Roger Manvell - Heinrich Himmler

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Abwehr

Action Groups ( Einsatzgruppen )

Ahnenerbe (Ancestral Heritage)

Alexander, Gen. Sir Harold

d’Alquen, Gunther

Antonescu, Marshal Ion

Apollo Club (Munich)

Attolico, Bernardo

Austin, Sergeant-Major Edwin

Baarova, Lida

Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem

Baretski, Stefan

Becher, Kurt

Beck, Gen. Ludwig

Berger, Gottlieb

Best, Karl Werner

Bethge, Pastor Eberhardt

Bernadotte, Count Folke

Blomberg, Gen. Werner von

Blum Léon

Bocchini, Police Chief

Bodenschatz, Gen. Karl von

Bohle, Ernst

Bonhoeffer, Pastor Dietrich

Bormann, Frau Herda

Bormann, Martin

Bose, Herbert von

Bouhler, Philip

Brack, Dr Viktor

Brand, Yoel

Brandt, Dr Karl

Brandt, Dr Rudolf (Himmler’s principal secretary).

Brauchitsch, Field-Marshal Walter von

Braun, Eva

Braun, Prof. von

Brunswick, Archbishop of

Burckhardt, Karl

Busch, Field-Marshal Ernst

Butler, Ewan

Canaris, Adm. Wilhelm

Carinhall (Göring’s residence)

Churchill, Odette

Ciano, Count Galeazzo

Concentration Camps; rival foundations (1933); Göring’s conception of; Himmler’s pre-war organization of; Himmler on prisoners in; Himmler’s attitude to; Himmler’s visits to; medical experiments in; wartime developments in, first phase; extermination of defective persons in; organization of slave labour in; instructions for executions in; looting from prisoners in; evacuation and liberation from; individual camps: Auschwitz; Bergen-Belsen; Birkenau; Buchenwald; Dachau; Flossenbürg; Gross-Rosen; Linz; Lublin; Natzweiler, Mauthausen; Oranienburg; Ravensbrück; Sachsenhausen; Treblinka

Concerzowo, Lydia and Bertha

Crinis, Prof. de

Daluege, Kurt

Darré, Walter

Das Schwarze Korps

Death’s Head Unit (later Division)

Degrelle, Léon

Diels, Rudolph

Dietrich, Sepp

Doctors’ Trial (Nuremberg 1946-7)

Doenitz, Grand Admiral Karl

Dollfuss, Engelbert

Dornberger, Maj.-Gen. Walter

Dulles, Allen

Eberstein, Freiherr von

Eden, Sir Anthony

Eichmann, Adolf

Eicke, Theodor

Einsatzgruppen (see Action Groups)

Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D.

Epp, Ritter von

Ernst, Karl

Falkenhausen, Gen. von

Farben-Industrie

Fegelein, Hermann

Fellgiebel, Gen. Erich

‘Final Solution’, the, Chap. V passim

Fischer, Dr Fritz

Franco, Gen. Francisco

Frank, Hans

Frankfurt Trial 1964-5

Frederick the Great

Freisler, Roland

Frick, Wilhelm

Fritsch, Gen. Baron Werner von

Fromm, Gen. Friedrich

Gebhardt, Karl

Gestapo (principal refs.): origin; under Goring; taken over by Himmler; later power of; and the Fritsch case; under Heydrich

Giesler, Paul

Gisevius, Hans Bernd

Globocnik, Odilo

Glücks, Richard

Goebbels, Joseph

Goerdeler, Carl

Goring, Hermann

Greim, Ritter von

Groeber, Archbishop

Grothmann, SS Col. Werner

Guderian, Gen. Heinz

Günther, Christian

Gürtner, Franz

Hacha, Emile

Hajji Iman, Mufti

Halifax, Lord

Hallgarten, Wolfgang

Hanke, Karl

Hassell, Ulrich von

Hauser, Paul

Haushofer, Albrecht

Hedwig (also known as Häschen, Himmler’s mistress)

Heiden, Erhard

Heiliger, Max

Herff, SS. Gen. von

Heinrich, Prince of Bavaria

Heinrich I (Henry the Fowler)

Heinrici, Gen. Gotthard

Held, Heinrich

Helge (Himmler’s illegitimate son)

Helldorf, Count Wolf von

Henderson, Sir Nevile

Hess, Rudolf

Hewitt, Abram Stevens

Heydrich, Frau Lina

Heydrich, Reinhard, SS. Gen.: character; first meeting with Himmler (1931); early relationship with Himmler; appointed Chief of S.D.; work for SS.; builds up S.D. files; establishes S.D. in Berlin; appointed Himmler’s Deputy (1934); and Roehm purge; appointed SS. Lieut.-Gen.; and Kaltenbrunner; and concentration camps; relations with Canaris and Abwehr; and the Tuchachewski affair; and the Blomberg-Fritsch cases; and the Anschluss; and Eichmann; and persecution of Jews; visits Mussolini; gradual independence from Himmler; contempt for Himmler’s obsessions; Gisevius on; Schellenberg on; Kersten on; Himmler on; uses brothel Salon Kitty to obtain information; possibility of Jewish blood; flies with Luftwaffe; and first conception of genocide; suspicions of Kersten; prepares for Russian campaign; receives extermination order from Goring; relation to Eichmann; appointed SS. General and Acting Reich Protector in Czechoslovakia; relations with Bormann; voices Himmler’s views in speech to Czechs; at Wannsee conference on ‘final solution’; assassinated (May, 1942); compiles medical evidence on Himmler; encourages Horia Sima at the expense of Antonescu

Himmler, Anna (mother)

Himmler, Ernst (brother)

Himmler, Gebhard (father)

Himmler, Gebhard (brother)

Himmler, Gerhard (foster-son)

Himmler, Gudrun (daughter)

Himmler, Heinrich: character, Chap. vi passim; contribution to Nazi regime; childhood and schooling; youth in Munich; diary; character in early youth; attitude to first world war; officer-cadet (1917); studies agriculture in Munich; character as student — social life, attitude to girls and sex, selfcriticism, parsimony, precision, early anti-semitism; initial relationship with Roehm; takes part in Munich putsch (Nov. 1923); initial contact with Hitler; joins Nazi Party (August 1923); joins Völkische movement; on Strassers’ staff; early contact with Goebbels; Goebbels on Himmler (1926); joins SS. (1925); appointed Deputy Reich Propaganda Chief and Deputy Commander, SS.; marries (1928); buys smallholding Waltrudering; daughter Gudrun born (1929); appointed Reichsführer SS. (1929)

Initial plans for SS. — the élite corps; institutes SS. marriage code; made member of Reichstag (1930), development of racial obsessions and anti-semitism; claims peasant ancestry; employs Heydrich as principal assistant; relation with Goring after January 1933, appointed President of Police in Munich (1933); founds Dachau as ‘model’ concentration camp; relations with Hoess; concept of camp discipline; developing powers of; assumes control of German police and Gestapo (1934—5).