Roger Manvell - Heinrich Himmler

Residences (1934); relations with wife and family; and Roehm purge; and SS. in Austria; and murder of Dollfuss; purges ranks of SS. (1934); insistence on sport; and concept of Teutonic knights; founds Wewelsburg as SS. retreat; and Henry the Fowler; and Catholic Church; founds Ahnenerbe; responsibility for principle of concentration camps; relations with other Nazi leaders during midthirties; relation with High Command; and Blomberg and Fritsch cases; addresses High Command on function of SS. (1934)(1940); founds Lebensborn movement; has two children by mistress Hedwig; on SS.; on pan-Germanic culture; and the occult; and the Anschluss; appointment of Eichmann as specialist in Jewish affairs; persecution and extermination of the Jews: in Austria; first conception of genocide; on duties of Security Police; on necessity for genocide; extermination of Jews and Slavs in Russia; makes Auschwitz centre for extermination under Hoess; the ‘final solution’, chap. v passim ; slave labour; instructions for executions; sale of emigration permits to rich Jews; and Warsaw Ghetto; and Theresienstadt Ghetto.

Conducts tour of Sachsenhausen; attitude to camps; sent by Hitler on diplomatic mission to Italy, and to Czechoslovakia; the attack on Poland — operation Himmler; relations with other Nazi leaders during war; their characterisation of Himmler; later relationship with Heydrich; increasing ill-health; subservience to Hitler; in Poland; appointed head of Reich Commissariat for Consolidation of German Nationhood; on policy in Poland; German racial re-settlement scheme; decrees forcible adoption of racially desirable children; and euthanasia of mentally unfit; promotes medical experiments in concentration camps; encourages controlled breeding by SS., later racial obsessions; parsimony and financial straits; and the campaign in the West (1940), wartime development of the Waffen-SS., of the Ahnenerbe; relations with Kersten; orders extermination of defective prisoners in the camps; orders collection of ‘sub-human’ skulls; extends powers during war; directed by Hitler to prepare for Russian campaign.

Oppressed by decision on genocide; reaction to Heydrich’s appointment to Prague; becomes increasingly subject to Schellenberg’s influence; on the Russian front; reaction to assassination of Heydrich; attempts to control industry; forms international SS.; plans for world domination by Germany; speech on destruction of Warsaw Ghetto; visits Auschwitz; briefs Skorzeny on rescue of Mussolini; applies Hitler’s leadership system to his own staff; sends reproofs to SS. officers; concern over Hitler’s health and sanity; first considers independent peace negotiations; fails to oppose Ribbentrop; later influence of Kersten on, chaps. vi and viii passim; extends military ambitions; admiration for Jenghis Khan; regains confidence of Hitler after misunderstanding; becomes Minister of Interior (August 1943); relations with Bormann; takes over V2 from Army; destroys Abwehr. Mature beliefs concerning medicine; on pan-Germanic culture; destruction of Bolshevism; alliance with other Nordic races to control world; on place and function of women; on homosexuality; on religion and the Churches; on the Jewish race; on violence; on genocide; on the leadership principle.

Meets Goring and Ribbentrop on Allied landing in Normandy; actions after attempt on Hitler’s life (July 1944); appointed Commander-in-Chief, Reserve Army; negotiates sale of Jewish liberties; deportations and evacuations from camps; as Army Commander; uses Free Russian forces in the East; helps found German Home Guard; fear of Hitler; negotiates with Bernadotte on release of prisoners from camps and on peace terms; discusses peace negotiations with Goebbels; final meeting with Hitler; meets Masur to discuss liberation of Jews; seeks meeting with Allied Commanders; considers founding new Party without Hitler; hopes Allies will join with Germany to crush Bolshevism; dismissal by Hitler; final relations with Doenitz; arrest and interrogation by British; suicide.

