When he was about to depart for Finland, Himmler reportedly asked Talvela to become the head of a pro-German faction in Finland.

The vault allegedly dubbed the Himmler Crypt, was ( allegedly ) dedicated to Heinrich I, founder and first king of the medieval German state ( see East Francia ), of whom Himmler reportedly believed himself to be the reincarnation, and where he hoped to be interred after his death.

Himmler reportedly said he thought " that a fisherwoman could well take her half-frozen husband into her bed and revive him in that manner " and added that everyone believed " animal warmth " had a different effect than artificial warmth.

Himmler and Heydrich wanted to extend the power of the SS ; thus, they urged Hitler to form a national police force overseen by the SS, to guard Nazi Germany against its many enemies at the time — real and imagined.

In 1934 SS-leader Heinrich Himmler signed a 100-mark 100-year lease with the Paderborn district, initially intending to renovate and redesign the castle as a " Reich SS Leadership School " (" Reichsführerschule SS ").

Himmler wanted a castle in the " core-region of Hermann der Cherusker " for the SS.

Also working at the castle were proponents of a kind of SS esotericism consisting of Germanic mysticism, an ancestor cult, worship of runes, and racial doctrines: Himmler, for example, adapted the idea of the Grail to create a heathen mystery for the SS.

No proof exists that Himmler wanted a Grail castle, but redesign of the castle by the SS referred to certain characters in the legends of the Grail: for example, one of the arranged study rooms was named Gral (" Grail "), and others, König Artus (" King Arthur "), König Heinrich (" King Henry "), Heinrich der Löwe (" Henry the Lion "), Widukind, Christoph Kolumbus (" Christopher Columbus "), Arier (" Aryan "), Jahrlauf (" course of the seasons "), Runen (" runes "), Westfalen (" Westphalia "), Deutscher Orden (" Teutonic Order "), Reichsführerzimmer (" Room of the Empires Leader ( s )"; " Reichsführer-SS ", or " the Empire's Leader of the SS " was Himmler's title ), Fridericus ( probably in reference to Frederick II of Prussia ), tolle Christian ( probably referring to Christian the Younger of Brunswick, Bishop of Halberstadt ), and Deutsche Sprache (" German language ").

Since 1936 Himmler ( who was often present at the castle ) wanted more and more to expand the Wewelsburg to be a representative and ideological center of the SS Order.

In 1939 Himmler forbade publishing anything about the castle.

Towards the end of the war Himmler ordered that Wewelsburg castle should become the " Reichshaus der SS-Gruppenführer " ( Reich-House of the SS-Gruppenführer ).

* In 1938, Siegfried Taubert was in charge of developing the castle, when Himmler inquired about the cost of installing a planetarium.

Begun on June 17, 1940, the camp was completed the following year and named after Niederhagen Forest, the name Himmler had given to the forest outside the castle several years earlier.

The town and castle of Wewelsburg, the Reichs SS Leadership School, as also some of the castle's illustrious patrons and visitors like Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, Karl Maria Willigut, SS-Obengrupenführer and chief of the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt ( including the Gestapo and Kripo ) Reinhard Heydrich, and SS-Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe play a prominent part in the 1990 novel The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr.

* Wewelsburg-a castle near Büren in the Paderborn district of Westphalia, taken over and restored by Heinrich Himmler as an SS officers ' training school and cult center.

Similarly, SS chief Heinrich Himmler had made similar plans, centred on the Baltic coastal region and set up a new headquarters in a castle on the Bay of Lübeck.

* 1942 – Holocaust: Porajmos – Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.

The new Volkssturm was also to become a nation-wide organization, with Heinrich Himmler, as Replacement Army Commander, responsible for armament and training.

Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and one of the persons most directly responsible for the Holocaust.

In 1923 – 24, Himmler, while searching for a world view, moved away from Catholicism and furthered his interest both in the occult and in antisemitism.

Convinced that Himmler was the man for the job, Hitler appointed him Deputy Reichsführer-SS, with the rank of SS-Oberführer.

When Hitler and his army chiefs asked for a pretext for the invasion of Poland in 1939, Himmler, Heydrich, and Heinrich Müller masterminded and carried out a false flag project code-named Operation Himmler.

On 21 June 1941, the day before invasion of the Soviet Union, Himmler commissioned the preparation of the Generalplan Ost ( General Plan for the East ); the plan was finalised in July 1942.

Himmler, declaring that the war in the east was a pan-European crusade to defend the traditional values of old Europe from the " godless Bolshevik hordes ", attracted volunteers from all over Europe for the Waffen-SS.

On 9 June, after discussions with Himmler and Karl Hermann Frank, Hitler ordered brutal reprisals for Heydrich's death.

As Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood, Himmler was deeply involved in the Germanization program for the East, particularly Poland.

