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Smith, Howard K., 220–22, 224–25, 226, 255, 257, 303, 305, 306, 307–8, 325

Smith, Kätchen, 15, 198–99, 201, 203–4, 247

Smith, Katharine “Kay,” 7, 13–14, 15, 16–17, 32, 38–39, 132, 196–97, 199–200, 201, 202, 203, 216, 247, 250, 295

Smith, Truman, 7, 13, 14–15, 38–39, 132, 196–207, 211, 215, 216, 239, 246, 250, 257, 281, 295, 325

Sobernheim, Curt, 102–3

Sobernheim, Lilli, 102–3

Social Democrats, 71, 73, 76, 105, 142

Socialist Party, 21, 27, 35, 54, 55, 64, 70, 73, 75, 122, 157

Sonnenburg concentration camp, 123–24

Soviet Union, 70, 121, 150, 161, 166, 207, 217–19

economic conditions in, 183–84

German invasion of, 66, 229, 291, 295, 297, 298–300, 309–12

intelligence operations of, 181–84, 197, 269–98, 325–26

Poland invaded by, 259–60, 267

U.S. relations with, 2, 3, 7, 210–11, 325

Sowing the Wind (Dodd), 179

Spain, 137, 161, 213–15, 252

Spanish Civil War, 213–15, 252

Spengler, Oswald, 226

SS (Schutzstaffel), 70, 76, 140, 155–60, 168, 170, 174, 178, 179, 233–34, 238, 242–43, 268–69, 315

Stadler, Glen, 320

Stalin, Joseph, 183, 218, 219, 252, 260, 297, 299, 310, 311–12

State Department, U.S., 17–18, 28–29, 49–50, 128, 191, 215–16, 217, 218, 233–35, 252–53, 257, 260, 261, 304, 306, 316, 321

Stauffenberg, Claus von, 249

Stauss, Emil Georg von, 80

Steinkopf, Alvin, 319

Stern, Alfred, 325–26

Stillwell, Joseph, 247

Stimson, Henry L., 81

stock market crash (1929), 63–64, 66–67, 295

Strasser, Gregor, 76–77, 83–94, 90, 156, 324

Strasser, Otto, 4, 82

Stratton, Richard, 278

Strauss, Richard, 47

Streicher, Julius, 234

Stresemann, Gustav, 50

Stürmer, 234

Sudetenland, 225, 238–40, 258, 262

suicide, 45, 46, 82–83, 92, 212, 302, 306

swastika (Hakenkreuzen), 25, 62, 99, 106, 134, 210, 224, 227, 294

Switzerland, 214–15, 318

Talbot, Phillips, 245

Thayer, Charles, 70, 244–45

Thompson, Dorothy, 7, 55–56, 61, 83–86, 97, 106–7, 164–68

Thompson, Friedl, 247

Thompson, Paul, 247

Through Embassy Eyes (Dodd), 130, 181

Through the Fatherland on Bicycles (Kaltenbach), 294

Thuermer, Angus, 178, 241–44, 245, 261, 302–3, 314, 315, 320, 322

Thyssen, Fritz, 91

Tiergarten, 39, 47, 110, 139–40, 261

Tilden, William “Big Bill,” 66

Times (London), 160, 231

Toland, John, 208, 212

Tolischus, Otto, 273

Town and Country, 48, 63

Traitor, The (Shirer), 162, 293

Trefz, Friedrich, 24–25

Triumph of the Will, 195

Udet, Ernst, 179, 202, 204, 205

United Press, 18–19, 175, 221, 268, 272, 276, 303, 306

United States:

anti-Semitism in, 59–61, 111, 131

British relations with, 2, 254, 274, 283, 284, 299, 310, 313

communism in, 168–69, 207, 325

as democracy, 69, 137, 176, 309

Great Depression in, 118, 161

immigration to, 69, 87, 137, 263–65

industrial production of, 274, 299

isolationism in, 49, 97–98, 207, 237, 251, 252–54, 294, 305, 309

Jewish community in, 78–79, 189–91, 210

military preparations of, 204–5, 246–51, 274, 280–81, 299

popular culture of, 20, 50–52, 56, 65–67

race relations in, 17, 41, 78, 91–92

Soviet relations with, 2, 3, 7, 210–11, 325

in World War I, 5, 11, 12, 31–32, 35, 41, 256–57

in World War II, 4, 217, 242, 256–57, 274, 275, 280–84, 293, 299, 305, 309, 312–13, 316, 327

