Psychopathic God, The (Waite), 81, 109, 289
putsch of 1923, 39, 41, 100, 160, 383–84
Pynchon, Thomas, 128
Quest of the Historical Jesus, The (Schweitzer), xxiv, xli
Racial Characteristics of the German People (Günther), 170
“radical” evil, 279–80, 285, 287, 291, 298
Rath, Erast vom, 383–84
Raubal, Friedl, 123, 124–25
Raubal, Geli, xix, xxxv, xliv, xlv, 5, 13, 14, 20, 25, 41, 161, 179, 181, 241
charisma of, 122–23, 124
death of, 99, 100–101
grave of, 202–3
Hitler and death of, 18, 155–56
Hitler’s relationship with, 48–49, 79, 84–85, 96, 102–5, 106, 117, 125–28, 137, 140, 152
shrine to, 116
see also Raubal affair
Raubal, Leo, 196
Raubal affair, 99–134
Anna interview and, 124–26
Geli’s final hours and, 121–23
Gerlich murder and, 152
Herr H.’s interest in, 202–3, 204
Hitler-Geli relationship and, 102–5, 106, 117, 125–28, 137, 140, 152
Hitler perversion myth and, 128–34, 144
Hitler’s alibi in, 102–4, 123–24
Hitler’s alleged metamorphosis after, 192–94, 197
Hitler’s alleged pornographic letter and, 131–32
Hitler’s alleged unnatural sexuality and, 104–7, 110, 115, 117, 127–28
Hitler’s political ambitions and scandal of, 100, 108, 115
missing night theory of, 194–97
Munich Post’s coverage of, 41, 107–8
Nazi Party’s coverup of, 100–101, 119, 121
OSS Sourcebook rumors of, 182–83
police investigation of, 99–104, 119, 120
pornographic drawing episode and, 129–30, 131
primitive hatred notion and, 191–92
Reiter romance and, 109–17
rumored Jewish lover and, 109, 126, 140, 182–83, 194, 197
seance story in, 99–100, 102–4
suicide judgment in, 101, 107–9, 120
Suicide Maidens legend and, 109–10
suicide register and, 118–19, 120, 121
Rauschning, Hermann, xxviii, 105, 137
“rectitude” argument, xxii, 69–72, 75–76, 188, 208, 209–13, 218, 388
Reich, Wilhelm, 151
Reichenau, Walther von, 50
Reichstag fire of 1933, xix
Reiss, Tom, 220
Reiter, Mimi, 99, 109–17, 127
Resnais, Alain, 253
revenge thesis, 357–58, 360–61, 367–68
“Revisionism” (Irving), xxvi
Revolution of Nihilism (Rauschning), xxviii
Rhineland, 50, 90, 160, 302
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 90, 185
Richard III (Shakespeare), 144
Richter, see Hohenlohe, Princess Stephanie von
Riefenstahl, Leni, 25, 110, 303
Roehm, Ernst, 18, 46–48, 100, 169, 231
Romania, 345
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 27, 28, 106
Rosenberg, Alfred, 56, 172
Rosenfeld, Alvin, xv, xvi, xxv
Last Days of Hitler criticized by, 66–67
Rothermere, Lord, 184, 185
Rubenstein, Richard, 298, 334–35
Rudolph, Doctor, 129
Ruether, Rosemary, 330
SA (Brownshirts, Sturmabteilung), 39, 51, 156, 193, 231, 384
Sachsenhausen, 285–86
Sacks, Oliver, xxxiii
Sacred Executioner, The: Human Sacrifice and the Legacy of Guilt (Maccoby), 328
Sade, Marquis de, 210
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 254
Sassoon, Vidal, 280
Saudi Gazette, 30
Sauer (detective), 99, 100, 101–4, 108, 120, 127
Schaber, Walter, 157–58, 164–65
Schaub, Julius, 116, 194, 196
Schenck, Ernst Günter, 249
Schicklgruber, Alois, see Hitler, Alois
Schicklgruber, Maria, xxxv, 3–6, 9–14, 15, 17, 21, 23–28, 29, 138
Schiller, Johann von, 356
Schindler’s List (film), 253
Schleicher, Kurt von, 133, 367, 368
Schleunes, Karl, 378
Schmeller, Helmut, xxxvi, 327
Schraber, Walter, xix
Schroeder, Christa, 198
Irving and, 228, 230–31
“Schuldfrage” controversy, 342
Schuschnigg, Kurt von, 28
Schwarz, Franz Xaver, 100–101, 129–30
Schweitzer, Albert, xvii, xxiv, xxviii–xxix, xli
SD (Sicherheitsdeinst), 293
“Secret Conversations,” see Table Talk transcripts
Seidman, Naomi, 360–61
Selling Hitler (Harris), 76
