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Brandt, Dr Karl 171

Czechoslovakia 3, 105

Bratislava 261

Occupation of 131–4

Brauchitsch, Walther von 143, 146, 147–8

see also
Communist Party of

holds talks with Himmler 157

Czechoslovakia; Hitler, Adolf; Prague;

Brazil 282

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Brecht, Bertolt xiii, 282

Czerny, Carl 21

Brest-Litovsk 27

Brno

Dachau 68–9, 70, 79, 103, 109, 121,

see
Brünn

132, 169

Brod, Max 264

Austrian Jews sent to 124

Bromberg 142, 143–4, 146

Daladier, Edouard 132

Bruckner, Anton 269, 270

Dalton, Hugh 2, 4

Brüning, Heinrich 45, 60

Daluege, Kurt 12, 120, 137, 143, 165, 169,

Brünn 219, 230, 240, 259

173, 187, 194

Brussels 176

Heydrich contacts 64–5

Buchenwald 69, 109, 169

Dannecker, Theodor 99, 183, 261–2

Bühler, Josef 210–11, 213–14

Danzig xiv, 135, 151, 159

Bürckel, Joseph 121, 122

–West Prussia 150, 151–2, 155

Burckhardt, Carl Jacob xiv, 89, 106–7

Darré, Walther 59, 188

Burgenland 124

Darwin, Charles 59

Burgsdorff, Kurt von 241

Denmark 15, 173, 231, 271

Bydgoszcz

Deschner, Günther xvi

see
Bromberg

Dollfuss, Engelbert 120

Dresden 16

Calic, Eduard xvi

Dynów 143

Canaris, Erika 37, 112

Canaris, Wilhelm 37, 85–6, 112,

Eberstein, Elise von 47

177, 272

Eberstein, Karl von 31, 47, 48, 50, 52

relationship with Heydrich 118, 145, 273

Eberstein, Major von 47

Catholic Church 101–5

Eckart, Count Du Moulin 55, 60

Central Leadership of Home Resistance

Ecuador 178

(ÚVOD) 3, 7–9, 220, 228–9, 285

Eden, Anthony 283

Central Office for Emigration (UWZ) 151,

Edrich, Viktoria 57

252

Eichmann, Adolf xiv, xv, 90, 99, 122, 154,

Central Office for Immigration (EWZ) 151,

166, 178, 202–3, 256, 259

252

background 100

Central Office for Jewish Emigration

Central Office for Jewish Emigration

in Prague 157, 203–4, 257

(Vienna) run by 124–5, 128–9

in Vienna 125, 129–30

Höppner writes to 200

Reich 129, 130, 211

involvement in implementing Holocaust

Chamberlain, Houston Stewart 93

260

Chamberlain, Neville 132, 133

Jewish deportations and 157–8, 159, 183,

Chelmno 207, 208, 261

274

Churchill, Winston 4, 177

Madagascar plan and 180, 181

Colijn, Hendrikus 221

made special adviser to Heydrich 159

Colombia 178

meets with Heydrich in Prague 204

Columbia-Haus 109

role in Prague 220

Committee of the Petition (PVVZ) 220

visits Near East 100–1

INDEX

385

Wannsee Conference and 209, 210,

Gercke, Achim 61

212, 216

German Nationalist Protection and Defiance

Eicke, Theodor 68–9, 79, 109, 169

League 37

Eliáš, Alois 219, 228–9, 253, 285

Germany

Elser, Georg 168

First World War and 25–6, 27–8, 32

Epp, Franz Ritter von 65, 70

Imperial 248

Eppstein, Paul 203

Wilhelmine 14–15, 23–4

Erzberger, Matthias 36

see also
individual entries

Esterwegen 109

Gestapo 77, 78, 125, 177, 260

–army relations 117–18

Falkenhausen, Alexander von 176

Austrian invasion/Anschluss and 120–1,

Fasch, Carl Friedrich Christian 19

123–4

Fehmarn 39–40, 110, 136, 290

churches and 103–4, 105

Ferdinand, Archduke Franz 25

Freemasons and 106

Ferdinand II, Emperor 267

Heydrich assumes control of 76

Fest, Joachim xv–xvi

in Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Fey, Emil 120

227, 228, 280–1, 283–5

Filbert, Alfred 198

in RSHA 166–7

Fischer, Ferdinand 254

Jews and 95, 97

