The Third Reich at War (165 page)
Mutschmann, Martin
My Life for Ireland
(film)
Mystici Corporis
(Papal Encyclical)
Naples
Napoleon Bonaparte
Narva, river
Narvik
‘National Committee “Free Germany”
National Democratic Party
‘national pests’ (
Volksschädlinge
)
National Political Educational Institutions (’Napolas’)
National Socialism (Nazism: National Socialist German Workers’ Party)
Nazi ideology and German army
Racial-Political Office
pre-war anti-Jewish propaganda
Party Chancellery
Hitler’s annual speech to Regional
Leaders
reports on Task Forces’ massacres
Supreme Court
Nazi ideology blames Jews for all ills
Head Office for Technology
Party apparatus in state of collapse
popular disillusionment with
Party programme anniversary addresses
and the growing domestic power vacuum
Press Office
morale-boosting meetings
‘Word of the Week’
total collapse of Party
National Socialist Courier
National Socialist German Students’ League
National Socialist Lawyers’ League
National Socialist People’s Welfare
organization
National Socialist Teachers’ League
Natzweiler concentration camp
Naumann, Werner
navy, German
building programmes
in First World War
invasion of Norway
Swedish shipyards build warships for
and planned invasion of Britain
major losses
and medical experimentation
and Allied Normandy landings
suicides of admirals
Naval Intelligence School
see also
submarines, U-boats
Nazi Party
see
National Socialism
Nebe, Arthur
Nedi’, Milan
Ne’mirovsky, Irène
Nemmersdorf
neo-Nazi movements
‘Nero order’ (March 1945)
nerve gases
Netherlands
see
Holland
Neuengamme concentration camp
Neufeld, Michael
Neuhaus, Albert
Neumann, Franz
Neurath, Konstantin von
Neustadt in Westpreussen (Wejherowo)
‘New Order’
New York
newspapers, magazines
newsreels
nickel
Nicodim, Patriarch
Niemöller, Martin
Nienburg
‘Night of Broken Glass’
see
pogrom of November 1938
Ninth Army
Nisko
NKVD
see
Soviet secret police
Nobel Prizes
Nola
Noma (disease)
Nord (French department)
Nordhausen
N̈rdlingen
Normandy landings (1944)
North Africa
French colonial territories
Italian colonial territories
Rommel’s successes in
Jewish population
USA enters war in
Rommel’s defeat in
North Sea
Norway
German invasion
Quisling’s pro-German movement
King and government in exile
deportation of Jews from
and the ‘New Order’
rationing
prisoners
administration during occupation
air bases
Military SS recruitment
heavy water factory
Norwich
Noske, Gustav
novels
nuclear bombs
Nuremberg
Nuremberg Laws (1935)
Nuremberg Party Rally (1929)
Nuremberg trials
nurses
nutrition
Oberg, Carl-Albrecht
Oberhausen
Obersalzberg
see
Berghof
Obluze
‘occupation costs’
Oder, river
Odessa
Ohlendorf, Otto
Ohnesorge, Wilhelm
Ohrdruf
oil
Middle Eastern
Romanian
Hungarian
Soviet
Caucasus
shortages
sequestered from occupied countries
Caspian Sea
Olbrich, Friedrich
Oldenburg
Omaha Beach
opera
Oppenhoff, Franz
Oradour-sur-Glane
Oran
Oranienstein
Order Castles
Ordzhonikide
Orff, Carl
Origo, Iris
Orscha
Orthodox Church
Ortner, Franz
Oslo
Oster, Hans
Ostrava
Oswiecim
see
Auschwitz
Otter, Göran von
Pacific war
Paderborn
Palatinate
Palermo
Palestine
Palmie’, Gisbert
Palmnicken
Panther (tank)
Papen, Franz von
Paraguay
Paris
refugees flee
Germans enter
Hitler’s sight-seeing trip
attacks on synagogues
deportation of Jews
Paris Opera
Arno Breker in
Louvre museum
abortive coup after July 1944 bomb plot
Parkinson’s disease
Party Chancellery
Pas-de-Calais
Patton, George
Pau
Paul, Prince Regent of Yugoslavia
Paulus, Friedrich
Pavelic’, Ante
Pavlov, Dmitri
Peace Settlement (1919)
see also
Versailles, Treaty of
Pearl Harbor
peasantry
Polish
Norwegian
Greek
Croatian
Bulgarian
German
Soviet
Peenemünde
Peer Gynt
(Egk)
Penzberg
People’s Court
‘People’s Storm’ (
Volkssturm
)
Peron, Juan
Persia
Petacci, Clara
P’tain, Philippe
backs armistice with Germany
establishment of Vichy government
negotiations with Hitler over attack on Britain
and deportation of Jews
reduced to figurehead
Peter, King of Yugoslavia
Peters, Gerhard
Petersen, K̈the
pets, Jews banned from owning
Pfannm̈ller, Hermann
Pfitzner, Hans
Pforzheim
Philippines
Philips (multinational)
‘phoney war’
phosgene gas
phosphates
physics
Piaf, Edith
Piaski
Picasso, Pablo
Picker, Henry
Pillau
Pintsch, Karl-Heinz
Pirna
Piskowitz
Pius, Pope
Pius, Pope
plebiscites
Ploesti oilfield
Pl̈tzensee prison
plutonium
pogroms
November 1938 (’Night of Broken Glass’)
in Tsarist Russia
in German-occupied Soviet Union
in Romania
Pohl, Oswald
Poland
formation of Polish state after First World War
German invasion
Soviet Union invades
surrender
ethnic German population
Catholics and Catholicism
German ‘civilizing mission’ in
occupation as proving-ground for Nazi
new racial order
intelligentsia
mass executions
Task Forces in
German army’s atrocities in
labour conscription
confiscation of property
Germanization programmes
suppression of Polish culture and education
bribery and corruption in
black markets
disintegration of Polish society
Poland -
cont
.
