Claasen, Kurt, 51
Commissar order. See Kommissarbefehl
Communism, 11, 13, 48, 52, 75, 180, 183
Croatia, 27
Criminal Police (Kriminalpolizei or Kripo), 4, 9, 51
Crimea, xvi
Czechoslovakia, 6, 50, 113
Czemierniki, 91, 98, 105, 115
Częstochowa, 28, 38
Daluege, Kurt, 4, 7-8, 12-13, 15, 24, 26-27, 184
Danzig, 5
Dęblin, 28
Deportation of Jews, xx, 26-37, 39, 52-53, 77, 88-89, 95-97, 104-107, 127, 133-34
from Hamburg, 42-44, 53
from Łuków, 106, 110-11
from Parczew, 89-90, 95, 104
from Międzyrzec, 90-95, 104, 106, 108-10, 134
from Radzyń, 106-107
Detmold,* Martin, 130, 140-41
Dettelmann, Hans,* 66
Dnepropetrovsk, 18
Dower, John, 159-60, 162, 186
Dresden, 110
Drucker,* Kurt, 46, 65-66, 68, 74, 79, 84, 108-109, 123, 143, 145, 151, 154, 157, 170, 182, 186
Düsseldorf, 27, 44
Eichmann, Adolf, 26
Einsatzgruppen, 9-11, 163, 183
Erntefest (fall harvest), 135-38, 141, 163
Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche), 5, 39, 41, 51-52, 97, 106, 109
Euthanasia, 50, 163
F-scale, 166-67
Fall harvest. See Erntefest Feldgendarmerie. See Military police
Final Solution, xxi, 8-9, 26, 36, 49, 53, 76-78, 88, 93, 123, 131-32, 135, 142-43, 155, 163-64
Fischer, Fritz, 106-107
Fischmann, Lieutenant, 28, 30, 53
Frampol, 54
France, 27, 113
Frank, Hans, 122
Franz, Colonel, 18
Freemasons, 42, 180
Freikorps, 3-4
Feucht,* Heinrich, 130
Führer. See Hitler, Adolf
Galicia, district of, 7, 27, 30-31, 36, 52-53, 132
Gebhardt,* Wilhelm, 141
Geheime Staatspolizei. See Gestapo
Gemeindepolizei, 4
Gendarmerie, 4, 7, 51, 106, 115, 117, 131, 148, 154
General Government, 6-8, 10, 29, 49-50, 53, 122, 132-33, 137
German Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv), 178
German-Jewish relations, 147-48, 150-55
German-Polish relations, 147-50
Germany:
defeat, revolution, and post-World War chaos in, 3, 144
Federal Republic of, xvi, xvii, 18
Nazi dictatorship in, xiii, 4, 160, 164, 169, 170, 173, 176, 182, 186; see also Third Reich
occupation policies of, xix, 6, 10, 39, 135, 183
war effort of, xv-xvi, 6, 9-10, 50, 143
Gestapo (Secret State Police, Geheime Staatspolizei), 4, 9, 51, 169
Ghetto-clearing, xvi, 50, 52, 77, 105-106, 110, 121, 132, 163, 171; see also Deportation of Jews
Ghettos, xv-xvii, 27, 50-51, 90, 133-34, 136; see also Łódź, ghetto of; Lublin, ghetto of; Warsaw, ghetto of
Girzik, Hauptscharführer, 28
Globocnik, Odilo, 8, 49-52, 54-55, 89, 95, 135-37, 163, 165
Gnade, Hartwig, xx, 43, 46, 56-57, 63, 78-80, 82-84, 86-87, 92, 105, 107-109, 123, 134-35, 141, 143, 151, 165, 178, 188
Goebbels, Joseph, 178
Grabitz, Helge, xxi
Grafmann,* Erwin, 145
Greece, 27
Gross, Walter, 178
Grund,* Rudolf, 102, 145, 151
Gypsies, 39, 42
Hagen,* Lieutenant, 46, 56, 60, 100-101, 124, 143
Hamburg, xvii, xx, 38-39, 41, 45, 47-48, 56, 67, 70, 75-76, 80, 91-92, 103, 105, 110, 113, 144, 153, 163, 168, 188
