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assassination attempts against 391, 480–85, 486, 491, 581–2, 584, 595;

assumes German presidency 1–3;

and battle of Britain 93, 600;

Beerhall Putsch (1923) 16, 138, 146, 586;

and Blomberg–Fritsch affair 6;

and bombing of British cities 100, 102, 103, 430;

Churchill’s views on 179, 314, 491, 501, 535, 559, 602;

consciousness of own mortality 138;

declaration of war on United States 176, 193–7, 589–90, 598;

demands destruction of Paris 489;

‘Demolitions on Reich Territory’ order (1945) 547–8, 596;

development of genocidal policy against Jews 219–24, 226–7, 238–45, 249–50, 492;

early life 220;

and failure to develop atomic weapons 550, 573–4;

and fall of Crimea 521;

‘fortified localities’ strategy 531–2, 533, 541;

Great War service 15, 20, 607;

Halt Order (May 1940) 60–63, 64, 100, 586–7;

health 391, 412, 531, 585;

Hossbach plans for expansion in Europe 5–6;

intervention in Spanish Civil War 4, 112;

invasion of Belgium, France and Holland 48–9, 55, 60–63, 76;

invasion of Czechoslovakia 147;

invasion of Denmark and Norway 35, 38, 41, 44;

invasion plans for Britain 89–90, 91–2, 100, 102, 108, 118;

invasion plans for USSR 137–54;

invasion of Poland 10, 19–20, 22, 23–4, 27;

invasion of USSR 160, 163, 165–70, 171, 175, 176;

and Italian campaign 377, 393, 397, 404;

last days in the bunker 513, 551–2, 553, 558–9, 562;

Lebensraum (living space) policy 19, 135, 138, 139, 144, 163–5, 579, 580;

his library 50, 137–8, 179, 228;

and Mediterranean campaign 119, 124, 125, 128, 135, 141, 149–50;

as military strategist 7, 10, 15–16, 20, 49–51, 93, 151, 309–10, 317, 531–2, 533, 543, 584, 585–98, 600–602;

Munich Agreement (1938) 8, 17, 45, 59, 97;

and naval war 37–8, 352, 353, 354, 355, 363, 371;

and Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939) 9–10, 539;

and North African campaigns 119, 123, 135, 298–9, 307, 308, 600;

Obersalzberg connections 146–7;

and Operation Zitadelle (battle of Kursk) 412, 416, 417, 424;

Pact of Steel with Mussolini 9;

peace offer to Britain 89, 92, 147, 602;

on performance of Red Army 33, 34;

racial ideology 19, 140, 147–8, 163, 220–21, 249–50, 547, 574, 579, 585, 607–8;

rages 317, 391;

refusal to visit bombsites 102, 552, 586;

relations with Franco 112–13;

relations with generals 62, 75, 324, 326–7, 481, 486, 491–2, 510–11, 530, 539–40, 544–5, 549, 552, 580–85, 590, 592–7, 600–602;

relations with Mussolini 123, 589;

and Schlieffen plan for two-front war 136–8;

self-confidence 20, 76–7, 317, 531, 543, 594;

and Stalin 524, 539, 584, 600;

and Stalingrad 314, 315–18, 324, 332, 333–4, 335, 336–7, 338, 342–3, 592, 593, 600;

‘Stand or die’ orders 181, 299, 314, 336, 404, 522, 532, 540, 591, 593, 595;

suicide and disposal of his body 484–5, 521, 559, 560, 585;

as ‘supreme warlord’ 151, 302, 412;

takes control of armed forces 2–4, 6–7, 8–9, 11, 18, 143, 180–81, 317, 590;

tours Paris 91, 180;

verbatim reports from Führer-conferences 511–13;

views on Britain 89–90, 275;

views on United States 171;

Weltanschauung (world-view) 138, 593;

and winter crisis on Eastern Front (1941–2) 176, 177–80;

and withdrawal from Russia 522, 523, 524, 528, 530, 532, 541;

and ‘wonder weapons’ 512, 514–15, 516–17, 519, 541;

Hitler’s Table Talk 218;

Mein Kampf 15–16, 19, 26, 89–90, 135, 138, 144, 220, 275, 524;

‘The Second Book’ 195–6

Hitler Line 386, 400

Hitler Youth 458, 472, 501, 552, 554

Hiwis (Russians fighting for Germans) 344

Hobart, Major-General Sir Percy 475

Hodges, Lieutenant-General Courtney 499, 509, 513

Hoepner, General Erich 73, 171, 227, 482

Hoffman, Wilhelm 341

Hoffmann, Lieutenant Heinrich 469

Hoffmann, Peter 485

Hoge, Brigadier-General William M. 513

Hohenzollern (yacht) 353

Holland: Allied air raids on 453;

food shortages 500;

German forces stationed in 463, 473;

German invasion 49, 53, 55–6, 136;

Jews in 78, 221, 390;

monarchy 55, 117;

neutrality 22, 49;

Protestant Church 390;

South-East Asian territories 209–210;

surrender 58;

V-weapon attacks on 519

Holocaust: development of Hitler’s genocidal policy 139, 148, 219–24, 226–7, 238–45,