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Heinrich Himmler was a leading member of the Nazi Party, one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, and a chief architect of the Holocaust (1938). Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons (German Federal Archives) As Reichsführer (National Leader) of the SS , Heinrich Himmler was by the end of World War II the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany.
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May 29, 2018 · German military commander Heinrich Himmler became a key organizer and officer-in-charge of Nazi Germany's infamous concentration camps during World War II (1939–45). The camps included the death, also known as extermination, camps, where millions of people were murdered in a very businesslike manner.
Heinrich Himmler, (born Oct. 7, 1900, Munich, Ger.—died May 23, 1945, Lüneburg), German Nazi police administrator who became the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. He joined the Nazi Party in 1925 and rose to become head of Adolf Hitler ’s SS.