deportation of Jews from, 42-44, 53, 82
post-World War II police in, 144
Haslach,* Captain, 141
Heiden,* Corporal, 130
Heilmann,* Alfred, 107-108
Heinkel, 139
Hergert,* Ernst, 63-65, 74, 84, 86, 170
Hertel, Lieutenant, 31
Heydrich, Reinhard, 4, 9, 26-27, 45-46, 50, 163-64, 183
Higher SS (Schutzstaffel) and Police Leader (HSSPF), 7, 10, 13-14, 16, 24, 133, 163
Hilberg, Raul, xxi, 162
Hilfswilligen. See Hiwis
Himmler, Heinrich, 4, 5, 7-13, 18, 24-25, 39, 45-46, 49-50, 52, 74, 97, 135-37, 163-64, 177, 184
History writing of Holocaust and Third Reich, xvii-xxi
Hitler, Adolf, 9-10, 26, 39, 136, 178-79
Hitler Youth, 46, 117, 151
Hiwis (Hilfswilligen), 52, 80-81, 83-85, 89-91, 93-95, 99, 104, 106, 107-10, 115, 158, 163
Hoffmann, Wolfgang, xviii, 46, 55, 57, 59, 114-120, 125, 144-45, 148-49, 151, 154, 156, 165, 169, 171, 178, 188
Höfle, Hermann, 51
Holland. See Netherlands Holocaust, xv-xvii, xx-xxi, 158, 162, 186
Hoppner,* Walter, 47, 114, 130, 143, 150, 157, 170
Horodenka, 32-33
Hrubieszów, county of, 105
HSSPF. See Higher SS (Schutzstaffel) and Police Leader
Hungary, 27
Incorporated territories, 6, 39
Italy, 27
Izbica, 28, 52, 54, 90, 133, 136
Jablon, Gut, 124
Jäcklein, Corporal, 33-35
Jammer, Lieutenant, 115
Japan, 160-61
Jeckeln, Friedrich, 10, 16
Jewish Historical Institute, 105
Jewish police (Ordnungsdienst), 33, 111, 153
Jewish resistance, 124-26, 136-37
Jews:
of Austria, 27-30, 53
of Czechoslovakia, 27, 53
of Europe, 9, 49, 53, 161
of Galicia, 31-36, 52, 132
of Germany, 27, 42-44, 53, 67, 76, 80, 82, 105, 117, 153
of Latvia, 44
in Nazi ideology, 176, 178-84, 186
of Poland, xv-xvii, 2-3, 8, 49-50, 52-70, 72-74, 77, 79-91, 93-95, 98-99, 101-13, 115-117, 121-42, 144, 149-50, 152-58
of Russia and Soviet Union, 9, 11-24, 26, 49, 136
Jobst, Sergeant, 100, 102
Józefów, 2, 3, 54-55, 57-60, 66-67, 69, 71-72, 74, 76-78, 80, 82, 85-87, 92, 99, 102, 104, 113-14, 117, 121, 127-29, 135, 142, 155, 160-63, 171, 173-75, 179, 185, 188
Jurich, Sergeant, 99-100, 111
Justmann,* Sergeant, 118
Kageler,* Georg, 67, 86
Kamenets Podolsky, 17
Kammer,* Arthur, 57, 60-62, 76, 91, 103, 144, 153
Karlsen,* Wilhelm, 119, 141
Kassel, 67, 153
Kastenbaum,* Franz, 67-68
Katowice, 50
KdO (Kommandeur der Ordnungspolizei), 7-8, 131
Keller,* Hans, 43, 98-100
Kharkov, 18
Khodorov, 31
Khorol, 18
Kielce, 28, 38, 89
Kiev, 18, 136
Klaparov, 34
Koblenz, 178 Kobrin, 15
Kock, 91, 97-99, 101, 103-104, 106, 111, 121, 125, 153-54, 157
Kołomyja, 27, 30-33, 36
Komarówka, 91, 105, 108, 154, 157
Kommandeur der Ordnungspolizei. See KdO
Kommissarbefehl, 11, 13, 183
Końskowola, 115, 117, 119, 121, 133, 156
Korean War, 177
Kosov, 32
Kovno, 18, 24, 42
Krakow, 7-8, 29, 131, 137
district of, 7, 52-53, 137
Krasnik, 52, 139
