Christa Schroeder - He Was My Chief - The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler's Secretary

Adlerhorst (FHQ)

Aga Khan

Ahrens, Karl

Albrecht, Alwin-Broder

Albrecht, Erich

Alexandria

Alkonic, Lav

Altaussee

Amann, Max

Anders, Peter

Antonescu, Ion

Arden, Elizabeth

Ardennes

Arent, Benno von

Arndt, Wilhelm

Augsburg

Augst (Chancellery employee)

Austria; Anschluss

Bad Gastein

Bad Godesberg

Bad Nauheim

Bad Wiessee

Baden-Baden

Bahls, Ernst

Baur, Hans

Bayreuth

Bechstein, Carl

Bechstein, Frau

Beer Hall putsch

Beethoven, Ludwig von

Belgium

Below, Maria von

Below, Nicolaus von

Benrath, Karl

Berchtesgaden

Berghof (FHQ): Allied bombing; as alpine redoubt; art collection; bunkers; conversion of Haus Wachenfeld; destruction of documents; dining room; Eva Braun’s rooms; Eva Braun’s status; food preparation; Geli Raubal’s room; Great Hall; Hitler dictates speeches; Hitler’s art collection; Hitler’s rooms; Hitler’s secretaries; the Kannenbergs; looting; manservants; meals; morning silence; as north-facing; prominent visitors; in ruins; Sophie Stork as frequent visitor; surrounded by armed SS; terrace; see also Obersalzberg

Berlin: Alois Hitler’s restaurant; Congress Hall; Deutsche Oper; entertaining actresses and dancers; Eva Braun’s apartment; Hitler unable to shop; Hitler’s birthday; Hitler’s postwar plans; HQ moved to; RAF bombing; Reichstag; Russian gunfire; Staaken airfield; Tempelhof airport

Berlin, Führer-bunker (FHQ): and air raids; entrance to; Eva Braun and Hitler’s death; Manziarly as cook; meals; secretaries’ departure

Berlin, Reich Chancellery: Brückner’s office; dining area; Eva Braun moves in; Hacha meeting; Hitler’s flat; Hitler’s study; length of hall; meals; Radziwill Palace; receptions; Schroeder’s apartment; secretaries at; situation conferences

Bircher-Benner, Maximilian

Bischofswiesen

Bismarck, Otto von

Blaschke, Dr Hugo

Blüthgen (Berghof cook)

Bolivia

Bordone, Paris

Bormann, Albert

Bormann, Martin: character and career; constructs Kehlstein; converts Berghof; a dog for von Exner; estranged from his brother; farm on the Obersalzberg; and Hess’s flight; and Hitler’s table talks; Hoffmann order; meals at the Berghof; music at the Berghof; orders silence at the Berghof; relationship with Hitler; Schroeder’s departure from Führer-bunker; his secretary

Börnersdorf

Boulogne

Brahms, Johannes

Brandt, Anni (‘Rehlein’)

Brandt, Dr Karl

Brauchitsch, Walther von

Braun, Eva: arranges film shows; aversion to Göring; Berlin apartment; character; death; her dogs; and Fegelein; Hitler’s compliments; as Hitler’s eyes; letter to her sister; meals at the Berghof; on the Obersalzberg; relationship with Hitler; rooms at the Berghof; and Sigrid von Laffert; Sophie Stork’s coffee service; status at the Berghof; suicide attempts; works for Hoffmann

Braun, Franziska

Braun, Margarete (‘Greta’)

Bruckmann, Frau

Bruckner, Anton

Brückner, Wilhelm (‘Owambo’): on breakfast; describes Schroeder; as disorganised; road accident; sacked by Hitler; Schroeder works for; Schroeder’s fondness for; snores at opera; visits Schroeder in hospital

Bruly de Pêsche (FHQ)

Brussels

Buch, Gerda

Buch, Walter

Budapest

Bügge, Fräulein

Calais

Chiemsee

China

Christian, Gerda, see Daranowski, Gerda

Churchill, Winston

Crimea

Czechoslovakia

Dachs, Frau

Danzig

Daranowski, Gerda (‘Dara’)

Darges, Friedrich

Defregger, Franz von

Degano, Alois

Dietl, Eduard

Dietrich, Otto

Dietrich, Sepp

Dirksen, Viktoria von

Döberitz

Döhring, Herr and Frau

Dönitz, Frau

Doose, Heinrich

Dresden

Drexler, Anton

Dunaburg

Dunkirk

Eckart, Dietrich

Endres, Frau

Engel, Gerhard

England

Epps sisters

Ertl (Berghof police officer)

