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.

Himmler declared himself the provisional leader of Germany, telling Bernadotte on 23 April that Hitler would be dead within the next few days.

* 1943 – Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put " on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps ".

Beginning in April 1934, and at Hitler's request, Heydrich and Himmler began building a dossier on Sturmabteilung ( SA ) leader Ernst Röhm in an effort to remove him as a rival for party leadership.

On January 6, 1929, Hitler appointed Himmler as the leader of the SS, and by the end of 1932, the SS had 52, 000 members.

* November 15 – Porajmos: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and " part-Gypsies " be put " on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps.

He visited Hitler's mountain retreat at Berchtesgaden and interviewed many leading Nazis, including Hitler himself, Schutzstaffel or " SS " leader Heinrich Himmler and Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels.

According to Geoffrey J. Giles ( mentioned earlier ) the SS, and its leader Heinrich Himmler, were particularly concerned about homosexuality.

The Gestapo arrived in Celje on 16 April 1941 and were followed three days later by SS leader Heinrich Himmler, who inspected Stari pisker.

However, other senior Nazi officials, including Heinrich Himmler ( head of the SS ), Robert Ley ( leader of the DAF ), and Max Amann ( proprietor of the Zentral Verlag ( Central Press ), comprising 80 percent of the German press in 1942 ), endorsed the publication, and their statements were often published in Der Stürmer.

Schutzstaffel | SS leader Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler and Sturmabteilung | SA leader Viktor Lutze ( from L to R ) on the stone terrace in front of the Ehrenhalle ( Hall of Honour ) in the Nazi_party_rally_grounds # Luitpoldarena | Luitpoldarena.

Lebensborn was one of several programs initiated by Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler to secure the racial heredity of the Third Reich.

Lebensborn ( Spring of Life, in antiquated German ) was a Nazi programme set up by SS leader Heinrich Himmler that provided maternity homes and financial assistance to the wives of SS members and to unmarried mothers, and also ran orphanages and relocation programmes for children.

Antony C. Sutton, in his book Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, makes the claim that ITT subsidiaries made cash payments to SS leader Heinrich Himmler.

Daluege was the SS leader of Northern Germany while Himmler controlled southern SS units out of Munich while serving as the National Leader for the SS ; this move had the effect of rendering the loyal SS practically independent of the suspect SA, since Himmler and Daluege now outranked all SA commanders.

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

" In his letter to Himmler, SS-Brigadeführer Odilo Globocnik recommended Dirlewanger, who " in charge of the Jewish camp of Dzikow ... was an excellent leader.

Following his acquittal, Fritsch attempted to challenge SS leader Heinrich Himmler to a duel.

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

Hitler promoted both Daluege and Heinrich Himmler to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer with Daluege the SS leader of Northern Germany while Himmler controlled southern SS units out of Munich as well as serving as the National Leader for the entire SS as a whole.

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.

Himmler also gained authority over all of Germany's uniformed law enforcement agencies, which were amalgamated into the new Ordnungspolizei ( Orpo: Order Police ), which became an agency of the SS under Kurt Daluege.

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.

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.

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.

In September 1927, Himmler told Hitler of his vision to transform the SS into a loyal, powerful, racially-pure elite unit.

Himmler in early SS uniform, with rank of Oberführer

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.

Over the next year, Himmler grew the SS from a force of about 290 men to about 3, 000.

By 1930 Himmler had persuaded Hitler to run the SS as a separate organisation, although it was still subordinate to the SA.

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

Himmler further established the SS Race and Settlement Main Office ( Rasse-und Siedlungshauptamt or RuSHA ), a racist and antisemitic organisation.

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

By the end of 1934, Himmler took control of the camps under the aegis of the SS, creating a separate division, the SS-Totenkopfverbände.

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, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and other SS officials visiting Mauthausen concentration camp in 1941

In addition to his military ambitions, Himmler established the beginnings of a parallel economy under the umbrella of the SS.

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