Krasnytaw, 53
Kröpelin, Captain, 31
Krementschug, 18
Kripo. See Criminal Police Krüger, Friedrich-Wihelm, 7-8, 133, 137
Kube, Wilhelm, 19
Kulmhof. See Chełmno
Kurów, 114
Kuty, 32
Lambrecht, Dr. Arnold, 122
Latvian attitude toward Jews, 44
Leffler, Georg, 123
Leitmaritz, Obersturmführer, 31
Lemberg. See Lwów
Leningrad (St. Petersburg), 5
Lerch, Ern
st, 51
Levi, Primo, 186-88
Liebscher, Lieutenant, 131
Łódź, 39, 42-44, 50, 92, 148 ghetto of, xvi, 41
Łomazy, 78-89, 99, 104, 110, 121, 142, 152, 163, 179
Lubartow, 52
Lübeck, 42
Lublin, 28-29, 55-56, 60, 76, 100, 102, 115, 117, 134, 138-41, 163 district of, 7-8, 49-54, 70, 76-78, 88-90, 95-97, 105-106, 115, 119, 121-22, 131-38, 141, 145, 165, 180-81 ghetto of, 52-53
Ludwigsburg, xvi, xxi, 144-45
Łuków, 88, 90-91, 95, 105-107, 110-13, 121-22, 133-36, 153, 188
Lundenburg, 28
Luxembourg, 45
Lwów (Lemberg), 31, 34-35
Majdanek, 60, 134, 137-42,163
Malmedy, 160
Manila, 160
Mayerhofer, Scharführer, 28
Marx, Karl, 180 Mehler,* Conrad, 145
Messmann, Lieutenant, 115, 117, 119, 125, 148
Metzger,* Paul, 86
Michaelson,* Gustav, 129, 156, 169
Michalsen, Georg, 51
Międzyrzec, 88-95, 102, 104-107, 109-10, 121-22, 133-36, 142, 153, 179
Milgram, Stanley, 171-76, 184
Military police (Feldgendarmerie), 5
Minkovtsy, 17
Minsk, 15-16, 18-19, 23-24, 42-44, 82, 119, 188
Mischlinge, 177
Mogilev, 16
Montua, Colonel, 13-14
Moravia, 6
Muhsfeld, 187-88
Munich, 117, 153
My Lai, 160
Nagel, Major, 13, 15
Narevka-Mala, 15
National Socialist Student Union, 46, 151
National Socialism (Nazism): doctrine, ideology, and values of, 48, 74-76, 94, 150-52, 166, 176, 178, 180, 182, 186-87
Nazi Party, xvii, 45-48, 56, 151, 163-64, 178
Nazism. See National Socialism
Nehring,* Erwin, 154
Neisse, 28
New Guinea, 160
Netherlands, 6, 27
Niehaus,* Walter, 66
Niezdów, 150
Norway, 6, 91
Nürnberg, 145
Oberhauser, Josef, 51
Odessa, 136
Office of Racial Politics, 178
Office of the State Prosecutor, 145
Hamburg, xvii, xx, xxi, 67, 147
Operation Reinhard, 50, 52, 54
Opole, 150
Oppeln, 28, 38
Oradour, 160
Order Police (Ordnungspolizei, Orpo), xvi, xviii, xxi, 1, 3, 51-52, 56, 105, 111, 113, 119, 122, 146, 164-65, 168-69
Battalion 9, 9
Battalion 11, 18-24
Battalion 45, 16, 18
Battalion 61, 41
Battalion 74, 29
Battalion 105, 91
Battalion 133, 31, 36, 132
Battalion 303, 16
Battalion 304, 16-17
Battalion 306, 122
Battalion 309, 11-12
Battalion 314, 16-18
Battalion 316, 12-14
Battalion 320, 16-17
Battalion 322, 12-16
guarding deportation trains, 26-37
history of, 4-8
indoctrination of, 176-84
in Russia, 9-26
reserve battalions of, 6, 42, 169
reservists in, 5, 164, 177, 179, 189
Ordnungsdienst. See Jewish police
Ordnungspolizei. See Order Police
Ostmann,* Peter, 108, 170
Pacific War, 159-60
Pannwitz, Gut, 125
