Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was the Reich Leader from the dreaded SS Nazi party from 1929 until 1945. Himmler presided over a huge ideological and bureaucratic empire that defined him for many - both inside and outside the Third Reich - as the second most powerful man in Germany during the Second World War. Given the overall responsibility for the safety of the Nazi empire, Himmler was a key and senior Nazi official responsible for conceiving and overseeing implementation of the so-called final solution, the Nazi plan to kill Jews in Europe.

Himmler was born into a middle class, conservative Catholic family in Munich, Germany, October 7, 1900. His father, Gebhard, taught at the Ludwig-academic school (high school) in Munich. In 1913, Himmler's family moved to Landshut, a city located about 40 miles north-east of Munich, after Himmler took the work of senior assistant director of the Gymnasium in Landshut. Intelligent boy with good potential for the organization, the young Himmler was passionately patriotic. During World War II, he dreamed about the service at the front of the officer and using his connections reluctant father, graduated from high school to begin training as an officer candidate at January 1, 1918. 11 November 1918, however, Himmler before training was completed, Germany signed an armistice that would end World War I.

Himmler had graduated from high school in Landshut in July 1919. After the restrictions imposed on Germany, the Treaty of Versailles dashed his hopes of joining the army. He studied agriculture at the Technical University in Munich. There he joined the brotherhood of the German nationalist student and began to read deeply into the racist-nationalist popular literature on the radical right of the interwar German political spectrum. By the time he graduated in August 1922, Himmler was a fanatical nationalist Volkisch and political activist.

Forced to take a job in the manure-processing plant in Schleissheim, near Munich, Himmler came into contact with the National Socialists through the SA Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm. In August 1923 he joined the Nazi party, which he has devoted his career after he left his job a month later. November 9, 1923 Himmler went with Hitler, Roehm, Hermann Goering and other Nazi leaders in the Beer Hall Putsch against the German government.

Unemployed and on the risers after the collapse of the coup, Himmler had found a job as a secretary and personal assistant to Gregor Strasser, whom Hitler appointed Reich propaganda leader of the Nazi Party in 1926. Himmler also built his own reputation in the party, as a speaker and organizer. His speech emphasized the following topics: "race consciousness," the cult of the German race, the need to expand and German settlements, and the fight against the eternal enemies of Germany. These are "eternal enemies" were "Jewish" capital "of Marxism" (ie, socialism, communism and anarchism), liberal democracy, and the Slavic peoples. As he built his political reputation, he found time in 1928 to marry Margaret Conczerzowo, who bore him a daughter, Gudrun, in 1929.

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