The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (263 page)

Slovakia,
358–59
,
421
,
429
,
437–43
,
449
,
450–51
,
460
,
519
,
626
,
911
,
956

Smigly-Rydz, Marshal Edward,
458–59
,
583
,
601

Smith, Capt. Truman,
46
fn
.

Smith, Gen. Walter Bedell,
1106
,
1138–39

Smolensk,
853
,
856
,
859
,
1006
,
1014
,
1019
,
1022
,
1052

Snow, C. P.,
784

Social Democrats; Austrian,
18
,
22
,
42
,
325
fn
.,
334
,
337
fn
.,
350

Social Democrats, (Socialists), German,
31
fn
.,
32–34
,
37
,
40
,
55
96
fn
.,
126
,
129
,
137
,
138
,
153
,
155–57
,
160
,
165
,
166
,
172
,
174
,
178–79
,
181
,
185
,
186
,
190
,
194
,
195
,
196
,
198–99
,
201
,
210
,
231
,
237
,
1044
; proclaim Republic,
52
; make deal with Army,
53–55
,
60–61
; largest party in nation,
55–56
,
95
,
112
,
118
; party dissolved,
201

Socialists, Left,
52

Soissons,
1039

Sola airfield, Norway,
702

Sola river, Poland,
971

“Soldiers’ Councils,”
34
,
54

Solf. Anna,
1025

Somme river,
30
,
727
,
728
,
732
,
737
,
738
,
759

Sondergericht,
see
Special Court

Sonderkommando
,
970

Song of the Nibelungs
(Mell),
102

Sonnenburg,
491

South Africa,
957

Soviet Congress of Germany,
54

Soviet Union,
54
,
57
,
150
,
209
,
232
,
280
,
282
,
299
,
306
,
307
,
353
,
455
,
470
,
550
fn
.,
711
fn
.,
752
,
771
,
783
,
822
,
827
,
829
,
843
,
1033
,
1044
,
1070
,
1098
,
1104
,
1116–17
; Hitler’s aims toward,
82–84
,
299
,
383
,
426
,
464
,
669
,
774
,
785
,
795–99
,
810–13
,
818
,
821
,
822
,
829
,
830
,
837–47
,
849–50
,
871
,
873–79
; France, pact and relations with,
285
,
290–91
,
295
,
354
,
389
,
390
,
392
,
404
,
427
; German–Czech issue, policy on,
285
,
346
,
354
,
361
,
362
,
364–68
,
376
,
377
,
383
,
389
,
390
,
392
,
404
,
409
; collective security, talks with Britain and France,
353
,
460
,
479
,
489–92
,
495–96
,
500–4
,
506
,
521
,
523
,
525
,
531
,
533–38
,
541
,
542
,
610
; Poland, relations with,
377
,
458
,
459
,
461
,
464
,
468
,
478
,
482
,
485
,
513–16
,
521–22
,
533–38
(
see also
invasion of Poland,
below);
excluded from talks on Czechosl., Poland,
404
,
409
,
419
,
427
,
465
fn
.,
466
,
478
,
481
,
489
; rapprochement with Germany, talks on trade and Poland,
476–77
,
480–82
,
489–96
,
500–3
,
505–7
,
508
fn
.,
510–12
,
553
,
556
,
560
,
617
,
620–22
,
626–31
,
639–41
,
645
,
657
,
666–70
,
674
,
687
,
695
fn
.,
747
,
794–96
,
800–5
,
808–10
,
839–40
,
842
,
844
(
see also
Nazi–Soviet Pact); and Baltic States,
495
,
501
,
502
,
515
,
521
,
534
,
539
,
541
,
542
,
544
,
630–32
,
657
,
665–66
,
668
,
683
,
747
,
793–94
,
797
,
801
; relations with Japan,
521
,
522
,
876–77
,
878
,
886
,
890–92
,
895
; invasion of Poland,
626–32
,
641
; war against Finland,
665–66
,
676
,
683
,
806
; activity in Balkans,
747
,
800–3
,
805–7
,
817
,
839
,
841
; German war against,
847–48
,
853–54
,
857
,
859–63
,
870
,
880
,
886
,
901
,
910
,
1010–11
,
1017
fn
.,
1018
,
1139
; German occupation of,
830–34
,
843
,
846
,
851
,
854
,
915
,
937
,
939
,
940
,
943–44
,
947–48
,
950
,
954
,
955
,
957
,
958
,
962–66
,
979
,
993
,
1029
,
1139
; Italy declares war on,
851
;
see also
Russian Air Force; Russian Army

