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Churchill, Winston
on AH threat
on AH transformation
Clemenceau, George, on Rhineland
Coburg, Nazi riot
Comines, List Regiment at
communists
lead outcry against war
revolutions destroyed by force
Congress of Vienna, and German Confederation
conservatism, social
Council of the People’s Deputies, Germany
Cox, Jo MP, murdered by neo-fascist
Czechs, Austria–Hungary
dancing, AH on
Danton, Georges Jacques
Daumiller, Oscar, on Ypres
de Gobineau, Arthur
de Gobineau, Arthur, influence on Mein Kampf
Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP; German Workers’ Party)
AH joins/galvanizes
Sterneckerbräu tavern meeting
AH early speeches
AH transforms into NSDAP ‘Nazi’ party
see also Nazi Party
Deutsche Werkgemeinschaft
Deutsches Volksblatt
‘Deutschlandlied’
Dickel, Dr Otto
‘Die Wacht am Rhein’
Dillon, Captain Harry, on Germans at Ypres
Dinant, civilian massacre
dispatch runner, AH as
Dix, Otto
Dolchstoss myth
see also ‘stab in the back’ theory
Döllersheim, Lower Austria
Dorpat, Dr Theo, on AH mental health
Downfall (film)
Drexler, Anton
and AH
founds DAP
Nazi party, 25-point Programme
My Political Awakening
placates AH
refuses to join Beer Hall Putsch
sidelined
Dreyfus affair
Dufter, Georg, AH denounces
Dutch Freedom Party
Eastern Europe, Jewish communities, persecution
Eberle, Henrik, and Neumann, Hans-Joachim, Was Hitler Ill?
Ebert, Friedrich
destroys communist revolution
president of Weimar Republic
Eckart, Dietrich
founds DAP
mentors AH
placates AH
economic injustice, Far Right movements exploit
Economist, the, regrets having to report Bannon
Eher Verlag
Eisner, Kurt
declares socialist state; assassinated
AH walks behind coffin
Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston, neo-fascist attack on
Engelhardt, Lt Col Philipp, AH helps to save
Enlightenment values, promoting/defending
Ensor, Sir Robert, Who Hitler Is
Ernst, Max
Erzberger, Matthias
peace initiative
Esser, Hermann
eugenics
Europe
in 1890s
workers’ movements
European Union, and European peace
Evans, Richard, Lying About Hitler …
Expressionism, Munich
Far Right
and mainstream politics
targets Muslim people
Feder, Gottfried
conspiracy theories
founds DAP
Ferguson, Niall, on WWI causes
Fest, Joachim
on AH
on AH’s first major speech
on Mein Kampf
Feuerbach, Anselm
Fischlham Volkschule
Flanders
AH arrives
German attack focus
Fleischmann, Justin, on List Regiment casualties
Foch, Marshal Ferdinand
on Flanders
on Passchendaele plan
Ford, Henry, and National Socialist finance
Forster, Professor Edmund
France
and Germany/Austria
and Scramble for Africa
forces exhausted
Jewish communities, persecution
Le Penists
occupies Ruhr valley
Franck, Hans, and DAP
Franco-Prussian War
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke
and Slavs
assassination
Frederick the Great
Freikorps paramilitary
Freinberg Hill, Linz
French, Field Marshal Sir John
Freud, Sigmund
Frick, Wilhelm, Beer Hall Putsch, arrested
Fromelles, Battle of
‘Führer vom Volk’ (‘Ruler of the People’) title
Galton, Francis, eugenics
Gemlich, Adolf, AH letter to
genocide, AH on
German Army
and Russian Army collapse
at Ypres
Belgium atrocities
civilian massacre as punishment
German Military Code
Langemarck, Battle of
Spring Offensive
surrender
see also List Regiment; specific battles
German Austrians
German identity, Bismarck and
German Socialist Party (Deutschsozialistische Partei; DSP)
German supremacists see Pan-Germanism
Germany
pre–
1890s economy
and Scramble for Africa
economic/political success
German Confederation
Imperial Germany, creation
prosperity
social welfare
suffrage
WWI, beginning
and Triple Entente (Britain, France, Russia)
and Russia
attitude to war
effects of war
Bethmann-Hollweg on
British naval blockade
continued to June 1919
civilian deaths from hunger
financial crisis
food/resource appropriation
public feeling
1918 strikes
mothers, anger
starvation/unrest
Versailles provisions
reparations contract
Ruhr valley, France and Belgium occupy
