Adolf Hitler : a biographical companion / David Nicholls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholls, David, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.

Hitler, Adolf.

Heads of state--Germany--Biography.

Heads of state.

Germany.

National socialism.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxx, 357 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2000]

Summary:

Universally recognized, even today, as the embodiment of evil and the malignant misuse of political power, Hitler, along with the movement he created, was responsible both for atrocities of almost unimaginable wickedness and for unlesashing a conflict that spread to every corner of the globe. The story of his rise to power as leader of Germany, the destruction of democracy and civilized values in a great nation, together with World War II, for which he bears the principal responsibility, provide a painful historical lesson. The Hitler regime warns us of the destruction that ensues when a perverted ideology and a cult of leadership are combined with a polity where power is divorced from morality.

This illustrated A-to-Z biographical companion provides easily accessible information about the key events in Hitler's life; his most important collaborators and opponents; his domestic and foreign policies; the use of propaganda and the forging of the Hitler cult; racial persecution and the Holocaust; and Hitler as a war leader. Adolf Hitler also includes an introduction, a chronology, maps, primary source documents, a general bibliography, and an mdex.

Contents:

Afrika Korps 1

Agriculture 1

Alsace-Lorraine 3

Anschluss 3

Anti-Comintern Pact 4

Anti-Semitism 4

Antonescu, Ion 6

Appeasement 6

Architecture 8

Arnhem, Battle of 9

Art 9

Atlantic, Battle of the 11

Atlantic Charter 12

Auschwitz 12

Austria 14

Autobahnen 15

Aviation 16

Axis 16

Bagration, Operation 19

Baltic States 19

Barbarossa, Operation 20

Bavaria 20

Bavarian People's Party (BVP) 21

Bayreuth 21

Beck, Ludwig 22

Beer Hall Putsch 23

Belgium 25

Belsen 25

Benes, Eduard 26

Berchtesgarden 26

Berlin 26

Blitzkrieg 28

Blomberg-Fritsch Crisis 29

Blomberg, Werner von 30

Blut und Boden 31

Bombing Campaigns 31

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich 32

Bormann, Martin 33

Bouhler, Philipp 34

Brack, Victor 34

Brandt, Karl Rudolf 35

Brauchitsch, Walther von 35

Braun, Eva 36

Braunau-am-Inn 36

Britain, Battle of 38

British Empire 39

Bruning, Heinrich 40

Buchenwald 41

Bulgaria 41

Bulge, Battle of the 41

Bureaucracy 41

Busch, Ernst 42

Casablanca Conference 43

Catholic Church 43

Center Party 44

Chamberlain, Neville 45

Charismatic Domination 45

Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer 46

Ciano, Galeazzo, Count 47

Cinema 48

Citadel, Operation 50

Civil Service 50

Communist Party (KPD) 50

Concentration Camps 52

Concordat 54

Condor Legion 54

Confessing Church 54

Cultural Policy 55

Czechoslovakia 57

Dachau 59

Daladier, Edouard 59

Danzig 59

Darlan, Jean Francois 60

Darre, Richard Walther 60

Dawes Plan 61

de Gaulle, Charles 62

Denmark 62

Doenitz, Karl 63

Dollfuss, Engelbert 63

Drexler, Anton 64

Dunkirk, Evacuation of 64

Eastern Front 67

Eckart, Dietrich 68

Economic Policy 69

Eden, Anthony 70

Education 71

Eichmann, Adolf 72

Eisenhower, Dwight David 73

El Alamein, Battle of 74

Elections 75

Elser, Georg 76

Enabling Act 77

Eugenics 77

Euthanasia 79

Extermination Camps 80

Fascism 81

Feder, Gottfried 82

Final Solution 83

Finland 84

Foreign Policy 84

Four-Year Plan 86

France 86

Franco, Francisco 88

Frank, Hans 90

Freemasonry 91

Freikorps 91

Frick, Wilhelm 92

Fuhrer Principle (Fuhrerprinzip) 92

Funk, Walther 93

Gauleiters 95

Generalgouvernement 95

German Christians 96

German Democratic Party (DDP) 96

German Labor Front (DAF) 97

German National People's Party (DNVP) 98

German People's Party (DVP) 98

German Workers' Party (DAP) 99

Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei) 99

Gleichschaltung 100

Goebbels, Paul Josef 102

Goerdeler, Carl 105

Goering, Hermann 105

Great Britain 108

Great Patriotic War 109

Greece 109

Guderian, Heinz 110

Gurtner, Franz 111

Gypsies 111

Halder, Franz 113

Hanfstaengl, Ernst Franz Sedgwick 114

Harzburg Front 115

Henlein, Konrad 115

Hess, Rudolf 115

Heydrich, Reinhard 116

Himmler, Heinrich 117

Hindenburg, Paul von 119

Historikerstreit 120

Hitler Myth 121

Hitler Schools 123

Hitler Youth 124

