Hitler's Spy Chief (46 page)

Faupel, Lieutenant General Wilhelm
130
,
131

Filoff (Bulgarian prime minister)
217

Finland
167
,
185
,
206
,
217
,
220

First World War

South Atlantic operations
28–43

German intelligence service
44–59

U-boat operations
49–50
,
51–2
,
53

Mediterranean theatre
49–50
,
57–8

germ warfare proposals
58–9

Fisher, Admiral Sir John ‘Jackie'
33
,
34
,
35
,
37
,
43

Fleming, Ian
244

Florence summit
207

Foreign Ministry
107–8

France
30

view of Germany
87
,
146

and the Spanish Civil War
121
,
122
,
127
,
133–4

and Czechoslovakia crisis
164

fall of
190–92

Franco, General Francisco
21
,
296

meetings with Canaris
121
,
127–31

Canaris on
123

character
123

British aid to
125–6

and anti-Semitism
129–30

reprisals against communists
129

and France
133–4

and German aid
126
,
130
,
133

and Gibraltar
196–200
,
201

Franco-Prussian War
45
,
48

‘Franz Josef'
226
,
228

Franz-Josef, Emperor
49

Freikorps
75

Freisler, Roland
18

Fricke, Carlos (Fernando)
51
,
85

Frisia,
the
43

Fritsch, Colonel-General Werner
124
,
142

Funchal
50

Funk, Eberhard
134

Furstenberg prison
285–6

Gehlen, General Reinhard
26
,
292

Genoa
56

Germany

origin of intelligence service
44–5

First World War intelligence operations
46–58

blockade of
58

revolution
72–6

rearmament
82–7
,
94
,
95
,
116–7
,
146

intelligence services
107

support for Franco
121–4

aid to Franco
126
,
130
,
133

relations with Soviet Union
138–9

secret training treaty
138–9

rapprochment with the Soviet Union
165–7

breakdown of relations with the Soviet Union
205–9

peace proposals to the Soviet Union
251–5
,
261
,
294

nuclear weapons programme
257–8

Catholic underground
279
,
294

Keynes on
291–2

partition of
296

Gessler, Otto
79
,
89

Gestapo
18
,
102
,
227
,
228
,
229
,
275

Gibraltar
21
,
51
,
219
,
255

siege plans
196–201

Giraud, General Henri
245–6
,
251

Gisevius, Hans Bernd
230
,
262

Giskes, Herman
282

Glasgow,
HMS
28–9
,
32–3
,
35
,
37
,
38–41

Gleiwitz, attack on radio station
171

Gneisenau,
the
32
,
39

Godfrey, Admiral (Naval Intelligence director)
167
,
244–5

Goerdeler, Carl
269–70

Goering, Hermann
92
,
122–4
,
125
,
146

Gomez-Beare, Commander Don
244

Good Hope
38

Graf Spee,
the
96

Great Britain

alliance with Russia and France
30

intelligence service
44–5
,
94–5
,
170

and the occupation of the Rhineland
118

and the Spanish Civil War
121
,
125–6
,
127

failure to see Hitler's ambition
146–7

and the Czech crisis
150–51
,
154–5
,
157–61

Kleist-Schmenzin's visit 151–5,
159
,
162

support for Poland
164
,
172

Abwehr operations against
167–8
,
170
,
173–5

foreign policy
168–9
,
171

rearmament
168

philo-German domination of intelligence services
169–70

declaration of war
175

bribes sent to Spanish leaders
201–3

GRU makes contact with
204–5

support for Yugoslavia
210–11

culpability
216–7

Hess peace terms
216

Soviet penetration of intelligence service
247
,
293

Anglo-Soviet relations
248–9
,
252
,
295–6

reconstruction arrangements for Eastern Europe
273

Greece
207–8

Grey, Sir Edward
39
,
70

Groener, General
89

Gross Born
142–3

Grosscurth, Major Helmuth
111

Grosse, Willi
106

GRU (Soviet military intelligence)
204–5

Guillermo, Juan (Canaris alias)
121
,
134

Haag, Inge
98

Hague, the
170

Halder, General Franz
155–7
,
172

Halder Plot, the
156–7
,
158
,
159–60
,
161

Halifax, Lord
146–7
,
150–51
,
154
,
158
,
168
,
171
,
175

Hall, Admiral William Reginald ‘Blinker'
27
,
38
,
39
,
43
,
54
,
57
,
58
,
67

Hankey, Maurice
39

Hassell, Christian von
110
,
178
,
212
,
213
,
214
,
216

Helldorf, Count
156

Hendaye
21
,
196–7
,
198–9
,
296

