Volksbund fu
¨
r das Deutschtum im
Ausland (VDA) 388, 390
Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, see
Coordination Centre for Ethnic
Germans (VoMi)
Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz, see
Selbstschutz
Volkssturm (home guard) 711–14
motive for creation of 713–14
Volkswagen Company 558
VoMi, see Coordination Centre for
Ethnic Germans (VoMi)
Wa
¨
chter, Otto 620
Wa
¨
ckerle, Hilmar 151
Waffen-SS 424
army corps established 601
creation of 427
establishment of new German SS
divisions 672–3
expansion of 601
Himmler’s ambitions for 680
Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler 164, 174,
427
establishment of 156 –7
Hitler’s ‘armband order’ 723
organizational structure 499
recruitment of non-Germans
498–504, 602, 679–80
Baltic units 677–8
ethnic aliens 674 –9
ethnic Germans 609–16, 673–4
Germanic volunteers 605–9
Muslims 267, 675– 7
national legions 602–5
Soviet
Union,
role in invasion 524
Wehrmacht, obliteration of boundaries
between 699–700
Wagener, Otto 118, 302
Wagner, Adolf 148–9, 150, 191
Wagner, Eduard 518
Wagner, Robert 159, 497, 498, 588,
589–90
Waldeck and Pyrmont, Josias, Hereditary
Prince of 132– 3, 392
Walk, Joseph 477
Walz, Hans 259
Wannsee conference 555–6, 561
Wappenhans, Waldemar 140, 329–30
Warsaw, Himmler orders destruction
of 705
Warsaw ghetto:
deportation of Jews from 573
final destruction of 666
Himmler orders destruction of 664
Warsaw ghetto uprising 664
war youth generation 22, 134, 315, 318,
738, 752n44
Weber, Christian 133
Wege, Kurt 130
Wegener, Hans 42–3, 53
Wehrmacht:
Himmler authorized to examine
organization of
702
Himmler
implicates
in final
solution 694–5
Himmler’s brutalization of military
justice 703
Himmler’s criticism of General
Staff 701
Hitler assumes supreme command 399
Hitler’s reconstruction of leadership
of 399
Norway, invasion of 491
Poland:
complaints over SS atrocities 433–4,
461–2
involvement in mass murder 433
Procreation Order, agitation over
461, 462
Russian forces in 702–3
Soviet Union, instruction for conduct
of war against 521–2
SS:
arming of 181
complaints over SS atrocities in
Poland 433–4, 461–2
objection to integration of units
of 491
relations between 181, 182, 247–8
Waffen-SS, obliteration of boundaries
between 699–700
Weickert, Paul Magnus 135, 169
Weimar Republic:
Bavarian political crisis (1923) 66–9
crisis in relations with Bavaria 60–1
Hitler putsch (1923) 69
inflation 64–5
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