Hoess, Rudolf 125

Hoffmann, Heinrich 125

Holocaust 126

Horthy, Miklos 127

Hossbach, Friedrich 128

Hossbach Memorandum 128

Hugenberg, Alfred 128

Hungary 129

IG Farben (IG Farbenindustrie AG) 131

Industry 131

Italy 133

Japan 135

Jehovah's Witnesses 136

Jews and Jewish Policy 136

Jodl, Alfred 140

Judiciary 141

July Plot 141

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst 143

Keitel, Wilhelm 144

Kesselring, Albert 144

Kirdorf, Emil 145

Kluge, Hans Gunther von 146

Kreisau Circle 146

Kristallnacht 147

Krupp, Alfried 148

Krupp, Gustav 149

Kursk, Battle of 149

Labor Relations 151

Labor Service 151

Lammers, Hans-Heinrich 152

Landsberg-am-Lech 152

Laval, Pierre 153

Law 153

League of Nations 155

Lebensraum 155

Ley, Robert 155

Linz 156

Local Government 157

Ludendorff, Erich 157

Lueger, Karl 159

Luftwaffe 160

Maginot Line 163

Malta 163

Mannerheim, Carl Gustav 163

Manstein, Erich von 164

Mein Kampf 164

Memel 166

Michael, King of Romania 166

Middle Classes 167

Middle East 168

Mihajlovic, Draza 168

Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich 168

Montgomery, Bernard Law 169

Morell, Theo 170

Munich 170

Munich Agreement 171

Mussolini, Benito 171

Mutterkreuz 174

National Socialism (Nazism) 175

National Socialist Factory Cell Organization (NSBO) 175

National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP, Nazi Party) 176

Nationalists 178

Navy 178

Nazi Movement 179

Nazi-Soviet Pact 180

Netherlands 181

Neurath, Konstantin von 181

Night of the Long Knives 182

Normandy Landings 183

North Africa 183

Norway 185

Nuremberg Laws 185

Nuremberg Rallies 186

Nuremberg Trials 187

Officer Corps 189

Olympics 189

Opposition 191

Pact of Steel 195

Pan-Germanism 195

Panzer Divisions 196

Papen, Franz von 197

Paulus, Friedrich 198

Pavelic, Ante 198

Petain, Philippe 198

Phony War 199

Pius XII, Pope 199

Plebiscites 200

Poland 200

Press 201

Propaganda 203

Protestant Churches 205

Prussia 206

Public Opinion 206

Quisling, Vidkun 209

Racial Theory 211

Radio 212

Raeder, Erich 213

Raubal, Geli 213

Rauschning, Hermann 214

Rearmament 214

Red Army 215

Reich Chancellery 217

Reich Defense Council 217

Reich Food Estate 217

Reichsbanner 217

Reichstag 217

Reichstag Fire 218

Reparations 220

Resistance Movements 220

Rhineland 221

Ribbentrop, Joachim von 222

Riefenstahl, Leni 223

Rohm, Ernst 224

Romania 225

Rommel, Erwin 225

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 227

Rosenberg, Alfred 228

Ruhr 229

Rundstedt, Karl Rudolf Gerd von 230

Saarland 233

Sauckel, Fritz 233

Schacht, Hjalmar 234

Schirach, Baldur von 235

Schleicher, Kurt von 236

Schmidt, Paul Otto 236

Schonerer, Georg Ritter von 236

Schuschnigg, Kurt von 237

Schutzstaffel (SS) 238

Science and Scientists 240

Sealion, Operation 241

Sicherheitsdienst (SD) 241

Siegfried Line 242

Sobibor 242

Social Democratic Party (SPD) 243

Social Policy 243

Socialism 244

Sopade 245

Soviet Union 245

Spain 246

Speer, Albert 247

Stahlhelm 249

Stalin, Joseph 249

Stalingrad, Battle of 250

Stauffenberg, Claus Schenk, Graf von 252

Strasser, Gregor 253

Strasser, Otto 253

Streicher, Julius 254

"Strength through Joy," 255

Sturmabteilung (SA) 255

Sturmer, Der 257

Sudetenland 257

Swastika 258

Sweden 260

Switzerland 261

Teheran Conference 263

Theresienstadt 263

Thierack, Otto 263

Third Reich 264

Thyssen, Fritz 265

Tiso, Josef, Monsignor 265

Tito, Josip Broz 266

Tobruk, Battles of 266

Todt, Fritz 266

Todt Organization 267

Total War 267

Totenkopfverbande 267

Trade Policy 268

Trade Unions 268

Treblinka 269

Tripartite Pact 269

Turkey 269

U-boats 271

Ukraine 271

Unemployment 273

United States of America 274

Universities 275

Vergeltungswaffe (V1, V2) 277

Versailles, Treaty of 277

Vienna 278

Volkischer Beobachter 280

Volksdeutsche 281

Volksgemeinschaft 281

Volkssturm 282

Volkswagen 283

Voroshilov, Klement Efremovich 283

Waffen SS 285

Wagner, Richard 286

Wannsee Conference 287

War Crimes 287

Warsaw Ghetto 288

Warsaw Rising 289

Wehrmacht 289

Weichs, Maximilian Freiherr Von 290

Weimar Republic 291

Winterhilfe 292

Women 292

Working Class 294

World War I 295

Yalta Conference 299

Young Plan 299

Youth Policy 300

Yugoslavia 301

Zeitzler, Kurt von 303

Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich 303.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-344) and index.

ISBN:

0874369657

OCLC:

44818459