Heinrich Himmler is one of the most powerful person of the Nazi regime the  only person in front of him is Adolph Hitler.  Himmler presided over the organized network of concentration camps.  Europe enabled the Nazi regime to get rid of 11 million people.  This includes 6 million Jews and gypsies.  The son of a devout master Himmler started as a farmer.  As Nazi party police chief devout himself to creating the Schutzsataffel (SS) who serves as Hitler's bodyguard.  After marrying  in 1927 Himmler returned to poultry farming.  Elected in 1930 to the Reichstag as deputy of Wiser Em.  He began to get in on extending SS membership which reached 52,000 by 1933.  He organized the Security Service (SD) under Reinhard Heydrich.  In March Himmler was elected Munich police President a little after that he was elected Commander of the political police throughout Bavaria.  The turning point in his life was his master minding of the Purge on June 30, 1934 which he pulverized the power of the SA.  By June 17, 1936 he had success when completing his tasks to win control of the political and criminal police out of all of the Third Reich, that made him head of the Gestapo. In 1933 he set his first concentration camp in Dachau.  With Hitlers encouragement Himmler  extended the range of the people who qualified in the camps.  In 1937 he quoted at one of his speeches " There is no more living  proof of hereditary and radical laws than in a concentration camp.  You find there hydrocephalic, squinters, deformed individuals, semi-Jews; a considerable number of inferior people".  From the outset of his career at Reichsfuher of SS Himmler introduced principles of radical selections and special marriage laws that ensured the coupling of people of "High Values".  By the end of the 1930's the possibility of getting this Greater Germanic Reich of the future came closer to realization as Himmler reached the peak of his power.  In October 1939 Hitler appointed him Reichkommissar.  Within a year about a million poles and 300,000 Jews had been driven eastward.  Himmler reminded the SS-Leibstandarte Hitler regiment " gentlemen, it is much easier in many cases to go into combat with a company than to suppress an obstructive population of low cultural level, or to carry out executions or to haul away people or to evict crying and hysterical women".   

 

In 1922 he got to join NSDAP with the number 14303.  One thing Himmler did was he desinged secret killing places of instant death.  In 1941 he ordered a gassing specialist and ordered him to make up and implement and program them a pilot project.  Each member had to sign the following commitments 1. I have been instructed that under no circumstances will I discuss with anyone outside or co-workers anything dealing with an operation.  2. I understand the top secrecy of any of the occurrences of the so called Jewish Relocation.  3. I may not take any pictures.  4. I promise to keep my word to the best of my ability.  5. I understand after completion of my secure this oath of secrecy  will still apply [38].  His Catholicism  is no doubt accounts for zealous sense of mission.  The small diffident man who looked like a banker more than he looked like a German police dictator fooled one English observer into saying that "nobody I met in Germany is more normal" there was  a weird mixture at the camps bizarre fantasy and cold conscienceless efficiency, Himmler had severe psycho-somatic illness severe headaches and intestinal spasms and about fainted at the sight of hundreds of Jews (women) to.  By Gathering Aryans of different religions into Waffen-SS Himmler made the creation of a  German Reich of the German Nation.  

 

Himmler brilliant stroke succeeded in introducing the SS.  Himmler  told the SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler regiment:.  September 1933 he was made commander of all political police units outside Prussia.  The mission of the German people was " The Struggle for the extermination of any sub-humans, all over the world who are in league  against Germany, Which is the nucleus of the Nordic race; against Germany the custodian of human culture: they mean the existence or non-existence of the white man; and we guide his destiny.  Himmler notorious procreation order of October 28, 1939 to the whole SS that " it will be the sublime tasks of the German women and girls of good blood acting not frivolously but from a profound moral seriousness.  From December 31, 1942 no person of Jewish origin may stay with the government General unless they are in concentration camp in Warsow, Cracow, Czestochowa, Rackham, and Dublin.  Before he committed suicide he said The Fuhrer" was ordered the final solution of the Jewish question."  Himmler told Auschwitz Kommandt Hoss in the summer of 1941.  "We the SS have to carry out this order.  I have therefore chose Auschwitz for this purpose."  These are some Himmler reports on executions in the East   
September October November
Prisoners executed after interrogation

1,400

1,596 2,731
Accomplices of guerilla and guerilla suspects executed 3,020 6,333 3,706
Jews executed 165,282 95,735 70,948
Village and localities burned down and destroyed 12 20 92

       

At the end of the war Himmler disguised himself and escaped capture and committed suicide after he got captured on May 23, 1945.

Chris Linnemann

7th Grade Rossville Jr. High

Spring 2001

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