The Coming of the Third Reich, page 77
believes it can control Nazis
newly prominent political position
rearmament
conservatives’ programme
neutrality
Hitler’s promises
German Boxing Association
German cabinet: records of meetings
German Cinema Owners’ Association
GermanServants’ League
German Colonial Society
German Communist Party
formed (1918)
and Social Democrats
Red Front-Fighters’ League set up
and a Red Army of workers
abortive uprising in Hamburg (1923)
representation in the Reichstag
returns from moderate to ‘leftist’ position
efforts to bring the Republic down
puritanical view of personal relationships
and education
and Bolshevik regime in Munich
von Hentig and
and capitalism
and Nazi Party membership
Nazi hatred of
attempts to mobilize the unemployed
national membership
‘committees of the unemployed’
street-based events
Thälmann leads
short of resources
in 1930 elections
and Wessel
brownshirt attack on headquarters
statistics of clashes with Nazis
July 1932 Reichstag elections
hammer and sickle symbol
November 1932 Reichstag elections
suppression of
Central Committee
searches of its premises
relative inaction of
Reichstag fire
effectively removed
March 1933 elections
membership treated as treasonable
banned (fromMarch 1933)
property reassigned
press banned
concentration camp warning
torture of
May Day, 1933
destroyed in an orgy of violence
Nazi determination to destroy it see also Communism
German Confederation
succeeds the Holy Roman Reich
and the 1848 Revolution
collapse of
Austria expelled
German Conservative Party
antisemitic Tivoli conference (1893)
and Christian Social movement
and Pan-Germans
backs German Fatherland Party
and Nationalists
turnover in membership see also conservatism
German Democratic Party
German Dye Trust
German fleet
German Gymnastics League German High Seas Fleet
German Judges’ Confederation
German League for the Prevention of the Emancipation of Women
German medical science
‘German Michel’
German Nationalist Commercial Employees’ Union
German navy
construction of a massive battle fleet
mutiny
effectively dismantled
German Newspaper Publishers’ Association
German People’s Party see People’s Party
German Reich
proclaimed at Versailles
‘German Reich’ name
constitution
formed by military force and action
rise to economic might and Great Power status
expectations of
centralization see also Wilhelmine Reich
German Revolution (1848)
German Revolution (1918-19)
German School Association (later Association for Germandom Abroad)
German South-West Africa (now Namibia)
German Wireless Service
German Women’s Order
German Workers’ Party
German-Racial Defence and Defiance League
German-Socialist Party
Germania (Centre Party’s newspaper)
Germanic Order
Germanization
Germany
leads Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin
unification (1864-71)
capitalism
advanced culture and society
economy
strong liberal and democratic traditions
compared with Russia before the First World War
authoritarian monarchy
compared with nineteenth-century Italy
‘struggle for culture’
population
optimistic on outbreak of First World War
expansion in First World War
Armistice
Versailles Treaty terms
collapse of Reich created by Bismarck
Kapp putsch (March 1920)
inflation
crime wave
war deaths
‘fulfilment’ policy
putsch attempt (1923)
clashes with Italy over South Tyrol
attempted customs union with Austria
budgetary deficit
end of parliamentary democracy
German society put on a permanent war footing
becomes a one-party state
Gershwin, George
Gessler, Otto
Girmann, Ernst
Glaeser, Ernst
Glauer, Adam (‘Baron von Sebottendorf’)
Gobineau, Joseph Arthur de
Gobineau Society
Goebbels, Paul Joseph
diaries
background and education
club foot
personality
becomes Nazi Party organizer in the Rhineland
an effective orator
articles for the Nazi press
disagreements with Hitler
devotion to Hitler
Regional Leader of Berlin
1928 elections
avoids legal responsibility for violence
appointed propaganda chief
1930 elections
and Horst Wessel
Stennes forces him to flee to Munich
the 1932 Presidential election
