Heinrich Himmler
10/7/1900
Biography
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 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 one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany as well as one of the persons most directly responsible for the Holocaust. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Heinrich Himmler licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Heinrich Himmler
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Night and Fog
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Opus pro smrtihlava
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To Arms, We Are Fascists!
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Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
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The Victory of Faith
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The March on Rome
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Hitler: A Career
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Verbotene Liebe - Queere Opfer der NS-Diktatur
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Ich habe meine Pflicht getan
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Belgique nazie
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The Battle of France
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The Private Voice of Hitler
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In Love with Adolf Hitler
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Secrets of the Nazi Criminals
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Dawn of the Nazis
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Hitler's Evil Science
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Wizards
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Will It Happen Again?
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Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals
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The Decent One
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Adolf Hitler - Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer: Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte
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Stolen Children
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All Against All
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Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer
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I 600 giorni di Salò
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Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth
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Distant Journey