atrocities in Soviet occupied territories
Jewish ghettos
government in exile
Home Army
murder of asylum patients
Polish units in Allied forces
internees in North African labour camps
and German invasion of Soviet Union
Hitler’s plans for ‘living space’
extermination of Jews
political prisoners in concentration camps
Polish labourers in Germany
disintegration of German rule
resistance
rescue of Jews
looting of artworks
Warsaw uprising (1944)
Red Army occupation
war crimes trials
under Communism
see also
General Government
police
criminal
Security
Order
in General Government
Polish
Reich Criminal Police Office
border
in Soviet Union
in Romania
in Yugoslavia
Jewish ghetto
knowledge of deportations
see also
Gestapo
Polish Corridor
Polish Home Army
‘Polish muddle’ (
Polenwirtschaft
)
Poltava
Pomerania
Poniatowa labour camp
Pontine marshes
Ponza
Popitz, Johannes
P̈ppel, Martin
Portsmouth
Portugal
Posen
Posse, Hans
postal service
Potocki family
Potsdam
Prachtice
Prague
Pravda
(newspaper)
Press Chamber, Reich
Pretzsch
Preussich-Stargard (Starograd)
Preysing, Count Conrad, Bishop of Berlin
Prince of Wales
(battleship)
Pripet marshes
prisoners of war
Polish
Soviet
British
French
German
Ukrainian
deployment as labourers
Italian
American
Danish
Norwegian
prisons
Probst, Christoph
Prochorovka
propaganda
anti-Jewish
antisemitic feature films
of ‘euthanasia action’ programme
on German plans for occupied Soviet territory
anti-Polish
on women’s roles
and defeat on Eastern Front
Goebbels’s ‘total war’ speech
against Allied bombing raids
Allied propaganda against Jewish genocide
against Red Army atrocities
purpose of wartime propaganda
Goebbels gains complete control over
radio broadcasts
on ‘wonder-weapons’
and threat of German annihilation
fails in face of invasion and defeat
Propaganda Ministry
and invasion of Poland
and assassination attempt on Hitler (November 1939)
recommends replacing ‘antisemitic’ with ‘anti-Jewish’
and ‘Jewish world conspiracy’
and ‘total war’ initiative
and Allied bombing raids
and Hitler’s increasing withdrawal from public view
briefing papers to Hitler
Nazi Party ‘Word of the Week’
newsreels
takes over radio stations
and Reich Chamber of Music
and ‘Jewification’ of Hungary
and ‘wonder-weapons’
prostitutes, prostitution
Protectorate, the
see
Bohemia and Moravia (Reich Protectorate)
Protestant Church
see
Confessing Church; Evangelical Church; German Christians
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The
Pr̈fer, Kurt
Prussia
see also
East Prussia; West Prussia
Prussian Finance Ministry
psychiatric hospitals
see also
T-4 unit killing centres
psychiatrists
Psychological Research and Psychotherapy, Reich Institute for
publishers
Pultusk
putsches
Kapp (1920)
Munich beer-hall (1923)
Quakernack, Walter
quinine
Quisling, Vidkun
Race and Settlement Head Office
racial classification
racial hygiene, hygienists
Racial Observer
(newspaper)
Racial-Political Office
radar
radio
interception of messages
popular broadcasts
‘radio crime’
Radio Society, Reich
Radom
Radomsko
Raeder, Erich
railways
Trans-Siberian Railway
under-investment in German system
Trans-Sahara Railway
improved in occupied Poland
Hitler’s plans for new system in east
transportation of prisoners of war
and relocation of Soviet industry
sabotaged by Red Army
transportation of Jews
restrictions on Jews’ use of
sequestration of equipment from occupied countries
destroyed in bombing raids
railway workers knowledge of deportations
breakdown of railway communications
transport to Bayreuth festivals
destroyed by pro-Soviet partisans
incompatiblity of gauges
German equipment removed by Soviets
Rallies, Nuremberg Party
rape
Rascher, Sigmund
Rastenburg
Rath, Ernst vom
rationing
in occupied countries
in ghettos
for German Jews
in Germany
for foreign workers
in Britain
in concentration camps
Rauca, Helmut
Rauff, Walter
Rauter, Hanns
Ravensbr̈ck concentration camp
Rebatet, Lucien
Reck-Malleczewen, Friedrich
Reck-Malleczewen, Irmgard
Red Army
invasion of Poland
purges
war with Finland (’Winter War’ 1940)
size
unprepared for German invasion
collapses in chaos
deserters
prisoners of war
determination to fight
reorganization
counter-attacks
Battle of Moscow (1941-2)
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-3)
forces German retreat from Caucasus
Battle of Kursk (1943)
German propaganda against
Operation Bagration
and Warsaw uprising (1944)
advances into Germany
total losses