Adolf Hitler's Table Talk-1941-1944

724 INDEX Atlantic Wall,

724 INDEX Atlantic Wall, 478 progress of, 611 Auer, Bavarian politician, 269 Australia, 301, 369 German emigrants to, 484 Austria, 27, 90, 106, 107, 109 Anschluss declarations, 402 Mussolini and Alfieri during, 417 security arrangements for Hitler, .452, .453 anti-Semitism :i-Semi' in, 146 architects, 206 army in igi^-iS war, 52 character of imperial, 234, 263 Czechoslovaks in imperial, 405 Dollfuss-Schuschnigg régime, 522 Empire, 46, 672, 705 entry in, 200 Gauleiters of, praised, 683 Hitler "killer of Austrians", 381 influence in old, 208 limitations of, 327 lotteries in, 364 mountains of, preferable to Swiss, 612 music in, 205, 206 religion in, 89 religious instruction in, 188 Rumania, relations with, 146 Vienna, diversity of races in, 47 charm of, 679, 709 greater than Paris, 98 Autobahn, 338, 339, 577 et seq., 707 air attack on, ineffectual, 580 conqueror's civilisation, 537 importance of, for linking peoples, 4 Todt, the creator of, 486 Axmann, Arthur, Reich Youth Leader, 462, 522 Backe, Herbert, Under-Secretary of State, Reich Peasant Leader, 657 Balbo, Italian Marshal, 613, 614 Baldwin, Earl, 103, 678 Ballerstedt, 262 Baltic States, characteristics of, 8 colonisation in, 16 Germans in, 649 no use for, 34 Russian invasion, reason, 22 Baltic, the, German "inland sea", 401, 629 Bank of International Settlement, 432 Bastian, 311 Baur, Captain, Hitler's flight captain, 177. 196, 197, 550 Bavaria, 403, 404 art in, 209 Bavaria (contd.) Crown Prince Rupprccht's offer to Hitler, 560 navy, representation in, 230 politicians in, 270 race in, 115 species improved by SS men, 434 Wehrmacht, tradition, 149 women in, 650 Bayreuth Festival, 348 et seq., 389, 478 Beaverbrook, Lord, 684, 685 Bechstein, Charlotte, family of piano manufacturer, Dietrich Eckart circle, 349 Beethoven, 183 Belgium, 278, 630 campaign in, 70 civil governor, choice of, 344 colonisation, 55 Degrelle, position of, in, 536 Flemish farmer, industry of, 616 girls, 695 King of the Belgians, 102, 345, 591 laceworkers of, 610 Walloons, 460 war, 1914-18, in, 29 Benes, 204, 235 Bergius process, 73 Berlichingen, Goetz von, 556, 557, 708 Berlin, 80, 81, set also Europe centre of autobahnen, 578 Europe, as centre of, 41 plans for, 45, 104, 668 renaming to "Germania" proposed, 523 spoilt by Kaiser, 680, 704, 705 Vienna and, 710 contrast, 47 world capital, 83, 361 Bernhard, Prince of the Netherlands, 591 Bertram, Cardinal Prince Bishop of Breslau, 521 Bhose, Chandra, 369 Bibelforscher, 519, 604 Bible, translation into German a mistake, 5*3 Bible Students, see Bibelforscher Bismarck, 20, 36, 81, 137, 283, 325, 382, 483, 523, 534, 541, 648 nun on, 646 Metternich and, 705 Bismarck, the, 708 Black market, 636 cases for leniency, 528, 529 Black Sea, economic interest in, 478 Blaschke, SS Colonel (Standart enfuehrer), Hitler's dentist, in, 114, 126, 139

Blitzkrieg, an Italian phrase, 172 Blomberg, General von, 633 appointment as War Minister, 498, 499 rearmament indiscretion, 432 Blue Division, 567, 570, see also Eastern Front, Grande, Spain Bock, von, painter, 542 Bode, Wilhelm von, Museums Director, 321 Bodenschatz, General, 544, 565 Bötticher, Friedrich von, General, German Military Attaché in Washington, 489 Bolshevism, see also Communism Christianity's illegitimate child, 7, 75,88 German culture, danger to, 89 intelligentsia, mistake in connection with, by, 17 materialist conception, weakness of, 89 Moscow must disappear as centre of, 5 social equality of the masses, 20 victory of, would destroy laughter, 322 Boris, Tsar of Bulgaria, 389, 391, 396, 418, 630 Bormann, Martin, Head of Party Chancellery, 203, 207, 319, 364, 37.9, 536, 565, 594, 637 bogus inventions, on, 598 books lent to Hitler, 548, 603 channel for Hitler's orders, 456 Church in France, on, 606 collection of photographs, 592 education, views on, 395 food controls, on, 530 Forster's views on Poles opposed, 473 Himmler, criticism of, 401, 402 Jews and Christianity, on, 722 Lauterbacher, praise of Gauleiter, 462 Linz, 445 Mussolini, comment on, 460 propagandist praised, 533 records of table-talks suggested by, xii, xiii shows photographs of paintings, 602 Spain, on, 515 Table Talk editor, 401, 469 temporary appointment, on, 461 tour of collective farms, 587 Warthegau, on shortage of teachers in, 525 Bouhler, Philipp, head of Hitler's Party Chancellery (Reichsleiter), "42, «45 INDEX 725 Bourgeoisie, 108 contempt for, 484 Jews, sympathy with, 134 misplaced compassion for Jews, 397 Saxony, in, 20 stupidity of, 20, 107 Brahms, composer, 205 Brauchitsch, General, von, 186, 526 Brazil, 399, 692 Breker, Arno, Professor, architect and sculptor, 72 Britain, see England Brown House, raid on, 292 Bruckmann, Elsa, wife of German publisher, early supporter of Hitler, 294, 359 Bruckner, Wilhelm, SA Colonel General (Obergruppenfuehrer), 95 Bruning, German Chancellor, 270, 382 Budapest, beauty of, 656, 668 Buddha, 514 Bulgaria, 114, 235, see also Boris, Ferdinand Germany's relations with, 629, 630 Tsar, 389 Turkey, ally against, 378, 621 Bürckel, Josef, Gauleiter of Westmark, 471, 622, 623 Bureaucracy, abuse of central government, 457 administrative reform, 237, 238 criticism of Ministries of Interior and Propaganda, 103, 104, 455 Foreign Minister criticised, 101 grading of officials, 653 need of decentralisation, 129 shortcomings of, 18 BurgdorfF, General, chief military ADC to Hitler, 722 Busch, Fritz, conductor, 321 Cameroons, 74 Canada, 369 Canaris, Admiral, head of intelligence to High Command of the Army, 569 Cannae, 25 Capitalism, 22 Carol, King of Rumania, 14 Catholicism, see also Religion business acumen mixed with hypocrisy, 419 priests and nuns, 91 selection of, 109 protestantism contrasted, 89, 142,218 Chamberlain, Eva, 359 Chamberlain, H. S., 144 Chamberlain, Neville, 103, 184, 254, 678 "missed the bus" statement, 631