Stephen Fritz - Ostkrieg

belief in Jewish conspiracy, xxiii, 2, 5–7, 11–12, 15, 20–21, 26, 31–32, 35, 40, 42, 64–66, 74–75, 78, 94, 105, 107, 110, 136, 155, 179–80, 181, 194, 196–97, 217–18, 254, 300, 328, 360–63, 439–40, 449, 453, 455, 473–76, 480, 486–87, 512n56, 528n63

prophesies against, 15–17, 64, 73, 104, 109, 173, 179, 181, 218, 281, 296, 300, 360, 475

sanctions deportation of from Germany, 109–10, 150, 173–76

leadership style, 22, 25, 107, 329, 422

and Lebensraum ( see Lebensraum)

and Leningrad operations ( see Leningrad)

and Madagascar Plan ( see Madagascar Plan)

and Mediterranean strategy ( see Mediterranean strategy)

Mein Kampf , 4–5, 7, 15, 105, 179, 473, 478

as military commander, 422

and Moscow offensive (Typhoon) ( see Typhoon)

and Mussolini, 36, 46–49, 72, 232

and Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, 9, 19, 32, 36, 45

“Nero Order” (March 1945), 457–58

and Normandy invasion ( see Normandy)

and North Africa ( see North Africa)

obsession with November 1918, xxiv, 1–2, 4–5, 16, 28, 40–41, 60, 64, 68–69, 135–36, 179, 197, 223, 230, 325, 331, 336, 359–60, 363, 399, 403, 418, 439, 454–55, 471–72, 480, 486, 527n45

occupation policy ( see Germany: occupation policy)

and partisan war ( see German army)

peace offer to Britain, 25, 33–35, 37, 40, 45, 326, 363, 484

peace offer to Stalin, 131, 195, 300, 363, 550n51

and Petain, 47–48

physical deterioration of, 131, 217, 230–31

and Poland, 9–10, 18–26, 60, 65–66, 73, 139

political testament, 105, 486

and possible Anglo-American landings ( see second front)

and Reichel incident, 263–64

and relations with his generals, 18, 27, 31, 39, 55–56, 59–60, 67, 74, 84, 87, 113, 121, 126–28, 131–34, 141, 152, 189, 206, 208–9, 263–67, 270–71, 280, 292, 312, 320–21, 323, 340, 350–51, 367–68, 376, 384, 388, 395–97, 399, 417, 422, 443, 445, 541n64

and Roosevelt, 15, 32, 40, 45, 107, 110, 174, 194, 196–97, 458, 474–75, 512n56

scorched earth policy ( see German army)

Second Book , 4, 194, 474–75

and second front ( see second front)

social Darwinism of, 4, 7–8, 12, 17, 19, 70, 91, 138, 455, 457, 475, 479, 486

and Spain ( see Spain)

speeches, 6, 16, 32–34, 63–65, 155–56, 179, 181, 193, 196–97, 218, 296–98, 300, 307, 360, 439, 476, 521n75

and “stab-in-the-back” myth, 69, 474, 480

and Stalin, 32, 38, 66, 75, 78, 90–91, 110, 131, 155, 231, 300, 475–76, 484

and Stalingrad ( see Stalingrad)

suicide, 467

and summer campaign, 1943 ( see Citadel)

and tank production ( see Germany: tank production)

and United States ( see United States: Hitler’s calculations)

and total war economy ( see Germany: total war)

tours World War I battlefields, 2–3

and Treaty of Versailles, 2, 4, 10, 12, 18, 57, 194, 439, 473, 476, 482, 484

view of Soviet Union, xxi–xxii, 3, 11, 35, 40–44, 49–50, 55–56, 59–60, 62, 65, 69–70, 72, 82–83, 170, 181–82, 235, 268, 473, 475–76, 478, 484, 487 ( see also Bolshevism; Lebensraum)

Volksgemeinschaft conception, xvii, 13, 17, 92, 136, 224, 328, 363, 376, 424–25, 428, 439, 449, 453, 483, 486–87

war as essence of human activity, 91

and winter campaign, 1941–1942 ( see German army)

and winter campaign, 1942–1943 ( see German army)

and winter campaign, 1943–1944 ( see German army)

and women in workforce ( see Germany: labor)

and World War I ( see World War I)