Essen

Esser, Hermann

Exner, Helene Maria (‘Marlene’) von

Fegelein, Hermann

Fegelein, Margarete, see Braun, Margarete

Felsennest (FHQ)

Feuerbach, Anselm

Fick, Roderich

Fiehler, Karl

First World War

Fleischner, Jack

Florence

Forster, Albert

France

Frederick◦I (‘Barbarossa’), Emperor

Frederick◦II (‘the Great’), King of Prussia

Frentz, Walter

Frey, Herta

Frick, Wilhelm

Frobenius, Fräulein

Funk, Walter

Fürtheimer (imaginary Jew)

Fusser, Fräulein

Gahr, Otto

Gandhi, Mahatma

Garmisch

George, Heinrich

Gesche, Bruno

Giesing, Dr Erwin

Giesler, Hermann

Goebbels, Josef: diatribe against von Schirach; marriage to Magda; recommends Kannenbergs to Hitler; retort to Otto Dietrich; Röhm putsch

Goebbels, Magda

Gogolin

Göhler, Hannes

Goncharov, Ivan

Göring, Emmy

Göring, Hermann: arrested; his corpulence, and Hitler; Eva Braun’s aversion to; Gerdy Troost’s designs for; Hitler on Hess’s flight; Hitler’s art collection; house on the Obersalzberg; road accident; succession to Hitler

Graff, Anton

Great Britain

Günsche, Otto

Günther, Otto (‘Krümel’)

Haase, Dr Werner

Haberstock, Karl

Haberstock, Magdalene

Hacha, Emil

Hamburg

Hammitzsch, Martin

Hamsun, Knut

Hanesse, Friedrich-Carl

Hannoversch Münden

Hasselbach, Dr Hans Karl von

Haushofer, Karl

Heidelberg

Heim, Heinrich

Hess, Rudolf: Bormann as his chief of staff; flight to Britain; heads NSDAP Liaison Staff; Hitler dictates Mein Kampf ; Hitler on; introduces Schroeder to Hitler; his secretaries; state visit to Italy

Heston, Leonard L. and Renate

Hewel, Walther

Himmler, Heinrich: on atrocities in Poland; Hitler’s verbal orders to; report on military resistance; SS inveigled into police; and succession to Hitler

Hindenburg, Paul von

Hintersee

Hitler, Adolf: and Ada Klein; Aga Khan visit; and alcohol; Anschluss ; alleged illegitimate son; anxieties as host; his appearance; appoints Wagener head of SA; and Arent; art collection; and atrocities; aversion to clergy; Beer Hall putsch; his birthday; book on foreign policy; and Bormann; Brückner as adjutant; centralises SA; childhood reminiscences; conversion of Haus Wachenfeld; daily routine; his danger perceived; denigrates army officers; his dictation; dieting; and dogs; dress; and Eckart; entertains actresses and dancers; and Eva Braun; exercise; and fame; family reminiscences; his first love; first visits Obersalzberg; flatters his secretaries; and foreign languages; gastro-intestinal disorder; and Geli Raubal; giving presents; and Great Britain; and Gretl Slezak; Hamsun visit; Hess’s flight; and Hoffmann; hormone injections; household; hygiene; image on stamps; imprisoned at Landsberg; invasion of Poland; and Jews; on Japan; Lloyd George visit; love of architecture; love of music; love of scenery; manservants; on marriage; meals; meeting with Hacha; Mein Kampf ; his memory; as a mimic; missing testicle; and money; orders Fegelein’s execution; paintings and sketches; passion for Linz; physicians; powers of suggestion; Prague visit; premonition of 20 July; reading; receives Hindenburg; on religion; Röhm putsch; on Russia; and Schaub; on Schroeder’s fiancé; his second-hand knowledge; and secrecy; self-mastery; sense of humour; and sexual gratification; signs Bulgarian Pact; situation conferences; and smoking; and society ladies; his spectacles; speeches; on Speer; starts Western offensive; state visit to Italy; Stauffenberg bomb; on his successor; suicide; and the sun; as supreme army commander; as supreme SA-Führer; table talks; his train◦– – 7; vegetarianism; visits Schroeder in hospital; walks; watches films; Wiedemann as adjutant; on winning the war; years of struggle