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Gutmann Index More Information Index Action Suisse contre le Communisme , 34 conscription of ethnic Germans, 147 Adolf Hitler, SS- Division, 155 , 209 Corrodi and, 155 Arbeitsgemeinschaft für den germanischen Denmark, 140 Raum , 128 , 129n38 on desertion, 150 Arendt, Hannah, 12 Dutch fascists, 114 Auschwitz, 120 early life, 32 Austria, 48 , 78 , 127 Foreign Ministry and, 126 Anschluss , 98 on Germanic mistreatment, 101 , 154 Germanics on homefront, 159 Baecklund, Sigurd, 67n59 , 211 Heydrich and, 125 , 129 languages spoken, 68 Himmler and, 32 , 146 travels, 67 idea of Germanic corps, 146 Bakke, Jørgen, 114 idea of Swiss legion, 115 Balkans increasing Leitstelle’s budget, 122 Waffen- SS soldiers, 31 integrating volunteers, 100 Basel, 80 Jüttner and, 153 Belgium, 2n4 , 70 Kanstein and, 139 Flemish volunteers, 101 Kryssing’s resignation, 186 legions, 112 , 114 legions, 113 – 14 , 144 , 147 Berger, Gottlob, 29 , 32n25 , 32n26 , 32n29 , Martinsen and, 141 , 143 , 191 32 – 34 , 38 – 41 , 44n73 , 45n77 , 45n78 , mistreatment of ofi cers, 156 44 – 46 , 47n82 , 50 , 50n93 , 64n40 , 67 , on NSDAP, 125 67n58 , 90 , 101n42 , 104n55 , 115n107 , on Scandinavian recruits, 101 115n108 , 115n109 , 119 , 121n6 , on SS ini ghting, 121 123n12 , 123n13 , 123n14 , 124n18 , on Swedish ofi cers, 109 124n19 , 125n20 , 125n24 , 126n26 , Rauter and, 124 126n27 , 126n28 , 126n29 , 127n34 , recruitment, 32 , 39 , 51 , 147 128n38 , 140n90 , 140n93 , 141n95 , recruitment 1942, 156 142n102 , 143n104 , 143n105 , report on Wiking, 145 146n112 , 146n113 , 146n114 , Ribbentrop and, 127 147n116 , 147n119 , 149n1 , 151 , Riedweg and, 33 , 121 , 127 155n15 , 155n17 , 154 – 56 , 156n21 , Riedweg’s i ring, 178 156n22 , 158n29 , 177n5 , 178n10 , Scandinavian visit, 126 189n45 , 191n52 , 207 Schalburgkorps , 143 225 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15543-5 — Building a Nazi Europe Martin R. Gutmann Index More Information 226 Index Berger, Gottlob (cont.) in Swedish Army, 65 – 66 Schwarz and, 122 – 23 at Tölz, 165 Sennheim and, 100 war reporting, 136 Steiner and, 102 Warsaw Uprising, 137 Vrang and, 155 worldview, 166 Waffen- SS expansion (1943), 178 Bormann, Martin, 127 , 127n32 , Waffen- SS reorganization 127n37 , 178 (1942), 146 Heydrich and, 35 Western Europe and, 122 – 23 Himmler and, 125 – 26 worldview, 32 Riedweg’s i ring, 177 Bergmann, Konrad, 80n126 , 159 Boysen, Bruno, 140n90 , 140 – 42 Berlin, 33 – 35 , 48 – 49 , 50n95 , 67n58 , Brandenburg, 193 68n69 , 78 , 102 , 111n83 , 114n105 , Brandt, Dr. Rudolf, 124 125 , 127n33 , 136 , 136n75 , 139n87 , British India, 68 145n110 , 154 , 183 , 185 , 189n45 , Brøndum, Henning, 188 191n52 , 209 – 10 Brüderlin, Kurt, 80n126 , 195 battle of, 2 , 25 , 167 , 193 dissertation, 80 Danish embassy, 111 worldview, 80 Document Center, 172 , 209 Büeler, Heinrich, 19n46 , 42 , 42n62 , Humboldt University, 105 42n63 , 48 , 48n87 , 48n87 , 65n46 , military hospital, 182 67n61 , 68n63 , 70n76 , 77n108 , SS court, 57 , 191 77n110 , 79n121 , 79n122 , 80n123 , SS ofi ces, 18 , 131 81n128 , 134n63 , 153n10 , 163n47 , Swedish