Auschwitz II – Birkenau was designated by the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Germany's Minister of the Interior, as the place of the " final solution of the Jewish question in Europe ".

His research attracted the attention of the Nazi government and in particular of Heinrich Himmler, who made him archaeologist in the SS.

* 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.

Heinrich Himmler was the chief architect of the plan, and the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler termed it " the final solution of the Jewish question " ().

Heinrich Himmler ( beside prisoner ) visiting the Dachau Concentration Camp in 1936

In 1942, the Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler ordered the Lublin District SS-und Polizeiführer Odilo Globocnik to build the first extermination camps during Aktion Reinhard ( 1941 – 43 ), the operation to annihilate every Jew in the General Government ( occupied Poland ).

Numerous future members and leaders of the Nazi Party had served in the Freikorps, including Ernst Röhm, future head of the Sturmabteilung, or SA, Heinrich Himmler, future head of the Schutzstaffel, or SS, and Rudolf Höß, the future Kommandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Adolf Eichmann and Heinrich Himmler knew Gemma was Fiorello's sister and ordered her held as a political prisoner.

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.

Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring at the meeting to formally hand over control of the Gestapo ( Berlin, 1934 ).

In this, he ran into conflict with Heinrich Himmler, who was police chief of the second most powerful German state, Bavaria.

1939 photograph ; shown from left to right are Franz Josef Huber, Arthur Nebe, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Müller ( Gestapo ) | Heinrich Müller.

The Gestapo ( secret police ) under Heinrich Himmler destroyed the political opposition and persecuted the Jews, trying to force them into exile, while taking their property.

The SS became an independent organisation under the command of the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler.

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945 ) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel ( SS ), a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) of Nazi Germany.

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was born in Munich on 7 October 1900 to a conservative Roman Catholic middle-class family.

Heinrich was named after his godfather, Prince Heinrich of Bavaria of the royal family of Bavaria, who was tutored by Gebhard Himmler.

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler

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.

Heinrich Himmler in 1945

However, the inability of Himmler to persuade Hitler to cease his support of Bormann, the defection of SS generals such as Obergruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and his powerful subordinate Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo, to Bormann, soon persuaded Goebbels to align himself with the Secretary to the Führer at the end of 1944, thus accepting his subordinate position.

Heinrich Müller became Gestapo Chief, Arthur Nebe, chief of the Criminal Police ( Kripo ), and the two branches of SD were commanded by various SS officers such as Otto Ohlendorf and Walter Schellenberg.

The operational sections of the SD became ( department ) Amt III and for foreign intelligence, Amt VI ; the Gestapo became Amt IV and the Kripo became Amt V. Otto Ohlendorf was named the Chief of Amt III, the SD-Inland ( within Germany ); Heinrich Müller was named the Chief of Amt IV, the Gestapo ; Artur Nebe was named the Chief of Amt V ; and Walter Schellenberg became Chief of Amt VI, the SD-Ausland ( outside Germany ).

" The Rouse " is then sounded by the trumpeters of the Royal Air Force, after which wreaths are laid by the Queen and senior members of the Royal Family attending in military uniform and then, to " Beethoven's Funeral March " ( composed by Johann Heinrich Walch ), by attendees in the following order: the Prime Minister ; the leaders of the major political parties from all parts of the United Kingdom ; Commonwealth High Commissioners to London, on behalf of their respective nations ; the Foreign Secretary, on behalf of the British Dependencies ; the First Sea Lord ; the Chief of the General Staff ; the Chief of the Air Staff ; representatives of the merchant navy and Fishing Fleets and the merchant air service.

A political struggle within the party grew, with those closest to Hitler, including Prussian premier Hermann Göring, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and SS Chief Heinrich Himmler positioning themselves against Röhm.

The Gestapo became Amt IV ( Department IV ) of RSHA and Heinrich Müller became the Gestapo Chief, with Heydrich as his immediate superior.

Heinrich Himmler, then Chief of Police of Munich, officially described the camp as " the first concentration camp for political prisoners.

The book also includes ( identified ) speculation, such as the theory that SS Chief Heinrich Müller afterward joined the NKVD of the USSR.

By 22 April the last organized resistance ended with the capture of Gen. Heinz Kokott, commanding officer of the 26th Volks Grenadier Div and brother-in-law of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler.

