The Third Reich at War (167 page)

and Arno Breker

plans for rebuilding Berlin

and scientific research

and July 1944 bomb plot

and ‘wonder-weapons’

plans for preservation of postwar economy

on Hitler’s failing health

leaves Berlin

replaced by Saur

memoirs

trial and imprisonment

Sperrle, Hugo

Spitfire (fighter-plane)

Sprenger, Jakob

Springer, Axel

SS (
Schutzstaffel
; Protection Squad)

clashes with Hans Frank

and creation of Reich Security Head Office

and Germanization programmes in Poland

and deportation of Jews

attacks in Polish ghettos

mass murder of mental patients

doctors

construction of gas chambers

backing of Iron Guard revolt in Romania

and General Plan for the East

antisemitism

cavalry brigades in occupied east

in Romania

and labour camps

and Reinhard Action camps

guards at Auschwitz

economic empire

and prisoner labour

in Holland

rescue of Mussolini

atrocities in Italy

Ancestral Heritage organization

(
Ahnenerbe
)

treatment of prisoners

corruption in concentration camps

and extermination of Jews

and Warsaw uprising (1944)

murder of prisoners

and liquidation of concentration camps

trials of officers and guards

see also
Heydrich; Himmler; Military SS; Task Forces

SS Central Office for Jewish Emigration

(
Zentralstelle f̈r j̈dische

Auswanderung
)

SS Economic and Administrative Head Office

SS Racial and Settlement Head Office

SS Security Service (
Sicherheitsdienst
)

and creation of Reich Security Head Office

atrocities in Poland

and ‘euthanasia action’ programme

and assassination attempt on Hitler (November 1939)

and German conquest of France

in Lithuania

in Yugoslavia

and extermination of Jews

and foreign labour force

in France

reports on home front morale

report on ration cuts

report on bartering

and evacuees

on popular hatred for Italians after defection

report on Military SS

and population reaction to persecution of Jews

reports on popular culture

report on educational standards

foreign intelligence department

see also
Task Forces

Stabenow, Gerhard

Stahlecker, Walther

Stalin, Josef

Soviet invasion of Poland

purges

war with Finland

antisemitism

trade concessions to Germany

and German plans for Operation Barbarossa

industrialization programme

Hitler’s admiration for

despair at German invasion

equates surrender with treason

Stalin, Josef -
cont
.

address to people as patriotic leader

ethnic cleansing operations

and Battle of Moscow (1941-2)

deportation of Volga Germans

and ‘Jewish world conspiracy’

injunction to form partisan groups

orders counter-offensives

and Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43)

and Allied bombardment of Germany

and Battle of Kursk (1943)

Operation Bagration

and Warsaw uprising (1944)

and German resistance movements

death

Stalingrad

Battle of (1942-43)

Stangl, Franz

Stanislaw’w

Stara Gradiska concentration camp

Stark, Johannes

State Defence Committee (Soviet)

Stauffenberg, Claus von

steel

armaments production

shortages

Stein, Baron Karl vom

Steinhilfer, Ulrich

Stepinac, Archbishop Alojzije

sterilization

of handicapped

Kaufman’s demands for

Heydrich’s programme in Protectorate

of Gypsies

experimentation for mass sterilization

Stettin

Stohr, Albert, Bishop of Mainz

Stormer
(
Der Sẗrmer,
newspaper)

Stralsund

Strauss, Alice

Strauss, Johann

Strauss, Richard

Streckenbach, Bruno

Streicher, Julius

‘Strength Through Joy’

strikes

Stroop, J̈rgen

Students’ League, National Socialist German

Stuka (dive-bombers)

Stülpnagel, Karl-Heinrich von

Sẗlpnagel, Otto von

Stumpfegger, Ludwig

Stuttgart

Stutthof concentration camp

submarines, U-boats

Scandinavian bases

American

Atlantic coast bases

U-boat production

British

U-boat attacks on British supply lines

limitations of U-boats

Soviet

Sudetenland

Suez Canal

Sugihara, Chiune

suicide

of Jews

of Germans in bombed cities

invention of cyanide capsules for

of July 1944 plotters

of Nazis

of German generals and admirals

of Germans following collapse of Third Reich

in Red Army occupied areas

sulphonamides

Supreme Court

swastika symbol

Sweden

Swedish Red Cross

Swinem̈nde

‘Swing Youth’

Switzerland

Sylt

synagogues

in Poland

in Germany

in Soviet Union

in France

in Belgium

in Greece

synthetic fuel

syphilis

Syracuse

Syria

Sz’lasi, Ferenc

Szczebrzeszyn

Szpilman, Wladyslaw

Szt’jay, D̈me

T-4 unit

‘euthanasia action’ programme

killing centres

and extermination of Jews

rejects use of Zyklon-B

killing of sick concentration camp inmates

T-34 (tank)

Tabun (nerve gas)

Tallinn

tanks

warfare

production

Taranto

Tarnopol

Task Forces (
Einsatzgruppen
)

in Poland

in occupied east

in Romania

distribution of reports on their actions

establishment of extermination camps

taxation

of Jews

corporation tax

of foreign workers

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Teachers’ League, National Socialist

Technology, Head Office for

Terboven, Josef

Terezin

terMeer, Fritz

‘terror raids’

Tesch and Stabenow (poison gas manufacturer)

Teterow

Thailand

Tḧlmann, Ernst

theatre

Theresienstadt concentration camp

Thielbeck
(freighter)

