Bach-Zelewski, Erich von dem
Bad Harzburg declaration (1931)
Bad Neuheim
Baden
Baden, Prince Max von
balance of payments deficit
Ballerstedt, Otto
Ballin, Albert
Bamberg, northern Bavaria
banking
bankruptcies
Barlach, Ernst
Barmat, Julius
‘Barn District’ (Scheunenviertel), Berlin
Bartels, Adolf: The Dithmarshers
BASF (Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrick)
Bassermann, Albert
Bauer, Gustav
Bauhaus
Bäumler, Alfred
Bavaria
revolution (1918)
radical right
state of emergency ends (1925)
support of Hitler
state lections (1932)
Germany’s first concentration camp (Dachau)
Bavaria and Reich League
Bavarian army
Bavarian Council Republic
Bavarian government
Bavarian League
Bavarian Parliament
Bavarian People’s Party
Bavarian Supreme Court
Bavarian War Ministry
Bayer
Bayreuth
Bayreuth Papers (Bayreuther Blätter)
‘Beautification Club’
Bebel, August
Bechstein, Carl
Bechstein, Helene
Beck, Colonel Ludwig
Beckmann, Max
Belgium
proposed annexation of
economic exploitation in First World War
First World War compensation
occupation of the Ruhr
Benn, Gottfried
Berber, Anita
Berg, Alban
Wozzek
Bergner, Elisabeth
Bergsträsser, Arnold
Berlin
Jewish community
economic problems
academics condemn antisemitism
Fatherland Party meeting (1918)
Spartacist uprising (January 1919)
striking munition workers (1918)
Social Democrats
tram routes unable to run
radical literary culture
state music academy
nightclubs
a centre of social and sexual subcultures
‘ring associations’
Reform Synagogue
Goebbels becomes Regional Leader
Berlin Nazis’ ban
Nazi Party membership
unemployment
Ford owns factory in
‘red districts’
government
state of emergency (1932)
Goebbels organizes torchlit parade (January 1933)
international motor show
suppression of the left
a Protestant city
Centre Party councillors
book-burning
Jews beaten up afterMarch election
Berlin, Irving
Berlin Daily News-Sheet (Berliner Tageblatt)
Berlin National Gallery
Berlin People’s Paper (Berlines Volkszeitung)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Berlin School for Physical Education
Berlin Sports Palace
Berlin State Opera
Berlin State Theatre
Berlin Stock Exchange
Berlin-Charlottenburg
Berlin-Lichtenfels
Bernhardi, General Friedrich von
Bertram, Cardinal Adolf
Bertram, Ernst
Best, Werner
Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von
Beuthen
Binding, Karl
birth control
birth rate
Bismarck, Fürst Otto von
unification of Germany (1871)
background
personality
domination over German politics
‘Iron Chancellor’
Germans feel the lack of leadership such as his
seizes Schleswig-Holstein
constitution of the German Empire
wars of the, 1860s
and the army
resignation (1890)
myth of
tries to maintain the peace in Europe
and the Catholic Church
reparations bill to France after,1870-71 war
reforms
and the National Liberals
Bismarck, Herbert von
Bismarck Youth
Black Death
‘Black Hundreds’
black marketeers
‘Black Thursday’ (24 October 1929)
‘Black Tuesday’ (29 October 1929)
Blech, Leo
Bleichröder, Gerson von
Bleichröder banking firm
Blomberg, General Werner von
‘Bloody Sunday’ (Altona, 1932)
Blue Angel, The (film)
‘Blue Rider’ group
Blüher, Hans
Böckel, Otto
Boer War
Bohemia
Bolivia
Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks
failure to win mass support in free elections
ruthlessly singleminded
in ‘White terror’
and inflation
Rosenberg’s hatred for
Bolshevism
threat of
violent attacks on Christianity
allegedly devised by the Jews
‘Jewish-Bolshevism’
predicted victory of
and the Centre Party
cultural
Bolz, Eugen
Bonn University
book-burning
Bormann, Martin
Born, Max
Bosch, Carl
Bothe, Walter
bourgeois values
Boxheim documents
Boy Scouts
Bracher, Karl Dietrich The German Dictatorship
Branau on the Inn
Brandenburg
penitentiary
Braun, Otto
Brauns, Heinrich
Braunschweig
Brecht, Bertolt
Threepenny Opera
Bredow, Hans
Bredt, Viktor
Bremen
Breslau
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (1918)
Britain
and German colonial aims
Catholic Emancipation (1829)
empire
seen by Hitler as a possible ally
industrial production
use of concentration camps in Boer War see also United Kingdom
Brock, Werner
Broszar, Martin
brownshirts see ‘Storm Division’
Brünen, Dusselorf West constituency
Brüning, Heinrich
appointed Reich Chancellor
and the monarchy
curbs the freedom of the press
and the Social Democrats
personality
economic measures
‘the Hunger Chancellor’
use of police
bans political uniforms
becomes isolated
resigns (May 1932)
votes for the Enabling Act
willing to compromise as Centre Party leader
and the political police
lack of commitment to democracy
authoritarian regime
Brunner, Alfred
Buchwitz, Otto
Budapest
Bulgaria
Bülow, Fürst Bernhard von
bureaucracy
Bürgerbräukeller, Munich
Burleigh, Michael: The Third Reich: A New History
Busch, Fritz
business
financial donations to ‘bourgeois’ parties
and the press
and Hugenberg
split by politics and economic interest
Hitler’s speech at the Industry Club
Schleicher’s economic schemes
and democracy
and Reichstag elections (5 March 1933)
falls into line for the Nazis
tries to end extortion
BZ at Midday (BZ am Mittag) newspaper