The Third Reich at War (166 page)

atrocities in occupied Germany

final battle for Berlin

and surrender of German forces

Red Cross

Red Front-Fighters’ League

‘Red Orchestra’

refugees

Polish

Jewish

French

Serbian

Soviet

German

Regensburg

Reich Chancellery

State Secretary

part ofservice

and invasion of France

and extermination of Jews

Hitler’s bunker complex

bombardment of

Reich Defence Commissioners

Reich Research Council

Reich School of the Nazi Party, Feldafing

Reich Security Head Office (
Reichssicherheitshauptamt
)

creation of

plans for removal of Jews from the Reich

General Plan for the East

forwards reports from Task Forces to Hitler

and development of genocidal policy

and deportation of Jews from Western Europe

orders arrest of Germans demonstrating friendliness to Jews

orders execution of looters

Reich
(journal)

Reich, Wilhelm

Reich-Ranicki, Marcel

Reichenau

Reichenau, Field Marshal Walter von

Reichsbank

Reichstag

Reichwein, Adolf

‘Reinhard Action’ camps
see also
Belzec; Sobibor; Treblinka

Reinhardt, General Hans-Georg

Remagen

Remer, Otto Ernst

Renown
(battle cruiser)

reparations

Request Concert
(film)

Rescuing Children and Protecting the

Health of Jewish Populations,

Organization for

Research Community, German (
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
)

Research Council, Reich

resistance movements

in France

in Czecho-Slovakia

in Belgium

in south-east Europe

in Poland

in Germany

Reynaud, Paul

Rheinmetall-Borsig (arms company)

Rhine, river

Rhineland

Rhodes

Rhodes, Cecil

Ribbentrop, Joachim von

at signing of French Armistice

plan to kidnap Duke and Duchess of Windsor

negotiations with Franco

and German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (1939)

and administration of Denmark

and refusal of Nazi allies to deport remainder of Jews

orders deportation of Italian Jews

and Hitler’s refusal to surrender

last days in the bunker

leaves Berlin

dismissed by Goebbels

trial and execution

Riedl, Colonel

Riefenstahl, Leni

Riegner, Gerhart

Riesenburg (Probuty)

Riga

Ringelblum, Emanuel

Ritter, Gerhard

Ritter, Robert

road-building

Robert Koch Institute

rockets

Rodenwaldt, Ernst

R̈hm, Ernst

Rokossovskii, Marshal Konstantin

Roman Observer
(newspaper)

Romania

Polish government flees to

ethnic German population transfer programmes

Jewish emigrants returned to

ceding of territories

Iron Guard uprising

oilfields

alliance with Germany

and German invasion of Soviet Union

genocide of Romanian Jews

declares war on USA

Romanian concentration camp guards

deportation of Jews from

German influence in

Legion of the Archangel Michael

deportation of Gypsies from

Hungarian Jews flee to

Red Army approaches

defects to Allies

Rome

Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin

Roosevelt, Franklin.

leases destroyers to Britain

arms production programme

signs ‘Atlantic Charter’

supplies Soviet Union

and ‘Jewish world conspiracy’

Casablanca conference (1943)

protests at deportation of Hungarian Jews

death

Rosenberg, Alfred

Nazi Party ideologue

attacks on Christianity

Reich Minister for Occupied Eastern Territories

and extermination of Jews

confiscation of property

and partisan resistance

robbery of Jewish library in Rome

leaves Berlin

trial and execution

Rosenheim

Rostock

Rostov-on-Don

Rothschilds’ Shares in Waterloo, The
(film)

Rotmistrov, Pavel

Rotterdam

Rouen

Royal Air Force

and German invasion of France

Battle of Britain

Bomber Command

‘pathfinders’

‘Window’ (anti-radar device)

‘dam-buster’ raids

leaflet-dropping

and Warsaw uprising (1944)

see also
bombing raids, on Germany

Royal Navy

and German invasion of Norway

and planned German planned invasion of Britain

leasing of destroyers from USA

Mediterranean bases

evacuation of Crete

Atlantic convoys

destruction of German battleships

Arctic convoys

see also
submarines, U-boats

Royal Oak
(battleship)

Royzicki, Stanislav

Rozan

rubber
see also
buna

Rubinstein, Artur

Rubinstein, Helena

R̈gen

Ruhr

Rumkowski, Chaim

Rundstedt, Gerd von

invasion of Poland

and German advance through France

and invasion of Soviet Union

replaced by Reichenau

heart attack

donation from Hitler

and Allied Normandy landings

sacked

presides over court-martial following July 1944 bomb plot

capture and death

Rüsselsheim

Russia, Tsarist

Russian Revolution (1917)

Rust, Bernhard

Rybachi peninsula

Rzhev

SA (
Sturmabteilung
, Storm Division)
see also
brownshirts

Saale, river

Saar

ˇabac

Sachsenhausen concentration camp

Polish academics deported to

Berlin Jews taken as hostages

Gross-Rosen sub-camp

loans for construction

prisoner labour

homosexuals in

Swingers sent to

medical experimentation

deportation of Slovakian Jews

Sagan

St Nazaire

St Petersburg (Leningrad)

Sajmiste

Salat, Alfred

Salerno

Saliège, Jules-G’rard, Archbishop of Toulouse

Salò

Salonika

Salzburg

San, river

Sardinia

Sarin (poison gas)

Sauckel, Fritz

Sauerbruch, Ferdinand

Saur, Karl-Otto

Sava dike

savings banks

Saxony

Scapa Flow

Schacht, Hjalmar

Scḧdle, Franz

Scḧfer, Ernst

Scharnhorst
(battleship)

