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Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluːɪtpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐ] ⓘ; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, primarily known for being a main architect of the Holocaust.
Feb 3, 2010 · On May 23, 1945, Heinrich Himmler, chief of the SS, assistant chief of the Gestapo, and architect of Hitler’s program to exterminate European Jews, dies by suicide one day after being...
May 19, 2024 · Heinrich Himmler was buried in an unmarked grave by British military authorities somewhere near Lüneburg, Germany. Heinrich Himmler (born October 7, 1900, Munich, Germany—died May 23, 1945, Lüneburg , Germany) was a German Nazi politician, police administrator, and military commander who became the second most powerful man in the Third Reich .
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- Although Heinrich Himmler’s education was interrupted by World War I, he completed high school in 1919 but did not see combat. He graduated with a...
- Heinrich Himmler was one of the most powerful figures in the Third Reich, overseeing the creation and management of the vast Nazi police state as w...
- With Soviet armies fighting in the streets of Berlin, Heinrich Himmler tried to circumvent Adolf Hitler and make a separate peace with the Western...
May 24, 2023 · At least one death mask of Himmler was taken. On 25 May an autopsy was conducted, the teeth configuration compared, and the brain and part of his skeleton removed. Shortly afterward, Himmler’s body was buried in an unmarked grave near Lüneburg.
Thus ends the official account of how Himmler died—suicide by poison. For nearly 60 years only historians of the Third Reich had concerned themselves (if at all) with the manner of Heinrich Himmler’s death. All of them had been content to accept the British Army’s account that he had died in captivity by his own hand.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was the Reich Leader (Reichsführer) of the dreaded SS of the Nazi Party from 1929 until 1945. Himmler presided over a vast ideological and bureaucratic empire that defined him for many—both inside and outside the Third Reich—as the second most powerful man after Adolf Hitler in Germany during World War II.
May 26, 2015 · History states that Heinrich Himmler, to cheat the gallows, bit on a cyanide tablet embedded in one of his teeth and died as a result. Himmler, after the death of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, was probably the most prized catch out of all the senior figures in Nazi Germany.