Weimar Republic
government emerges
Freikorps destroys communist revolution
orders Nazis disbanded
Gheluvelt
Gibbs, Philip, on demoralized Germans
‘Gilded Age’
Glaeser, Ernst, on German starvation
Godin, Police Lt Baron Michael von, halts Odeonsplatz march
Goebbels, Dr Joseph
on AH
propaganda
writes to AH in prison
Goldzier, Hans
Goltz, Field Marshal Colmar Freiherr von der, and Kriegsbrauch
Göring, Hermann
and Beer Hall Putsch
unable to control crowd
shot in leg
escapes
on AH
SA commander
Gough, General Sir Hubert
Greece, Golden Dawn [party]
Greiner, Helmuth, on AH character
Grey, Edward, on war declaration
Gropius, Walter
Grosz, George
Gumpendorferstrasse convent
Gutmann, First Lt Hugo
on AH as good soldier
AH lies about in
Häbel, Fusilier Guard, on British aircraft
Habsburgs
Haig, Field Marshal Sir Douglas
and Passchendaele disaster
‘backs to the wall’ order
Hamann, Brigitte, Hitler’s Vienna
Hanfstaengl, Ernst
on AH moustache
on AH sexuality
on AH speeches
Hanfstaengl family, and AH
Hanfstaengl, Helene
on AH sexuality
shelters AH after Beer Hall Putsch
Hanisch, Magdalena
Hanisch, Reinhold
AH orders killed
and AH destitution
and AH painting
on AH not anti-Semitic
Harari, Yuval Noah, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Harrer, Karl, founds DAP
Hašek, Jaroslav, The Good Soldier Švejk
Hastière, civilian massacre
Hausen, General Max von, Third Army
Häusler, Rudolf
on AH not anti-Semitic
with AH in Munich
Heiden, Konrad
on AH and Hess
on AH destitution
‘Heil Hitler!’ greeting begun
Henry le Despenser
Hepp, Ernst
AH letters to
and AH draft avoidance
Herrnstein, Richard, and Murray, Charles, The Bell Curve …
Hess, Rudolf
AH dictates Mein Kampf to
and AH
and Beer Hall Putsch
given 18 months
in Landsberg Prison
on AH stature in Landsberg
Heydrich, Reinhard, assassination
Hiedler (Hitler), Johann Georg
Himmler, Heinrich, and Röhm’s one-night pogrom
Hindenburg, General Paul von, Spring Offensive
Hitler, Adolf
opinions/motivations; general discussion
acted with worldwide appeasement/complicity
attempts to comprehend
influences
later apologists
medically normal and completely accountable
Mein Kampf see Mein Kampf
on genocide
on propaganda techniques
‘Table Talk’ monologues
specific opinions see below under specific life periods
birth/parentage/youth
family, and German identity
Jewish grandfather myth
childhood
and Catholic Church
and father
and Karl May novels
and mother
as bully
at school
adolescence facts suppressed
lottery incident
radical bohemian
and mother’s breast cancer
and mother’s death
appearance/personality, Kubizek on
eyes
verbal outbursts
in Vienna first visit
and Neumann
and Wagner operas
beginning Vienna life
finances
dabbling in arts
art & career hopes
sketch, ‘Our Bedroom’
fails Art Academy entrance
paintings/postcard sales
architecture
destitution
and Hanisch
later suppresses accounts
paints for living
paintings sold
in shelter celibacy
outbursts
political self-education
joins no party
reading habits
Germanic myths
on art of proper reading
pamphlets/ press
opinions not anti-Semitic
Jewish friends
no Art Academy connection
on own anti-Semitism
on Marxism
on poor working people
Pan-Germanism
‘Aryan’ race
and WWI
on Balkans
on Bismarck
leaves to avoid Austrian draft
in Munich
arrest and draft boards
painting sales
and Odeonsplatz demonstration
in List Regiment
on self and WWI beginning
and Amann
as dispatch runner
as good soldier
journey to Western Front
journey to Lille
arrives Flanders
and Frontschweine soldiers
at Fromelles
at Langemarck
effect of
later fantasy on battles
at First Ypres
at Fifth Ypres
awarded Iron Cross (2nd Class)
awarded Iron Cross (First Class)
belief in victory
exhilarated
by Spring Offensive plans
mustard gas poisoning
in Pasewalk hospital
promoted to Gefreiter ‘senior private’
rejoins List Regiment
successes
training
wounded at Somme
Fournes-en-Weppes, leisure time
fox terrier
leave in Germany
‘man of destiny’ self-portrayal
no letters from home
opinions
anti-Semitism post-
