Himmler biography germany
Himmler biography germany
Himmler biography germany and poland.
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluːɪtˌpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐ] (listen); 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was as German high-ranking Nazipolitician.
He led the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Gestapo before and during World War II.
Himmler played a central role in planning the Holocaust and making it happen. (So did his deputy, Reinhard Heydrich.) Himmler created and controlled the Nazi concentration camps,[1] where millions of people died.[2]
For his central role in the Holocaust, Himmler has been described as an "architect" of genocide, terror, and the Final Solution.[3][4][5]
Of the top leaders in the Nazi Party, Himmler was one of the youngest and one of the few who had not fought in World War I.
He was involved in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch; the 1934 Night of the Long Knives (where he and Heydrich[5] organized the murder of SA leader Ernst Röhm); and Kristallnacht/Night Of The Broken G