Universal News Service, 132, 163

Unter den Linden, 6, 14, 16, 243, 281

van der Lubbe, Marinus, 105

Versailles, Treaty of, 10, 16, 21, 80, 96, 116, 121, 138–39, 147, 176, 199, 252, 287

Vienna, 106, 225–26

Villard, Oswald Garrison, 125

Vinogradov, Boris, 181–84, 217–19, 325

Völkischer Beobachter, 41, 143, 189

Vossische Zeitung, 65

Wagner, Richard, 30, 40

Wannsee Conference (1942), 7–8

War Department, U.S., 197–98

Washington Herald, 50

Washington Times, 20

Watson, Thomas, 231

Watt, Donald B., 144–45

Wedemeyer, Albert C., 246–51

Wehrmacht, 239, 246–51, 261, 267–69, 287

Weimar Republic, 1–92

anti-Semitism in, 59–62, 78–80, 91–92

collapse of, 3, 9–11, 91–92, 183, 323–24

constitution of, 9, 105

crime in, 58–59

culture of, 1–2, 10–11, 20, 46–53, 56, 65–67, 168

decadence of, 4–5, 10, 11, 19–20, 51–53, 58–59, 73

economy of, 4, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, 28–29, 39, 41–42, 47, 49–50, 54, 62–67, 68, 70, 71, 73–74, 77–78, 91, 96, 99–100, 105, 121, 220

education in, 70, 72–73

French relations with, 16–18, 28, 49–50, 74, 80

in Great Depression, 63–67, 70, 77–78, 96, 220

inflation rate in, 4, 9, 10, 41–42, 49, 65, 91

Jewish community in, 61–62, 65, 66, 78–79, 91–92

as parliamentary democracy, 9–10, 26, 68–69, 70, 308

political situation in, 9–12, 19, 20, 23–29, 64, 73

press coverage of, 56–57, 59

reparations paid by, 16, 21, 28, 49–50, 63–64, 74

unemployment rate in, 64, 68, 77–78, 99–100

U.S. loans to, 50, 62–64, 105

U.S. relations with, 4–5, 7, 11–16, 23, 49–50, 62–64

Welles, Sumner, 237–38, 281–82, 283, 284

Wendell, Otty, 319

Westphalia, Treaty of (1648), 286–87

White, Henry, 231

Why Hitler Came into Power (Abel), 147–149

Wieck, Dorothea, 179

Wiegand, Karl Henry von, 18–22, 27, 46, 50–51, 57, 61, 67–70, 86–87, 91–92, 93, 163, 171, 208–9, 254–55

Wilde, Oscar, 307

Wilder, Thornton, 130

Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, 18–19, 179

Willicombe, Joseph, 177

Willkie, Wendell, 305

Wilson, Hugh, 12–13, 15, 16, 17, 61, 206, 228, 234–38, 239, 240, 245–46, 281

Wilson, Kate, 12, 15

Wilson, Woodrow, 120

Winner, Percy, 75

Wolfe, Thomas, 6, 184–87, 188, 191–92, 193

Wolff, Nathaniel, 109

World War I:

German defeat in, 2, 9–10, 13, 18–19, 22, 139, 147, 287–88, 324

World War II compared with, 237–38, 251, 256, 266–67, 287

World War II:

air power in, 202, 204–5, 272–73, 274, 297, 298, 299, 300–301, 320

blitzkrieg warfare in, 248, 251, 267–69

civilian casualties in, 285–86, 301

Eastern Front of, 8, 299–302, 309–12

French defeat in, 257, 287–88, 289

military strategy in, 246–51

outbreak of, 261, 262–70

“phony war” in, 272

Western Front of, 287–88, 298

Wosseng, Wolfgang, 256

Yale University, 14, 32, 51

You Can’t Go Home Again (Wolfe), 188, 191–92

Young, Owen D., 63–64, 119

Young Plan, 63–64

Yugoslavia, 298–99

Zuckmayer, Carl, 10, 47

Andrew Nagorski, award-winning journalist, is vice president and director of public policy at the EastWest Institute, a New York–based international affairs think tank. During a long career at Newsweek, he served as the magazine’s bureau chief in Hong Kong, Moscow, Rome, Bonn, Warsaw, and Berlin. He is the author of four previous books and has written for countless publications. He lives in Pelham Manor, New York.