Flossenbürg 85, 109, 169

role 85, 86, 91, 92

Flotow, Friedrich von 16

von Fritsch case and 116–18

Forster, Albert 151–2, 154

see also
SD

France 15, 99, 105, 132, 231, 272

Gandhi, Mohandas K. (Mahatma) 248

invaded/occupied 175, 176–7

Gies, Robert 275

Jewish deportations from 261, 274, 287

Gleiwitz 138

see also
Alsace; Madagascar; Paris

Globocnik, Odilo 206, 207, 261, 263

Frank, Hans 180, 210–11, 213, 216, 262

Goebbels, Joseph 41, 53–4, 92, 95, 103, 117,

see also
Göring, Hermann

131, 209, 233, 249, 260, 269, 278

Frank, Karl Hermann 11–12, 223, 224, 246,

advocates marking Jews 202

275, 280, 283

campaign against religious schools 104

background 225–6

establishes Protectorate policies with

Frass, Georg 232

Heydrich 264

Freemasons

instigates Kristallnacht 126, 130

Heydrich and 106–7

meets with Heydrich 224

Freikorps 28, 29, 30–1, 36, 51, 53, 65, 132,

on Austrian invasion 121

136, 152

praises Heydrich efforts in Protectorate

Freisler, Dr Roland 210

241–2, 244

Frey, Martin 26

response to Heydrich attack/death 11, 13,

Frick, Wilhelm 84, 86, 87, 97

280, 281, 287

Frisch, Capt. von 118

Gorazd, Bishop 285

Fritsch, Werner von 84, 85

Göring, Hermann xiii, 63, 65, 75–6, 110,

Heydrich involvement in case against

119, 121, 145, 154, 176, 179, 180, 182,

116–18

186, 210, 235, 291

Fuchs, Wilhelm 206

devises marriage guidelines 215

Funk, Walther 117, 234

Four Year Plan directed by 155, 188

Frank seeks help of 160–1

Gabčík, Josef 6–7, 8, 9–10, 236, 284, 285

makes Heydrich director of Foreign

Galicia 125

Currency Investigation Agency 94–5

Galton, Francis 59

meets with Heydrich 183–4, 197

Gebhardt, Prof. Karl 11

on Jewish policy 129–30

General Government 150, 153, 157, 180,

Polish decrees of 170

183, 202, 210, 231, 258

von Fritsch affair and 116–17

deportation of Jews/Gypsies to 159–61,

Great Britain 99, 132, 135, 177, 181,

171, 182, 208

247–8

extermination sites 262

see also
London

see also
Aktion Reinhardt; Bühler, Dr

Greece 186

Josef; Frank, Hans

Gregory, Baron Dr Karl von 263–4

386

INDEX

Greiser, Arthur 207, 223, 252, 253

Heydrich, Lina xviii, 1, 36, 55, 61, 109,

Groscurth, Lt. Col. Helmuth 145

138–9, 198–9, 206, 226, 231, 243,

Gross-Rosen 168

270, 273, 276

Grynszpan, Esther 126

anti-Semitism of 93

Grynszpan, Herschel 126

becomes engaged 43

Grynszpan, Mordechai 126

dislike for Margarete Himmler

Grynszpan, Rivka 125

60, 111

Grynszpan, Sendel 125–6

early life 39–40

Günther, Hans (SS officer) 257

gives birth 82, 83, 113, 289

Günther, Hans (university professor) 93

learns of Heydrich’s move to

Gürtner, Franz 97

Prague 225

Gustloff, Wilhelm 100

life as a widow 289–91

marriage difficulties 112–13

Hácha, Emil 219, 236, 239, 242, 253, 280

marries Heydrich 57–8

acknowledges Protectorate as part of

moves to Munich 59–60

Reich 265

moves to Prague 232

see also
Beneš, Edvard; Hitler, Adolf

on Heydrich gaining power 65–6

Haganah 99–100

politics of 41, 42, 47–8

Hagen, Herbert 99, 100–1, 122, 128, 178

post-war recollections 44–5, 46, 49, 57,

Halder, Gen. Franz 137, 142, 145, 157

103, 110, 112

Halle xvii, xviii, 22, 26, 37, 61

Heydrich, Maria 21, 45, 81, 114–15

Conservatory 14, 20, 23, 33, 80, 82, 114,

Heydrich, Marte 289

138, 270

Heydrich, Reinhard 1, 291–4

Heydrich family moves to 18–19

acquires ‘ethnic reordering’