Parczew, 78, 88-91, 95, 104-105, 107, 110, 121, 123-24, 133, 179
Peters,* Oscar, 47, 98-99, 115, 117, 143, 153
Pfeiffer,* Friedrich, 108
Pflugbeil, General, 12
Piaski, 52, 54, 90, 133, 136
Pinsk, 24
Piszczac, 78
Pohl, Helmut, 28, 51
Poland, xv-xvii, 1, 3, 6, 9-10, 15, 27, 38-41, 44, 49, 53-55, 76, 81, 84, 94, 99-103, 122, 124, 126-27, 139, 144, 148, 152-53, 155-58, 164, 174, 183
Poles:
shot by German police, 101-102, 126, 144, 148-50, 157
Polish informers, 125-26, 155-56
Polish-Jewish relations, 155-58
Polish police, 7, 51, 99, 109, 115
Polish partisan resistance, 2, 100, 115, 123-24, 126, 129, 135, 143, 148
Police army (Armee der Landespolizei), 4
Police Regiment Center, 13, 15
Police Regiment South, 16-18
Police Regiment 22, 137
Police Regiment 24, 31-32
Police Regiment 25, 137
Poltava, 18
Poniatowa, 137, 139-42, 163
Posen:
speech of Himmler, 74-75
see also Poznań
Poznań (Posen), 39-40, 44, 119, 148
Prague, 26-27
Probst,* Bruno, 40-41, 43, 148, 150, 156-57
Protectorate, 6, 53
Prutzmann,* Hans, 112
Puławy, 53, 114-15, 117-19, 125, 141, 148, 154
county of, 78, 114-15
Radom, 28, 89
district of, 7, 95-96
Radzyń, 88, 90-93, 98, 100-103, 106, 109-10, 121, 148
county of, 78, 89-91, 105, 106, 115, 134
Rawa Ruska, 132
Reich Security Main Office, 163
Rendsburg, 45
Reserve Police Battalion 101, xvi-xxi, 1-2, 8, 37, 53-54, 88, 94-97, 105-107, 109, 111, 120-21, 127, 131-34, 137-40, 142, 144, 159-60, 162-63, 165, 168-71, 174, 176, 178-79, 181-84, 188-89
composition of, xvii, 1, 38, 41, 44-48, 164
deportations from Hamburg by, 42-44
execution of Poles by, 40, 101-02, 126, 144, 148-50, 157
First Company of, 46, 55-57, 59-65, 68-69, 76, 89, 91-93, 98-100, 102, 107, 109-11, 138
First Platoon, 56
first duty in Poland, 38
guarding the Łódź
ghetto, 41
interrogations and testimonies of men of, xvii-xviii, xx, 67-68, 72, 144-47, 152, 174
and the “Jew hunt,” 123-32, 142, 163, 168, 188
at Józefów, 55-77
non-commissioned officers of, 40, 47, 62, 80-84, 102, 119, 128-29, 135, 144, 161, 168, 170
party and SS membership in, xvii, 45-48, 144, 151, 164
postwar police careers of men of, 144
resettlement of Poles by, 39-41, 135
Second Company of, 45-46, 56-57, 63-64, 69, 89, 105, 107, 134-35
First Platoon, 63-64, 78-79, 84, 105
at Łomazy, 78-87, 99
Second Platoon, 65, 78-79, 84, 105, 108, 154
Third Platoon, 56, 63, 65-66, 78-79, 89-91, 107, 110, 123
First Platoon, 91, 98, 115, 117, 150
Second Platoon, 114, 130
Third Platoon, 55, 57, 59, 63, 114, 118
trial of, 145
Resettlement: of Gypsies, 39
of Jews, See Deportation of Jews
of Poles, 39-41, 135
Retzlaff, General, 12
Riebel, Lieutenant, 15, 16
Riga, 27, 42-44
Rohrbaugh,* Arthur, 130
Rosenberg, Alfred, 178
Russia, xv, 9-11, 18, 27, 39, 44, 52, 183
Russian prisoners-of-war, 77, 123-24
SA, 46, 151
St. Petersburg. See Leningrad Salitter, Paul, 27, 43-44
