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Heinrich Himmler
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It would be a correct assessment to say Heinrich Himmler was one of the most ruthless henchman Hitler had. He was the leadership of the Waffen SS, a powerful and destructive para-military organization in Germany. Himmler was the mainstay of the fulfillment of Hitler's anti-semitic views in the term coined "The Final Solution". He was the man to create the first concentration camp in Dachau, and was the right hand of Hitler to expand these horrific prisons. Himmler was a small, humble-looking man who did not seem the type to aid in the destruction of other nations, so that the superior nation of Germany (with a superior race) could take over Europe. Himmler had great pride for his nation, yet ... believed in the superior race, termed the "Aryan" race.
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Born in 1900, Heinrich Himmler was the godson of a Bavarian prince and became an officer cadet during the First World War. Never actually seeing combat, Himmler was discharged at the war's end and went to a technical college, where he majored in agriculture. During the turbulent years of the 1920s in which Germany's economy had been destroyed, Himmler managed to secure work as a chicken farmer and ... joined one of the numerous paramilitary groups that had sprouted during that time. In 1923 he participated in the failed attempt by the Nazi Party to take over the Bavarian government (even though he was not yet a member of the party). In 1925, after the Nazis had regrouped, Himmler became a minor member of the Nazi Party in its Central Bavarian Office. Also, at that time, he accepted the position as Deputy Leader of a small group called the SS.
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Wewelsburg Castle: Inside the guard house museum are displays of the plans Heinrich Himmler had for Wewelsburg. "He wanted to make Wewelsburg the centre of the SS world. ...it appears he wanted to make the north tower of the castle into an SS shrine of some sort. Where people could remember the SS dead. It would be at the centre of a new SS village. This would be where the Germanic elite group would live."
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On the afternoon of July 2, 1936, Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler and a coterie of his senior officers paraded on foot through the winding cobblestone streets of Quedlinburg, one of the most perfectly preserved medieval cities in all Europe. Himmler’s staff had been planning the trip to the small city in central Germany for weeks. They ordered the streets to be cleaned and the old houses along the main thoroughfares to be painted. They draped Nazi banners from the rooftops and garlands along the walls. They rehearsed the SS band, drilled the local chapter of Hitler Youth and arranged for an SS photographer to record the proceedings from beginning to end. Nothing of importance was overlooked.
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The tremendous power Heinrich Himmler (1900-1985) wielded as the first Reichsfuhrer-SS ensured his ascension as the second Fuhrer of the Greater German Reich upon the death of Adolf Hitler. Himmler led the Reich through the Third World War, defeating and conquering the United States. He ... continued the extermination of the Jews, extending the policy to North America.
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Heinrich Himmler was born on 7 October 1900 in Munich, the son of a schoolteacher. He served in the German army at the end of World War One and then had a variety of jobs, including working as a chicken farmer. He became involved with the Nazi party in the early 1920s and took part in the 'beer-hall' putsch of 1923. Himmler acted as the Nazi party's propaganda leader between 1926 and 1930. In 1929 he was appointed head of the SS, Hitler's personal guard, and the following year was elected to the Reichstag.
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