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Abwehr (armed forces’ intelligence service), 141, 144, 399–400

agricultural policy, 119–20

Albert, SS-Colonel, 134

Allach Industries, 114, 127

Amann, Max, 21

Amery, John, 275–76, 287

Amery, Leo, 275

Angerer, Major, 39

Anielewicz, Mordechai, 358

Anif Declaration, 6

anti-Semitism, 11, 13–14, 52, 54, 104–5, 125, 163–64, 168, 292, 390

of John Amery, 275–76

German legislation, 151–55

of Goebbels, 165

of Himmler, 38, 41–42, 66, 323

of Hitler, 13, 21, 67, 192, 224, 306

Italian legislation, 388

Jud Süss
(propaganda film, 1941), 76n

Kristallnacht
(Night of the Broken Glass, November 1938), 166

National Socialist racial ideology and, 62, 63, 66

Arad, Yitzhak, 340, 363

Arco-Valley, Count, 10

Arendt, Hannah, 156

Artamanen Society, 43, 61, 238n, 369

Auerbach, Moshe, 167

Auftragstaktik
(mission command), 3

Auschwitz concentration camp complex

Birkenau (Auschwitz II), 375, 376, 377, 378–79, 381–82, 384, 393, 394, 395

conditions/daily life for prisoners, 372–74, 381–82, 383

crematoria at Birkenau, 381, 394, 395

disposal of bodies at, 363n, 377, 378, 381

estimated murder figures, 397

gas chambers, 4, 191, 325, 376–80, 394, 395

Höss as commandant, 99n, 106, 194, 370, 375–77, 378, 380, 393, 397

industrial complex around, 373, 375, 383–84, 393, 394

Jewish prisoners at, 371, 372, 377, 379, 381, 384, 385–91, 394, 397

Jews from Western Europe deported to, 375, 385–91

last months of, 393–95

liberation of (27 January 1945), 395, 396–97

medical experiments at Birkenau, 382–83

Operation Reinhard and, 360, 362, 364–65

organisation/structure of, 371–72, 393

revolt at Birkenau (October 1944), 394

special units/trusties at, 372, 374, 379, 394

SS personnel at, 194, 371–72, 374, 375–76, 379, 380, 381, 394

sub-camps (Auschwitz III from November 1943), 381, 383, 384, 393, 394

wartime development/expansion of, 108, 367–68, 370–71, 376

“Work Will Free You” motto, 106

Auschwitz town, 366–67, 375

Austria

Anschluss
(1938), 107,163–65, 218, 220, 221, 256, 351

deportation of Jews from, 163, 168, 241, 330, 354, 364, 384

First World War and, 36

Hitler and, 10, 12, 24, 34, 270

Jewish population, 163–65, 166, 331

NSDAP in, 157, 256–57, 339

SS members/soldiers, 149, 157, 179, 220, 256–57, 261, 339, 351

Baarova, Lida, 165

Babi Yar massacre (September 1941), 314–18

Bach, Ernst, 110

Bach-Zelewski, General von dem, 319, 321, 322, 367

Bad Tölz officer cadet school, 133, 145, 206, 207, 208

Baden, Prince Max of, 6, 7

Baer, Richard, 393

Baltic Germans, 238

Baltic States, 118, 261–63, 283, 304, 310, 311–14, 330, 331–32

Bauer, Erich, 354

Bauriedl, Andreas, 30

Bavaria, 6, 10, 14, 17, 19–26, 31, 38–39, 42–43, 96, 230, 306

army of, 34, 36, 47

police force, 34, 83–84, 85, 131, 257, 322

royal family, 6, 11, 34–35, 36, 205

see also
Munich Putsch (November 1923)

Beck, General, 399

Becker, August, 180, 181

Bednarek, Robert, 27, 29

Behrends, Hermann, 135

Belgium, 195, 241, 262, 263, 266, 332, 387

Belzec extermination camp, 338, 341–44, 346–51, 353, 354, 362–63

Berchtold, Joseph, 16, 18, 29–30, 32

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 371n, 391, 395–96

Berger, Gottlob, 117–18, 197, 213, 246–47, 254–55, 267, 293–94

criminals in Waffen-SS and, 269–70, 272–73, 323–24

non-German nationals in Waffen-SS and, 118, 264, 268, 278–79, 303, 304

Berlin, 8, 29, 55–57, 258, 396, 405, 406

Lichterfelde cadet school, 92, 198, 205, 261

SS in, 57, 59, 60–61, 198–99

Berliner, Meir, 357

Bernadotte, Count Folke, 405, 406, 407

Bernburg killing centre, 186, 187, 352, 355

Bertling, Heinz, 290

Bertram, Cardinal (Archbishop of Breslau), 185

Bessarabia, 310, 332

Best, Werner, 132, 136, 141, 142, 143, 159, 387–88

Beuthel, Lothar, 225

Bialas, Max, 357

Bialystock, 332, 360

Biberstein, Ernst, 308

Binding, Karl, 173–74

Birkenau (Auschwitz II), 375, 376, 377, 378–79, 381–83, 384, 393, 394, 395

see also
under Auschwitz concentration camp complex

Bischoff, Karl, 376

Bismarck, Otto von, 9

Bittrich, Wilhelm, 146

“Black Orchestra” (
Schwarze Kapelle
), 145

Blaskowitz, General, 232–33

Blobel, Paul, 308, 309, 314, 378

Bloch, Zelomir, 359

Blomberg, General von, 73, 90, 152, 200, 216, 258

“Blood Banner,” 30, 43

Bock, Field Marshal von, 298, 299, 307

Bolender, SS-Sergeant, 353

Bolschwingh, Otto von, 160

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 172

Bonhoeffer, Karl, 172–73

Bormann, Martin, 403, 408

Bose, Subhas Chandra, 287–90

Bosnia-Herzegovina, 303–4

Bothmann, SS-Captain, 326

Bouhler, Philipp, 177, 179

“Boxheim Papers,” 132

Brack, Viktor, 180, 181, 273

Brand, Joel, 391

Brandenburg prison, 181, 186n, 341, 355, 369

Brandenburg-Görden asylum, 178

Brandt, Dr. Karl, 176, 177, 179, 181, 186

Brandt, Rudi, 408

Brauchitsch, Walther von, 218

Braunschweig officer cadet school, 133, 206, 208, 250

Britain

British Free Corps, 275–84, 286–87, 294

British POWs, 276–80, 285, 294

intelligence services, 141n, 146, 147–48, 161

Royal Air Force (RAF), 186, 242, 282, 284, 287, 396

Waffen-SS recruits from, 259–61, 263, 264

British Army, 195, 249–53, 297

British Union of Fascists (BUF), 260, 277, 287

Britten, William Charles, 277

Browder, George, 80, 135

Brown, J.H.O., 277

Brüning, Heinrich, 59, 68, 69

Buch, Walter, 22

Buchenwald concentration camp, 106–7, 115, 127, 395n

Bühler, Dr. Josef, 328, 336, 337, 338