Scheer,* Hans, 47, 63-65, 79, 84, 135
Schepetovka, 18
Schimke,* Otto-Julius, 57, 67, 129
Schleswig-Holstein, 45
Schoenfelder,* Dr., 60
Schulze, Obersturmführer, 35
Schutzpolizei (Schupo), 4, 7, 30-31, 35, 46, 51
Schutzstaffel. See SS
SD. See Security Service
Secret State Police. See Gestapo
Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei or Sipo), 4, 7, 9-10, 24, 26-27, 31-34, 36, 40, 42, 51, 137
Radzyń branch office (Aussenstelle),
90-91, 93-95, 106, 107-109, 111-13, 134, 188
Security Service (SD), 9, 40, 83, 139-40
Selbstschutz, 97
Sereny, Gitta, 163
Serokomla, 97-100, 102, 104, 110, 121, 163
Siam-Burma railroad, 161
Sicherheitspolizei. See Security Police
Siedlce, 144
Silesia, 38, 50
Skole, 31
Slavuta, 16
Slovakia, 27, 53
Slutsk, 19-23
Smolevichi, 19
Śniatyn, 32-33
Sobibór, 27-30, 50, 52-53, 79, 95, 115, 131, 136-37
Sonderdienst, 51, 98, 109
Sonderkommandos, 187
Soviet Union. See Russia
Sperlich,* Alfred, 125
Sporrenberg, Jacob, 137, 139
SS (Schutzstaffel), xvii, 4, 7-10, 25, 40, 43, 45-47, 51, 80, 83-84, 87, 89-90, 107, 112-13, 115, 117, 134-35, 137, 141, 144, 151, 154, 164-67, 177-81, 183, 187
SSPF (SS [Schutzstaffel] and Police Leader), 8, 49, 51, 54, 137, 139
Stalin, Josef, 10
Stalingrad, xvi
Stanford prison experiment, 167-68
Stangl, Franz, 29, 95, 163
Stanislawow, 32, 34
Staub, Erwin, 167
Steiner, John, 166-67
Steinmetz,* Heinrich, 56, 63, 65, 67-68, 74, 89-90, 107, 110, 123-24, 135
Streibel, Karl, 52
Streim, Alfred, xxi
Stryj, 31
Stuttgart, xvi, 144
Talcyn, 100-104, 144, 148-49, 163
Tarnogród, 54
Theresienstadt, 27
Third Reich, xix, 4, 39, 42, 143, 173, 177; see also Germany; Nazi Party
Trapp, Wilhelm, xx, 2, 45-46, 55, 57-63, 69-73, 76-77, 86-87, 89, 92, 100-103, 110-11, 113, 119-20, 122, 124, 130, 138, 143-44, 148-50, 153, 164, 171, 174, 188
Trawniki, 28, 52, 77, 79-80, 87, 104, 134-35, 137, 139
Treblinka, 50, 53, 77, 88-91, 95-96, 104, 106-107, 109, 111, 121, 134-37, 142, 163
Trials of Nazi crimes, xvi-xvii, 14, 17, 24, 144-46, 170
Tuczna, 78
Turobin, 54
Ukraine, 18
Ulanow, 54
Versailles Treaty, 4
Vienna, 26-30, 53
Vietnam, 160
Vinnitsa, 18
Volksdeutsche. See Ethnic Germans
Waffen-SS, 9, 24, 135, 137
Wandolin, 114
Warsaw, 12, 43, 53, 88-89, 94-96, 105, 131
district of, 7, 95, 122, 137
ghetto of, xvi, 41, 131, 136-37 Warthegau, 39, 44, 50
Weiss, Major, 11-12
Westermann, Lieutenant, 36
White Russians, 20-23
Wilhelm, Hans-Heinrich, 163
Wilhelmshaven, 45
Wippern, Georg, 51
Wirth, Christian, 51, 95
Wisznice, 78-79
Włodawa, 133, 136
Wohlauf, Julius, xx, 46, 56, 61-63, 65, 69, 91-93, 98-100, 110, 144, 165, 178
Wohlauf, Vera, 91-93, 110
Wohyn, 105
Wysokie, 54
Zakrzów, 54-55, 57
Zamość, 52-54, 135
Zaplatov, 32
Zentrale Stelle der Landes-justizverwaltungen. See Central Agency for