Roger Manvell - Heinrich Himmler

Rascher, Dr Sigmund

Rauter, Hans

Reichstag fire

Reitlinger, Gerald

Reitsch, Hanna

Remer, Otto Ernst

Ribbentrop, Joachim von

Riss, Dr

Roehm, Ernst

Rommel, Gen. Erwin

Rosenberg, Alfred

Rote Kapelle

Rothschild, Baron Louis de

Rundstedt, Field-Marshal Gerd von

SA ( Sturmabteilungen: Assault Sections)

Salon Kitty

Saradeth, Col.

Sarre, Puppi

Schacht, Dr Hjalmar

Schellenberg, Walter , chap. viii passim

Schleicher, Gen. Kurt von

Scholl, Hans and Sophie

Schroeder, Kurt von

Schulenburg, Gen. Graf von

Schuschnigg, Kurt von

SD ( Sicherheitsdienst: Security Service): founded under Heydrich; Heydrich builds up intelligence files; Section relations with the Abwehr; and the Tukhacchewski affair; Himmler on SD; SD spy-ring abroad; and Operation Himmler; departments under Heydrich; becomes an official state organisation; wartime duties; wartime relations with High Command; under Schellenberg; telephone-tapping; later wartime development

Selvester, Capt. Tom

Semmler, Rudolf

Seyss-Inquart, Dr Arthur

Schirach, Baldur von

Sievers, Wolfram

Sima, Horia

Simon, Sir John

Six, SS Col. Prof. Dr Franz

Skorzeny, Otto

Skubl, Michael

Solf, Dr and Frau Wilhelm

Speer, Albert

SS ( Schutzstaffeln: Protection Squads): initial formation; Himmler appointed Reichsführer SS; SS under Himmler (1929-32) et seq.: concept of elite corps; SS marriage code (1932); SS Junkerschule (Bad-Toelz); growth of the SS; relation to the SA; rival factions within SS; recruitment of aristocrats and prelates; Himmler reduces numbers (1934).

Sense of respectability in SS; independence from SA; relationship with the Army; SS as a racial elite: developments after 1934, as latter-day Teutonic Knights; loyalty oath to Hitler; health and sport in; Jesuitical basis to organization; work with the concentration camps; para-military nature of; origin of the Waffen-SS; Himmler on; and the Lebensborn movement; and the Jews; and the Action Groups in Poland; and euthanasia of the mentally-unfit; and the medical experiments; international recruitment to; and European Jewry; later developments in the Waffen SS; Himmler’s ‘philosophy’ of future role of SS in Germanic society, chap. vi passim; opposition to homosexuality in SS by Himmler

Stalin, Joseph

Staudte, Dr Hans Hilmar

Stauffenberg, Colonel Claus Schenk, Count

Steiner, Felix

Stevens, Major P. H.

Stieff, Gen. Helmuth

Storch, Hilel

Strasser, Gregor

Strasser, Otto

Stroop, Lieut.-Gen.

Stuckart, Wilhelm

Terboven, Gauleiter Josef

Teutonic Knights

Theresienstadt Ghetto

Thiele, Gen. Fritz

Trevor-Roper, Prof. H. R.

Tukhachevski, Mar. Mikhail

Venlo Incident

Vlassov, Andrei

Völkischer Beobachter

Wagner, Gen. Eduard

Waldeck, Prince von

Wannsee Conference

Warsaw Ghetto

Wells, Capt. C. J. L.

Wenck, Gen.

Westphal, Siegfried

Wewelsburg, SS castle of

Winocaur, Jack

Wisliceny, Dieter

Witzleben, Field-Marshal Erwin von

Wolff, SS General Karl

Wulff, Wilhelm

Yorck von Wartenburg, Count Peter

Zahler, Ludwig

Zansen, Col.

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British Library Cataloguing-in Publication Data

Manvell, Roger, 1909 — 1987

Heinrich Himmler

1. Himmler, Heinrich, 1900 — 1945 2. Nazis — Biography

I. Title II. Fraenkel, Heinrich, 1897 — 1986

943’.086’092

ISBN 978-1-85367-740-3

Manvell, Roger, 1909 — 1987.

Heinrich Himmler : the SS, Gestapo, his life and career / Roger Manvell

and Heinrich Fraenkel.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Originally published: London: W. Heinemann, 1965.

9781602391789

1. Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945. 2. Nazis—Biography. 3. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel Biography. 4. Germany—Politics and government—1933 — 1945.

I. Fraenkel, Heinrich, 1897 — 1986. II. Title.

DD247.H46M3 2007

943.086092—dc22

[B] 2007016953

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