heinrich himmler

Heinrich Himmler was a Nazi leader in Germany. He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, appointed Commander of the Home Army by Adolf Hitler. Himmler is held highly responsible for the Holocaust. Himmler joined the Nazi party in 1923 and is credited for expanding the SS from a group of military men numbering 290 members, into a paramilitary group numbering one-million. Under Hitler's orders, he set up, organized, and controlled concentration camps and built extermination camps. He was responsible for overseeing all security forces, including the Gestapo, and directed the extermination of Jews. Towards the end of the war, realizing that defeat was near, Himmler attempted to instigate talks with the Western allies. When hearing of this, Hitler dismissed Himmler from his posts and sought his arrest. Himmler was instead arrested by British forces when attempting to flee. He committed suicide on May 23, 1945, while in British custody.
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Une plaque commémorative à Yad Vashem

Shoah : ne jamais oublier de se souvenir

Le 27 janvier 1945, le camp d’Auschwitz était libéré. Cette date marque également la Journée internationale dédiée à la mémoire des victimes de l’Holocauste

By ROBERT SPIRA
29/01/2017
The 'Decent One' movie

Himmler’s diary discovered in Russia

He writes in 1943 about witnessing the “effectiveness” of the diesel engines used to gas prisoners at the Sobibor death camp.

By JTA
01/08/2016
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Wiesenthal Center: Love letters from Himmler should not diminish horrific crimes

In one telling letter, Himmler wrote his wife Margarethe, “I am traveling to Auschwitz. Kisses, your Heini.”

Israeli high school students at Treblinka

British auctioneer’s Holocaust letter may be a fake

Letter describes the transportation of 5,000 Jews daily to the Treblinka extermination camp.

By JTA
09/08/2013
Bombed out Egged bus in Jerusalem [illustrative]

Himmler meets jihad in a Paris art museum

Photo exhibition to honor Palestinian suicide bombers, whom it rebaptizes as “freedom fighters”, comparing them with French World War II resistance maquis.

Mass grave from the Holocaust, Riga, Latvia.

The forgotten

Latvian and Estonian Jews bemoan the fact that their story has been overlooked in the annals of Holocaust history.

By JON IMMANUEL
10/12/2010
Holocaust scholar Mark Gould.

US Jew who posed as neo-Nazi sues ex-SS officer

Mark Gould filmed hours of interviews with Bernhard Frank, who said he was an aide to Heinrich Himmler; top Nazi hunter says report overblown.

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
08/12/2010
Christaller. Not simply a functionary.

Hitler’s geographer: Walter Christaller and Nazi Academics

Who was Walter Christaller, and why do so many still deem it necessary to whitewash his employment under Heinrich Himmler?

By SETH FRANTZMAN
27/08/2010
On set of Jew Suss

Dr. Faustus?

A new documentary has Nazi director Veit Harlan’s family dissecting the man who made the most-watched propaganda film of the era.

By NATHAN BURSTEIN
12/03/2010
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