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Heinrich Himmler
born in Munich,
Bavaria, on Oct. 7,
1900.
 Himmler joined the
army in 1917 as an
officer cadet.
 Later he studied
agriculture and
economics.
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In January 1929 Himmler found his ‘’calling’’ with his appointment a
commander if the blackshirt SS.
In 1934 won control of the Gestapo (secret police).
In 1936 He is head of all German police forces.
In 1943 Hitler appointed him minister of the inferior.
In 1944 Himmler became director of home-front operations and chief
of the German armed forces operating within the borders of Germany.
In April he was captured by the British army. He was acheduled stand
trial with the other German leaders as a major war criminal, but
committed suicide shortly after his arrest.
 Himmler
took part in the Hitler Putch of
1923.
 In 1926 Himmler became assistant
propaganda leader of the Nazi Party.
 He joined the SS in 1925 and in 1929
became its head.
 Himmler was elected a Nazi Reichstag
deputy in 1930.
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1929 Himmler became assistant
propaganda leader of the Nazi Party.
 He joined the SS party in 1925 and in 1929
became its head.
 In September 1933
 Himmler was appointed commander of all
the political police.
 In January 1929 Himmler found his a
commander of the blackshirt SS.
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The Gestapo was founded
in 1933.
This foundation as a
nucleus the political
section of the police of the
Weimar Republic.
The Gestapo purpose was
to persecute all political
opponents of the Nazi
regime.
The Gestapo was to
collaborate with de SD .
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Holocaust was the system
sponsored murder of Jews
and others by the nazis
during World War 11
(1939-1945).
In addition to Jews, the
Nazis systematically killed
millions of other people
whom Hitler regarded as
racially inferior politically
dangerous.
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Himmler was squeamish, and one occasion
he almost fainted at the spectacle of a
hundred Jews, including woman, being shot
to death on the Russian front. This helped
lead to the introduction of poison gas as ´´a
more humane means´´ of execution´´.
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Himmler gained jurisdiction over the courts
and the civil service as well. He used these
powers to exploit Jews ans Slavs as as salve
labores, to gas millions of Jews, and to
institute pseudo-medical experiments on
“asocial individuals” (Jews, Gypsies, and
criminals), to determine their resistance to
extremes of cold and decompression.
The killing of the Jews represented for
Himmler the fulfillment of a mission.
The “Final Solution” was the means to
achieve the racial supremacy of the “Aryan”
and purify the world contamination by
subhumans.
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By the time of the
invasion of the Soviet
Union in 1941, Himmler
controlled all the organs of
police and intelligence
power, and through the SS
he dominated the
concentration and
extermination camps in
Poland.
Himmler made a
number of gestures,
apparently hoping to
ingratiate himself with
the allies.
 Himmler assumed a
false indenty and tried
to escape, but he was
captured by British
troops.
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