Described by Bernadotte; by Bormann; by Dornberger; by Goebbels; by Guderian; by Hitler; by Kersten, chap. vi passim; by Doris Mehner (secretary); by Schellenberg; by Westphal.

Himmler, Marga (wife)

Hindenburg, Field-Marshal Paul von

Hitler Adolf, character; leads Munich putsch (November 1923); in Landsberg castle; concept of the SS.; attitude to Himmler and other prominent Nazis up to 1933, et seq.; attitude to S.A.; intrigue prior to coming to power; action on coming to power; declares amnesty for political prisoners (1933); desires to centralize control; gives Himmler control of police and Gestapo; and Roehm purge; decrees independence of SS. from SA; becomes Supreme Head of State on death of Hindenburg; and murder of Dollfuss; compares Himmler to Loyola; permits limited military training for SS; relations with High Command during and after the Blomberg and Fritsch cases; in Austria after Anschluss ; employs Himmler as diplomat; and Czechoslovakia; attitude to his leaders at the beginning of war; appoints Heydrich Chief of Reich Security Office; Reichstag speech on Poland; orders extermination of mentally unfit; campaign in the West (1940); restricts Waffen SS; prepares Russian campaign; reaction to assassination of Heydrich; and leadership principle; Himmler’s medical report on; leaders’ concern over his health; isolation at various headquarters; regains confidence in Himmler after misunderstanding; at time of Allied landings in Normandy; attempt on his life (July 1944); agrees to demotion of Himmler as Army Commander in East; last meeting with Himmler; decides to stay in Berlin; dismisses Goring; dismisses Himmler; suicide

Hoepner, Gen. Erich

Hoess, Rudolf

Hoffmann, Heinrich

Hossbach, Col. Friedrich

Höttl, SS. Col. Wilhelm

Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Prince of

Hunsche, Eichmann’s associate

Immfeld, Mme.

International Military Tribunal (the Nuremberg Trial (1945—6))

International Tracing Centre (Arolsen)

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jodl, Alfred

John, Otto

Kaduk, Oswald

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, SS. Gen.

Kaminski

Kammler, Heinz

Kaufmann, Karl

Keitel, Field-Marshal Wilhelm

Keppler, Wilhelm

Kersten, Felix, chaps. vi and vii passim

Kersten, Frau Irmgard

Kiep, Otto

Kiermaier, Josef

Kogon, Eugen

Korherr, Dr

Kramer, Josef

Kripo (the Criminal Police)

Krosigk, Count Schwerin von

Krueger, Friedrich

Krumey, Eichmann’s associate

Lammers, Dr Hans

Langbehn, Carl

Lebensborn movement

Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler

Ley, Dr Robert

Lidice, martyrdom of

Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince

Loritz family (Munich)

Lüdecke, Kurt

Ludendorff, Gen. Erich, F. W.

Ludwig II, Prince of Bavaria

Luther, Martin

Macher, Major

Mähner, Doris

Masur, Norbert

Mecklenburg, Prince von

Meisinger, Josef

Mengele, Dr

Moltke, Helmuth Count von

Montgomery, Field-Marshal Lord

Morell, Dr Theodor

Mueller, Heinrich

Müller, Dr Josef

Munich putsch (November 1923)

Munich Pact (1938)

Murphy, Col. L. M.

Musi, Jean-Marie

Mussolini, Benito

Nanette-Dorothea (Himmler’s illegitimate daughter)

Nazi regime, nature of

Nebe, Artur

Neurath, Baron Constantin von

Nuremberg Trial (see International Military Tribunal)

Ofner, Dr Abram

Ohlendorf, Otto

Olbricht, Col. Gen. Friedrich

Papen, Franz von

Payne-Best, Capt. S.

Pohl, Oswald

Popitz, Johannes

Pringsheim, Fritz

Pruetzmann, SS. Gen.

Quisling, Vidkun

Race and Resettlement Office

Raeder, Adm. Erich

Rankine, Paul Scott