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HEINRICH HIMMLER

Heinrich Himmler was a German Nazi police official and leader of the black-shirted
Schutzstaffel (SS) troops. He was also the leader of the Gestapo, otherwise known as the
German secret police. The work that he performed for Hitler has made Heinrich Himmler one
of the most notorious war criminals of World War II. 
Heinrich Himmler was born on October 7, 1900 in Munich. He was the son of a Catholic
secondary school master. Himmler attended the Technical College in Munich, and also
served in World War I as a clerk in the Eleventh Bavarian Infantry. He received a diploma
in agriculture after the war and began to join militant rightist organizations. Himmler
joined Hitler in 1919. In November of 1923, he participated in the Munich Beer Hall
Putsch, and was appointed business manager in Bavaria. It wasn't until 1925 that Heinrich
Himmler joined the Nazi Party and began to gain a great deal of power in it. In 1929,
Himmler became the leader of the SS troops. He began increasing the size of the SS: it
grew to 50,000 by 1933. He soon became head of Munich police and eventually all German
police units outside of Prussia. In 1934, he established the Third Reich's first
concentration camp at Dachau. Himmler became the leader of the Gestapo in 1936 and began
to set up his 17 concentration camps. In 1934, he was the Mastermind behind the blood
purge that eliminated the SA as a power factor. Heinrich Himmler would make the SS the
second most powerful armed body in Germany. When World War II began, Heinrich Himmler
became even more powerful. In 1941, Hitler decided to rid the world of the Jews. Himmler
was put in charge of organizing the death camps in Eastern Europe. When Germany invaded
the Soviet Union in 1943, Himmler was appointed Minister of the Interior. In 1944,
Heinrich Himmler reached the height of his power because of a threat on Hitler's life. He
was the Commander in Chief of the German Home Forces, the most powerful man next to
Hitler. During this time, more concentration camps began to appear. Unfortunately,
Himmler's power would soon fade away.
Heinrich Himmler began to suffer from psychosomatic illnesses during the end of the war,
and because of his illness was shoved aside by Hitler. Himmler had hoped to succeed
Hitler and had already negotiated with the Swedish to surrender Germany to the Allies but
continue War against the Soviet Union. This event occurred in April of 1945. When Hitler
learned of this, he stripped Himmler of all his offices and ordered him arrested. Himmler
disguised himself as a common soldier and attempted to escape leaving Hitler to die in a
bunker in Berlin. He was captured on May 21, 1945, by the British near Bremen and put in
detention at Lunenburg. Heinrich Himmler committed suicide two days later by swallowing
poison that he had concealed in his mouth throughout his ordeal.
Heinrich Himmler had been very devoted to Hitler. He was a ruthless man who sought power
equal to that of Hitler's. Himmler was fanatical in his belief of the Nazi ideology and
created the reign of terror that came from the Third Reich. Heinrich Himmler is most
remembered as the prime person behind the cause of the Holocaust and murderer of millions
of Jews, slavs, and non-Aryan people throughout Germany.
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