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1 day ago · 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.
- 1917–1918 (Army), 1925–1945 (SS)
- Bavarian People's Party (1919–1923)
- Technical University of Munich
- Nazi Party (1923-1945)
10 hours ago · From the beginning, Himmler expressed a desire to differentiate the Nazi “treatment of alien races” from the Soviet treatment of unwanted ethnicities and classes. In May 1940 Himmler explicitly rejected the notion of “physical extermination” as “Bolshevist and un-Germanic.” That was 1940. After Barbarossa, things got complicated.
2 days ago · Responsibility for the Holocaust is the subject of an ongoing historical debate that has spanned several decades. The debate about the origins of the Holocaust is known as functionalism versus intentionalism. Intentionalists such as Lucy Dawidowicz argue that Adolf Hitler planned the extermination of the Jewish people as early as 1918 and ...
5 days ago · Heinrich Himmler, the mastermind behind the SS and the Holocaust, and his rise to power.
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3 days ago · Original deportations from the Reich, and inside occupied Poland, were one element of a vision of a racially-restructured Europe, personified in Himmler’s appointment as the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Ethnic Germandom. Götz Aly’s wider contribution to historiography is to demonstrate that antisemitism could function as a ...
