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warnings on Nazi Germany, 49–50, 61, on Jews, 3, 16, 19, 25, 28
123 meeting with Hitler, 27–28
Pinot, robert, 98 Mein Kampf dispatch, 26–29, 57
Planck, erwin, 18 racism central to Hitler’s political
plebiscite on saar, November 12, 1933, 109 outlook, 27
Popular Front, 142, 144 reappraisal of Nazism, 24–26
Price, Ward, 117 on simon, 54
Prittwitz und Gaffen, Friedrich Wilhelm
von, 153 sa (Sturmabteilung) or Brownshirts, 22,
Proclamation to the German People, 42, 73, 118
March 15, 1935, 42 saar region, 55, 119
purge of June 30, 1934 (Night of the sackett, Frederic, 146, 147, 150, 153–54
long Knives), 32, 35–36, 113–16 Hitler’s government, 155–56
Hitler’s intentions, 155–56
rath, ernst eduard vom, 76 Hitler’s personality, 148, 154
Rechtsstaat (state based on law), 96 Nazi anti-semitism, 170
redlich, Fritz, 206–7 sargent, Orme, 57, 80
referendum, November 1933, 161–62 saugon, Maurice-Joseph-lucien, 92
reichstag elections, 17, 21, 101, 102, 106, schacht, Hjalmar, 47, 155, 178
147, 148, 151, 153, 161 schickedanz, arno, 150–51
reichswehr (armed forces), 26, 42, 92, schleicher, Kurt von (general), 101, 114
114, 116 schmitt, Kurt, 108
remscheid (North rhine-Westphalia), Schwarze Korps, Das (ss newspaper),
184 192–93, 204
renondeau, Gaston (general), 118, 121–22 shephard, F. M., 65
reventlow, ernst von (Count), 102 sheppard, dick (Hugh richard lawrie
reynaud, Paul, 144 sheppard), 58–59
rhineland, 7, 44–46, 87–88, 124–25, 143 shirer, William i., 1, 4
ribbentrop, Joachim von, 87, 138 simon, John, 3, 24, 29, 52, 53–57, 60–61,
riefenstahl, leni, 43 120
rocque, François de la (colonel), 143 smallbones, robert t., 17, 48–49, 75–76
röhm, ernst, 35–36, 113–16 smith, alfred (governor), 103
roosevelt, Franklin d., 155, 174, 175, 192, social darwinism, 27
198, 199 social democratic Party, 158
downplayed danger of Nazism, 1933– Spectator, The, 6
38, 196 ss (Schutzstaffel) or Blackshirts, 22, 42,
on Kristallnacht, 193–94 118
recognized danger of Nazism late in stahlhelm, Bund der frontsoldaten, 158
1938, 196–97 stalin, Josef, 7
rosenberg, alfred, 38, 150 stimson, Henry, 147
rosenhain store, 186 stinnes, Hugo, 17
royal Flying Corps, 54 strasser, Gregor, 48
rumbold, Horace, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 75, streicher, Julius, 38, 122, 180, 199–200,
107 203
considered Hitler and leading Nazis strong, Charles H., 176–77
“not normal,” 27, 205 stroud, Wallace H., 197–98
Hitler sought “regime of brute force,” Stürmer, Der (newspaper), 189
26 stuttgart, 181–82