on failure of ‘the reds’
July 1931 Reichstag elections
November 1932 Reichstag elections
arranges torchlit parade in Berlin
Reichstag fire
Reichstag elections of March 1933
and ‘government of the nationalist uprising’
and May Day
and trade unions
‘We are the masters of Germany’ boast
on the Social Democrats
demands Centre Party’s dissolution
celebrates Nazi monopoly of power
and music
admits to terrorization
defines propaganda
becomes Minister for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda
runs the Party Propaganda office
Furtwängler’s protest
and the Berlin Philharmonic
and radio
and artists
Hitler’s birthday (1933)
book-burning
and boycott of Jewish shops
view of democracy
Michael: A German Fate in the Page of a Diary (novel)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
gold
Gold Standard
Goldberg, Szymon
Goring, Hermann
key role in development of Nazi movement and Third Reich
family background
a well-known flying ace
appearance
personality
devotion to Hitler
in charge of the stormtroopers
and putsch attempt of 1923
addiction to morphine
1928 elections
extravagant tastes
Wessel’s funeral
and violence during a Bremen meeting
and Pietzuch
cavalier treatment of the Reichstag
appointed Reich Minister without portfolio
Acting Prussian Minister of the Interior
and torchlit parade in Berlin
and Hammerstein
and 1933 election
Reichstag fire
provides proofs of Communist plot
and Social Democrat press ban
and Weimar constitution
presiding officer of Reichstag
andservants
and Galen
and Nationalist Party
and Blech
Waldoff satirizes
Gotha
Göttingen University
Gottschewski, Lydia
‘government of the nationalist uprising’
GPU (Gosudarstrennoe politicheskoe upravlenie, State Political Directorate) Soviet secret police
Grand Coalition
Grauert, Ludwig
Greece
Griesheim
Grimm, Hans: Race without Space
Groener, General Wilhelm
Groh, Wilhelm
Gropius, Walter
Grosz, George
Grotjahn, Alfred
Gruber, Kurt
Grzesinski, Albert
guilds
Gumbel, Emil Julius
Günther, Hans Friedrich Karl
Gürtner, Franz
Haarmann, Fritz
Haase, Hugo
Haber, Fritz
Habsburg monarchy
nationalities in see also Austria-Hungary
Haeckel, Ernst The Riddle of the World
‘Hail Hitler’ greeting
‘Hail Victory!’ (Sieg Heil!)
Halle
Hallgarten, George (Wolfgang Friedrich)
Hamburg
Jewish community
abortive Communist uprising (1923)
pilfering on the docks
Nazi Party membership
unemployment
food riots
torchlit parade
new coalition government
prostitution
Hamburg Philharmonic Society
Hamburg Police Shelter
Hammer Verlag
Hammerstein, General Kurt von
handicapped, the
Hanfstaengl, Ernst (‘Putzi’)
Hanover
Kingdom of
Harlan, Veit
Harvey, Lillian
‘Harzburg Front’
Hassell, Ulrich von
Hauptmann, Gerhart
Haushofer, Karl
health agencies
health insurance
Hearst, William Randolph
Heidegger, Martin
Being and Time
Heidelberg
Heidelberg University
Heiden, Konrad
Heine, Heinrich
Heines, Edmund
Heisenberg, Werner
Held, Heinrich
Heldenbrand, Hans-Joachim
Heligoland
Helm, Brigitte
Henrici, Ernst
Hentig, Hans von
Herbst, Ludolf
Herder, Johann Gottfried von
heredity
Hereros
Hertz, Gustav
Hess, Rudolf
devoted to Hitler
background
antisemitism
and the Lebensraum theory
Hitler dictates My Struggle to
Hesse
Heuss, Theodor
Hevesy, Georg von
Hiedler, Johann Georg see Hitler (Hiedler), Johann Georg
Himmler, Heinrich
appointments book
background and education
regrets missing front-line action
joins a duelling fraternity
joins Denizens’ Defence Force
antisemitism
appearance
putsch attempt
devotion to Hitler
marriage
unconventional beliefs
joins the Artamans
farming
appointed head of SS
appointed Provisional Police President
opens Dachau
Bavarian People’s Party arrests
Hindemith, Paul
News of the Day (opera)
Hindenburg, Oskar von
Hindenburg, Paul von
First World War service
‘silent dictatorship’
claims that army was stabbed in the back
elected President of Weimar Republic (1925)
a disaster for Weimar democracy
powers
decree outlawing stormtroopers
re-elected in 1932 Presidential elections
Social Democrats’ active backing for
dissolves Reichstag
reluctant to accept Hitler as Chancellor