Sereny, Gitta, 159, 222
Seton-Watson, Hugh, 81
sexuality, see Hitler, Adolf, sexuality of
Shakespeare, William, 391
Shkaravski, Dr. Faust, 141, 148, 149
Shoah (film), xv, 251, 252, 253, 254–55, 257, 261, 264, 265, 269, 270–71
Six-Day War, 287
614th commandment, 287, 296–98, 303
Small, Verna Volz, 29, 137–40
Smith, Bradley F., 240
Smith, Bradley R., 240, 242
Snyder, Louis, 125, 326
Social Democratic Party, Bavarian, 38, 362
Socialist Worker Press Association, 157
Socrates, 210
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 393
“Sonderweg” concept, 342
Soviet Union, 44, 90, 91, 345, 363
German invasion of, 364
Hitler’s autopsy and, 79, 80–81, 141, 148
survival myth and, 64
Spanish Inquisition, 315
Spectator, 70, 105
Speer, Albert, 65, 143, 159, 217, 317
Spiegel, Der, 92, 346, 355, 358, 359
Spielberg, Steven, 253
Spinoza, Baruch, 316
SS (Schutzstaffel), 39, 174, 176, 269, 285, 293, 335
Himmler’s Posen speech to, 210–11
Hitler’s secret speech to, 175
Stalin, Joseph, 7, 90, 176, 203–4, 212, 309, 358
cult of, 89
Hitler’s autopsy and, 80–81
Hitler’s evil vs. evil of, 392–93
survival myth and, 64
Stauffenberg, Claus von, 161
Steiner, George, xi, xxv–xxvi, xxxviii, xxxix, 208, 241, 250, 299, 300–318, 325, 336, 345
background of, 302–3
blame-the-Jews argument and, 310–11, 313–16, 334
Chosen People concept and, 312, 316
criticism of, 310–11
and Hitler’s junior high school days, 305–6
Hitler’s voice heard by, 302–3, 316–17
on Kafka’s language, 304–5
Maccoby’s clash with, 320–21, 330–31
Wandering Jew figure and, 316
see also Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H., The
Steiner, Johannes, xx, xliii, 163, 167
Stennes case, 47
Stern, 76, 110
Stern, Fritz, 340, 360
Stern, J. P., 38, 75, 289, 290
Stern Gang, 63, 66
Stierlin, Helm, 207, 208
Stosstrupp Hitler, 39
“Straight Way, The,” 164
Strasser, Gregor, 46, 47, 108, 133
Strasser, Otto, 47, 121, 128, 129, 132–34, 137, 144, 183
Strauss, Leo, 377, 395
Streicher, Julius, 14, 23, 198
Hitler’s bond with, 186–90
Stürmer, Der, 14, 23, 189, 190
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 44, 253
Suez crisis of 1956, 225–26
Suicide Maidens, 109–10
Survival in Auschwitz (Levi), 265
survival myth, xi–xii, 64, 300
Steiner’s drama on, 300, 307–10
Survivor, The (Des Pres), 287
Süss, see Heydrich, Bruno
Swift, Jonathan, 157
Table Talk transcripts, 72–73, 74, 75, 77, 198, 203, 214–15, 217, 388
Tacitus, 78, 81, 91
Tannenbaum, Marc, 329
Taylor, A.J.P., 384–85, 394
Telegraph (London), 222, 225
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 86
temps modernes, Les, 254, 255
Teresa, Mother, 313
theodicy problem, 283–85, 298
Theresienstadt, 335
Theweleit, Klaus, 106
Thomas, D. M., 218, 240
Thucydides, 78, 81, 91
Thule Society, xxxvii
Thyssen, Fritz, 27
Times Literary Supplement, 94
Times (London), 76
Tödlicher Alltag (Güstrow), xxx
Todorov, Tzvetan, 275
Toland, John, xliv, 10, 13–14, 25–26, 33, 126, 127, 189–90, 245
To Mend the World (Fackenheim), 294–95
Tours of the Black Clock (Erickson), 128
“transworld depravity,” 284
Treblinka, 234, 253
Trevor-Roper, H. R., xii, xiii, xv, xxii, xxiii, xxviii, xxxiii, xiii, 63–77, 89, 94, 95, 96, 105, 222, 225, 227, 230, 308, 354, 363, 369
death threat against, 63, 66, 67
Hitler diary hoax and, 63, 72, 73, 75, 76
Hitler suicide dispute and, 79–80, 86
“rectitude” argument of, 69–72, 75–76, 188, 208, 210, 212, 388
Rosenfeld’s critique of, 66–67
Trial, The (Kafka), 240, 250
“Trial of Hitler’s Nose,” 157, 167–68, 170–73, 177–78, 187
Tristram Shandy (Sterne), 171
Triumph of the Will (film), 25
Trotsky, Leon, 316, 331
