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Heinrich Himmler

Personal data
Date of birth7 October 1900
Place of birthMunich, Bavaria, Germany
Date of death23 May 1945(age 44)
Place of deathLüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
Political partyNational Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)
SpouseMargarete Bode
ChildrenGudrun, Helge, Nanette Dorotha
ReligionRoman Catholic (early)
Military service
AllegianceGerman Empire German Empire
Service/branchHeer
Years of service1917 � 1918
RankFahnenjunker
Unit11th Bavarian Infantry Regiment
Battles/warsWorld War I
Reichsführer-SS
In office6 January 1929 - 29 April 1945
LeaderAdolf Hitler
Succeeded byKarl Hanke
Preceded byErhard Heiden
Director of the Reich Main Security Office (acting)
In office4 June 1942 - 30 January 1943
Succeeded byErnst Kaltenbrunner
Preceded byReinhard Heydrich
Reich Minister of the Interior
In office24 August 1943 - 29 April 1945
ChancellorAdolf Hitler
Succeeded byWilhelm Stuckart
Preceded byWilhelm Frick

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Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (-deˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluˑɪtˌpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐpronde-Heinrich Himmler.ogg 7 October 1900 � 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and later the Minister of the Interior, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). Serving as Reichsführer and later as Commander of the Replacement (Home) Army and General Plenipotentiary for the entire Reich's administration (Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung), Himmler rose to become the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany.

As overseer of the concentration camps, extermination camps, and Einsatzgruppen (literally: task forces, often used as killing squads), Himmler coordinated the killing of some six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma, many prisoners of war, and possibly another three to four million Poles, communists, or other groups whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live or simply "in the way", including homosexuals, people with physical and mental disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and members of the Confessing Church. Shortly before the end of the war, he offered to surrender both Germany and himself to the Western Allies if he were spared prosecution. After being arrested by British forces, he committed suicide before he could be questioned.

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Himmler's girl heads aid group for murderers - Times of India Tweet this news
Times of India---...- the world's only support group for mass murderers - has 25 to 40 members including Gudrun Burwitz, the daughter of -Heinrich Himmler-, head of the SS. ... - Date : Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:18:54 GMT+00:00
Himmler's daughter helps Nazi escape justice - Ynetnews Tweet this news
Ynetnews--News agencies in Britain revealed Wednesday that -Heinrich Himmler's- daughter is trying to prevent the extradition of Nazi criminal Klaas Faber from Germany ... - Date : Thu, 02 Dec 2010 06:14:15 GMT+00:00
Letters: Viewpoint gets a big 'ewww' - MLive.com Tweet this news
MLive.com--16 Viewpoint by John Millington comparing all Republicans to the Nazi party, and comparing John Boehner and Mitch McConnell to -Heinrich Himmler- and Adolf ... - Date : Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:37:06 GMT+00:00
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (Mac) Cyber Monday deals 2010 Best Buy Amazon.com ... - Daily Shopper News Tweet this news
Daily Shopper News---Himmler- believes himself to be a reincarnation of a 10th-century dark prince, Henry the Fowler, also known as -Heinrich-. Through genetic engineering and the ... - Date : Sat, 20 Nov 2010 07:11:04 GMT+00:00
Christmas brings up the old argument between freedom of speech vs. freedom of ... - msnbc.com (blog) Tweet this news
msnbc.com (blog)---Heinrich Himmler- used a lot of your arguments too. By the way, as you are not much of a historian, I will remind you that Himmler was leader of the SS, ... - Date : Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:58:57 GMT+00:00
Caught on Film - Tablet Magazine Tweet this news
Tablet Magazine--After submitting the report to his boss, SS chief -Heinrich Himmler-, Stroop was given a medal. The reason the Warsaw Ghetto could be described as a kind of ... - Date : Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:01:57 GMT+00:00
Confronting the Farhud - The Cutting Edge Tweet this news
The Cutting Edge---...- helped restore order, the Mufti fled again, this time to Germany, where he was taken under the personal auspices of Adolf Hitler and -Heinrich Himmler-. ... - Date : Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:36:24 GMT+00:00
Cigarette Warnings Go Gruesome: Did the Health Police Go Too Far? - CBS News Tweet this news
CBS News--Armed with such senior sanction -- loyally, Reichsfuhrer -Heinrich Himmler- banned SS men from smoking, though not shooting, on duty, and Propaganda Minister ... - Date : Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:31:16 GMT+00:00
This Week in History: Hitler assassination attempt bombs - Jerusalem Post Tweet this news
Jerusalem Post---...- where he was severely tortured by the Gestapo because SS chief -Heinrich Himmler- was not satisfied that a craftsman with a grade-school education could ... - Date : Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:59:24 GMT+00:00
'Re-enactments' distort reality of Nazism - Toledo Blade Tweet this news
Toledo Blade--The "Wiking" organization, named after the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, speaks of -Heinrich Himmler's- Black Corps as "valiant men [who] died defending ... - Date : Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:50:08 GMT+00:00

