der, xix–xx, xliii–xliv, 42, 160, 164, 173
Gerlach, Christian, 365
Gerlich, Fritz, xix–xx, xliii–xliv, 42, 121, 153, 179, 197, 217
alleged J’Accuse pamphlet of, 195, 196
background of, 160
Hitler caricatured by, 155–58, 167, 169, 173–77
murder of, 152, 156, 166–67
stigmata prophet and, 161–67
“Trial of Hitler’s Nose” satire by, 157, 167–68, 170–73, 177–78, 187
Gerlich, Sophie, xx, 167
German language, 303, 334
Germany, Federal Republic of, 71
blame question and, 342
Hitler’s Willing Executioners controversy in, 346–47, 358–60
Germany, Nazi, xxxi, 50, 57, 106, 175, 326, 386
Goldhagen’s eliminationist anti-Semitism theory and, 339–40, 341
Jewish community of, 334–35
Germany, Weimar, 46, 51, 156, 157, 170
Gestapo, xx, xlv, 10, 156, 159, 166, 167, 243, 293
Gestapo Cottage, 206–7
Geyer (actor), 31
Gidal, Nachum Tim, 105, 158
Hitler photograph by, 169
Gilbert, G. M., 18, 25–26, 27
Glocke, Die (Schiller), 356
God, 86, 316
Chosen People concept and, 332–33
evil and, 93–94, 279, 283–85
as final Holocaust victim, 298–99
Holocaust and, 282–83, 295–96, 334
as Satan or nebbish (Bauer syllogism), 284–85, 295–96, 298
silence of, xxvi, 296
theodicy problem and, 283–85, 298
Goebbels, Joseph, 28, 48, 65, 66, 74, 95–96, 157, 198, 217, 221, 231, 234, 318, 351, 389
Hitler’s final decision and, 370–71
Kristallnacht and, 191, 384
Goethe, Johann von, 90, 334, 356
Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah, xxxviii, 136, 189, 328, 336, 337–68
Bauer’s criticism of, 344–46
Browning’s criticism of, 346, 362–64
decision theory and, 362–64
eliminationist anti-Semitism theory of, 339–40, 341, 348, 350, 352
Erich Goldhagen’s relationship with, 355–57
on Germany’s national character, 352
Hilberg’s conflict with, 342–44
on Hitler’s anti-Semitism, 348–49
Hitler’s exculpation and, 361–62, 366
mainstream popularity of, 365–66
on origin of German anti-Semitism, 353–54
revenge thesis and, 358, 361–62
scholars’ assault on, 337–38, 341–46, 352–53, 359
“strangling” reference to, 338–39, 341–42
Goldhagen, Erich, 351, 355–57
Goldschagg, Edmund, 42, 43–44
Goldschagg, Rolf, 44
Göring, Hermann, 96, 157, 192, 193, 217, 223, 371, 384
Hitler’s relationship with, 185–86
Gospels, 324, 325–26, 328, 329
Graef, Hilda, 163
Grant, Robert, xli
Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon), 128
Great Britain, 50
“underestimation syndrome” in, 322–23
Great Depression, German, 100
“Great Man” theory, xiii
Greenberg, Irving, 283
Greiser, Arthur, 370
Gross, Felix, 182–83
Gruber, Martin, 42, 48, 55–56, 58
Grynszpan, Herschel, 383
Günsche, Otto, 228
Günther, Hans, 157, 170–71, 172
Gürtner, Franz, 100, 102, 121
Güstrow, Dietrich, xxx–xxxi
Guttenberg, Karl Ludwig Freiherr von, xliv
H., Herr, 201–5, 207
Haider, Jörg, 12
Halifax, Edward Wood, Lord, 184
Hamann, Brigitte, xxxvi–xxxvii
Hampton, Christopher, 330
Hanfstaengl, Ernst “Putzi,” 84, 125–26, 129–30, 133, 137, 169, 192
Hanussen (mystic), 165
Harris, Robert, 76, 223
Hasselbach, Ingo, 220
hatred, 187–89, 197–98, 349, 390–91, 395
Hausser, Louis, 164–65
Hayman, Ronald, 192–97
missing night theory of, 194–97
Heiber, Helmut, 8
Heidegger, Martin, 220, 334, 395
Heidegger’s Silence (Lang), 220
Heiden, Konrad, xix, 42, 56–57, 121–22, 125, 126, 128–32, 134
New York Times obituary on, 130–31
Heimsoth, Dr., 47, 48
Heisenberg, Werner, 180
Heisenberg’s War (Powers), 180
Hell, Josef, 378
Hentsch, Herbert, 52
Hersey, George, 217–18
Herzl, Theodor, 7
Hess, Rudolf, 186, 222
Heydrich, Bruno, 293–94
Heydrich, Reinhard, 43, 73, 86–87, 94, 96, 214, 217, 223, 224, 225–26, 285, 388
alleged Jewish ancestry of, 293–94
Hitler’s final decision and, 370–71
as potential successor to Hitler, 292–93
Hiedler, Johann Georg, 4, 5, 9, 14, 22, 23, 33
Hiedler, Johann Nepomuk, 5, 9
Hier Ist Kein Warum, 265
Hilberg, Raul, 342–44, 346
Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 392
