Heinrich Himmler : A Life (205 page)

Serbia:

reprisals for acts of resistance 544, 545

Waffen-SS recruitment in 611, 612

effects of 615

settlement policy:

eastern occupied countries 535, 536, 577, 578, 579

extension of SS empire 415

female east European domestic staff 592–3

France 498, 588–92

General Government 444, 455–7, 581–4

General Plan East 577, 578

Germanization 441–50, 452–4, 572, 578, 582

Himmler gains control of 434–6

link with final solution 578–9

military peasants 443

military settlements 450

Poland 434

progress with 579

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 420–2, 580–1

racial selection 580

racial selection 445, 446–7

racial zones of Europe 575–7

re-Germanization 452–4, 592

female east European domestic staff 592–3

seizure of children 595–9

South Tyrol 417–20, 458–61

Soviet Union 527, 528, 535, 584–7

standardization of 575

Ukraine 622

Yugoslavia 577

Seydlitz, Walther von 697

Seyss-Inquart, Arthur 403, 404, 493, 495

Siebert, Ludwig 154

Sievers, Wolfram 275, 276, 280

Sima, Horia 505, 506, 651–2

Simon, Gustav 590

Sipo (Sicherheitspolizei, Security Police) 201

Heydrich on role of 207–8

Himmler on functions of 206

preventive repression 202–4

see also
Gestapo; Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)

Six, Franz Alfred 212, 225, 360, 471, 799n27

Skorzeny, Otto 657, 690, 697, 714

Slovakia:

deportation of Jews 547, 562, 563, 705–6

halting of 625, 668

murder of 567

exchange of Jewish prisoners 708

German ethnic policy 391, 458

German occupation of 705

security regime in 490

Waffen-SS recruitment in 503–4, 608–9

Smith, Captain (British interrogation officer) 1

Sobibor extermination camp 548, 566, 567, 666, 667

Social Democratic Party (SPD) 66, 698

Sohst, Walter 163

South Tyrol, resettlement of ethnic Germans 417–20, 458–61

Soviet Union:

campaign against partisans 628–9

dead zones 659–60

securing labour through 660

deployment of SS and police units in 530–1

Heydrich’s instructions on those to be executed 523

Himmler’s intervention in extermination process 621–2

Himmler’s preparations for invasion of 517–24

ideological war of annihilation against 515, 517

invasion planning 515

Commissar order 522

deployment of SS and police units 520

instruction for conduct of war 521–2

role of SS 517–18

Wewelsburg conference 522–3

mass murder of Jews 525–7, 531–4, 537, 538, 539, 567–8, 667

escalation of 621–3

Himmler’s personal initiative in 539

mass murder of mental patients 534, 536

mass murder planned in 520, 522

seizure of children 595–6

settlement policy 527, 528, 535, 584–7

Spain, Himmler visits 504–5

‘special treatment’ (Sonderbehandlung) 474

Polish POWs and workers in Germany 474–6

Speer, Albert 688

on Himmler 302

total war 684, 700

use of concentration camp labour 243–4, 634

Spengler, Wilhelm 799n27

Spielhagen, Friedrich 42

spiritualism, Himmler’s interest in 78

SS (Schutzstaffel - Protection squad):

Administration Office 135–6

alcohol abuse in 321–4

archaeological projects 276,
283

armed units:

establishment of 156–7, 174, 181–2

functions of 247–8

integration into field army 426–7

military character of 248–9

numerical strength of 248, 249

pre-war expansion of 247–9

Sudetenland operations 405–6

assumes quasi-police role 148

Austria, abortive Nazi putsch in (1934) 177–9

autonomy of 112

businesses established by 260–1, 482–3, 484–5

brickworks 484

economic priorities 485

experimental farms 483–4

failure of armaments projects 632–4, 684–5

fuel production 685

Kok-Sagys cultivation 659, 660, 685–6

mineral water 484

unification of 485

ceremonies 288–94

funerals 292

marriage 288–9

name consecration 289

private nature of 293

responsibility for conducting 292–3

social gatherings 293–4

solstices 289–91

Yuletide 291–2

Christian church 218–20

claims to elite status 112–13, 121, 122, 124

as a clan 352–3

countering enemies of Nazism 196–7

Czechoslovakia, occupation of Prague 412

Death’s Head military units 152, 247–8

attack on Westerplatte 425–6

creation of 175

invasion of Poland 427

invasion of Soviet Union 521

development as mass organization 138

discipline:

punishments 343–4, 488–9

reprimands by Himmler 337–42

SS courts 344–5

disciplined image of 98, 114, 120, 121, 122, 127

establishment of 110, 111–12

exchange of Jewish prisoners 708–9

extermination camps, construction of 549

financial problems among members 324–7

financing of 135, 169, 258

Friends of the Reichsführer-SS 258–60

Flying Units 135

forced labour 557–61, 573

foreign policy, infiltration of diplomatic service 392–4

General-SS:

establishment of 181

Himmler’s ambitions for 182

Greater Germanic Reich 640–1

health of members, psychological and psychosomatic problems 329–33

Himmler appointed Deputy Reichsführer-SS 110

internal reorganization 113

Himmler appointed Reichsführer-SS 113–14

Himmler on functions of 248

Himmler’s central role in 4–5

Himmler’s speech on ‘Purposes and Aims of the SS’ (1931) 122–4

homosexuality 233–4, 238

ideological indoctrination 276, 286, 312–14

ideological influences 128

independence from SA 174

initial role of 110, 111–12

intelligence service,
see
SD (Security Service)

Jewish policy, development of 407

Kristallnacht 409, 410

leadership corps:

alcohol abuse 321–4

biographical backgrounds 128–35, 315–20

financial problems of 324–7

Himmler’s disciplining of 337–45

Himmler’s encouragement of 336–7

Himmler’s exploitation of 320–1

leadership course 136

psychological and psychosomatic health problems 329–33

surveillance of 315

university educated 318–19

war volunteer generation 315–18

war youth generation 318–20

willing instruments of Himmler 345–51

marriages within:

adultery 375–6

approval of 126–7, 250

approval procedure 353–8

ceremonies 288–9

divorce 375

Himmler’s examination of requests 358–65

Himmler’s intervention in 365–8

number of children 378

orders to marry by Himmler 377–8

second wives 376

membership 112

in 1929 114

growth of 126, 135, 168, 255

Himmler on typical career 303–4

oath sworn by 305

physical criteria 125

regulation of conduct 311–12

social profile 255

militarization of 181–3

mood after 1932 (July) elections 142–3

motto 118

Nuremberg party rally (1929) 114–15

as an order 256, 352–3

organizational structure 112, 121, 135–6, 169, 181, 182, 257–8

Pohl appointed head of administration 169–70

Poland, attack on Westerplatte 425–6

political police:

take control in Bavaria 150–1

take control in German states 155–61

take control in Prussia 161–8

rapid growth of 121

recruitment:

Himmler’s intervention in 302–3

racial examination 123–4, 126–7, 302, 303

requirements 302–3

SA complaints 121

repression in occupied countries 630–2

Belgium 657

contradictory policy 654

counter-terror 656–7, 705

Denmark 654–5, 657, 705

Netherlands 655–6, 705

Norway 657, 705

opposition to 652, 653

Poland 657–8, 659

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia 654

south of France 648–51

SA (Storm Troops):