Hitler Youth, 376, 461, 467

Hiwis (Hilfswillige; Russian auxiliaries), xv, 321

Hoepner, Erich (General), 69, 88, 97, 128, 154, 209

Hoeppner, Rolf-Heinz, 255

Hofmann, Otto, 522n78

Holland, 86

horses, 26, 54, 57, 78, 83, 119, 158–59, 161–62, 164, 172, 216, 224, 237, 249, 252, 277, 297, 317–19, 343, 369, 383, 391, 394, 410, 421

Horthy, Admiral Miklos, 362, 437

Hossbach, Friedrich (General), 446–47

Hoth, Herman (General), 98

and Blau, 284, 286, 288

commander, Fourth Panzer Army, 264–65, 276, 292, 323–24, 339, 346, 355

commander, Seventeenth Army, 161

and Stalingrad, 288–89, 291–92, 294, 314–16

and Third Panzer Group, 86, 122–23, 125–26, 154

Hube, Hans (General), 286–87, 319, 394–96, 398

Hungarian army, 236, 250, 266, 289, 436–37

Hungary, 234, 392, 405, 436, 440–42, 460

deportation of Jews, 223, 362

fighting in, 392, 405, 436–38, 440–42, 444, 448, 456, 460, 550n51

forces fighting in the Soviet Union, 539n30

German occupation, 362, 437–38, 456, 550n51

Jewish labor sent to Germany, 364, 426

hunger policy, 61–63, 76, 113, 166–67, 170–72, 224–25, 317, 477–78, 485, 505n60

Iassy, 434–35

I. G. Farben, 260

Ilmen, Lake, 128

India, 48–49, 81, 91, 233

Indian Ocean, 46

inflation, 12, 427

Ingermanland, 255

intelligence (German), 54, 131, 200, 207, 211, 340, 348, 362, 396, 406, 410, 421, 442, 480

intelligence (Soviet), 80, 154, 201, 341, 343, 349, 419, 447

Iran. See Persia

Iraq, 271

Italian army, 39, 43, 46, 71, 236, 284, 289, 292, 315–16, 341

Italy, xxii, 38, 45–49, 58, 234, 337, 341, 350–51, 354, 368, 399, 469–70

Ivanov, 182

Izyum, 164, 244, 247–53, 267, 370

Jägerstab (fighter staff), 426–27. See also aircraft industry (German); Reich Air Ministry

Jakovlevo, 347

Japan, xxii

Anti-Comintern Pact, 45

attack on Pearl Harbor, 179, 193, 194–96, 197, 484

Hitler places hopes in, 42–43, 51, 71, 91, 193, 194–96, 197, 217, 233, 235

Hitler’s attitude toward, 34, 217

Hitler seeks an anti-Soviet alliance with, 72

jeeps, 286, 421

Jeschonnek, Hans (General), 311, 331, 340

“Jewish conspiracy,” xxiii, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15–17, 20, 32, 40, 105, 107, 110, 328, 335, 403, 439, 453, 455, 475–76, 486

“Jewish question,” xxi, 5, 15–16, 20, 22–23, 35, 60, 64–66, 92, 94, 98, 108, 111, 173, 174, 178, 180–81, 220, 360, 362, 487

Jews

and Aktion Reinhard, 361

atrocities against, in the Baltic states, 94–96, 98, 176, 178, 220

blamed for world wars ( see Bolshevism; Hitler; World War I)

confiscation of property (“Aryanization”), 175, 483

death camps ( see extermination camps; Final Solution)

deportation of ( see Final Solution; Germany)

destruction of synagogues, 15, 94–95

and Einsatzgruppen killings ( see Einsatzgruppen; Final Solution)

emigration, 13–14, 20, 23–24, 93, 108, 178, 181, 479

evolution of Final Solution ( see Final Solution)

expulsion, 13, 20, 64, 93, 108, 178, 181

extermination of ( see Final Solution)

food rations, 171–72

forced labor ( see forced labor)

ghettos, 21–22, 64–65, 94, 100, 174–77, 218, 220, 223 257, 318, 361–62, 477

Hitler’s prophesies against ( see Hitler)

in Hungary, 362, 364, 426

Madagascar Plan, 13, 24, 65, 92, 108, 479

Nazi demonization of ( see Bolshevism; ewige Jude, Der; Germany; Goebbels; Hitler)

“Night of Broken Glass” ( see Kristallnacht)

and Operation Harvest Festival, 361–62

Ostjuden (eastern Jews), 20, 22, 176

reservations in Poland, 21, 139, 477, 479

territorial solution, 16, 24, 65, 67, 479, 485

See also Einsatzgruppen; extermination camps; Final Solution; ghettos; Hitler