embassy, 171 , 182 194 , 197 , 197n69 , 210 visiting Swiss fascists, 98 early life, 65 Bern, 33 , 62 , 93n10 , 114n105 , postwar, 200 115n106 , 210 socialist beliefs, 79 German embassy, 114 travels, 68 University of, 62 worldview, 70 , 77 , 80 Best, Dr. Werner, 13n34 , 138 , 140n93 , Bulgaria, 67 191 Burri, Franz, 127 Kryssing and, 185 Martinsen and, 191 Cernay. See Sennheim as Reich Plenipotentiary Chaco War, 69 Denmark, 140 Charlemagne, SS- Division, 194 Bircher, Eugen, 109 Chicago, 62 Birkedal- Hansen, Svend, 188 Clausen, Fritz, 84n136 , 114 Blomberg, Sibylle von, 34 Foreign Ministry and, 126 , 142 Blomberg, Werner von, 30 , 34n35 , 36 , Freikorps Danmark , 112 36n46 Himmler and, 142 Riedweg and, 34 on Waffen- SS veterans, 142 Bolivia, 69 Clemmensen, Carl Henrik, 57 , 190n46 Borg, Gösta, 65n50 , 65n52 , 66n53 , Concentration camp, 38n50 , 57 , 106n65 , 136n73 , 136n75 , 166n59 , 197n72 166n60 , 172n81 , 211 Buchenwald, 183 author, 170 Dachau, 38 , 38n50 , 167 , 171 early life, 65 – 66 experiments on inmates, 130 on Greater Germanic Reich, 137 Germanics working at, 124 knowledge of Holocaust, 171 – 72 historiography, 12 in Kurt Eggers, 135 Oranienburg, 69 reports on Sweden, 136 praise abroad, 61 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15543-5 — Building a Nazi Europe Martin R. Gutmann Index More Information Index 227 Copenhagen, 16 , 52 , 103 , 151 , 178n9 , 182 , intelligence service, 17 185 , 187 – 88 , 188n40 , 190 , 208 , 211 interwar, 61 , 65 , 67 Freikorps in, 141 , 174 , 181 invasion of, 32 , 39 , 90 , 93 – 94 , 97 Germanische Leitstelle , 124 military academy, 65 Germanische Leitstelle branch, 140 number of volunteers, 2 , 20 in invasion of Denmark, 93 policy on Waffen- SS enlistment, 89 SS recruitment center, 41 postwar, 8 , 54 – 55 , 196 – 99 Corrodi, Johann, 93n9 , 155 , 155n15 , recruitment, 115 155n16 , 155n17 , 155n18 , 155n19 , response to Freikorps , 113 197 , 197n69 returning SS veterans, 142 joining SS, 155 Riedweg visit, 126 in Swiss Army, 93 , 155 royal family, 8 , 65 Courland peninsula, 72 , 192 Schalburg and, 168 Criminal Orders, 108 SS and, 139 Czechoslovakia, 67 SS plans for, 141 unrest 1943, 176 D’Alquen, Gunther, 135 volunteers, 53 Damson, William, 123 war- time government, 22 , 110 , 122 Danish Legion. See Freikorps Danmark Winter War, 71 Danish National Socialist Party (DNSAP), Der Führer, SS- Division, 155 52 – 53 , 81 , 84 , 84n136 , 84n137 , Deutschland, SS- Division, 37 113n92 , 126 , 140 , 167 – 68 , 187 – 88 Dolezalek, Dr. Alexander, 130 , 130n45 anti- Semitism, 81 Dörfl er- Schuband, Werner, 102 , 102n46 election results, 84 Dutch Legion, 114 , 114n101 ethnic Germans, 86 Freikorps and, 113 , 144 E.