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Himmler accepted Hitler and Nazi ideology, and saw the SS as a chivalric Teutonic order of new Germans.
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Himmler and accepted
Heinrich Himmler, one of the most powerful Nazi leaders, became a strong proponent of the theory and he stated that if it were corrected and adjusted with new scientific findings it could very well be accepted as scientific work.
Himmler and Hitler
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 " ().
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.
In this role, Himmler was still nominally subordinate to Frick, but the de facto power was now in the hands of Himmler, who as Reichsführer-SS, answered only to Hitler.
He answered to Heydrich ; Heydrich answered only to Himmler and Himmler answered only to Hitler.
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.
Late in World War II, Hitler charged Himmler with the command of the Army Group Upper Rhine and the Army Group Vistula ; he failed to achieve his assigned objectives and Hitler replaced him in these posts.
As a member of Röhm's paramilitary unit, Himmler was involved in the Beer Hall Putsch — an unsuccessful attempt by Hitler and the NSDAP to seize power in Munich.
In September 1927, Himmler told Hitler of his vision to transform the SS into a loyal, powerful, racially-pure elite unit.
Convinced that Himmler was the man for the job, Hitler appointed him Deputy Reichsführer-SS, with the rank of SS-Oberführer.
By 1930 Himmler had persuaded Hitler to run the SS as a separate organisation, although it was still subordinate to the SA.
That same year, Hitler promoted Himmler to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer, equal in rank to the senior SA commanders.
Also on that date, Hitler appointed Himmler chief of all German police outside Prussia.
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.
Hitler left it to Himmler and Heydrich to work out the arrangements with Frick.
Frick acquiesced, and on 17 June 1936 Hitler appointed Himmler as Chief of German Police and decreed the unification of all police forces.
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.
Authorised by Hitler and under the direction of Himmler and Heydrich, the Einsatzgruppen units — now repurposed as death squads — followed the Heer ( army ) into Poland, and by the end of 1939 they had murdered some 65, 000 intellectuals and other civilians.
Despite having direct access to Hitler, Heydrich's loyalty to Himmler remained firm.
Heydrich calculated the number of Jews to be killed at 11 million, and told the attendees that Hitler had placed Himmler in charge of the plan.
Himmler and Nazi
His research attracted the attention of the Nazi government and in particular of Heinrich Himmler, who made him archaeologist in the SS.
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.
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.
Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and one of the persons most directly responsible for the Holocaust.
Himmler developed the SS into a powerful group with its own military, and, following Hitler's orders, set up and controlled the Nazi concentration camps.
Himmler joined the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) in August 1923 ; his Party number was 14, 303.
The Nazi Party's rise to power provided Himmler and the SS an unfettered opportunity to thrive.
Himmler appointed Theodor Eicke, a convicted felon and ardent Nazi, to run the camp in June 1933.
Himmler was a main architect of the Holocaust, using his deep belief in the racist Nazi ideology to justify the murder of millions of victims.
He stripped Himmler of all of his party and state offices and expelled him from the Nazi Party.
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.
He ranked along with Joachim von Ribbentrop, Göring, Himmler, and Martin Bormann as the senior Nazi with the most access to Hitler, which in an autocratic regime meant access to power.
By 1942, with his power waning, Göring fell out of favor and was replaced in the Nazi hierarchy by Himmler.
* 1944 – Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich.
* 1900 – Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi official ( d. 1945 )
During the Nazi regime, the memory of Henry I became a sort of cult, as Heinrich Himmler saw himself as the reincarnation of the " most German of all German " rulers.
Unlike the other SS antagonists, Deathshead does not believe in the occult and would prefer to arm the Nazi war machine using advanced technology, but has been ordered to provide his creations to Operation Resurrection by Himmler himself.
Under Himmler, the SS selected its members according to the Nazi ideology.
This in contrast to the SS in southern Germany, commanded unquestionably by Heinrich Himmler and located mostly in Munich which was the location of the major Nazi political offices.
* May 23 – Heinrich Himmler, former head of the Nazi SS, commits suicide in British custody.
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