As the messages from Himmler, Heydrich, and Eichmann came in through Alfred Funk, Lublin's fountainhead spouted.

With Frick's support, Himmler ( pushed on by his right hand man, Reinhard Heydrich ) took over the political police of state after state.

Heydrich, named chief of the Gestapo by Himmler on 22 April 1934, also continued as head of the Sicherheitsdienst ( SD: Security Service ").

He answered to Heydrich ; Heydrich answered only to Himmler and Himmler answered only to Hitler.

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

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

Thereafter, Himmler and Heydrich took over the political police of state after state ; soon only Prussia was controlled by Göring.

Heydrich, named chief of the Gestapo by Himmler on 22 April 1934, also continued as head of the SD.

He sent Göring to Berlin on 29 June, to meet with Himmler and Heydrich to plan the action.

Hitler left it to Himmler and Heydrich to work out the arrangements with Frick.

Himmler and Heydrich had greater bargaining power, as they were allied with Frick's old enemy, Göring.

Heydrich drew up a set of proposals and Himmler sent him to meet with Frick.

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.

This appointment strengthened the collaboration between Himmler and Heydrich, and Himmler was proud to have SS control over a state.

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.

Heydrich showed him a picture of Himmler and said, " The top half is the teacher but the lower half is the sadist.

Reinhard Heydrich ( middle ) with Heinrich Himmler ( left ), Karl Wolff ( right ), and an unidentified assistant ( front ) at the Berghof ( residence ) | Obersalzberg, May 1939

Acting on the advice of his associate Karl von Eberstein, who was von Osten's friend, Himmler interviewed Heydrich.

Himmler began developing the notion of a Germanic religion and wanted SS members to leave the church.

This last activity had been expressly forbidden by Heinrich Himmler, as he had wanted this property to be contributed to the German war effort.

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler had wanted to put Galland on trial for treason himself.

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

This last activity had been expressly forbidden by Himmler, as he wanted this property to be contributed to the German war effort.

Himmler wanted to weaken the Wehrmacht and its mainly aristocratic leaders in order to strengthen his Schutzstaffel as a competitor to the regular German Army ( Heer ).

Himmler wanted Nebe to come up with something less distressing.

After 1933 some of the proponents of the conservative revolutionary movement were persecuted by the Nazis, most notably by the SS of Heinrich Himmler, who wanted to prevent reactionaries from opposing or deviating from the Hitler regime in this early time.

Late in the war after the tide had turned against the Germans, According to Colijn ( grandson of Hendrikus ), during a visit by Hendrik in June 1943, reported that Himmler wanted to keep Colijn available as a possible intermediary with the British as he had done earlier for Wilhelm II The very fact that the Gestapo allowed the visit in Ilmenau suggests that Himmler was already making contingency plans in case of a German loss.

However, Himmler wanted to keep a separation of power so Eicke remained in command of the SS-TV and camp operations.

Adolf Hitler wanted to execute them all, but Heinrich Himmler persuaded him not to do this, and fifty were shot as an example.

Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS, wanted to establish the " Center of the New World ".

Instead of Christianity, Himmler wanted a moral doctrine derived from the pre-Christian pagan Germanic heritage.

Even more far-reaching were the plans to extend the " Final Solution " to India ; in the summer of 1942, the exiled Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose living in Berlin asked Himmler for " special SS training " of Bose's fellow anti-British émigrés so that when the Germans reached India, there would be a cadre of SS-trained Indians to work with the Einsatzgruppen in killing the Jews of India.

Göring, concerned that Diels was not ruthless enough to use the Gestapo effectively to counteract the power of the Sturmabteilung ( SA ), handed over its control to Himmler on 20 April 1934.

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.

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.

The Nazi Party's rise to power provided Himmler and the SS an unfettered opportunity to thrive.

In March 1933, less than three months after the Nazis seized power, Himmler set up the first official concentration camp at Dachau.

Göring, concerned that Diels was not ruthless enough to use the Gestapo effectively to counteract the power of the SA, handed over its control to Himmler on 20 April 1934.

In this role, Himmler was still nominally subordinate to Frick, but the de facto power was now in the hands of Himmler.

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.

Historian Wolfgang Sauer says that " although he was pedantic, dogmatic, and dull, Himmler emerged under Hitler as second in actual 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.

With Hitler preoccupied with the war, Himmler focusing on the " final solution to the Jewish question " in eastern Europe, and with Hermann Göring ’ s position declining with the failure of the German Air Force ( Luftwaffe ), Goebbels sensed a power vacuum in domestic policy and moved to fill it.

Goebbels, Speer, Göring and Himmler all saw this proposal as a power grab by Bormann and a threat to their power, and combined to block it.

The alliance was shaky at best, mainly because during this period Himmler was still cooperating with Bormann to gain more power at the expense of Göring and most of the traditional Reich administration ; Göring's loss of power had resulted in an overindulgence in the trappings of power and his strained relations with Goebbels made it difficult for a unified coalition to be formed, despite the attempts of Speer and Göring's Luftwaffe deputy Field Marshal Erhard Milch, to reconcile the two Party comrades.

The fact that Himmler was Interior Minister only increased the power of Bormann, as the Gauleiters feared that Himmler, who was General Plenipotentiary for the Administration of the Reich, would curb their power and set up his higher SS and police leaders as their replacement.