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Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluːɪtpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐ] ⓘ; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, primarily known for being a main architect of the Holocaust.
Heinrich Himmler (born October 7, 1900, Munich, Germany—died May 23, 1945, Lüneburg, Germany) was a German Nazi politician, police administrator, and military commander who became the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. History and role of the SS in Nazi Germany.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was the Reich Leader ( Reichsführer) of the dreaded SS of the Nazi Party from 1929 until 1945. Himmler presided over a vast ideological and bureaucratic empire that defined him for many—both inside and outside the Third Reich —as the second most powerful man after Adolf Hitler in Germany during World War II.
Courtesy of the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum. Heinrich Himmler was born on October 7, 1900 to a middle-class family in Munich, Germany. In his early life, he had a strong desire to join the army. But World War I ended soon after he came of age to join the military, and restrictions placed on the German army in the Treaty of Versailles ...
Arrest and suicide of Heinrich Himmler. May 22, 1945 Bremervörde, Germany. As the leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler was involved in numerous war crimes. The murder of Jews, Roma and Sinti, and political opponents took place under his responsibility. In April 1945, when the war was almost over, Himmler tried to escape punishment by negotiating ...
Heinrich Himmler was a leading member of the Nazi Party, one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, and a chief architect of the Holocaust (1938). Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons (German Federal Archives) As Reichsführer (National Leader) of the SS , Heinrich Himmler was by the end of World War II the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany.
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 ...
Aug 29, 2020 · Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was Reichsfuhrer (supreme leader) of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the highest-ranking Nazi leader after Hitler and Hermann Goering. As the leader of the SS, Himmler was directly responsible for ordering and overseeing the detention, transportation and annihilation of the Jewish people.
Heinrich Himmler, (born Oct. 7, 1900, Munich, Ger.—died May 23, 1945, Lüneburg), German Nazi police administrator who became the second most powerful man in the Third Reich.He joined the Nazi Party in 1925 and rose to become head of Adolf Hitler’s SS. He was put in command of most German police units after 1933, taking charge of the Gestapo in 1934, and established the Third Reich’s ...
Himmler, Heinrich. Heinrich Himmler (7 Oct. 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer SS, meaning national leader of the SS, and head of the German police. As such, he gave the orders to his subordinates as to what to do with the Jews within Germany’s reach: He ordered the police to arrest them; to deport them; to detain them in ghettos and ...
