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

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

His aversion to Heydrich and Heinrich Himmler grew even though he continued to regularly lunch with them.

" According to Peter Longerich, Dirlewanger's leadership " was characterized by continued alcohol abuse, looting, sadistic atrocities, rape, and murder — and his mentor Berger tolerated this behaviour, as did Himmler, who so urgently needed men such as the Sonderkommando Dirlewanger in his fight against ' subhumanity '.

Heinrich Himmler called for the final liquidation of the ghetto, with a handful of workers relocated to a concentration camp outside Lublin, while Armaments Minister Albert Speer advocated the ghetto's continued existence as a source of cheap labour, especially necessary now that the tide of the war had turned against Germany.

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.

The Warsaw Uprising started on 1 August 1944 and changed Himmler ’ s plans.

Hearing of the plans, Danish archaeologist Søren Telling — aware that all archaeological investigation was under the ultimate jurisdiction of SS chief Heinrich Himmler — immediately telephoned both the head of the SS's archaeological department, Amt für Ahnenerbe (" Office for ancestral heritage "), and Himmler himself.

In the concept of the Lebensraum, Himmler had even grander visions with plans to build twenty eight SS cities in the conquered lands of Russia.

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.

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.

After receiving a quiet-but nonetheless deadly-dressing-down from Reichsfuehrer Himmler personally, Kappler attempts to end the Monsignor's activities and destroy the group, but is increasingly frustrated by O ' Flaherty's repeated successes, due to a combination of his clever plans, numerous disguises ( a coalman, a peddler of religious souvenirs, a dustman, a postman, a nun and even an SS-Sturmbannführer ) and stressing the very limits of international law.

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.

In 1941, just prior to Operation Barbarossa, Himmler selected Nebe to command Einsatzgruppe B behind Army Group Center in the east.

Whether or not Himmler ’ s vision was plausible, and if the more rational elements of the Nazi government would have permitted an SS nation in the east, remains speculative.

The early military SS was kept quite separate from the regular SS and Dietrich introduced early regulations that the military SS answered directly to Hitler, and not Himmler, and for several months even ordered his troops to wear the black SS uniform without a swastika armband to separate the soldiers from other SS units once the black uniform had become common throughout Germany.

Even so, Göring was reported to have disliked Himmler to the last days of the war and even turned down honorary SS rank since he did not want to be subordinate to Himmler in any way.

At one point Heinrich Himmler even suggested the establishment of a remote reservation, where " pure Gypsies " could continue their nomadic lifestyle unhindered.

The preliminary versions were discussed by the SS head Heinrich Himmler and his most trusted colleagues even before the outbreak of war.

Hitler gradually adopted a more uncompromising and intolerant stance, probably under the growing influence of ideologues such as Bormann, Rosenberg and Himmler, who were loath to entertain any idea of the new Germany having a Christian foundation even in a token form.

I also, if you so desire, make Herr Goebbels or Herr Himmler your ally ; for even these two men have long realized that with Hitler they are doomed.

Members of the German officer corps were appalled at von Fritsch's maltreatment and, in the next meeting, Himmler, Göring, and even Hitler might have come under pressure from them as the case against von Fritsch was seen as weak.

Heisenberg was not only a pre-eminent physicist whom even the Nazis realised they were better off with than without, however " Jewish " his theory might be in the eyes of Stark and Lenard, but Heisenberg had, as a young boy, attended school with SS chief Heinrich Himmler.

As the SS grew even further, Himmler on 29 January 1930 announced to SA leader Ernst Röhm, that:

The battalion was praised by many Waffen-SS commanders, even Heinrich Himmler, for its combat performance.

Rascher's connection with Himmler gave him immense influence, even over his superiors.

In an attempt to please Himmler by demonstrating that population growth could be accelerated by extending the childbearing age, Rascher publicized the fact that his wife had given birth to three children even after becoming 48 years of age, and Himmler used a photograph of Rascher's family as propaganda material.

In the last days of the war, when it became clear that Hitler planned to die in Berlin, Himmler left his long-time superior to try to save himself.

This trio – Goebbels, Himmler and Speer – became the real centre of German government in the last year of the war, although Bormann used his privileged access to Hitler to thwart them when he could.

In January 1941, the nadir of SS-Auswärtiges Amt relations was reached when the Iron Guard attempted a coup in Romania, with Ribbentrop supporting Marshal Ion Antonescu's government and Himmler supporting the Iron Guard.

Himmler worsened his own position when he attempted to hold a military command during the last months of the war and proved totally incompetent as a field commander.

Himmler had at least one conversation with a known oppositionist when, in August 1943, the Prussian Finance Minister Johannes Popitz, who was involved in Goerdeler's network, came to see him and offered him the support of the opposition if he would make a move to displace Hitler and secure a negotiated end to the war.

The debate ended in 1942 when Himmler signed the order marking the beginning of the mass deportations to Auschwitz.

His power was greatly reduced in 1936 when Hitler named Himmler chief of all German police forces.

[...] 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.

Husseini intervened on 13 May 1943, before the meeting with Himmler when he was informed of the holocaust, with the German Foreign Office to block possible transfers of Jews from Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, after reports reached him that 4, 000 Jewish children accompanied by 500 adults had managed to reach Palestine.

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

A power vacuum emerged which the SS filled with its SS and Police Leadership Structure, exercising unlimited power over security and policing which it gave up only grudgingly in the autumn when civil administration came into being ; indeed Himmler would use various tactics until as late as 1943 in unsuccessful efforts to regain this power.

The first attempt was in March 1943, when both Hitler and Heinrich Himmler were coming to the front to participate in a strategy meeting with Kluge's troops.

No longer caring about Himmler, the conspiracy planned to kill Hitler with a bomb when he was attending another strategy meeting in a wooden barracks.

On 18 September 1941, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler informed Greiser that he intended to transfer 60, 000 Czech and German Jews to the Łódź ghetto, until spring 1942 when they would be " resettled ".

As Himmler put it, " I know there are many people who fall ill when they see this black uniform ; we understand that and don't expect that we will be loved by many people.

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 addition, those Orpo police generals that undertook the duties of both Senior SS and Police Leader ( Höhere SS und Polizeiführer ) gained equivalent Waffen-SS ranks in August 1944 when Himmler was appointed Chef der Ersatzheeres ( Chief of Home Army ), because they had authority over the prisoner-of-war camps in their area.

All rings were to be returned to Himmler upon the bearer's death or when they left the SS, to be kept at Wewelsburg as a kind of individual memorial to the holder.

Brandt watched from inside the wire at the Westertimke detention camp when Himmler was brought in with his aides on May 23, 1945.

Himmler committed suicide later that evening as when he bit down on the cyanide ampule about to be discovered by the British Physician.

During the Doctors ' Trial Brack testified from the witness stand that after 1941, when the extermination of Jewish population by Nazis was at full capacity, Heinrich Himmler ordered him to contact physicians involved previously in the Euthanasia Program to find out a way of sterilizing young and strong Jews capable of labour for use in the German war effort.

After Himmler had become Reichsführer-SS, Maurice fell afoul of Himmler's racial purity rules for SS officers, when he had to submit details of his family history before he was allowed to marry in 1935.