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

As facilitator and overseer of the concentration camps, Himmler directed the killing of some six million Jews, between 200, 000 and 500, 000 Romani people, and other victims ; the total number of civilians killed by the regime is estimated at eleven to fourteen million people.

Himmler was antisemitic by the time he went to university, but not exceptionally so ; students at his school would avoid their Jewish classmates.

During his second year at university, Himmler redoubled his attempts to pursue a military career.

Himmler admired Röhm because he was a decorated combat soldier, and at his suggestion, Himmler joined his antisemitic nationalist group, the Reichskriegsflagge.

Upon the resignation of SS commander Erhard Heiden in 1929, Himmler assumed the position of Reichsführer-SS with Hitler's approval ; he still carried out his duties at propaganda headquarters.

Himmler expected that each SS marriage should produce at least four children, thus creating a pool of genetically superior prospective SS members.

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

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.

Himmler expected that it would take twenty to thirty years to complete the plan, at a cost of 67 billion Reichsmarks.

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.

In August 1941, Himmler attended the shooting of 100 Jews at Minsk.

Himmler visited the camp at Sobibor in early 1943, by which time 250, 000 people had been killed at that location alone.

Himmler established his command centre at Schneidemühl, using his special train, Sonderzug Steiermark, as his headquarters.

By this time Himmler, who had been under the care of his doctor since 18 February, had fled to a sanatorium at Hohenlychen.

Himmler and two aides were stopped at a checkpoint on 21 May and detained.

* Heinrich Himmler at the Holocaust Research Project

* Register of the Heinrich Himmler Papers, 1914-1944 at the Hoover Institution Archives

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.

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.

Leni Riefenstahl with Heinrich Himmler at Nuremberg in 1934

It is also the area where the body of Heinrich Himmler, a leading figure in Nazi Germany and head of the SS, was secretly buried in an unmarked grave, following his suicide.

Himmler stated: " I also want to talk to you, quite frankly, on a very grave matter.

[...] Reichführer SS Heinrich Himmler, when asked for an opinion by the staff of the office of the Führer's deputy, offered support for Fischer and Lenz in 1938 ... " Ultimately, with additional backing from Martin Bormann, Fischer officially became a Nazi on 12 / 12 / 1939.

Seyss-Inquart with Hitler, Heinrich Himmler | Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich | Heydrich in Vienna, 1938

The Lebensborn office was part of SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt ( SS Office of Race and Settlement ) until 1938, when it was transferred to Hauptamt Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS ( Personal Staff of the Reich Leader SS ), i. e. directly overseen by Himmler.

In 1938 Himmler ordered the return of all death's head rings ( German: Totenkopfringe ) of dead SS-men and officers.

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

Now in 1938, Heydrich resurrected the old file on von Fritsch who again was accused of being a homosexual by Himmler and his SS.

In 1938, Nebe joined forces with future fellow conspirator Dr. Karl Sack ( Judge Advocate-General of the Wehrmacht ) against Himmler and Heydrich's plot against General Werner von Fritsch.

By September 1938, Himmler was already demanding that Darré step down as leader of the RuSHA in favour of Günther Pancke.

In 1938, Himmler wrote to Heisenberg that he could discuss modern physics but not mention Jewish scientists such as Bohr and Einstein in connection with it.

Göring and Himmler struck in January 1938, when on 12 January Blomberg, then 59, married Erna Gruhn ( sometimes referred to as " Eva " or " Margarete "), a 26-year-old typist and secretary.

In 1938 Himmler ordered the return of all rings of dead SS-men and officers to be stored in a chest in Wewelsburg Castle.

Between 1934 and 1938, Himmler personally reviewed all candidates for promotion to the rank of Untersturmführer.

Frank's radicalism gained him the favor of Heinrich Himmler, who made Frank an SS Brigadeführer in November 1938.

Loibl ’ s sailed through, and in 1938 Heinrich Himmler used his supreme authority as head of the German police to pass a new traffic law.

In 1113, perhaps at Henry's instigation, and with the support of his Anglo-Norman, David demanded, and received, additional lands in Lothian along the Upper Tweed and Teviot.

Alexander's marriage with Henry's illegitimate daughter Sybilla de Normandy may have occurred as early as 1107, or as at late as 1114.

Alexios gathered the money by plundering imperial tombs at the church of the Holy Apostles, though Henry's death in September 1197 meant the gold was never despatched.

Henry's armed expedition, which took the stronghold at Lavaur, did not extinguish the movement.

Smaller more intimate shows can be found at venues like Cabaret Voltaire, Sneaky Pete's, The Store, The Voodoo Rooms, Bannerman's, Henry's Cellar Bar and Forrest Cafe.

In fact, Henry's chief effect on the development of the English monarchy was to increase the jurisdiction of the royal courts at the expense of the feudal courts.

As a second fruit of this work João Gonçalves Zarco, Bartolomeu Perestrelo and Tristão Vaz Teixeira rediscovered the Madeira Islands in 1420, and at Henry's instigation Portuguese settlers colonized the islands.

Towards evening Robert tried to retreat but was captured by Henry's men at a place three kilometres ( just under two miles ) north of Tinchebray where a farm named " Prise " ( grip or capture ) stands today on the D22 road.

The next year Henry's ally Władysław III Spindleshanks succeeded Leszek I as High Duke ; however as he was still contested by his nephew in Greater Poland, he made Henry his governor at Kraków, whereby the Silesian duke once again became entangled into the dispute over the Seniorate Province.

Hedwig and her daughter-in-law, Henry's II widow Anna of Bohemia, established a Benedictine abbey at the site of the battle in Legnickie Pole, settled with monks coming from Opatovice in Bohemia.

As one moved south through Anjou and Aquitaine, the extent of Henry's power in the provinces diminished considerably, scarcely resembling the modern concept of an empire at all.

Henry's successor, Richard I, paid relatively little attention to Kenilworth but under King John significant building resumed at the castle.

Her and Henry's mortal remains are buried at the crypt of the St. Servatius ' abbey church.

In 1522, at the age of six, she was instead contracted to marry her 22-year-old first cousin, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. However, the engagement was broken off within a few years by Charles with Henry's agreement.

Her privy purse expenses for this period show that Hatfield House, the Palace of Beaulieu ( also called Newhall ), Richmond and Hunsdon were among her principal places of residence, as well as Henry's palaces at Greenwich, Westminster and Hampton Court.

" He states that the matter was discussed at a Royal Council at Winchester, but that Henry's mother, the Empress Matilda, had protested.

The size of Richard's army has been estimated at 8, 000, Henry's at 5, 000, but exact numbers cannot be known.

On 4 July 1189, Richard and Philip's forces defeated Henry's army at Ballans.

When Henry's sons rebelled against him in 1173 Rhys sent his son Hywel Sais to Normandy to aid the king, then in 1174 personally led an army to Tutbury in Staffordshire to assist at the siege of the stronghold of the rebel Earl William de Ferrers.

Henry's alliance with the Empress proved short-lived, as they soon fell out over political patronage and ecclesiastical policy ; the bishop met Stephen's wife Queen Matilda at Guildford and transferred his support to her.

Stephen's castle at Malmesbury was besieged by Henry's forces and the king responded by marching west with an army to relieve it.

However, Lord Henry's cynical outlook on life, and hedonistic nature seems to be in keeping with the idea of the devil's role, that of the temptation of the pure and innocent qualities which Dorian exemplifies at the beginning of the book.