Spa, Germany,
54
,
59
,
153
,
1092

Spaak, Paul-Henri,
672
,
713–14

Spain,
281
; civil war,
297–301
,
304
,
307
,
373
,
419
,
566
,
814
; and World War II,
529
,
642–43
,
785–89
,
791
,
792
,
814
,
817
,
819
,
850
,
911

Spandau,
1066

Spartacists,
52
,
54–55
;
see also
Communists in Germany

Special Court (Sondergericht),
239
,
269
,
270

Speer, Albert,
947
fn
.,
1087
,
1097
,
1098
,
1103–4
,
1111
fn
.,
1117–18
,
1126
,
1142–43

Speidel, Gen. Hans,
1031–32
,
1037
,
1038
,
1039
,
1040
,
1041
,
1042
,
1047
,
1075
,
1076–77
,
1079
,
1085
fn
.,
1086
,
1088

Spender, Stephen,
784

Spengler, Oswald,
61
,
208

Sperrle, Field Marshal Hugo,
325
,
755
fn
.,
775

Spiller, Captain,
703
,
704

Spital,
7
,
8
,
9
,
14
,
23

Spitfires (Br. fighter planes),
736
,
775
,
776
,
913

Sponeck, Gen. Count Hans von,
865–66
,
903

Sportpalast, Berlin,
157
,
207
,
237
,
396
,
397–98
,
407
,
415
,
643
,
779–80

Spree river,
1137

S.S. (Schutzstaffel), Blackshirts,
143–45
,
160
,
202
fn
.,
205
,
255
,
263
,
269
,
276
,
301
,
348
fn
.,
352
,
369
,
372
,
444
,
461–62
,
1023
,
1055
,
1114
,
1121
,
1122
,
1126
,
1127
,
1129
,
1136–37
,
1141
; organization of,
120–21
,
148
,
270
,
273
; control police,
191
,
274
; conflict with Army,
214
,
226
,
315
,
317
,
355
,
660
,
1024
; role in Roehm purge,
215
,
220
,
222
,
224
,
226
; atrocities,
271
,
272
,
351
,
430
,
659–64
,
834
,
934
,
937–38
,
947
,
953
,
965–68
,
971
,
973–78
,
980–81
,
983–86
,
990
,
1029
(
see also
concentration camps;
and see names of individual occupied countries);
and anti-Hitler plotters,
374
,
670
,
1031
,
1034
,
1035
,
1057
,
1060–61
,
1063–66
,
1068
,
1073–75
,
1077
; in Czechoslovakia,
388
,
449
,
991
; Polish border “incident,”
518–19
,
595
,
599
; Venlo incident,
652–55
; and Britain occupation plan,
782–85
; rescues Mussolini,
1003–4
; arrests Goering,
1118

Security Service,
see
S.D.

Standarte
89
,
279

Waffen S.S.,
976
,
1015
,
1121

Waffen S.S. units:

1st S.S. Armored (Panzer) Corps,
1005
,
1095
fn
.

1st S.S. Panzer Div.,
1095
fn
.

Sixth S.S. Panzer Army,
1095
fn
.

12th S.S. Panzer Div.,
1038

Bodyguards (
Leibstandarte
),
553
,
664
,
905
,
1005
,
1040
fn
.,
1049
,
1051

Das Reich Div.,
993

Panzer Lehr Div.,
1038

Staatspartei,
see
Democratic Party

Stachiewicz, General,
536
,
537

Stadelheim prison, Munich,
221
,
222
fn
.

Stahlecker, Franz,
962

Stahlhelm,
154
,
157
,
191

Stalin, Joseph,
276
,
427
,
476–80
,
496
,
513
,
514–15
,
522
,
526
,
657
,
689
,
821
,
839
,
845
,
852
fn
.,
855
,
939
,
1029
; German pact, trade negotiations,
526–28
,
531
,
535
fn
.,
540
,
538–44
,
549
,
562
,
630–32
,
665
,
667–70
,
799
,
800
,
803
,
804
fn
.,
805
,
809–10
,
839–44
; warned by West of German attack,
544
fn
.,
796
,
843
; invasion of Poland,
628–32
; operations in Baltic and Balkan states,
665
,
793–95
,
797
; suspicious of British,
835
,
837–38
; takes over as Prime Min.,
841
; signs neutrality pact with Japan,
876
; war leadership,
909
,
917
,
995
,
996
,
1033
,
1097
; and German peace offers,
1011
,
1012
,
1017
fn
.,
1033
,
1135