Christmas truce, disgusted by
learns from Goltz
on celibacy
German surrender
conspiracy ‘stab in the back’ theory
contempt for starving Germans
disgust at mass capitulation
on defeatists/enemies at home
reaction to Armistice
on war and Pasewalk transformation
poor health
unemployed veteran
and revolution, remains in barracks & harangues veterans
involvement with revolutionary communists
walks behind Eisner’s coffin
rejects Freikorps; joins Soldiers’ Council
abandons communists for far right
Reichswehr informer, ‘investigating commission’
and conspiracy theories
attends ‘national thinking’ courses
promoted to ‘Enlightenment Squad’
‘Enlightenment Squad’ instructor
anti-Semitic scapegoating
letter to Gemlich
on Jews responsible for Versailles provisions
sent to DAP meeting
joins/reorganizes DAP
DAP member
early speeches
as ‘avenger of Christianity’
first major speech
format/effect
scripts
Eckart protégé
plans state seizure/control
transforms into NSDAP ‘Nazi’ party
Nazi party member
25-point Programme
and Hess
anti-Semitism intensified
takeover
Circus Krone speech
storms out of Dickel meeting
to exterminate Marxist socialism
unknown outside Bavaria
vigilante justice vs democracy
Nazi party leader
‘Heil Hitler!’ greeting begun
addressed as ‘Führer’
and Ruhr valley French occupation
anti-Semitism consistent
attends brawls behind bodyguard
Beer Hall Putsch
launches
lies at launch
orders hostages taken
runs away from Odeonsplatz
arrested/imprisoned
trial, performance
given 5 years
character/image
and information
and women
childish sensitivity
develops image/appearance
mental health
perfects speaking style
physical health
sexuality
chooses swastika emblem
considers German state takeover
courts Munich society
imprisoned briefly
Kahr and
plans Mussolini-style March on Berlin
reorganizes party
threatens and waits
in Landsberg Prison
birthday gifts/letters
comfortable in
‘self-education’
vegetarian teetotal diet
visitors
writes Mein Kampf
released
Hitler, Alois (AH’s father)
and AH’s art ambitions
and anti-Semitism
death
father unknown
Hitler, Alois Jr
Hitler, Angela
Hitler, Edmund
Hitler, Klara (neé Pölzl; AH’s mother)
and AH art study plan
breast cancer, AH and
Hitler, Maria Anna (AH’s grandmother)
Hitler, Otto
Hitler, Patrick
Hitler, Paula
Hitlerputsch, Beer Hall Putsch
Ho Chi Minh
Hofbräuhaus, Munich
bomb
Nazi 25-point Programme introduced
Hofbräukeller beer hall, AH’s first major speech
Hoffman, Frau Carola, and AH
Hoffman, Josef
Honisch, Karl, on AH not anti-Semitic
Hopkins, Katie, on final solution
Hörbiger, Hanns, World Ice Theory
Hötzendorf, Count Conrad von, AH on
Huemer, Dr Eduard, on AH
Human Dignity Institute
Hungarians, Austria–Hungary
Huntington, Samuel P., The Clash of Civilisations
imperialism, new
inflation, AH blames Jews
Irving, David
Isak, Stefanie, AH obsessed with
Jawlensky, Alexej von
Jekelius, Erwin
Jewish people
as enemies at home, AH on
communities, persecution
Pan-Germanism and
soldiers
Vienna
not full suffrage
scapegoated by Lueger
see also anti-Semitism
Judaism, pseudo-scientific conflation with Marxism
Jünger, Ernst
Kahr, Gustav von
state commissar for Knilling
captured by Beer Hall Putsch rejects AH threats
secures city and declares coup over
Kaiserschlacht, Spring Offensive
Kampfbund, league of far-right militias
Kandinsky, Wassily
Keegan, John, on BEF at Ypres
Kershaw, Ian
on AH and hatred
on AH sightlessness reaction
on Alois Hitler
on Viennese Jews
Kiel Barracks, sailors’ mutiny
Kindermord bei Ypern
Kipling, John (son of Rudyard)
Klee, Paul
Klimt, Gustav, AH detests
Kluck, General Alexander von, First Army
on civilian massacre as punishment
Knilling, Eugen Ritter von
declares martial law
arrested
Kohlrübenwinter
Kokoschka, Oskar, AH detests
Körner, Oskar
Kriebel, Hermann, Kampfbund leader, in Landsberg Prison
Kriegsbrauch im Landkriege
Ku Klux Klan
Kubizek, August (‘Gustl’)
at Vienna Conservatory
The Young Hitler I Knew
on AH and celibacy
on AH and mother’s breast cancer
on AH not anti-Semitic
on AH reading
