118
,
347
; airdrops to Poland
435
; bombing of German army (1944)
478
Royal Navy: First World War blockade
9
,
53
,
292
; blockade
55
,
65
,
270
,
277
,
278
,
279
; sinks French fleet (1940)
108
; Hitler’s fear of
110
Royan (1944)
449
Rügenwalde: arrival of evacuees (1943)
399
Rühmann, Heinz
67
Ruhr, the
12
,
25
,
53
,
59
,
116
; air raids (1940)
109
,
111
,
113
; Polish migrants
143–4
; Catholics
150
; food queues
282
; Soviet labour
297
; air raids (1942–44)
347–50
,
359
,
361
,
469
,
484
; order collapses
517
; Allied encirclement (1945)
520
,
521
,
525
Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von
50
,
97
,
101
,
158
,
175
,
222
,
420
,
446
,
454
,
455
,
476
,
477
,
503
,
505
Rusinowo: massacre (1939)
41
Ruskin, John
120
Russia
see
Soviet Union
Rust, Bernhard
301
Rzhev (1941–2)
204
,
325
S., Lieselotte
63–4
SA (Sturmabteilung)
10
,
41
,
302
,
350
,
369
,
491
,
516
,
517
,
529
,
559
Saar, River
460
,
482
,
483
,
503
Saarland
52
,
59
,
68
,
69
,
402
,
505
,
512
; evacuees
52–3
,
397
,
402
Sachsen-Anhalt: postwar gender disparity
551
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
14
,
71
,
516
Saint-Lô (1944)
428
,
442
St-Nazaire
127
,
449
,
541
Salerno (1943)
381
Salzburg: bombing (1944)
470
Sartre, Jean-Paul
312
Sauckel, Fritz, Gauleiter of Thuringia and Plenipotentiary for Labour
184
,
271
,
273
,
335
,
404
Sauseng, Rupert
70
Sautter, Reinhold
85
Schaller, Alfons
357
Schaper, Edzard
77
Scharnhorst, General Gerhard von
479
Schelling, Friedrich
410
Scherner, Hans
526
Schiller, Friedrich
330
,
410
;
Don Carlos
409
,
410
; ‘Epitaph of Simonides’
568
Schirach, Baldur von, Gauleiter of Vienna
114
,
115
,
116
,
245
Schlabrendorff, Fabian von
451
Schlaich, Pastor Ludwig
85–6
Schlieffen Plan (1914)
93
Schlisselburg fortress
184
Schlösser, Rainer
410
Schmachtenberger, Erika
136
Schmeling, Max
413
Schmidt, Dr Paul
27
Schmidt, General Rudolf
205
Schmitz, Anna
356
Schmitz, Lieselotte
63
Schmuhl, Mia
124
; Robert Schmuhl to
124–6
Schmuhl, Robert
124–6
Schneider, Carl
83
Scholl, Sophie
413
,
416
schools
18
,
64
,
87
,
105
,
114
,
134
,
341
; as military assembly points
23
,
28
,
52
; closure of
59
,
282
,
372
,
398
,
403
,
511
; bombing of
118
,
119
,
388
; Polish
139
; removal of crucifixes from
15
,
149
,
151
; and military training
345
,
346
; as medical centres and shelters
355
,
387
,
497
; as housing
371
,
405
Schörner, Field Marshal Ferdinand
454–5
,
505
,
529
,
538
Schröter, Heinz:
331
;
Last Letters from Stalingrad
568
Schultz, Walter, Bishop of Mecklenburg
551
Schulz, General Friedrich
521
Schulz, Gerhard
214–15
Schumann, Gerhard: ‘Immortality’
382
Schüttler, Rosalie
349
,
350
Schwäbisch Gmünd: executions (1945)
530–31
Schweinfurt: executions (1941)
144
; bombing (1943)
3
; evacuees
396
Schweppenburg, Geyr von, Panzer commander
194
,
196
Schwerin (1945)
536
Schwerin von Krosigk, Lutz Graf
538
,
539
SD
(Sicherheitsdienst): Einsatzgruppen/Einsatzkommandos
39–40
,
255–6
; atrocities
41
; and Jehovah’s Witnesses
71
; and Wantzen
91
; social responsibility
141
,
422
,
455
; and evacuation
403
; in West German diplomatic corps
567
weekly reports:
1939
9
,
11
,
49
,
54
,
59
,
61
,
65
,
80
; 1940
68
,
93
,
98
,
104
,
106
,
109–10
,
118–19
,
121
; 1941
122
,
235
; 1942
223
,
228
,
229
,
249–50
,
281
,
282
,
286
,
297
,
303
; 1943
5
,
7
,
329
,
334
,
335
,
338
,
351
,
357
,
359
,
360
,
366
,
372
,
374
,
378
,
385
,
397
,
400
,
410
; 1944
421
,
422
,
452
,
453
,
472
,
475
; 1945
524
,
545–6
,
548
Sevastopol (1942)
305
Sedan bridgehead (1940)
96
,
97
Seidel, Agnes
524–5
,
541–2
Seidel, Klaus
345
,
366
,
367
,
368
,
370
,
524
Serbia: German reprisals
275
Seventh Day Adventists
73
sex and sexual relationships
124–6
,
127–30
,
140–43
,
294–5
,
421–4
,
426–7
;
see also
prostitutes
;
rape
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur
280
Shakespeare, William: German performances
120
,
409
Shaw, George Bernard
120
;
The Man of Destiny
120
Shirer, William
48
,
59–60
,
107
,
109
,
112
,
113
shoe rationing
54
,
55
Siegert, Peter
194–5
,
321
Signal
(magazine)
312
Sikorski, General Wladyslaw
365
Silesia
115
,
130
,
449
,
487
,
500
,
503
,
517
,
532
,
542
; Lower Silesia
487
,
523
; Upper Silesia
138
,
252
,
271
,
299
,
408
,
486
,
512
,
513
,
532
,
539
,
549
Simon, Fritz
263–4
Simon, Irma
263
,
264
Simon, SS General Max
531
Simpson, General William H.
512
Skuleni (1941)
157
slaughtering, illegal
286–7
Slovakian Jews, deportation of
244
,
245–6
Smolensk (1941)
175
Smyl, Stanislau
141
Sobibor death camp
244
,
252
,
267
Social Democrats, German
10
,
12
,
18
,
26
,
80
,
246
,
247
,
256
,
339
; in exile
47
; arrested
79
,
80
; and Russia
161
,
162
; postwar
563
Söderbaum, Katharina
67
Söhnker, Hans
67
Solingen