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bigamy arrest of, 33–34
newspaper article by, 183
Hitler, Bridget (sister-in-law), 19, 32–35
memoir of, 195–96
Hitler, Klara (mother), xxxii, 5, 13–14, 142, 148, 150
Dr. Bloch’s treatment of, 243–49
Hitler, Paula (sister), 74, 110–15, 117
Hitler, William Patrick (nephew), 19–20, 24, 196
in attempt to blackmail Hitler, 32–36, 183
Hitler Among the Germans (Binion), 240
Lanzmann’s critique of, 255–56
Hitler and Geli (Hayman), 192
Hitler and Stalin (Bullock), 80, 89
“Hitler and the Holocaust” (Bullock), 95
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (Bullock), 68–69, 81–83, 96
Hitler: Correction of a Biography (Joachimsthaler), 123
“Hitler Diary” hoax, 63, 72, 73, 75, 76, 223
“Hitlerism as a Sex Problem” (Collin), 105–6
Hitler Nobody Knows, The (Hoffmann), xvii, 168–70
Hitler of History, The (Lukacs), xxv, xxxvi
Hitler’s Counterfeit Reich, 58
“Hitler’s Encephalitis: A Footnote to History,” xxxiii
Hitler’s Guns, Girls and Gangsters (Gross), 182–83
“Hitler Sourcebook” (OSS), 140, 180–83, 189, 191
Hitler-Göring relationship in, 185–86
Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe anecdotes in, 183–86
Raubal rumors in, 182–83
Hitler’s Psychopathology (Bromberg and Small), 29, 137–38
Hitler’s Secret Book (Hitler), 138–39
Hitler-Stalin pact, 375
Hitler’s Third Reich: A Documentary History (Snyder), 326
Hitler’s Thirty Days to Power (Turner), 366
Hitler’s War (Irving), 94, 222–23, 233, 236
Hitlers Wien (Hamann), xxxvi–xxxvii
Hitler’s Willing Executioners (Goldhagen), xxxviii–xxxix, 337–38, 340
German translation of, 346–47, 358–60
mainstream popularity of, 365–66
Hitler’s Youth (Jetzinger), 11
Hitler: The Führer and the People (Stern), 289
Hitler Years, The (documentary), 110
Hoch, Anton, 228
Hoffmann, Heinrich, xvii, 111, 126, 168–69, 170, 187, 192, 193
Hoffmann, Henrietta, 126, 127
“Hoffmann on Hitler” (Hoffmann), 111
Hohenlohe, Princess Stephanie von, 183–86, 191
Höhne, Heinz, 293
Holocaust, xiii, xxi, xxii, xxvii, xxxi, 30, 83, 136, 197, 203, 281, 367
blame-the-Jews approach to, 310–11, 313–15, 330
Christianity as responsible for, 319–21, 329, 330, 335, 336
creation of Israel and, 313
decision question and, 363–65, 369–86
denial of, 73, 94–95, 96, 215, 224–25, 232–33, 234, 262, 263
despair in understanding of, xv–xvi
Dr. Bloch episode as root of, 147–49, 239, 241–50
Eichmann’s extermination statement and, 222–26, 234
God and, 93, 282–85, 291, 295–96, 298–99, 334
Hitler’s role in, xli, 90–91, 94–95, 219, 281–82, 389–90
human nature and, 281
Irving’s euphemism for, 234–35
Jewish passivity in, 334–35
Judas story and, 324–26, 328–29
Kafka as source of, 304–5, 315
lack of written order for, 222–26, 233, 234
as moral lesson, 284
mystification of, 261–64, 281–82
as product of Western civilization, 259–60, 262, 365–66
remembrance of, 357–58
revenge thesis of, 357–58, 360–61, 367–68
smoothness of execution of, 344
theodicy problem and, 283–85, 298
see also anti-Semitism; Final Solution
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 280, 281, 352
“Holocaust as a Challenge to Belief, The,” 284–85
Holocaust in Historical Perspective, The (Baker), 280
Holocaust Memorial Museum, U.S., xiii, 337, 338, 344
“Holocaust Memory and Revenge” (Lang), 357
Hook, Sidney, 314, 315–16
Hoover, J. Edgar, 184
Horvath, Hans, 122
Höss, Rudolf, 288
Howard, Michael, xxvii
Human, All Too Human (Nietzsche), 88
“ideological” school of explanation, 288