General Heinrich von Vietinghoff, who had taken command of Army Group C after Kesselring had been transferred to become Commander in Chief of the Western Front ( OB West ) at the end of 1944, signed the instrument of surrender on behalf of the German armies in Italy on 29 April, formally bringing hostilities to an end on 2 May 1945.

Heinrich Himmler, then Chief of Police of Munich, officially described the camp as " the first concentration camp for political prisoners.

This was followed by a long lunch at 2 pm, where Hitler would invariably sit in the same place, as he did at every meal, between Jodl and Otto Dietrich, the Nazi Press Chief, while opposite him sat Keitel, Hitler's secretary, Martin Bormann and General Karl Heinrich Bodenschatz, Goering's adjutant.

The RSHA, or Reichssicherheitshauptamt ( Reich Main Security Office or Reich Security Main Office or Reich Security Head Office ) was an organization subordinate to Heinrich Himmler in his dual capacities as Chef der Deutschen Polizei ( Chief of German Police ) and Reichsführer-SS.

In March 1944, after the ' Great Escape ' from Stalag Luft III POW camp, Nebe was ordered by Heinrich Müller, Chief of the Gestapo ( Amt IV, or Department 4, of the RSHA ), to choose 50 of the 73 captured prisoners to be executed in the Stalag Luft III murders.

Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Waldersee ( 8 April 1832, Potsdam – 5 March 1904, Hanover ) was a German Generalfeldmarschall who served as Chief of the Imperial German General Staff from 1888 to 1891 and as Allied Supreme Commander in China in 1900-1901.

However, his protests produced no condemnations of such behavior, and merely earned him the enmity of Hans Frank, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, and Adolf Hitler, while Chief of Staff Alfred Jodl dismissed them as naive and " uncalled for ".

He became Chief of Personal Staff to the Reichsführer ( Heinrich Himmler ) and SS Liaison Officer to Hitler until his replacement in 1943.

* HIMMLER, Heinrich ( 1900 – 1945 ) Reichsführer-SS, Chief of the German Police and Minister of the Interior

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler was named Chef der Deutschen Polizei im Reichsministerium des Innern ( Chief of German Police in the Interior Ministry ) on 17 June 1936 after Hitler announced a decree which was to " unify the control of police duties in the Reich ".

On 13 October 1941, Heinrich Himmler gave SS and Police Leader Lublin, SS Brigadeführer Odilo Globocnik, two orders which were closely connected with each other: to start Germanizing the area around Zamość and to start work on the first German Nazi extermination camp in the General Government near Bełżec.

On 13 October 1941, SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik ( headquarters in Lublin ) received a verbal order from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler to start immediate construction work on the first Aktion Reinhard camp at Bełżec, in the General Government, Poland ( operational March 1942 ).

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.

Heydrich acted under orders from Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler who supplied security forces on an " as needed " basis to the local SS and Police Leaders.

During the years of the Weimar Republic he was head of the Munich Political Police department, and became acquainted with many members of the Nazi Party including Heinrich Himmler, and Reinhard Heydrich, although Müller himself in the Weimar period was generally seen as a supporter of the Bavarian People's Party ( which at that time ruled Bavaria ).

Through a direct order from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler issued in November 1940, Stangl became the deputy office manager ( Police Superintendent ) of the T-4 Euthanasia Program at Hartheim Euthanasia Centre, and in late summer 1941 at Bernburg Euthanasia Centre, where mentally and physically disabled people, as well as political prisoners, were sent to be killed.

The Orpo was under the control of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler who was the Chef der Deutschen Polizei im Ministerium des Innern ( Chief of the German Police in the Ministry of the Interior ).

The Police Battalions were organizationally and administratively under Chief of Police Kurt Daluege but operationally they were under the authority of regional SS-und Polizeiführer ( SS and Police Leaders ), who reported up a separate chain of command, bypassing Daluege, directly to Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler.

The purpose of the Higher SS and Police Leader was to be a direct command authority for every SS and police unit in a given geographical region with such authority answering only to Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Hitler.

The grand dream of Heinrich Himmler was to evolve the SS and Police Leader into an SS Lord of the Lebensraum which the SS would rule and control after Germany had won World War II.

Hanke's fanaticism and unconditional obedience to Hitler's orders also impressed Hitler, who in his final will appointed him to be the last Reichsführer-SS and Chief of the German Police, replacing Heinrich Himmler on 29 April 1945.

* Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS and Chief of the German Police.

As Reichsarzt SS and Polizei ( Reichsphysician SS and Police ), Grawitz advised Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler on the use of gas chambers.