By November 1944 Himmler had merged the army officer recruitment department with that of the Waffen-SS and had successfully lobbied for an increase in the quotas for recruits to the SS.

By this time, Hitler had appointed Himmler as Minister of the Interior and Plenipotentiary General for Administration ( Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung ).

As head of the Reserve Army, Himmler was now responsible for prisoners of war.

Himmler and Hitler met for the last time on 20 April 1945 — Hitler's birthday — in Berlin, and Himmler swore total loyalty to Hitler.

The Ahnenerbe, a research society founded by Himmler in 1935, conducted research all over the globe to look for proof of the superiority and ancient origins of the Germanic race.

As second in command of the SS and then Reichsführer-SS, Himmler was in regular contact with Hitler to arrange for SS men as bodyguards ; Himmler was not involved with Nazi Party policy-making decisions in the years leading up to the seizure of power.

Himmler was constantly away on party business, so his wife took charge of their efforts — mostly unsuccessful — to raise livestock for sale.

Margarete, by then living in Gmund with her daughter, learned of the relationship sometime in 1941 ; she and Himmler were already separated, and she decided to tolerate the relationship for the sake of her daughter.

In a climactic battle, Blazkowicz destroys the three Dark Knights and Heinrich I, as SS chief Heinrich Himmler watches in horror, remarking afterwards " This American ... he has ruined everything ".

These are the twelve compartments (*), they were created according to mystic-confused things with which Himmler liked to play, of the Round Table of King Arthur.

Allegedly, the design was drawn for Heinrich Himmler from an " old Aryan emblem ", and was meant to mimic the Round table of Arthurian legend with each spoke of the sun wheel representing one " knight " or Officer of the " inner " SS.

Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of SS national leader, Heinrich Himmler who in 1936 was appointed Chief of German Police ( Chef der Deutschen Polizei ) by Hitler.

Also on that date, Hitler appointed Himmler chief of all German police outside Prussia.

On 17 June 1936 Hitler appointed Himmler as Chief of all German police and decreed the unification of all police forces.

After Heydrich's 1942 assassination, Himmler assumed the leadership of the RSHA, but in January 1943 Ernst Kaltenbrunner was appointed Chief of the RSHA.

However Himmler, who had been appointed Chef der Deutschen Polizei ( Chief of German Police ) by Hitler, controlled the SS, the Gestapo, the Orpo ( uniformed police ) and all investigation units.

Strasser appointed Himmler deputy propaganda chief in January 1927.

In March 1933, Reich Governor of Bavaria Franz Ritter von Epp appointed Himmler chief of the Munich Police.

Himmler appointed Heydrich commander of Department IV, the political police.

Himmler appointed Theodor Eicke, a convicted felon and ardent Nazi, to run the camp in June 1933.

Also on that date, Hitler appointed Himmler chief of all German police outside Prussia.

Frick acquiesced, and on 17 June 1936 Hitler appointed Himmler as Chief of German Police and decreed the unification of all police forces.

In late 1944, Hitler appointed Himmler commander-in-chief of Army Group Upper Rhine.

In the summer of 1932, Himmler appointed Heydrich chief of the renamed security service — the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD ).

On January 6, 1929, Hitler appointed Himmler as the leader of the SS, and by the end of 1932, the SS had 52, 000 members.

Himmler appointed a former naval officer, Reinhard Heydrich, to organise the small agency.

Karl Georg Eberhard Schöngarth ( 22 April 1903 – 16 May 1946 ) was a German Nazi, appointed SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei ( Brigadier General ) on Himmler ’ s orders in 1943.

who was his second-in-command and Interior minister Heinrich Himmler after each of them separately tried to seize control of the crumbling Third Reich. Hitler in their place appointed his successors as follows ; Großadmiral Karl Dönitz as the new Reichspräsident (" President of Germany ") and Joseph Goebbels as the new Reichskanzler ( Chancellor of Germany ).

On 26 June 1933, Himmler appointed him commandant of Dachau after complaints and criminal proceedings against former commandant SS-Sturmbannführer Hilmar Wäckerle following the murder of several detainees under the " guise of punishment ".

After Eicke was reassigned to combat duty, Richard Glücks his deputy, was appointed the new CCI chief by Himmler.

On 4 October 1939, because of his ambition and his loyalty to the party, Heinrich Himmler, appointed him to as Higher SS and Police Leader ( HSSPF East ) ( Höherer SS-und Polizeiführer ) in the part of German-occupied Poland called the General Government.

In 1932 he joined the staff of the Völkischer Beobachter as a political correspondent, catching the eye of Heinrich Himmler who in March 1935 appointed him editor of the official SS paper, Das Schwarze Korps.

D ' Alquen himself became a prominent SS war reporter after September 1939 and towards the end of the war was appointed by Himmler as head of the Wehrmacht propaganda department.