Heydrich stops visiting 82

responsibilities 151

revolutionary events in post-First World

anti-Semitism of 93

War 28–31

asocials and 107–8

see also
Heydrich, Bruno; Heydrich,

at ‘Old Fighters’ meeting 126

Elisabeth

attitude to theft 144–5

Hamburg 54–5

Austrian invasion/Anschluss and 118–19,

Händel, Georg Friedrich 18

120–5

Hansen, Adm. Gottfried 44

bans Jews from shopping 171

Harster, Wilhelm 221

Battle of Britain and 177

Hartl, Albert 103

becomes engaged 43

Heimwehren
120

birth 14, 21

Heindorf, Wolfgang 45, 81, 114–15

Bromberg massacre and 142

Held, Heinrich 66

churches and 101–5

Henlein, Konrad 226

commemoration of 279–80

Hess, Rudolf 92, 103, 222

concentration camps and 109, 169

Heydrich, Bruno 14, 34, 106, 270

economic thinking 234–5

faces bankruptcy/ruin 45–6, 80–2

education 23–4

labelled Jewish 26–7, 61

excursion to Russian front 196–7

life in Halle 18–21, 22–4, 25, 27, 32–3

family life/difficulties 109–11, 112–13,

musical career 15–17

114–15

nature of 17–18

First World War and 25–6

politics of 26, 28

funeral 278–9

Heydrich, Carl Julius Reinhold 15

ideology 196, 233, 238

Heydrich, Elisabeth 14, 34, 47

in hospital/death 10–11, 13

death 290

inspection tour of Poland 143, 145

faces bankruptcy/ruin 45, 80–3

interest in recruitment/training 90

life in Halle 20, 21, 22–3, 25, 27, 32

interest in sport/exercise 22, 35, 38, 74,

nature of 17–18

231–2

religion of 21–2

introduced to Nazism 41–2

Heydrich, Ernestine Wilhelmine 15

involvement in implementing Holocaust

Heydrich, Heider 1, 83, 233, 290

260–3

Heydrich, Heinz Siegfried 26, 45, 289–90

issues ‘Principles of Inner State Security

Heydrich, Klaus 1, 77, 82, 289

during the War’ 162

INDEX

387

Jewish question/problem and 92–101, 102,

Epp appoints 65

153–7, 159–60, 178–84, 197–8, 204–7,

first meets Heydrich 24, 49, 50–2

208, 210–14, 216, 274, 293

gives Heydrich Luftwaffe permission 174

Kristallnacht and 126–9, 130

/Heydrich concerned about mental health

leadership style 73–4, 137, 190

of men 199

learns of family financial difficulties

/Heydrich expel/plan to eliminate Jews

81–2

126, 195

meets future wife 39, 40–1

/Heydrich extend influence 70–1, 75–6,

musical training/inclinations 21, 36, 37

77–8, 86–7, 89

naval career/dismissal 33–9, 43–5

/Heydrich prepare for Soviet Union

Norway campaign and 174–5

campaign 187–8

on education 113–14

Heydrich recommended to 48

on enemies of Germany/Nazism 88–9,

/Heydrich supervise Elser investigations

91–2, 106, 107

168

on
Mischling/Mischlinge
214–15, 257

/Heydrich tour eastern territories 190–1

orders investigation of new murder

inspection tours 143, 196

techniques 200

Jewish question/problem and 126, 178–9,

plans to assassinate 2, 4–7, 8–10

184–5, 198, 206–7, 209, 211, 214

plans/directs Czechoslovakia operations

leadership style 74, 109

131–2, 134

meets with Frank 160–1

politicization 31–2

meets with Globocnik 206

recognises different nature of Poland

meets with Heydrich and Hitler 260, 263

campaign 148–9

neo-paganism of 102–3

response to resistance 221–2, 271–2

on education 267

responsible for Jewish emigration 130

on Jewish emigration/deportations

revolutionary events of 1918–19 and

205, 223–4

29–32

order on Gypsies 258

rumoured to be Jewish xv, xviii, 15, 26–7,

orders Heydrich to Berlin 63

36–7, 50, 61–2

orders Meyer plan 249

scholarship on xiv-xvii

political awakening 30, 50–1

searches for new career 46–7

promotes Heydrich 58

threats against his life/personal security

provides loan to Heydrich 110

276–7

racial concepts of 58–9

vision for RSHA 163, 165, 166–7

relationship with Heydrich 50, 52–3, 90,

Western Europe plans/campaign and

95, 111, 197, 198–9, 225

173–4, 175–7, 178

resettlement programme/plans

writes testament 138–9

158–9, 288

see also
Aktion Reinhardt; Reinhard

response to Heydrich attack/death 11, 13,

Heydrich Foundation;
and
individual

280, 286, 287

entries

speech at Heydrich funeral 278–9

Heydrich, Reinhold Otto 15

suspects military 84, 85

Heydrich, Richard 15

‘Swing Kids’ and 169

Heydrich, Silke 1, 113