Heinrich Himmler

 

After World War I he was drafted into one of  the right wing solders.

  He married Margarita Boden in 1926. He was also appointed head of the SS by Hitler, which about 300 men served. He expanded the SS to about 50,000 people by1933, and he was named chief of the German police on July 17, of that year. In addition to his other responsibilities he was responsible for the security services.   When it came time for Hitler to order the annihilation of the Jews, who better to carry it out than the man that that was his most loyal follower and in control of the apparatus necessary for its excavation?  That is what Hitler did.  The precise date is not known, but what is known is that Himmler obeyed the order he received with his customary thoroughness and efficiency.  

Himmler

Himmler's house

  Whatever misgivings Himmler may have had, he carried out his orders with efficiency and a zeal that at once astonished and reveled.  The first murders carried out by shooting, as deadly as these shootings were there later was a more efficient methods.  This would accelerate the killing and would at the same time spare the SS men the necessity to murder women and children in cold blood.  The decision was to use Poisson gasses in both stationary and mobile gas chambers in Poland.  It is estimated around six million non-Jews.  After putting sown the conspiracy against Hitler in July 1944 he was the virtual dictator of German domestic policy.   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.  He created the first concentration camp in Dachau.  He was also the right hand man of Hitler.   He did not look like a man that would destroy other countries, so Germany could rain superior with a subject race.  He believed any other race other than Aryan decent was "Sub-race."  These people were worked to death or killed.   Himmler was named Chief of the Replacement Amy in 1944.   At the end of the war he made an attempt to keep peace through the World Jewish Congress.  Trying to flee in disguise in May 1945 he was caught by the British and admitted his identity. When a doctor searched him to make sure he did not have poison hidden, he bit down on a capsule hidden in his mouth and was dead.  He chose suicide as his way to leave this world.   A speech by Himmler on October fourth 1943:  "I am talking about the evacuation of the Jews. The extermination of the Jewish people. It is one of those things that is easily said.  The Jewish people are being exterminated.  Every party member will tell you perfectly clear it’s part of our plans.  We are exterminating the Jews, exterminating them, a small matter."

 

Justin Clark 

7th Rossville Jr High

Spring 2001

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