resents Schleicher’s overthrow of Papen
refuses to give Schleicher extra-constitutional powers
appoints Hitler as Chancellor
at Berlin torchlit parade
and Potsdam Reichstag state opening
Hitler bypasses or uses as a rubber stamp
Hugenberg’s resignation
as Nazis’ last potential obstacle to total power
‘Hindenburg Programme’
Hirschfeld, Dr Magnus
history
partisan distortion of German historical scholarship
cult of personality
veneration of leadership by history-writers xix
individual personalities edited out of history
modern social
Nazi version of
focus on German history
Hitler, Adolf
Austrian origin
birth (20 April 1889)
family background
receives political indoctrination (1919)
early life
tries to become an architect
political influences
in Vienna
antisemitism
deep contempt for state and law
war service
oratory
in Stadelheim gaol
cult of personality
‘march on the capital’ tactic
petty-bourgeois simplicity
putsch attempt (1923)
trial
dictates My Struggle while in gaol
fierce desire to annihilate the Jews
paroled
charisma
emphasis on ‘living-space’
Goebbels comes under his spell
appearance
oaths of loyalty to
on SA and SS sacrifice
avoids legal responsibility for violence
appoints Goebbels propaganda chief
Bad Harzburg declaration
oration to businessmen
1930 elections
fires Franz Pfeffer von Salomon
Presidential election (1932)
Reichstag election (1932)
Gregor Strasser’s resignation
scheme to put him in as Chancellor
appointed Reich Chancellor (30 January 1933)
Papen expects to control him
powers of
promises to destroy Marxism
and the Reich Defence Council
Reichstag fire
speech at state opening of Reichstag
Steinmann’s declaration
assurances to Dingeldey
and the Nationalist Party
Berlin Philharmonic taken over by the Reich
scientists’ protests
intervenes to curb some ‘individual actions’
and boycott of Jewish shops
My Struggle
Hitler (Hiedler), Johann Georg (Hitler’s grandfather)
Hitler, Klara (Hitler’s mother)
Hitler, Paula (Hitler’s sister)
Hitler Youth
origins
Schirach leads
in a torchlight parade
Hoche, Alfred
Hoechst
Hoegner, Wilhelm
Hoffmann, Johannes
Hohenlohe, Chlodwig Fürst
Hohenzollerns
Höhler, Albrecht ‘Ali’
Hohnstein concentration camp, Saxony
Hollaender, Friedrich
Hollywood
Höltermann, Karl
Holy Roman Reich of the German Nation founded by Charlemagne and dissolved by Napoleon
Nazis’ ambition to emulate
and the German Empire
Austria’s membership
Hölz, Max
homelessness
homeopathy
homosexuality
Hoover Moratorium (1931)
Horenstein, Jascha
Horst Wessel Song
Horthy, General Miklós
hospital beds
Höss, Rudolf
background and early life
brutal murder by
joins the Nazi Party
membership of the Artamans
housing
Huber, Florian
Huch, Ricarda
Hugenberg, Alfred
Hungary
short-lived Communist regime (1918)
nation-state formed
hyperinflation
Christianity attacked by Bolshevism
Gömbös refers to himself as a ‘National Socialist’
Horthy government’s antisemitism
‘Hungry Forties’
Husserl, Edmund
hyperinflation see also inflation
Idar-Oberstein
I.G. (Industrie-Germesnschaft) Farben
illegitimate children, equal rights for
import tariffs
Impressionism
In Plain German (Auf gut deutsch) political weekly
incurably, the
Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany see also Social Democratic Party of Germany; socialism; socialist movement
industrial revolution
industrialization
industry
Germany a world leader
lack of growth in production (1928-9)
US calls in short-term loans
hardest hit
unprecedented funds from
Industry Club, Düsseldorf
infectious diseases
inflation see also hyperinflation
influenza epidemic (1919)
‘inner emigration’
Institute for Sexual Science, Tiergarten district, Berlin
interest rates
Interior Ministry
‘International Proletarian Women’s Day’ (8 .March)
investment
iron
Iron Curtain
Iron Front
Isherwood, Christopher: Mr Norris Changes Trains
Italy
compared with nineteenth-century Germany
unification (1859-60)
Catholic Concordat
creation of corporate state
fascism
clashes with Germany over the South Tyrol
Jacobins
Jankowski, Marie
Jannings, Emil
jazz
Jellinek, Walter
Jesuits
‘Jewish census’ (October 1916)