Imagining Hitler (Rosenfeld), xxv, 66–67
Incompleteness concept, 78, 83, 85, 93–94
“innocenticide” concept, 235
Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 54, 58
International Jew, The (Ford), xxxix, 55
International Research Project on Genocide, 347
“Interview with Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe” (OSS), 184
“In the Penal Colony” (Kafka), 240, 305
In the Shadow of the Reich (Frank), 25, 159
Iran, 176
Irving, David, xxvi, 82, 94, 220, 221–36, 287
background of, 227–28
Bullock’s view of, 222–23
diaries hoax and, 224–25
Eichmann’s memoir and, 222, 223–25
Hitler’s Magic Circle and, 226–30, 232
Hitler’s “spell” and, 227, 229
“innocenticide” concept of, 235
Schroeder and, 228, 230–31
“stone cleaning” image of, 232
two-Hitlers argument of, 230
wash-the-blood-off-Hitler image of, 231–32, 235–36
Irving, Suzie, 228
Islam, 333
Israel, 283, 287, 297, 329
Holocaust and creation of, 313
Israel, Wilhelm ben (pseudonym), 66
“Is the Holocaust Explicable?” (Bauer), 281
J’Accuse (attrib. Gerlich), 195–96
Jäckel, Eberhard, 75, 245–46, 247, 249, 288
Jackson, Jesse, 326
James, Henry, xxx
Jesus Christ, xxiv–xxv, xxviii–xxix, xxxv–xxxvi, xxxviii, 93, 309, 313, 314, 316, 325, 333, 339
Christianity’s worship of, 329–30
Jetzinger, Franz, 11, 16, 85
“Jew and Adolf Hitler, The” (Kurth), 147, 242
Jewish Emergence from Powerlessness, The (Bauer), 280
Jewish Press, 30
Jewish Social Studies, 357
Jews, xxix, xxxviii, 88, 91, 95–96, 139, 189
Chosen People concept of, 312, 316, 332–33
Christianity vs., 320–21
German, 334–35
“germ theory” of, 211–12
Hitler as savior of, 309–10
“poisoners” epithet for, 38
name change required of, 383
World War II as war against, 363
see also anti-Semitism; Final Solution; Holocaust
Joachimsthaler, Anton, 123–24
Joshua, Book of, 312
Journal of Operational Psychiatry, xxxiii
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 284
Judas, 93, 322, 324–26, 328–29, 334
and Field of Blood, 325
Jesus’s curse of, 325, 328
Judenräte, 344
Kafka, Franz, xliv, 147, 239, 245, 250, 294
Hitler linkages and, 218, 240–41
as source of Holocaust, 304–5, 315
Steiner on language of, 304–5
Kafka, John, 147, 239
Binion and, 245–46, 247–50
Kafka (tenant), 239, 241
Kahr, Gustav Ritter von, 160
Kant, Immanuel, 209
Kazin, Alfred, 158
Keats, John, xl
Keitel, Wilhelm, 228
Kershaw, Ian, xxv, xli–xlii
Kersten, Felix, 294
KGB, 141
Kissinger, Henry, 339
Klarsfeld, Serge, 262–63, 357
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Knightley, Philip, 76
Koch, Ilse, 360
Koch, Robert, 212
Koehler, Hans Jurgen, 27
Kozodoy, Neal, 382
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 134
Kraus, Karl, 305
Kren, George, 249–50
Kren, Gertrude Bloch, 146, 249
“Kriminalitaet der Encephalitiker, Zur,” xxxiii
Kristallnacht, 39, 285–86, 292, 294
alleged absence of verbal order for, 383–84
Dawidowicz’s view of, 383
Goebbels and, 191, 384
Hitler’s role in, 191, 383–84
Kristol, Irving, xxvii–xxviii, 392
Kronor, Karl, 106–7
Kubizek (Hitler friend), 244
Kurth, Gertrud, xxvi, 145–50, 151, 242
Kushner, Harold S., 283
Kweit, Konrad, 342
Lacan, Jacques, 252
Lang, Berel, xiii, xxvi, 85, 190, 198, 208–10, 357, 389
evil as art concept of, 214–19
on Heidegger, 220
on Holocaust revisionists, 219–20
revenge thesis of, 358, 360–61
Langer, Lawrence, 241, 305, 338–39, 345–46
Langer, Walter C., 27, 28–29, 106, 110, 128, 146, 147, 150, 151, 181
Language and Silence (Steiner), 304, 305
Lanzmann, Claude, xv, xvi, xvii–xviii, xxxi–xxxii, xxxviii, 85, 241, 250, 251–66, 267, 281, 390
