Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) aesthetics of power 5; aims to force Jews out 146; antisemitism xliii; attacks on the Church xxxvi, 29, 40; Bormann restructures 790; business closures 575; and Christianity 424; the crucifix issue 425–6; ‘elections’ of 29

March 1936 xxxv; and the First World War 233; Foreign Organization see Auslandsorganisation; functionaries leave for safer havens (1945) 763; the ‘good old times’ 611; grandiose Party buildings 185; H praises 537; and the Heé affair 374; ‘Horst-Wessel-Lied’ anthem 6, 561; H’s ultimatum demanding the Party leadership (1921) 283; ideological drive 314, 343, 395; Leadership crisis (July 1921) 648; membership xlii; the Nazi calendar 37; nazified Memel population 175; Party Chancellery 372, 421, 424, 568, 709; Party Rally of 1929 255; Party Rally of 1934 6; Party Rally of 1936 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 22–3; Party Rally of 1937 35, 37, 39, 41, 42, 45; Party Rally of 1938 108, 109–10; Party Rally of 1939 (cancelled) 197, 214; penal law 256; programme 37, 42, 65; Propaganda Department 474; Putch commemoration 37, 46, 51, 137, 139, 272, 273, 420; Reichsleitung 258; reserves of hard-core Nazi support for H 556; triumphalism 136; ‘world-view’ 40

National Socialist Leadership Officers 616

National Socialist Racial and Political Office (NS-Rasse-und Politisches Amt) 257

nationalism: H galvanizes the nationalist masses xli; Ukrainian 158, 165, 166

Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (NSV) 424

Naumann, Werner 729, 823

Naval Agreement 189

Nazi Party see National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP)

Nebe, SS-Gruppenführer Arthur 318, 466

Neckar River 139

Neisse river 793

Nemmersdorf 738

Nero, Emperor 594

Netherlands 405, 434, 745, 834; bombing of Rotterdam 295; German invasion plans 659; Jews flee to 145–6; neutrality 277; the Queen and government flee to exile 294

Neumann, Ernst 166

Neurath, Konstantin Freiherr von 4, 25, 26, 43, 47, 49, 50, 58, 59, 67, 68, 69, 76, 90, 120, 121, 481, 586, 599, 837

Neustadt 261

‘New Order’ 404, 407, 603

Nice 328

Nicolson, Harold 211

Niemöller, Pastor Martin 41

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 597

‘Night of the Long Knives’ (30 1934) xxxvii

Nijmegen 723, 760

Nikopol 603, 617

Nile river 524

Nisko district, south of Lublin 318

Non-Aggression Pact 189, 191

Normandy 639–41, 696, 699, 707

North Africa 328, 346, 347, 348, 439, 448, 513, 514, 535, 538–42, 546, 553, 554, 580–81, 609, 668

North Schleswig 288

North Sea 369, 375

Norway xl, 194, 286, 287–9, 293, 332, 405, 759

November 9th 1918 127, 151, 298–9, 697

November Pogrom (1938) 136–47, 148, 249

November Revolution 150

NSDAP see National Socialist German Workers’ Party

NSV see Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt

Nuremberg: air-raids on 573, 761, 764; compared with Fürth 582; demolition of the main synagogue 132; Party Rallies see under National Socialist German Workers’ Party; prison 58, 377, 836

Nuremberg International Military Tribunal 574, 836, 837

Nuremberg Laws 148

Nußdorf (Bouhler’s country house) 571

O

Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH) see German Army: High Command

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) see Wehrmacht: High Command

Obersalzberg, near Berchtesgaden 107, 110, 168, 199, 207, 301, 306, 373, 556, 570, 587, 636, 637, 639, 644, 651, 799, 800, 810

Occupied Eastern Territories 478, 483

Oder front 782, 793

Oder river 160, 756, 759, 793

Odessa 630

Oertzen, Major Hans Ulrich von 690

Ohlau 759

Okamoto, General 443

OKH (Oberkommando der Heeres) see German Army: High Command

OKW (Oberkommando des Wehrmacht) see Wehrmacht: High Command

Olbricht, Major-General Friedrich 86, 659, 660, 667, 668, 671, 676, 681, 682, 682–3, 689

Oldenburg 508

Olympic Games (Berlin, 1936) 5–9, 379

Olympic Games (Los Angeles, 1932) 6

Omaha Beach 640, 641

Operation Anton 542

Operation Autumn Mist 741, 743–7

Operation Axis 599, 600

Operation Bagratian 646