Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

Marxism 130; H’s use of the term xli–xlii

Marzahn 801

Maschmann, Melita 9, 142

Mastny, Dr Voytech 170

Masurian woods 395

Matsuoka, Yosuke 363–4, 444

Mauthausen concentration camp 604, 735, 768

Mayen 764

Mayer, Dr Joseph 259

Maykop 438, 497, 514, 529, 530, 536

Mediterranean 49, 50, 533, 539, 591; defence of 586; German supply difficulties 543; ‘an Italian sea’ 25; successful Allied landing 592–3

Meichner, Colonel Joachim 669

Meiser, Bishop Hans 28

Meissner, Otto 170, 218, 800

Memel district, Czechoslovakia 163, 166, 175–6

mentally ill patients 252–7, 259, 261, 317, 424, 427–8, 430, 484

mentally retarded children 257

Meran, South Tyrol 633

Mers-el-Kébir 301

Mertz von Quirnheim, Colonel Albrecht Ritter 676, 681, 682, 683, 689

Mesopotamia 537

Messerschmitt, Professor Willi 621, 635

Metz 642, 721

Meuse river 295, 744

Meyer, Gauleiter Alfred 483

Michael, King of Romania 723

Middle East 523, 537, 591

Mierendorff, Carlo 666

Miklas, President Wilhelm 77, 78, 80–1

Milan 26

Milch, Field-Marshal Erhard 75, 548, 621, 634, 635

Ministerial Council for the Defence of the Reich (Ministerrat für die Reichsverteidigung) 219, 312, 541, 568, 570, 573, 709

Minsk 394, 398, 399, 466, 483, 486, 647, 661

Mischlinge (part-Jews) 148, 474, 486, 492

Mitford, Diana (later Mosley) 13

Mitford, Unity Valkyrie 13

Model, Colonel-General Walter 579–80, 592, 630, 650, 721, 754, 784, 786, 792

Mogilev 483, 647

Mohnke, SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm 813, 814, 826, 827

Möllendorf, Rittmeister Leonhard von 673

Molotov, Vyacheslav 192, 195, 196, 204–5, 210, 331, 332–4, 336, 342, 360–1, 734

Moltke, Helmuth James Graf von 665, 666

monasteries, closing of the 427, 428, 430

Mönichkirchen 366, 368

Montgomery, General Bernard 535, 538, 546, 600, 721

Montoire (H/Pétain/Laval discussions, 1940) 330–1

Moravia 46, 164, 165, 172, 318, 479

Moravská-Ostrava 165

Morell, Dr Theodor 36, 171, 411, 612, 674, 694, 726, 727, 728, 798, 801, 803

Morgenthau Plan (1944) 784

Morocco 14, 348

Moscow 397, 400, 416, 435, 477, 534, 536, 769; air-raids 409; the drive to 417, 442, 499; German Embassy 195, 205; and Guderian’s panzer army 437; ‘Marcks Plan’ 408; non-aggression pact signed 210–11, 228; ‘of no great importance’ 335, 345, 346; Operation Typhoon 415, 431; plans to take 408–11, 412, 414, 438, 439, 440

Mosley, Sir Oswald 13, 302

Mühldorf am Inn 78

Müller, General Friedrich-Wilhelm 758

Müller, SS-Gruppenführer Heinrich 464, 492, 758

Munich: Americans reach 834; Artists’ Club 140; bombing of 535, 761; Bürgerbräukeller 137, 271–4, 656; Chamberlain in no; Circus Krone 526; Deutsches Künstlerhaus (‘German Artists’ House’) 37, 38, 132; Feldherrnhalle 140, 840; Hofbräuhaus 614, 623–4, 779, 781; H’s flat in 34, 535; Jewish community 132, 485; Löwenbräukeller 436, 539, 565, 606, 739; Old Town Hall 137, 138, 149; Putsch commemoration 420; ‘Rally of German Art 1939’ 197–8; rebuilding 567, 709; Reich Food Estate’s Agricultural Exhibition (1937) 37; Stoétrupp Hitler wreaks havoc in 138, 149; synagogues demolished 132, 138, 139, 140, 149; Technische Hochschule 258

Munich Agreement (1938) 91, 105, 121–5, 157, 158, 159, 164, 172, 175, 208, 272, 291, 655; the basis of 113; cynical demolition of 173; Göring pushes for peace 89; H’s regrets 163, 230; legacy of 125

Munich University: White Rose opposition-group 552

Münster 427, 429, 791

Müritzsee, Mecklenburg 36

Mussert, Anton 518

Mussolini, Benito xvii, 48, 207, 276, 314, 597, 671; and anti-Bolshevism 285; and antisemitism 285; and Austria 66, 68, 75, 76, 78, 80; Baldwin on 4; and ‘Barbarossa’ 287; Brenner Pass talks 291–2, 327–8, 382–3; captured and executed 826; coins ‘Axis’ term 26; and Czechoslovakia 98, 99, 119, 120–1, 193; desperate to stop the war spreading 222; discusses the French armistice request 297–8; ‘discussions’ with H at Klessheim Castle 513–14; fall of (25 July 1943) 559, 594, 598, 599, 609; freed by SS 602, 689, 734; H loses confidence in 588; H on 25, 601; health 541, 586, 594; and the Heé affair 372, 375, 382–3; and H’s cancelled invasion of Poland (August 1939) 214–16; loss of prestige 347; meeting with H at Feltre 593; and the Munich Agreement 121; prepared to intercede with Britain 219, 222; on Ribbentrop 98; sets up ‘Repubblica di Salò’ in northern Italy 602; and the Spanish Civil War 14; Special Train 291; state visit to Germany (1937) 38, 44–5, 98; talks with H (May 1938) 133; talks with H (January 1941) 346–7; talks with H (April 1943) 581; talks with H (22 April 1944) 633; told of the ‘Madagascar solution’ 322; visits FHQ after the assassination attempt 683, 684

Mutschmann, Martin 779

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Naples 600

Napoleon Bonaparte xvi, xvii, 188, 384, 385, 393, 400, 412, 453, 455, 470, 499, 561, 644, 713

Narev river 238, 756, 757, 769

Narvik, Norway 286, 288, 289

National Committee of Free Germany 772, 793

‘national community’ xlv, 424

National Labour Day (1 May) 5

‘national rebirth’ xlii, xliv

‘national redemption’ xliv

‘national salvation’ xlii, xliv, xlvi

National Socialist Doctors’ League 254