In total, close to six million Jews were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. He was given control of the concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and by spring that year it was greatly expanded to include gas chambers. In 1942 he was charged with control of 'the final solution to the Jewish problem' - the Holocaust. men, and declared that alternative methods of genocide be found. He deciding that having to witness such killings might affect the mental health of his S.S. In 1941, Himmler was present at the shooting of 100 Jews by firing squad in Minsk. Himmler was obsessed with the idea of the Germans as the Aryan race and racial purification and encouraged Aryans to only breed with each other in special programmes he set up.ĭuring the Second World War, after Hitler had successfully invaded Poland, he was able to force more than a million Poles and 300,000 Jews out of the west of the country. He became president of the Gestapo (Secret State Police) once the Nazis had come to power in 1933, and set up the very first Nazi concentration camp, Dachau, the same year. Himmler developed it from a 290-man battalion to a huge group with its own military.
the Schutzstaffel - a major organisation and Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard, which became one of the most powerful organisations under his leadership during the Third Reich. His first involvement with the Nazis was in 1923, and he was their propaganda leader between 19. The son of a school teacher, Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich on October 7, 1900, and went on to become the architect of the Holocaust and one of the Nazi party's most dreadful chiefs.
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