acolyte’s description of, 252
anti-explanation campaign of, 251–53, 255, 257, 258–59, 275
Binion attacked by, 242, 255–57, 264
codes contretemps with, 257–58
cult of, 254
Micheels publicly attacked by, 254, 269–75
Pressac criticized by, 263
Spielberg attacked by, 253
on “why” story, 265–66
Last Days of Hitler, The (Trevor-Roper), 63–67, 74, 79
Rosenfeld’s critique of, 66–67
Laub, Dori, 269, 273, 275
“Leda and the Swan” (Yeats), xxx–xxxi
Legacy of Genghis Khan, The, 174
Leibniz, G. W., 284
Leo Baeck Institute, 319, 321
Leo Baeck Yearbook, 335
Leuchter, Fred, 232
Levi, Primo, 209, 215, 265, 266
“no why here” story of, 252, 265–66, 275–76
Levine, Ilse, 292, 294
Levine, Kurt, 292
Levy, Richard S., 353, 354, 356–57
Ley, Inge, 110
Liebenfels, Lanz von, xxxvii
Life, 169
Lifton, Robert, 269
Linge, Heinz, 80
Linzer Fliegende Blätter, xxxvi, 327
Liptauer, Suzi, 110
Loewenberg, Dr. Peter, xxiii, 86
London Observer, 301
London Review of Books, 123, 279
Love Beyond Death (Binion), 240
Ludendorff, Erich, 41
Luethy, Herbert, 295
Lukacs, John, xxi, xxv, xxxvi–xxxviii, 152
Luther, Martin, 303
Maccoby, Hyam, xxvi, 93, 310, 318, 319–36, 339, 340, 352
background of, 320
on Chosen People concept, 332–33
on Christmas holiday, 319–20
Steiner’s clash with, 320–21, 330–31
Tannenbaum’s clash with, 329
on Wandering Jew image, 330–32
see also Christianity, Christians
McCowen, Alec, 311
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 92, 377
McLuhan, Marshall, 303
Madagascar Plan, 302, 364, 377
“Magic Circle.” 82
Mahler, Gustav, 305–6
Male Fantasies (Theweleit), 106
Mann, Thomas, 217
Manson, Charles, 190
Marx, Karl, xxxviii, 309, 313, 328, 333
Maser, Werner, 5, 9, 11–12, 21, 25, 123
Mauriac, François, 361
Maurice, Emil, 113, 125–26
Mayer, Arno, 345
Mein Kampf (Hitler), xxxv–xxxvi, 23, 54, 69, 139, 150, 288, 327, 376
big lie of, 289
decision for final solution and, 376–77
Menendez, Erik, 69–70
Menendez, Lyle, 69–70
Menninger, Karl, 150
Metamorphosis (Kafka), 304–5
Meyer, Dr., 46–48
Micheels, Louis, 251–52, 266, 267–76
Lanzmann’s public attack on, 254, 269–75
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 295
Miller, Alice, xxxi–xxxii, xl, 17, 29, 258
Milton, John, 214, 310, 311
Mind of Adolf Hitler, The (Langer), 181
“Mind of Adolf Hitler, The” (Trevor-Roper), 72, 75, 106
Miriam (Herr H.’s companion), 201, 205
missing night theory, 194–97
MI6, 64
Modest Proposal, A (Swift), 157
Mohammed (prophet), 329
Moment, 360
Morgenthau, Henry, 357
Moses (prophet), 309, 313, 329, 333
Mosse, George, 345
Mueller, Renate, 110
Multiple Realities in Clinical Practice (Kafka), 246
Munch, Hans, 268–69
Münchener Neueste Nachrichten, 160, 162
Munder, Gauleiter, 127
Munich Agreement, 383
Munich Illustrated News, 105, 169
Munich Post, xviii–xx, 18, 37–59, 77, 88, 96, 157, 193, 194, 218, 362
altered address of, 58–59
Blomberg blackmail case in, 50
Cell G exposé by, 40, 42, 48
counterfeiting of history exposed by, 51, 54–57
Final Solution in, 42–43
Hentsch case and, 52
Hitler’s libel suit against, 39–40, 119–20
Nazi Party scandals covered by, 42–43, 100
Nazis’ blackmail culture exposed by, 45–51
November Criminals articles of, 54
Poison Kitchen epithet and, 38
political murders reported by, 40, 44–45, 52–53
Raubal affair in, 41, 107–8
Roehm blackmail case in, 46–48
stab-in-the-back swindle trial and, 54–56
Murdoch, Rupert, 76
Mysterious Stranger, The (Twain), 6
Namier, Louis, 68–69
Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 7