Government offices
Preceded by
Erhard Heiden
Reichsführer-SS
1929-1945
Succeeded by
Karl Hanke
Political offices
Preceded by
Wilhelm Frick
Interior Minister of Germany
1943-1945
Succeeded by
Wilhelm Stuckart
Military offices
Preceded by
None
Commander of Army Group Upper Rhine
10 December 1944-24 January 1945
Succeeded by
None
Preceded by
None
Commander of Army Group Vistula
25 January 1945-13 March 1945
Succeeded by
Generaloberst Gotthard Heinrici
(20 March)
Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Joseph Stalin
Cover of Time Magazine
12 February 1945
Succeeded by
William Hood Simpson


Members of Hitler's cabinet
(30 January 1933 � 30 April 1945)

Adolf Hitler (Chancellor and Führer) * Heinrich Himmler (Reichsführer)
Franz von Papen (ind) * Hermann Göring * Konstantin von Neurath * Joachim von Ribbentrop * Martin Bormann * Joseph Goebbels * Wilhelm Frick * Rudolf Hess * Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (ind) * Alfred Hugenberg (DNVP) * Kurt Schmitt * Hjalmar Schacht (ind) * Walther Funk * Franz Seldte * Franz Gürtner (DNVP) * Franz Schlegelberger * Otto Georg Thierack * Werner von Blomberg (ind) * Wilhelm Keitel (ind) * Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach (ind) * Julius Dorpmüller * Wilhelm Ohnesorge * Richard Walther Darré * Herbert Backe * Bernhard Rust * Fritz Todt * Albert Speer * Alfred Rosenberg * Hanns Kerrl * Hermann Muhs * Otto Meißner (ind) * Hans Lammers * Karl Hermann Frank * Ernst Röhm

Interior Ministers of Germany

Imperial Interior Secretaries
(1871 �1918) German Empire
Karl Hofmann * Karl Heinrich von Boetticher * Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner * Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg * Clemens von Delbrück * Karl Helfferich * Max Wallraf * Karl Trimborn
Weimar Republic
(1918 �1933) Weimar Republic
Friedrich Ebert * Hugo Preuß * Eduard David * Erich Koch-Weser * Georg Gradnauer * Adolf Köster * Rudolf Oeser * Wilhelm Sollmann * Karl Jarres * Martin Schiele * Otto Geßler * Wilhelm Külz * Walter von Keudell * Carl Severing * Joseph Wirth * Wilhelm Groener * Wilhelm von Gayl * Franz Bracht
Nazi Germany
(1933 �1945) Nazi DE
Wilhelm Frick * Heinrich Himmler * Paul Giesler * Wilhelm Stuckart
German Democratic Republic
(1949 �1990) GDR
Karl Steinhoff * Karl Maron * Friedrich Dickel * Lothar Ahrendt * Peter Michael Diestel
Federal Republic of Germany
(1949 �) DE
Gustav Heinemann * Robert Lehr * Gerhard Schröder * Hermann Höcherl * Paul Lücke * Ernst Benda * Hans-Dietrich Genscher * Werner Maihofer * Gerhart Baum * Jürgen Schmude * Friedrich Zimmermann * Wolfgang Schäuble * Rudolf Seiters * Manfred Kanther * Otto Schily * Wolfgang Schäuble * Thomas de Maizière

