Hitler. 1936-1945: Nemesis

Schwerin, Lieutenant-Colonel Gerhard Graf von 225

Schwerin von Krosigk, Lutz Graf 790, 800, 823, 834

Schwerin von Schwanenfeld, Ulrich Wilhelm Graf 690, 692

Schwielow Lake 826

Scotland 369, 373, 377, 379

SD (Sicherheitsdienst; Security Service) 42, 107, 365, 430, 476, 596, 606; cooperation over massacre of Jews 465; and a ‘crisis in confidence’ (1942) 508; discrimination against Jews 472; on economic expansion 186; and the Einsatzgruppen 382; and Goebbels’ ‘The Jews are Guilty’ article 482; and the Heé affair 374; and H’s battle against the Jews 494; H’s speeches 540; on the intervention of the NSDAP in business closures 575; and Jewish resettlement 134, 135, 320; ‘Jewish Section’ (Judenreferat) 42, 84; and the ‘Madagascar solution’ 322; and newsreels of H 501; reports joy at H’s survival 699–702; role in shaping anti-Jewish policy 133

Sea of Azov 435, 526, 532, 599

Second Reich 65

Second World War: the attack on the West 266, 267, 275, 276, 278–9, 284, 286, 293; Britain declares war on Germany 223; fatalities 236, 297, 394, 404, 446, 490, 515, 547, 578, 647, 717, 726, 760, 764; first extermination unit (in Chelmno, 1941) 485; France declares war on Germany 223; German drive for ‘total war’ 548–9; Germany declares war on the USA 446; H’s aims for Scandinavia 288; H’s peace ‘offer’ 239, 265–6, 267; Jewish ‘guilt’ 489; Operation Barbarossa begins 393; responsibility for 224; Ribbentrop blamed 226; spring offensive begins (8 May 1942) 514; the summer offensive (1942) 526–30; the ‘world war’ term 490

Security Police 318, 324, 325, 336, 353, 355, 365, 382, 395, 464, 465, 467, 475, 486, 495

Security Service see SD

Seeckt, General Hans von 44, 205

Seldte, Franz 800

‘September Murders’ (Poland, 1939) 242

Serbia 476

Serbs 365

Serrano Suñer, Ramón 327

Sevastopol 451, 514, 523, 526, 630, 631, 735

Seven Years War 610–11, 742, 783, 792

Seydlitz-Kurzbach, General Walter 628–9, 772

Seyé-Inquart, Arthur 69–72, 74–9, 823, 837

Shanghai 146

Shirer, William 8, 78, 107, 113–14, 117, 118,

189, 221, 222, 239–40, 303

Siberia 462, 470–71, 477, 520, 703, 793

Sicherheitsdienst see SD

Sicily 581, 586, 587, 592, 593, 600; evacuation of 595, 599 ‘sickle cut’ plan 291, 295

Silesia 239, 305, 436, 758, 759, 762, 782

Simpson, Mrs Wallis (later Duchess of Windsor) 24

Sinclair, Sir Archibald 371

Singapore 293, 326, 363, 364, 456, 504

Skoda works, Czechoslovaklia 165

Skorzeny, Sturmbannführer Otto 602, 689,

734, 735, 736–7, 738

Slavs, hostility towards 173

Slovakia 164, 166, 167, 168–9, 177, 350, 724;

joins the Tripartite Pact 361

Smolensk 394, 399, 408, 409, 661

Sobibor extermination camp 484, 493, 520, 603

Social Democrats see SPD (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands)

social-Darwinism 19, 208, 256, 405, 615, 636

socialism: admiration of H xxxix; powerlessness xxxvi

SOE see Special Operations Executive Soldau, East Prussia 484

‘Sonderkommando Lange’ 261

Sonderkommandos (‘special forces’) 382

Sonnenstein asylum 261

‘Sopade’ 201, 240; and the ‘Crystal Night’ 142;

‘Germany Report’ xxi

South America 25

South Tyrol 98–9, 664

South Tyroleans 267

Soviet air-force 343

Soviet army see Red Army Soviet radio 724

Soviet Union: admitted to the League of Nations 13; attack on (1941) 241, 252, 281; the ‘Blue’ offensive 514–15, 523; counter-offensive (December 1941) 452; decreasing number of captured Soviet prisoners 527–8; deportation of Volga Germans 477–8, 480; economic agreement with Germany (January 1941) 343; economic difficulties 195; ‘ethnic cleansing’ 355; Finland signs an armistice 724; Five-Year Plan 23; food supplies 518; foreign policy aims 276; Friendship Treaty with Yugoslavia 365; genocidal actions in (1941) 248, 249; German delay in attacking 368; and German eastern expansion xlvi, 449; German-Soviet Treaty of Friendship (23 September 1939) 238; Göring’s policy 406; Guderian favours a retreat 454; H stresses Russian strength 43; Himmler’s policy 406; H’s opinion of Slavs 400–401; H’s reasons for deciding to attack 335–6; H’s view 12–13; H’s vision for 400–405; H’s war directive (18 December 1940) 335, 341; invades Poland from the east 236; and Japan 13; Jewish influence 489–90; the Katyn case 583; labour camps 480, 481–2; massacre of Jews 463–4, 477; militarily weak 285–6; mutual assistance agreement with Britain (1941) 457; non-aggression pact with Germany (1939) 205, 206, 210–11, 212, 228, 236, 238, 285, 292, 326, 385; ‘Northern Lights’ offensive 531; oil supplies 514, 517, 528, 529, 530, 536, 537; and Poland 192, 194, 204; preoccupied with internal upheavals 95, 286; reports of starvation and cannibalism 509; the retreat from the Caucasus begins 545; Russian prisoners-of-war gassed in Auschwitz 383; Soviet offensive begins (19 November 1942) 543; Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact 364; talks in Moscow (1939) 204–5; trade talks (1939) 196; trade treaty with Germany 205; treaty with Czechoslovakia 95; winter crisis of the German army 439–42, 447, 450–56, 490, 499, 516

Spaatz, General Carl 836