Napoleon III, Emperor of France, 57, 68–69
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 297
National Archives, U.S., 179–81, 242, 243
“Nature of Charismatic Domination, The” (Weber), 350
Nazi Doctors, The (Lifton), 269
Nazi Party, German, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xlii, xlv, 18, 100, 339, 341, 351, 382, 383–84
“Adolf Hitler, Traitor” polemic of, 39–40
blackmail culture of, 45–51
and counterfeiting of history, 51–52, 54–57
criminality of, 43–44
“Heil Hitler” incantation of, 165–66
Hitler-Strasser split in, 133
in Munich Post, 40–43, 45, 100
Raubal death cover up by, 100–101, 119, 121
stab-in-the-back myth and, 53–55
neo-Nazi movement, 264
Netanyahu, Benzion, 315
Neue Wiener Tageblatt, 108–9
Neumann, Therese, 161–67
New Republic, 362
New Testament, 324, 325
New York American, 34, 183
New Yorker, xlii, 145
New York Review of Books, 240
New York Sun, 186
New York Times, 132, 262–63
Heiden obituary in, 130–31
New York Times Book Review, 240
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 88, 95, 342
Night (Wiesel), 296
“revenge” references excised from, 360–61
Night and Fog (film), 253
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“No Hitler, No Holocaust” (Himmelfarb), xiii, xlii, 281, 292, 340, 349, 351, 391, 393
Nolte, Ernst, 176
Nora (Micheels’s fiancée), 268, 275
Nouvelle Observateur, Le, 263
“November Criminals,” 14, 380
stab-in-the-back myth and, 53–55, 263
“no why here” story, 252, 265–66, 275–76
Nuremberg trials, 81
“Obscenity of Understanding, The,” 258–59
Oechsner, Frederick, 183, 186–87, 189
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 24, 27, 32–34, 35, 36, 105, 110, 128, 133, 134, 146, 150, 153
“Hitler Sourcebook” of, 140, 180–83, 185–86, 189, 191
Okrana, 56
Olden, Rudolf, xix, 10–11, 42
One for Many (Kurth), 145–46
“On the Place of the Holocaust in History” (Bauer), 264
Ordinary Men (Browning), 94, 362
Origins of the Second World War, The (Taylor), 384
Ossietzky, Carl von, 158
Ostara, xxxvii, 282, 333
Ottenstein castle, 12–13
Ozick, Cynthia, 209, 335
Pant, Father, 203
Papen, Franz von, 51, 367
Paradise Lost (Milton), 310, 311
Paris, archbishop of, 272
Pasteur, Louis, 211, 212
Patient, The (Binion), 240
Patient Hitler (Schenck), 249
Paul, Saint, 324–25
Peis, Günter, 110, 111, 112, 114–15, 116, 117
Pelagius, 329
Petrova, Ada, 80
Pfeffercorn, Eli, 361
Philby, Kim, 141
Picture Post, 227
Pictures at an Exhibition (Thomas), 218
Plantinga, Alvin, xxii, 284
Plato, 377
Podhoretz, Norman, 314
Poe, Edgar Allan, 90
Poison Kitchen, see Munich Post
Poland, 18, 81, 316, 345, 363
Dawidowicz’s visit to, 374–75
German invasion of, 57, 175, 386
Police Gazette, xi
Politics (Aristotle), 83
Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H., The (Steiner), xi, xxv–xxvi, xxxviii, 300
alleged blaming-the-Jews, 310–11, 313–15
criticism of, 310–11
Hitler character’s speech in, 308–10, 312, 321, 330–31
stage production of, 300–301
summation of, 307–10
Powers, Thomas, 180
“Pragmatism, Function and Belief in Nazi
Anti-Semitism” (E. Goldhagen), 351
Predarovich, Nikolaus, 24–25
Pressac, Jean Claude, 262–63
Prokhoris, Sabine, 256, 257
Protagoras (Socrates), 210, 214
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The, 55–57, 347
as manual for anti-Semites, 57
“Psychiatric Study of Jesus, The” (Schweitzer), xxviii–xxix
Psychoanalytic Review, 147, 150
“psychohistorical” school of explanation, 288
Psychopathia Sexualis (Krafft-Ebing), 134