Heinrich Luitpold Himmler

Reichsführer-SS

In office

1929 – 1945

Leader Adolf Hitler

Preceded by Erhard Heiden

Succeeded by Karl Hanke

Reich Minister of the Interior

In office

1943 – 1945

Chancellor Adolf Hitler

Preceded by Wilhelm Frick

Succeeded by Wilhelm Stuckart

Born 7 October, 1900

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Died 23 May, 1945 (aged 44)

Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

Political party National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP)

Spouse Margarete Bode

The Holocaust

Early elements

Racial policy · Nazi eugenics · Nuremberg Laws · Forced euthanasia · Concentration camps (list)

Jews

Jews in Nazi Germany (1933–1939)

Pogroms: Kristallnacht · Bucharest · Dorohoi · Iaşi · Kaunas · Jedwabne · Lviv

Ghettos: Łachwa · Łódź · Lwów · Kraków · Budapest · Theresienstadt · Kovno · Vilna · Warsaw

Einsatzgruppen: Babi Yar · Rumbula · Ponary · Odessa · Erntefest · Ninth Fort ·

Final Solution: Wannsee · Operation Reinhard · Holocaust trains

Concentration camps:

Auschwitz-Birkenau · Bełżec · Chełmno · Majdanek · Sobibór · Treblinka · Bogdanovka · Jasenovac · Kaiserwald · Maly Trostenets · Mauthausen · Sajmište · Sachsenhausen · Uckermark ·

Resistance: Jewish partisans · Ghetto uprisings (Warsaw)

End of World War II: Death marches · Berihah · Displaced persons

Other victims

Romani people · Homosexuals · Disabled individuals · Slavs in Eastern Europe · Poles · Soviet POWs · Jehovah’s Witnesses · Serbs

Responsible parties

Nazi Germany: Adolf Hitler · Heinrich Himmler · Ernst Kaltenbrunner · Reinhard Heydrich · Adolf Eichmann · Schutzstaffel · Gestapo · Sturmabteilung · Nazi Party · Rudolf Höss

Collaborators

Aftermath: Nuremberg Trials · Denazification · Reparations Agreement

between Israel and West Germany

Lists

Survivors · Victims · Rescuers

Resources

The Destruction of the European Jews Functionalism versus intentionalism

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Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( listen (help·info) October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was a Nazi German politician and head of the Schutzstaffel (SS). He was the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany, after Adolf Hitler. As Reichsführer-SS he oversaw all police and security forces, including the Gestapo.

As overseer of concentration camps, extermination camps, and Einsatzgruppen (literally: task forces, often used as killing squads), Himmler coordinated the killing of millions of Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma,[1][2] many prisoners of war, and possibly another three to four million Poles, communists, or other groups whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live or simply ‘in the way’, which included homosexuals and those with physical and mental disabilities. Shortly before the end of the war, he offered to surrender to the Allies if he were spared from prosecution. After being arrested by British forces, he committed suicide before he could be questioned.

Himmler has been named Greatest Mbum Murderer of All Time by German news magazine Der Spiegel.[3]