German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS & main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
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He turned a 290-man bodyguard unit into the apparatus of the Holocaust. As head of the SS from 1929 and architect of the extermination camps, he oversaw the murder of six million Jews and millions more across occupied Europe.
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler served in a reserve battalion in World War I without seeing combat, then joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and the SS two years later. By 1929 he led the SS, transforming it from a small paramilitary group into one of Nazi Germany's most powerful institutions through what became known as strong organisational skill and the selection of subordinates like Reinhard Heydrich. From 1943 he controlled all German police and security forces as Chief of the Kriminalpolizei and Minister of the Interior, as well as the combat-deployed Waffen-SS. He operated the concentration and ext…
Sourced, dated quotes from Heinrich Himmler
I don't want to hear anymore of your difficulties. For an SS officer there are no difficulties; his duty is always to remove difficulties himself as soon as they arise.
It is a war of ideologies and a struggle of races. On one side stands National Socialism: ideology, founded on the values of our Germanic, Nordic blood.
I hope to see the very concept of Jewry completely obliterated.
One rejects as un-German and impossible the Bolshevist method of physical extermination of a people.
We won't waste much time on the Jews. It's great to get to grips with the Jewish race at last. The more that die the better; hitting them represents a victory for our Reich.
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