The Holocaust

Early elementsRacial policy * Nazi eugenics * Nuremberg Laws * Forced euthanasia
Concentration and Extermination campsAuschwitz-Birkenau * Bełżec * Bergen-Belsen * Bogdanovka * Buchenwald * Chełmno * Dachau * Flossenbürg * Gross-Rosen * Janowska * Jasenovac * Kaiserwald * Majdanek * Maly Trostenets * Mauthausen-Gusen * Neuengamme * Ravensbrück * Sachsenhausen * Sajmište * Salaspils * Sobibór * Stutthof * Theresienstadt * Treblinka * Uckermark
Jews
Jews in Nazi Germany (1933 �1939)
Pogroms: Kristallnacht * Bucharest * Dorohoi * Iaşi * Kaunas * Jedwabne * Lviv
Ghettos: Łachwa * Łódź * Lwów * Kraków * Budapest * Theresienstadt * Kovno * Vilna * Warsaw
Einsatzgruppen: Babi Yar * Rumbula * Ponary * Odessa * Erntefest * Ninth Fort
Final Solution: Wannsee * Operation Reinhard * Holocaust trains * Extermination camps
Resistance: Jewish partisans * Ghetto uprisings (Warsaw)
End of World War II: Death marches * Berihah * Displaced persons
Other victimsRomani people * Homosexuals * People with disabilities * Slavs in Eastern Europe * Poles * Soviet POWs * Jehovah's Witnesses * Serbs
Responsible partiesNazi Germany: Adolf Hitler * Heinrich Himmler * Ernst Kaltenbrunner * Reinhard Heydrich * Adolf Eichmann * Schutzstaffel * Gestapo * Sturmabteilung * Nazi Party * Rudolf Höss
Collaborators
AftermathNuremberg Trials * Denazification * Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany
ListsSurvivors * Victims * Rescuers
ResourcesThe Destruction of the European Jews * Functionalism versus intentionalism

Recipients of the Combined Pilots-Observation Badge in Gold with Diamonds

Karl Angerstein * Ion Antonescu * Italo Balbo * Werner Baumbach * Nicolaus von Below * Werner von Blomberg * Karl Bodenschatz * Alfonso de Orleans y Borbón * Bernd von Brauchitsch * Friedrich Christiansen * Otto Deßloch * Eduard Dietl * Josef Dietrich * Alfred Druschel * Karl Dönitz * Francisco Franco * Carl August Freiherr von Gablenz * Adolf Galland * Hubert-Marie Joseph de Geffrier * Gordon Gollob * Hermann Graf * Ulrich Grauert * Robert Ritter von Greim * Hermann Göring * Martin Harlinghausen * Erich Hartmann * Joachim Helbig * Hans-Joachim Herrmann * Heinrich Himmler * Miklós Horthy * Hans Jeschonnek * Josef Kammhuber * Paul Karadjordjevic * Gustav Kastner-Kirdorf * Alfred Keller * Albert Kesselring * Hans Kettenbeil * Alfredo Kindelán * Günther Korten * Helmut Lent * Bruno Loerzer * Günther Lützow * Alexander Löhr * Carl Gustav Emil Freiherr Mannerheim * Hans-Joachim Marseille * Erhard Milch * d'Astiè de la Vìgerie Moragilia * Werner Mölders * Frederick Navratil * Walter Nowotny * Walter Oesau * Albert Parani * Dietrich Peltz * Jacques Petitjean * Johann Pflugbeil * Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke * Hanna Reitsch * Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen * Erwin Rommel * Hans-Ulrich Rudel * Schmidlein * Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer * Otto Skorzény * Hugo Sperrle * Melitta Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg * Paul Stehlin * Kurt Student * Hans-Jürgen Stumpff * Heinrich Trettner * Ernst Udet * Ugo Valle * Joseph Vuillemin * Walther Wever



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