Himmelfarb, Milton, xiii, xlii, 281, 292, 340, 343, 349, 391
on demonization of Hitler, 394–95
one exceptionalist question, 392–94
Himmler, Heinrich, 10, 43, 73, 87, 94, 96, 174–76, 214, 217, 223, 224, 234, 293, 294, 365, 371, 384, 388
Greiser letter of, 370
Posen speech of, 210–11, 213
Hindenburg, Oskar von, 49, 50
Hindenburg, Paul von, xix, 49–50, 100, 156, 366–67
Hinduism, 333
Hirsch, David, 361
Hirschberg, Klaus, 119–20
History and Memory, 291
Historikerstreit, 70, 176, 203, 346
History of Childhood Quarterly, 245
“History of Evil and the Future of the Holocaust, The” (Lang), 208, 219
History of National Socialism (Heiden), 130–31
History of the Holocaust, A (Bauer), 280
Hitler, Adolf:
as actual murderer, 193
alleged genital incompleteness of, xxvi, 78–79, 80, 81
alleged nose job of, 186–87
art ambition of, 204–5
artistic consciousness of, 215–17
autopsy of, 79, 80–81, 141
baby pictures of, xv, xvi–xviii
billy-goat bite theory and, xxx–xxxi
birthplace of, 7
blackmail culture and, 48–51, 115
Chaplinesque image of, 71
charisma of, xxxiii–xxxiv, 65, 77, 82, 89, 95, 168, 227, 229, 303, 317–18, 350
as culmination of European civilization, 305–6
deathbed testament of, 289–90
death of, xii, 79–80
demonization of, 394–95
economic success myth of, 368
fictional representations of, xxv–xxvi, xxvii–xxviii
German language and, 303–4
“Heil Hitler” incantation and, 165–66
“Hitler within” explanation of, 286
image control by, 168–70
Jewish blood issue and, xvii, xxix, xxxv, xlv, 85, 131, 132, 138, 156, 171, 174, 181, 292, 294–95
junior high school days of, 305–6
laughing image of, 379, 381, 385–88
lost Vienna period of, 204–5
at Männerheim, 204–5
mesmeric power of, 65, 67–68, 113, 303
military courage of, 318
“moral cretinism” of, 87–88
mountebank characterization of, 68–71, 77
mustache styles of, 111–12
as mystic, 166–67
name of, 7
as “one of us,” 94
Pasewalk episode and, xiv–xv, xliv–xlv, 54, 107, 166, 374, 376, 377
in popular culture, xxvii–xxx, 66–67
psychoanalytic studies of, xxviii–xxix, xxxii–xxxiv, xl–xlvi, 136–51
in rise to power, 366–67
safe-deposit box myths of, xl–xlvi
as savior of Jews, 309–10
sense of destiny of, 126
as serial killer, xxix–xxx
Stalin’s evil compared with that of, 203–4
syphilis explanation of, xxxiv–xxxv
thought-world of, xii–xiii, xxx, xxxiii, 32, 36
unnaturalness of, 165–66, 170
victim rhetoric and, xxix–xxiv
wartime failure of, 90
“Wolf” pseudonym of, 113
worldview of, 288–89
Hitler, Adolf, anti-Semitism of, xii, xiii–xiv, xxxiv–xxxvii, 95–96, 282
Austrian anti-Semitism and, 302, 347–48
Bullock on, 83–84
Christianity and, 326–28
Goldhagen on, 348–49
Jewish ancestor story and, 17–27, 30, 32, 35, 292
Jewish doctor episode and, 146–49, 243–49
Protocols of the Elders of Zion and, 55
and seed of Hitler’s metamorphosis, 240, 244–45, 250
Wagner and, 31
Hitler, Adolf, family history of, xii, xxi, xvii
alleged Jewish ancestor and, 5, 11–12, 14–15, 17–18, 20–29, 30, 32, 35
anti-Semitic press and, 30–31
Baron Rothschild variation of, 8–9, 13, 27–29
blackmail attempt and, 32–36
borderland origin and, 7–8
chain of uncertainty in, 30–31
English branch of, 19
family-romance fantasy and, 8–9, 12–14
Frank’s memoir and, 11–12, 17–27, 31
incest in, 14
name change and, 10–11
Nazi inquiries into, 10
paternal grandfather question and, 4–5, 8–10, 17–18
Hitler, Adolf, sexuality of, xii, xxi, xxix, 181
Bullock on, 83–85
criminal pathology and, 106–7
Freudian theory and, 136–37
in Hitler-Geli relationship, 137–38, 139, 151
Jewish blood issue and, 138–39
lost-testicle theory and, 140–49
perversion myth and, 128–34
primal scene theory and, 149–51
Raubal affair and, 104–7, 110, 115, 117, 127–28
Hitler, Alois (father), xxxii, 4, 5, 7, 9–10, 13, 14, 35, 150
Hitler, Alois, Jr. (half brother), 19–20, 28, 35
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