{…}, P.R., 81n129 , 84 , 94n15 , 95n17 , Freikorps members, 113 , 145 95n18 , 104n53 , 111n84 , 143n107 , Germanische Leitstelle and, 142 143 – 44 , 165n54 , 170n75 , 173n86 , NSU youth organization, 57 , 141 181 , 201n87 , 211 postwar, 198 contact with Danish War Ministry, 111 SS and, 112 , 139 in Danish Army, 94 SA paramilitary organization, 142 DNSAP and, 81 SS plans to restructure, 141 during invasion of Denmark, 94 Waffen- SS and, 84 – 85 joining SS, 95 Darmstadt, 199n78 Kryssing and, 145 Darmstadt, University of, 62 mistreatment by German ofi cers, 154 Das Reich, SS- Division, 183 , 209 at Tölz, 103 , 165 Den Haag, Germanische Leitstelle , 124 worldview, 95 Denmark, 3 , 3n5 , 14 , 20n50 , 20 – 22 , 22n55 , Einsatzgruppen , 31 , 108 , 172 , 207 25 , 38 , 41 , 52 , 55 , 57 , 70n77 , 85 , Germanics knowledge of , 171 85n139 , 87n152 , 91 , 110n80 , 139 – 40 , Eklöf, Gunnar, 211 176n4 , 177n5 , 178n9 , 185 – 87 , 189n42 , atrocities, 172 189 – 92 , 197 , 201 , 208 at Germanische Leitstelle , 150 afi nity for German culture, 59 worldview, 55 Best and, 185 Eldh- Albiez, Wolfgang, 164 , 164n52 deportation of Jews, 57 , 177 England, 59 , 96 disillusionment among ofi cer corps, 95 interwar, 67 fascist movements, 81 , 85 – 87 Eriksson, Stig, 135 German propaganda in, 132 Estonia, 2n4 , 67 , 123n11 in Germanic Europe, 169 i ghting in, 192 Germanische Leitstelle and, 119 volunteers, 147 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-15543-5 — Building a Nazi Europe Martin R. Gutmann Index More Information 228 Index Federal Republic of Germany, 57 , 201 120 , 121n6 , 133n61 , 144 , 150 , Finland, 60 , 64 , 70 – 72 , 97 , 154 , 195 163 , 169 , 180 , 190 , 194 , 200n82 , interwar, 67 205 , 207 – 08 Swedish volunteers and, 90 area of responsibility , 118 , 153 volunteers, 147 Best and , 140 Winter War, 57 , 102 control of Ahnenerbe , 131 1st SS Brigade cooperation with Kurt Eggers , 135 Danish volunteers, 104 Copenhagen branch , 124 First World War, 70 creating all- Germanic courses , 160 Flanders, 41 creating Germanic political leadership legion, 112 corps, 159 – 61 Foreign Ministry, 98 , 105 , 118 , Denmark , 119 , 140 , 187 – 91 128 , 175 – 77 on desertion , 149 Clausen and, 142 DNSAP and , 142 Denmark and, 139 – 40 expansion , 118 , 121 – 22 Germanische Leitstelle and, 43 – 50 , 125 Foreign Ministry and , 43 , 125 legions, 146 Freikorps propaganda tour , 141 Norway, 122 funding , 23 publications, 134 Germanic conference , 138 tension with Germanische Leitstelle , on Germanic mistreatment , 102 , 154 126 – 27 , 139 Germanic National Socialism , 153 tension with SS- HA, 134 on Germanic populations , 128 work in West, 122 Germanische Gemeinschaft , 134 France, 59 , 70 , 73n91 on Greater Germanic Reich , 137 interwar, 67 , 73 guidelines for ideological training , 156 invasion of, 89 historiography , 42 Swiss volunteers crossing into, 155 increased budget, 122 – 23 war- time government, 110 Kryssing and , 184 Frank, Hans, 122 legions , 112 , 115 – 16 Freikorps Danmark, 8 , 96 , 111 – 12 , 144 , letters from troops , 133 155 , 210 in Luzern trial , 200 atrocities , 171 mandate for Germanic work , 127 combat effectiveness, 146 NSU and , 141 leave, 181 origins , 35 , 42 – 51 postwar , 201 placement in SS- HA , 45 successor ”Danmark” regiment , plans for Sweden , 187 173 , 188 on political soldierdom , 150 – 51 Freikorps Norge , 114 publications , 131 – 32 , 134 successor regiment “Norge,” 174 purging of ofi ce staff (1943) , 178 restructuring Germanic training , 152 Generalplan Ost , 44 , 120 , 120n3 , 205 RSHA and , 125 historiography