Galen, Graf Clemens August von, Catholic Bishop of Münster
Garibaldi, Giuseppe
Gayl, Wilhelm Freiherr von
Gebsattel, Konstantin von
General German League see Pan-German League
General Motors
General Student Unions
‘General Will’
genetics
George, Stefan
Gerecke, Gunther
German air force
German army
free of political control
powers and privileges
right of non-commissioned officers to a job in state employment
new forms of popular militarism
professionalization of the officer corps
new military technology
ruthlessness in the German Empire
polarization of opinion over its role in society
early victories in First World War
relentless pressure of
‘stabbed in the back’ claim
war crimes issue
conscription
Versailles restrictions
myth of the ‘front generation’
desertions at the end of the war
many pushed to the far right
and the Weimar Republic
General Staff
Reinhardt ousted in favour of right-wing Seeckt
and literature
Jews in
budget
trial of junior officers (1930)
believes it can control Nazis
newly prominent political position
rearmament
conservatives’ programme
neutrality
Hitler’s promises
German Boxing Association
German cabinet: records of meetings
German Cinema Owners’ Association
GermanServants’ League
German Colonial Society
German Communist Party
formed (1918)
and Social Democrats
Red Front-Fighters’ League set up
and a Red Army of workers
abortive uprising in Hamburg (1923)
representation in the Reichstag
returns from moderate to ‘leftist’ position
efforts to bring the Republic down
puritanical view of personal relationships
and education
and Bolshevik regime in Munich
von Hentig and
and capitalism
and Nazi Party membership
Nazi hatred of
attempts to mobilize the unemployed
national membership
‘committees of the unemployed’
street-based events
Thälmann leads
short of resources
in 1930 elections
and Wessel
brownshirt attack on headquarters
statistics of clashes with Nazis
July 1932 Reichstag elections
hammer and sickle symbol
November 1932 Reichstag elections
suppression of
Central Committee
searches of its premises
relative inaction of
Reichstag fire
effectively removed
March 1933 elections
membership treated as treasonable
banned (fromMarch 1933)
property reassigned
press banned
concentration camp warning
torture of
May Day, 1933
destroyed in an orgy of violence
Nazi determination to destroy it see also Communism
German Confederation
succeeds the Holy Roman Reich
and the 1848 Revolution
collapse of
Austria expelled
German Conservative Party
antisemitic Tivoli conference (1893)
and Christian Social movement
and Pan-Germans
backs German Fatherland Party
and Nationalists
turnover in membership see also conservatism
German Democratic Party
German Dye Trust
German fleet
German Gymnastics League German High Seas Fleet
German Judges’ Confederation
German League for the Prevention of the Emancipation of Women
German medical science
‘German Michel’
German Nationalist Commercial Employees’ Union
German navy
construction of a massive battle fleet
mutiny
effectively dismantled
German Newspaper Publishers’ Association
German People’s Party see People’s Party
German Reich
proclaimed at Versailles
‘German Reich’ name
constitution
formed by military force and action
rise to economic might and Great Power status
expectations of
centralization see also Wilhelmine Reich
German Revolution (1848)
German Revolution (1918-19)
German School Association (later Association for Germandom Abroad)
German South-West Africa (now Namibia)
German Wireless Service
German Women’s Order
German Workers’ Party
German-Racial Defence and Defiance League
German-Socialist Party
Germania (Centre Party’s newspaper)
Germanic Order
Germanization
Germany
leads Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin
unification (1864-71)
capitalism
advanced culture and society
economy
strong liberal and democratic traditions
compared with Russia before the First World War
authoritarian monarchy
compared with nineteenth-century Italy
‘struggle for culture’
population
optimistic on outbreak of First World War
expansion in First World War
Armistice
Versailles Treaty terms
collapse of Reich created by Bismarck
Kapp putsch (March 1920)
inflation
crime wave
war deaths
‘fulfilment’ policy
putsch attempt (1923)
clashes with Italy over South Tyrol
attempted customs union with Austria
budgetary deficit
end of parliamentary democracy
German society put on a permanent war footing
becomes a one-party state
Gershwin, George
Gessler, Otto
Girmann, Ernst
Glaeser, Ernst
Glauer, Adam (‘Baron von Sebottendorf’)
Gobineau, Joseph Arthur de
Gobineau Society
Goebbels, Paul Joseph
diaries
background and education
club foot
personality
becomes Nazi Party organizer in the Rhineland
an effective orator
articles for the Nazi press
disagreements with Hitler
devotion to Hitler
Regional Leader of Berlin
1928 elections
avoids legal responsibility for violence
appointed propaganda chief
1930 elections
and Horst Wessel
Stennes forces him to flee to Munich
the 1932 Presidential election
on failure of ‘the reds’
July 1931 Reichstag elections
November 1932 Reichstag elections
arranges torchlit parade in Berlin
Reichstag fire
Reichstag elections of March 1933
and ‘government of the nationalist uprising’
and May Day
and trade unions
‘We are the masters of Germany’ boast
on the Social Democrats
demands Centre Party’s dissolution
celebrates Nazi monopoly of power
and music
admits to terrorization
defines propaganda
becomes Minister for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda
runs the Party Propaganda office
Furtwängler’s protest
and the Berlin Philharmonic
and radio
and artists
Hitler’s birthday (1933)
book-burning
and boycott of Jewish shops
view of democracy
Michael: A German Fate in the Page of a Diary (novel)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
gold
Gold Standard
Goldberg, Szymon
Goring, Hermann
key role in development of Nazi movement and Third Reich
family background
a well-known flying ace
appearance
personality
devotion to Hitler
in charge of the stormtroopers
and putsch attempt of 1923
addiction to morphine
1928 elections
extravagant tastes
Wessel’s funeral
and violence during a Bremen meeting
and Pietzuch
cavalier treatment of the Reichstag
appointed Reich Minister without portfolio
Acting Prussian Minister of the Interior
and torchlit parade in Berlin
and Hammerstein
and 1933 election
Reichstag fire
provides proofs of Communist plot
and Social Democrat press ban
and Weimar constitution
presiding officer of Reichstag
andservants
and Galen
and Nationalist Party
and Blech
Waldoff satirizes
Gotha
Göttingen University
Gottschewski, Lydia
‘government of the nationalist uprising’
GPU (Gosudarstrennoe politicheskoe upravlenie, State Political Directorate) Soviet secret police
Grand Coalition
Grauert, Ludwig
Greece
Griesheim
Grimm, Hans: Race without Space
Groener, General Wilhelm
Groh, Wilhelm
Gropius, Walter
Grosz, George
Grotjahn, Alfred
Gruber, Kurt
Grzesinski, Albert
guilds
Gumbel, Emil Julius
Günther, Hans Friedrich Karl
Gürtner, Franz