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Heinrich Himmler: Nazi Germany
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Heinrich Himmler (October 7, 1900 - May 23, 1945) was the leader of the German SS and Gestapo organisation. He committed suicide when he was a captive of the British army after Germany had lost World War II. Hitler ordered his arrest after Himmler offered peace to allies. Himmler's father was teacher and headmaster.
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Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was the commander of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. As Reichsführer-SS he controlled the SS and the Gestapo. Himmler became a leading organizer of the Holocaust. As founder and officer-in-charge of the Nazi concentration camps and the Einsatzgruppen death squads, Himmler held final command responsibility for implementing the industrial-scale extermination of between 6 and 12 million people. This was aimed particularly at Jews, but ... against those of many other nationalities, races and conditions Nazi ideology considered to be suitable for killing, or Sonderbehandlung ("special treatment") as gas chamber murder was euphemistically known within the SS.
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Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was the most powerful man in Nazi Germany after Hitler; Reich Leader of the SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and minister of the interior. His obsession with "racial purity" led to the idea of killing the Jews. He was captured after the war, but committed suicide in May 1945, before he went on trial
Heinrich Himmler was an early member of the Nazi Party. In 1929, he was appointed head of the Nazis SS. After liquidating Erich Roehm and the rest of the Brown Shirts, Himmler became the indisputable leader of the secret police of Nazi Germany.
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Peter Padfield's book on Heinrich Himmler is the first solid and readable account of Heinrich Himmler's place and purpose as the most destructive of the Nazi leaders. It is a fine piece of historical work.
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Heinrich Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was the commander of the German Schutzstaffel and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. As Reichsführer-SS, he led the SS, all of its combined offices, and was one of the key figures in the organization of the Holocaust.
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