Turner, Henry Ashby, 366–67, 368
Twain, Mark, 6
Twisted Road to Auschwitz, The (Schleunes), 378
two-Hitler argument, 230
Ukraine, 90
United Press, 183, 186
Unsolved Mysteries (TV show), xxix
van Pelt, Robert Jan, 217
Vatican, 329
Versailles, Treaty of, 105
Vogel, Albert, 127
Wagner, Richard, 31, 217, 333, 342
Waite, Robert, xliv, 14–15, 17, 23–24, 29, 30, 64, 81, 85, 109–10, 115, 149, 150
Fackenheim’s criticism of, 289–90
Jewish-blood theory of, 294–95
lost-testicle theory advocated by, 142–43
Waldburg zu Zeil, Erich von, xliii, 163–64
Wandering Jew, 316, 330–32
War Against the Jews, The (Dawidowicz), xiv, 95, 191, 363, 373, 380
Wasner, Eugen, xxx
Watson, Peter, 80
Weber (Chief Archivist), 99, 118–20, 121
Weber, Max, 349–50
Weidenfeld, George, 74
Weiss, Ernst, xliv–xlv, 245
Weltbühne, 158
“What the Nazi Autopsies Show” (Kristol), xxviii
When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Kushner), 283
White, Dick, 64
White Noise (DeLillo), xxvii
Wiedemann, Fritz, 184, 185, 186, 191
Wiesel, Elie, 272, 285, 296, 297
“revenge” controversy and, 360–61
Wiesenberg, Joseph, 165
Wiesenthal, Simon, xxxiv–xxxv, xxxix, 197, 357
Wilder, Sean, 260
Wirths, Eduard, 268–69, 272, 274–75
Wisse, Ruth, 380, 381
Witte, Peter, 364–65, 370
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 305–6
Wolf, Paula, see Hitler, Paula
World War I, xxvii, 73, 83, 105, 148, 318, 324, 353
World War II, 180, 227, 363
as war against Jews, 363
Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, 19, 280
Yad Vashem Institute, 94–95
Yale Holocaust witness project, 269
Yeats, William Butler, xxx–xxxi
Young Adolf (Bainbridge), 317
Yugoslavia, 91
Zeit, Die, 346
Zentner, Herr, 196
Zerfass, Julius, 42
Zundel, Ernst, 232
Zuroff, Efraim, xxii
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ron Rosenbaum was born in Manhattan and grew up in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, in English Literature, specializing in the 17th-century metaphysical poets, and went on to study English literature on a Carnegie Fellowship at Yale Graduate School before leaving to take up writing full time.
He began at the Village Voice and Esquire at the end of their respective Golden Ages. (He did not personally cause the end.) He went on to write for Harper’s, New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and Vanity Fair, among many other periodicals. His non fiction has been collected in four separate volumes, most recently The Secret Parts of Fortune, and more of his past work can be found on the long form site, Byliner.com.
He wrote “The Edgy Enthusiast” cultural affairs column for the New York Observer for twelve years. Among his proudest achievements was writing columns that got the four out-of-print novels by Charles Portis (including The Dog of the South) back into print. And helping to save the last unfinished manuscript of Vladimir Nabokov from burning.
His most recent books include The Shakespeare Wars (about genuine scholarly controversies, not the foolish “authorship” question); and How the End Begins (about the continued peril of nuclear war). He also edited a collection of essays about contemporary anti-Semitism, Those Who Forget the Past. He has taught writing seminars at Columbia Journalism School, NYU, and the University of Chicago.
Currently a cultural columnist for Slate.com, he is also the National Correspondent for Smithsonian Magazine, serves on the editorial board of Lapham’s Quarterly and the Publications Advisory Board of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He lives in Manhattan.