Henderson, Neville
157–8
,
159
,
161
,
162
,
172

Henhoeffer, William E.
241

Hess, Rudolf
216
,
219
,
220

Hewett Bay
36

Heydrich, Reinhard

meets Canaris
81

naval career
81–2

relationship with Canaris
81–2
,
98–9
,
140–1
,
225–6
,
227
,
229
,
231
,
237

head of the SD
95–6

and Patzig
96–8

Canaris' opinion of
99

agrees the Ten Commandments
110

and the Tuchachewski affair
140–41

on Canaris
142

intrigues against generals
142

Jewish background
224–5

appointed acting protector
226–7

and Czechoslovakia
226–8

and the Thummel case
228–9

and the Prague conference
231–2

assassination of
24
,
234–9

reprisals for assassination
238–9

Hill, Edith
49

Hillgarth, Commander Alan
201–2
,
203

Himmler, Heinrich
23
,
98
,
108
,
198
,
227
,
228
,
230–1
,
253
,
263
,
278
,
282
,
284–6

Hindenburg, Field Marshal Paul von
78

Hisma (Hispano-Marroqui Transport Company)
125

Hitler, Adolf
81

visit to Wilhelmshaven
91–2

obsession with British secret service
94

Berlin Opera House speech
103

meetings with Canaris, 1934
105–7

occupation of the Rhineland
118

and Franco
21
,
122–4
,
128
,
136
,
196–7
,
199
,
200

and the secret training treaty
138

and the Tuchachewski affair
140–41

Gross Born speech
142–3

determination to go to war
145–6

and the invasion of Austria
148

and Czechoslovakia
149
,
155
,
159

the Halder Plot
156–7
,
159–60
,
161

and Chamberlain
159–61

and the Munich agreement
164

and the invasion of Poland
171
,
172

Elser assassination attempt
176

and the invasion of Norway
184–5

and Gibraltar
196–7
,
199
,
200

Directive Number
21
208

and Yugoslavia
214

and Russian involvement in Yugoslavia
215–6

Britain's culpability
216–7

and the Soviet Union
221

appoints Heydrich acting protector
226–7

orders assassination of Giraud
246

peace proposals to the Soviet Union
251–2
,
294

orders assassination of Churchill
263

Treskow assassination attempt
264

and von Papen
268

attempt to abduct the Pope
272
,
276–7

and the Italian surrender
276

subordinates Abwehr to Himmler
281–2

Stauffenberg bomb plot
17
,
284

medical records
286

orders execution of conspirators
288–9

Hoare, Sir Samuel
213
,
218–9

Hoeppner, General
156

Hoffmann, Alfredo
100

Hoffmann, General von
75

Hohenlohe, Prince Max
263–4

Hohenlohe, Stefanie
150

Holland
170
,
176–7
,
187
,
191
,
241–2
,
292

Hossbach, Colonel Friedrich
146

Hossbach conference, 1937
145–6

Howard, Leslie
263

Huerta, President
70

Hungarian military intelligence service
117
,
139
,
275

Hungary
164

Huppenkothen, Dr Walther
224
,
286
,
289

Imperial German Navy
29–30
,
31–2
,
60
,
66–7
,
72–4

Imperial Naval Academy
67

Inflexible,
HMS
35

Ino, Baron
114

Institut für Zeitgeschichte
21

International Brigade, Spanish Civil War
127–8
,
133

Invincible,
HMS
32

IRA (Irish Republican Army)
173

Iraq
174

Istanbul
68–70
,
204–5
,
265
,
273
,
279–81

Italo-German alliance
132

Italy
94
,
117

declares war on Germany, 1915
49

aid to Franco
126

alliance with Germany
132

and the Spanish Civil War
132–3

surrender
274–5
,
276–8

Japan
83–4
,
139
,
251
,
254

Jewish deportations
228

Jodl, General Alfred
148
,
185

John, Otto
213
,
219

Jordana, General Gomez Count
88

Juan Fernandez
38

Kaas, Cardinal
189

Kalle, Major
50

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
275
,
282
,
288

Kapp, Wolfgang
78–9

Keitel, General Wilhelm
148
,
170–71
,
178
,
208
,
221
,
263

Kell, Vernon
170
,
173

Kent,
HMS
37
,
39
,
40

Kent, Tyler
174–5

Kessel (German diplomat)
270

Keynes, John Maynard
291–2

Kiel
49
,
59

naval mutiny
60
,
72–4

restoration of normality
79–80

Kindelan, Colonel Alfredo
88

Klaus, Edgar
252–4