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History > WW2 > 1939-1945
Axis powers, Germany, Europe > Antisemitism, Adolf Hitler, Nazi era, Holocaust / Shoah, Samudaripen
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Heinrich Himmler 1900-1945
Time Covers - The 40S TIME cover: 02-12-1945 ill. of Germany's Nazi SS Gestapo leader Heinrich Himmler.
Date taken: February 12, 1945
Photographer: Ernest Hamlin Baker
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Himmler, the SS leader, fourth from right, visiting the Mauthausen concentration camp.
Huber is sixth from right, at center rear.
Photograph: Amical de Mauthausen
He Led Hitler’s Secret Police in Austria. Then He Spied for the West. Franz Josef Huber, responsible for deporting tens of thousands of Jews, escaped punishment with U.S. backing and went on to work for West German intelligence, newly disclosed records reveal. NYT Published April 5, 2021 Updated April 6, 2021, 6:07 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/
Gudrun with her father, center, during a visit to the Dachau concentration camp in Germany in 1941.
More than 30,000 prisoners died there.
Photograph: Alamy
Gudrun Burwitz, Ever-Loyal Daughter of Himmler, Is Dead at 88 NYT June 6, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/
Huber, far left, at a meeting with some of the Third Reich’s most high-profile war criminals, including (from left) Arthur Nebe, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Müller.
Photograph: ullstein bild, via Getty Images
He Led Hitler’s Secret Police in Austria. Then He Spied for the West. Franz Josef Huber, responsible for deporting tens of thousands of Jews, escaped punishment with U.S. backing and went on to work for West German intelligence, newly disclosed records reveal. NYT Published April 5, 2021 Updated April 6, 2021, 6:07 a.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/
Hitler/Jaeger File Reichs Veternans Day.
L to R: Martin Bormann, von Epp, and Heinrich Himmler.
Location: Kassel, Germany Date taken: June 04, 1939
Photographer: Hugo Jaeger
Hugo Jaeger was one of Hitler's personal photographers. http://www.life.com/image/ugc1000272/in-gallery/27022
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Gudrun Himmler with her father, Heinrich Himmler, in Berlin in 1938.
“Daddy has found it terribly difficult with the incredible amount of work,” she wrote in her diary in 1945.
“The Führer will not believe that the soldiers will no longer fight. Still, perhaps everything will turn out fine.”
Photograph: Associated Press
Gudrun Burwitz, Ever-Loyal Daughter of Himmler, Is Dead at 88 NYT June 6, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/
Heinrich Himmler 1900-1945
By June 1941, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Himmler controlled not only the police but the political administration of the occupied territories and, through his control of the SS, the concentration camp system.
In 1943, Hitler appointed Himmler minister for the interior.
In this post he oversaw the 'Final Solution' - the attempt to exterminate all the Jewish people in Europe - and administered the system of forced labour. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/himmler_heinrich.shtml
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/02/17/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/26/
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich 1904-1942
SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt-RSHA) and one of Reichsführer-SS (SS chief) Heinrich Himmler's top deputies http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005477
Heydrich was Hitler's right-hand man and was tipped to one day succeed the leader himself.
He was ruler of the occupied Czech Republic and by 1942 he had killed hundreds and was ferociously stamping out resistance. http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/local-history/training-assassins-for-a-nazi-attack.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/local-history/
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1925
Adolf Hitler establishes the SS
From modest beginnings the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons), became a virtual state within a state in Nazi Germany, staffed by men who perceived themselves as the “racial elite” of Nazi future.
In the Nazi state, the SS assumed leading responsibility for security, identification of ethnicity, settlement and population policy, and intelligence collection and analysis.
The SS controlled the German police forces and the concentration camp system.
The SS conceived and implemented plans designed to restructure the ethnic composition of eastern Europe and the occupied Soviet Union.
From 1939, the SS assumed responsibility for “solving” the so-calle Jewish Question;
after 1941, its leadership planned, coordinated and directed the so-called Final Solution of the Jewish Question.
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In 1925, Adolf Hitler, the Führer of the National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei-NSDAP), or Nazi party, established the SS.
Subordinated to the chief of staff of the SA (Sturmabteilungen; Assault Detachments), the SS had the following duties:
protecting Hitler and other Nazi leaders and speakers, providing security for political meetings, and soliciting subscribers to the Nazi party newspaper, Der Völkischer Beobachter (The Race-Conscious Observer).
On January 20, 1929, at a time when the SS numbered 280 men, Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler Reichsführer-SS (Reich Leader of the SS).
Himmler saw an opportunity to develop an elite corps of the Nazi party based on race-nationalist (völkisch) visions of “racial purity,” and loyalty to Hitler as the personification of the future of the German nation. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007400
In order to strengthen the position of the SS relative to the established German elites after a victorious war, SS chief Heinrich Himmler persuaded Hitler in late 1939 to permit the establishment of an armed SS force known as the Waffen SS.
Although initially restricted to four divisions, the Waffen SS eventually fielded more than 20 divisions, putting half a million men under arms and establishing a command and operations structure to rival the German Army. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007405
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