Hitler, Alois (Aloys) (H’s father) 37, 80
Hitler, Klara (née Pölzl; H’s mother) 36, 37, 80
Hitler Youth 7, 51, 55, 56, 81–2, 142, 162, 704, 765, 790, 798, 808
Hoche, Dr Alfred 254
Hodges, General Courtney H. 760
Hoepner, Colonel-General Erich 359–60, 442, 455, 507, 510, 676–7, 681, 690, 692
Hofacker, Lieutenant-Colonel Cäsar von 733
Hoffmann, Heinrich 34, 36, 206, 210, 590
Hohenlychen clinic 782
Hohenlychen Red Cross hospital 633
Holland
Holocaust, the path to the 389
Holste, Lieutenant-General Rudolf 813, 814, 826
Holy Roman Empire 267
homosexuality 234
Höppner, SS-Sturmbannführer Rolf-Heinz 471, 475
‘Horst-Wessel-Lied’ anthem 6, 561
Horthy de Nagybánya, Nicklas 735–6
Horthy de Nagybánya, Admiral Nikolaus, regent of Hungary 366, 559, 581, 582, 584, 624, 626–8, 734, 735–6
Heß, Rudolf 837
Hoßbach, General Friedrich 32, 47, 49, 53, 54–5, 119, 758
Hoßbach meeting (1937) 49, 50, 64, 66, 87, 88, 191, 228, 343
Hotel Dreesen, Bad Godesberg 113, 114–15
Hotel Imperial, Vienna 81
Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten, Munich 138–9
Hotel Weinzinger, Linz 79–80
Hoth, Colonel-General Hermann 465–6, 543–4, 545
House of Commons, London 265–6
Hradcany Castle, Prague 518
Hradschin Castle, Prague 171–2
Hube, General Hans Valentin 629, 632, 633
Huber, Kurt 552
Hugenberg, Alfred 814
Humber estuary 598
Hungarian army 538, 549–50
Hungary 194, 624, 631, 719, 739, 756, 782, 803; Arrow Cross 734, 735, 736; changes sides 734; criminality and the black market 582; German occupation 625, 626–8; German troops leave 791; Jews 624, 628, 736; joins the Tripartite Pact 361; Nicklas Horthy kidnapped 735; oil-fields 757, 772, 788; revisionism 95, 157; and Ruthenia 157–8, 165, 166, 167; unstable alliance with Germany 734
I G Farben 11, 18, 20, 22, 132
Ibiza 43
incurably sick 235, 252–7
India 391, 456; H inspired by the Raj 401, 402, 405, 449; independence 48; industrialization 403; and Japan 326
inflation 161
Innitzer, Cardinal Theodor 81, 82
Innsbruck 141, 834
International Olympic Committee 5, 7
Iran 189, 530
Iraq 189, 381, 530
Iraqi army 381
Ireland, Republic of 189
Ironside, General William Edmund 203
Italian army: driven out of Libya 546; in German captivity 600; H’s opinion of 549, 588; troops disarmed 600; Wehrmacht’s reliance on 538
Italy: Abyssinian crisis 4, 23, 24, 65; alliance with Germany 24–6, 68; Allied landing 587, 600; annexation of Albania 193; armistice with France 299; and Austria 4, 65, 66, 68, 69; and Bolshevism 25; British 8th Army enters Naples 600; and Czechoslovakia 95, 99, 109, 193; Fascist Grand Council 593, 594, 615; German military outposts 759; H loses trust of 543; H renounces any claim to the South Tyrol 98–9; H’s state visit (1938) 98–9; invasion of Greece 331, 346, 361; ‘Pact of Steel’ with Germany 193; rearmament 25–6; signs armistice with the Allies (3 September 1943) 599, 626; Tripartite Pact (1940) 326
Jaenecke, General Erwin 631
Japan: the Anti-Comintern Pact 27; attack on Pearl Harbor (1941) 364, 442, 444, 445, 446, 448; attempts to broker a peace settlement between Germany and Russia 728–9, 730; and China 26–7; economic sanctions 443; H anticipates a victory over China 44; H places his hopes in 457; H seeks commitment to Japanese attack Singapore 363, 364; H’s approval of a German-Japanese alliance 448; H’s attitude towards 504–5; H’s view of Japan’s entry into the war 456, 516; imperial expansion 326; relations with the USA 442–3; and Russia 13; seeks an anti-Soviet alliance 193; Soviet-Japanese neutrality pact 364; Tojo replaces Konoye 443; Tripartite Pact (1940) 326
Japanese air force 443–4
Japanese General Staff 443
Japanese navy 443–4, 517
Jeckeln, Friedrich 486
Jeschonnek, Luftwaffe Chief of Staff Hans 543, 544, 545, 572
Jessen, Jens 664
‘Jewish Question’ 39, 41, 42, 136, 138, 144, 147, 235, 319, 323, 325, 350, 352, 462, 478, 570, 624, 625; and the decision to deport Jews to the east 479; first used by H in diplomatic discussions 583; Goebbels and 279, 472–3, 474, 490; Göring on 131; H ‘pitiless’