Schaub, Julius

Schellenberg, Walter

Scheuer, Alois

Schieder, Theodor

Schiller, Friedrich

Schindler, Oskar

Schirach, Baldur von

Schivelbein

schizophrenia

Schlabrendorff, Fabian von

Schlageter
(Johst)

Schlegelberger, Franz

Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein
(battleship)

Schmidt, Paul

Schmorell, Alexander

Schmundt, Rudolf

Schneidem̈hl

Schoenberg, Arnold

Scholl, Hans

Scholl, Sophie

Scḧnlanke

schools

suppressed in Poland

closure of Jewish schools in Reich

in concentration camps

in ghettos

closure of bomb-damaged urban schools

anti-Christian policies

decline in educational standards

Nazi elite schools

Reich School of the Nazi Party, Feldafing

Scḧrner, Ferdinand

Schreck, Josef

Schr̈der, Oskar

Schulenburg, Friedrich Werner von der

Schulenburg, Fritz-Dietlof von der

Schulte, Eduard

Schultz, Johannes

Schulz, Bruno

Schulz, Erwin

Schulze-Boysen, Harro

Schulze-Boysen, Libertas

Schuschnigg, Kurt von

Schwarz van Berk, Hans

Schwedler, Karl (’Charlie’)

Schweinfurt

Schwerin von Krosigk, Lutz

Schwetz (Swiece)

science

Scientific Registering of Serious Hereditary

and Congenital Illnesses, Reich

Committee for

‘scorched earth’ policy

Soviet

German

Scotland

Sealion, Operation

Seebruck

Selassie, Haile

Serbs, Serbia

Croatian genocide

Chetnik uprising

German army atrocities in

extermination of Jews and Gypsies

deportation of Jews to Auschwitz

political prisoners in concentration camps

killing of Gypsies

Sereny, Gitta

Sevastopol

Seven Years’ War

sex

sexual relations among T-4 staff

sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews

sexual relations between Germans and foreign workers

sexual offences(
see also
rape)

sexual morality

Seyss-Inquart, Arthur

Shakespeare, William

Shanghai

Shaw, George Bernard

Shell (multinational)

Shirer, William.

on German invasion of Poland

on Nazi Jewish policy

on ‘euthanasia action’ programme

on assassination attempt on Hitler (November 1939)

on Allied operation in Norway

on German advance through Holland and Belgium

on German conquest of France

on German ‘peace offer’

on Battle of Britain

on popular culture

on ‘radio crime’

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

Siberia

Sicily

Siegen

Sierakowiak, Dawid

Silberhammer (Srebrzysk)

Silesia
see also
Lower Silesia; Upper Silesia

Sima, Horia

Simeon, King of Bulgaria

Six, Franz

Sixth Army

Skorzeny, Otto

slave labour

Slavs

Nazi racial policy towards

propaganda against

viewed as subhumans

and Hitler’s plans for ‘living space’

in concentration camps

Slovakia

Slovenia

Smolensk

Sobibor

labour camp

extermination camp

Social Darwinism

Social Democratic Party of Germany

and popular support for war

and minorities

vote for war credits in 1914

reports on foreign workers

political prisoners

on ‘comprehensive terror’

and resistance movements

postwar re-emergence

social workers

Socialist Reich Party

Soest

Sofia

Soldau

Solmitz, Friedrich

Solmitz, Gisela

Solmitz, Luise

diary

on German conquest of France

on German invasion of Soviet Union

on foreign workers in Hamburg

on bombing raids

on treatment of Jews

turns against Hitler

postwar life

Somaliland

Soman (nerve gas)

Somme, river

Sonnenburg

Sonnenstein

Sorge, Richard

South Tyrol

South-east Asia

Soviet secret police (NKVD)

Soviet Union

German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (1939)

invasion of Poland

and resettlement of ethnic Germans

atrocities in occupied Polish territory

German fear of invasion from

war with Finland (’Winter War’, 1940)

territorial gains

German plans for invasion

trade agreements with Germany

Hitler’s plans for ‘living space’

industrialization

intelligentsia

Soviet Union -
cont
.

Task Forces in

bombing raids on

German invasion (Operation Barbarossa)

prisoners of war

partisan groups

Hitler’s plans for occupied territory

State Defence Committee

German army’s atrocities in

relocation of industry

expulsion of ethnic Germans

murder of political prisoners

transport difficulties slow German advance

Battle of Moscow (1941-2)

supplies from USA

and ‘Jewish world conspiracy’

armaments production

Soviet civilian labourers in Germany

political prisoners in concentration camps

German summer offensive (1942)

Battle of Stalingrad (1942-3)

‘re-education’ of German prisoners of war

looting of artworks

Operation Bagration

and Warsaw uprising (1944)

and German resistance movements

revenge attacks in occupied Germany

and German surrender

and Nuremberg trials

postwar use of German military technological equipment and expertise

see also
Red Army; Russia, Tsarist; Russian Revolution (1917)

Spain

Civil War

Spandau prison

Special Operations Executive (British)

Speer, Albert

sight-seeing trip to Paris with Hitler

General Building Inspector

and G̈ring

succeeds Todt

rationalization of war economy

and the ‘New Order’

and mobilization of foreign workers

on Hitler’s rages

and Battle of Stalingrad (1942-3)

and ‘total war’ initiative

and bombing raids on Germany

on Hitler’s withdrawal from public view

and Wilhelm Furtẅngler