Heinrich Himmler

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Heinrich Himmler
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Introduction

• Heinrich Himmler born in Munich, Bavaria, on Oct.
  7, 1900.
• Himmler joined the army in 1917 as an officer
  cadet.
• Later he studied agriculture and economics.

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TIMELINE

• In January 1929 Himmler found his calling
  with his appointment a commander if the
  blackshirt SS.
• In 1934 won control of the Gestapo (secret
  police).
• In 1936 He is head of all German police forces.
• In 1943 Hitler appointed him minister of the
  inferior.
• In 1944 Himmler became director of home-front
  operations and chief of the German armed forces
  operating within the borders of Germany.
• In April he was captured by the British army. He
  was acheduled stand trial with the other German
  leaders as a major war criminal, but committed
  suicide shortly after his arrest.

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Heinrich Himmler

• Himmler took part in the Hitler Putch of 1923.
• In 1926 Himmler became assistant propaganda
  leader of the Nazi Party.
• He joined the SS in 1925 and in 1929 became its
  head.
• Himmler was elected a Nazi Reichstag deputy in
  1930.

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HIMMLER DURING WAR

• In 1929 Himmler became assistant propaganda
  leader of the Nazi Party.
• He joined the SS party in 1925 and in 1929
  became its head.
• In September 1933
• Himmler was appointed commander of all the
  political police.
• In January 1929 Himmler found his a commander of
  the blackshirt SS.

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GESTAPO

• The Gestapo was founded in 1933.
• This foundation as a nucleus the political
  section of the police of the Weimar Republic.
• The Gestapo purpose was to persecute all
  political opponents of the Nazi regime.
• The Gestapo was to collaborate with de SD .

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HOLOCAUST

• Holocaust was the system sponsored murder of Jews
  and others by the nazis during World War 11
  (1939-1945).
• In addition to Jews, the Nazis systematically
  killed millions of other people whom Hitler
  regarded as racially inferior politically
  dangerous.

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• Himmler was squeamish, and one occasion he almost
  fainted at the spectacle of a hundred Jews,
  including woman, being shot to death on the
  Russian front. This helped lead to the
  introduction of poison gas as a more humane
  means of execution.
• Himmler gained jurisdiction over the courts and
  the civil service as well. He used these powers
  to exploit Jews ans Slavs as as salve labores, to
  gas millions of Jews, and to institute
  pseudo-medical experiments on asocial
  individuals (Jews, Gypsies, and criminals), to
  determine their resistance to extremes of cold
  and decompression.
• The killing of the Jews represented for Himmler
  the fulfillment of a mission.
• The Final Solution was the means to achieve the
  racial supremacy of the Aryan and purify the
  world contamination by subhumans.

MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
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CONCENTRATION CAMP MAP
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NAZICAMPS
NAZICAMPS

• By the time of the invasion of the Soviet Union
  in 1941, Himmler controlled all the organs of
  police and intelligence power, and through the SS
  he dominated the concentration and extermination
  camps in Poland.

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THE END OF THE WAR

• Himmler made a number of gestures, apparently
  hoping to ingratiate himself with the allies.
• Himmler assumed a false indenty and tried to
  escape, but he was captured by British troops.

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BY CLAUDIA CORTEZ