Thierack, Otto-Georg

Thiess, Frank

Thomalla, Richard

Thomas, Georg

Thrace

Threepenny Opera
(Brecht/Weill)

Thuringia

Tibet

Tiger (tank)

Tikhvin

Tilsit

Timoshenko, Semyon

tin

Tirpitz
(battleship)

Tiso, Jozef

Tito, Josip Broz

tobacco

Tobruk

Todt, Fritz

Todt Organization

Tokyo

Tolstoy, Leo

Tongres

Topf, Ernst Wolfgang

Topf, Ludwig

Topf and Sons (engineering company)

Torgau

Torquay

‘total war’ initiative

Toulouse

trains

Hitler’s special

First World War Armistice

G̈ring’s special

see also
railways

Trans-Saharan Railway

Trans-Siberian Railway

transit camps

Transnistria

Transport, Reich Ministry of

Transylvania

Traunstein

Travniki labour camp

Treblinka

extermination camp

labour camp

Treptow an der Rege

Tresckow, Henning von

Treskau (Owi’ska)

tribunals

war crimes

denazification

Trieste

Tripoli

Triumph of the Will
(film)

Trondheim

Trott zu Solz, Adam von

Truman, Harry S.

Trustees for the East, Head Office of the (
Haupttreuhandstelle Ost
)

tuberculosis

T̈bingen

Tuka, Vojtech

Tunisia

Turkey

Turner, Harald

Twilight of the Gods
(Wagner)

twins

Two Happy People
(film)

Two Oceans Navy Expansion Act (USA)

Typhoon, Operation

typhus

U-boats
see
submarines

̈ckerm̈nde

Udbina

Udet, Ernst

Ukraine

Hitler’s plans for ‘living-space’

grain exports to Third Reich

occupied by Army Group South

Reich Commissariat

German army’s atrocities in

dismantling of factories

deportation of ethnic Germans

murder of political prisoners

Jews flee from advancing German army

massacres of Jews

murder of nationalists by Soviet secret police

extermination of last Ukrainian Jews

improvement of transport system

Ukrainians

in Poland

nationalists

German hatred for

Rosenberg’s plans for

antisemitism

auxiliaries in Reinhard Action camps

Ullmann, Viktor

Ulrich S. (schoolboy)

Uncle Kruger
(film)

Unilever (multinational)

United States of America

Jewish emigration to

supplies to Britain

leases destroyers to Britain

and German plans for invasion of Soviet Union

rearmament

attack on Pearl Harbor

entry into war

‘lend-lease’

supplies to Soviet Union

and ‘Jewish world conspiracy’

armaments production

women in workforce

and genocide of Romanian Jews

Allied bombardment of Germany

U-boat attacks on supply ships

reports on Jewish genocide

Normandy landings

and Warsaw uprising (1944)

and July 1944 bomb plot

Battle of the Bulge (1944-45)

atomic bomb

Allied forces advance through Germany

liberation of concentration camps

and German surrender

and Nuremberg trials

postwar use of German military

technological equipment and expertise

universities

Unterẗrkheim

Upper Silesia

Ural mountains

uranium

Usedom

Ustashe (Croatian militia)

V-1 flying bombs

V-2 rockets

V-3 cannons

vaccines

Valerio, Colonel

Valkyrie, Operation

Vasilevskii, Aleksandr

Vatican

arranges visas for Jewish emigrants

and ‘euthanasia action’ programme

and genocide of Romanian Jews

Papal Nuncio

and deportation of Slovakian Jews

and deportation of Italian Jews

neutral status

German and Austrian clerics

see also
Pius; Pius

Vendel, Karl Ingve

venereal disease

Venice

Venlo

Verdun, Battle of

Versailles, Treaty of (1919)
see also
Peace Settlement

Verschuer, Otmar von

Vichy France

deportation of Jews from

establishment of

North African colonial territories

discriminatory laws against Jews

Vichy France -
cont
.

despatch of civilian labourers to Germany

administration of

unpopularity of regime

German troops take over

militia

see also
P’tain, Marshal Philippe

Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy

Victoria, Queen

Vienna

Hitler’s early life in

deportation of Jews

coup conspiracy (1944)

Red Army enters

Vierny, Dina

Vilna (Vilnius)

Vinnitsa

Vistula river

Visual Arts, Reich Chamber for the

Vitztbum, Count Heino

Vlaminck, Maurice

Voerde

Vogelsang

Vojvodina

Volga Germans

Volga, river

Volksgemeinschaft
(national community)

Volkswagen factory

Voronezh

Voronov, Nikolai

Voss, Hermann (anatomist)

Voss, Hermann (director of Wiesbaden Museum)

Waffen-SS see
Military SS

Wagner family

Wagner, Adolf

Wagner, Gerhard

Wagner, Horst

Wagner, Richard

Wagner, Walter

Wagner, Winifred

Wahlmann, Adolf

Walb, Lore

Walter, Bruno

Wanne-Eickel

Wannsee Conference (1942)

war crimes trials

war economy

War Medicine and Hygiene, Institute of

Warsaw

bombardment

encirclement

surrender

in General Government

execution of mayor

bribery in

rationing

Jewish population

ghetto

extermination of Jews

rescue of Jews

uprising (1944)

Warsaw Zoo

Warthegau
see
Wartheland

Wartheland

Wartheland Prize

‘Waterfall’ (missile)

Wawer

Weber, Ilse

Wehrkraftzersetzung
(’undermining military strength’)