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 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.

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.

In 1934 SS-leader Heinrich Himmler signed a 100-mark 100-year lease with the Paderborn district, initially intending to renovate and redesign the castle as a " Reich SS Leadership School " (" Reichsführerschule SS ").

Also working at the castle were proponents of a kind of SS esotericism consisting of Germanic mysticism, an ancestor cult, worship of runes, and racial doctrines: Himmler, for example, adapted the idea of the Grail to create a heathen mystery for the SS.

In 1939 Himmler forbade publishing anything about the castle.

Towards the end of the war Himmler ordered that Wewelsburg castle should become the " Reichshaus der SS-Gruppenführer " ( Reich-House of the SS-Gruppenführer ).

* Himmler reportedly imagined the castle as a focus for the rebirth of the Knights of the Round Table and appointed twelve SS officers as his followers, who would gather at various rooms throughout the castle and perform unknown rites.

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

Begun on June 17, 1940, the camp was completed the following year and named after Niederhagen Forest, the name Himmler had given to the forest outside the castle several years earlier.

The town and castle of Wewelsburg, the Reichs SS Leadership School, as also some of the castle's illustrious patrons and visitors like Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, Karl Maria Willigut, SS-Obengrupenführer and chief of the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt ( including the Gestapo and Kripo ) Reinhard Heydrich, and SS-Gruppenführer Arthur Nebe play a prominent part in the 1990 novel The Pale Criminal by Philip Kerr.

* Wewelsburg-a castle near Büren in the Paderborn district of Westphalia, taken over and restored by Heinrich Himmler as an SS officers ' training school and cult center.

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.

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

On 9 June, after discussions with Himmler and Karl Hermann Frank, Hitler ordered brutal reprisals for Heydrich's death.

By the mid-1930s, Hitler ’ s most powerful subordinates were Hermann Göring, as head of the Four Year Plan for crash rearmament, and Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and police apparatus.

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.

On 9 June, after discussions with Himmler and Karl Hermann Frank, Hitler ordered brutal reprisals.

The Gestapo, which would eventually become a semi-integrated part of the SS security forces, was at first a large " thorn in the side " to Himmler as the group was originally the Prussian state political police under the control of Hermann Göring and commanded by his protege Rudolf Diels.

Gustloff was given a state funeral in his birthplace of Schwerin in Mecklenburg with Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann and Joachim von Ribbentrop in attendance.

His opposition to appeasement was nourished by his witnessing first-hand a Nuremberg Rally in 1937, where he met top Nazis Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler at an SS cocktail party.

Blomberg and von Reichenau began to conspire with Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler against Röhm and the SA.

Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler played on this fear by constantly feeding him with new information on Röhm's proposed coup.

On 1 July after much pressure from Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, Hitler agreed that Röhm should die.

On 11 July Stauffenberg attended Hitler's conferences carrying a bomb in his briefcase, but because the conspirators had decided that Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring should be killed simultaneously if the planned mobilisation of Operation Valkyrie was to have a chance to succeed, he held back at the last minute because Himmler was not present.

Dietrich Bronder ( Bevor Hitler kam, 1964 ) alleged that other members of the Thule Society were later prominent in Nazi Germany: the list includes Dietrich Eckart ( who coached Hitler on his public speaking skills and had Mein Kampf dedicated to him ) as well as Gottfried Feder, Hans Frank, Hermann Göring, Karl Haushofer, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler and Alfred Rosenberg.

A political struggle within the party grew, with those closest to Hitler, including Prussian premier Hermann Göring, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and SS Chief Heinrich Himmler positioning themselves against Röhm.

This was a political manoeuvre by senior Nazis Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler to strengthen their positions within the Nazi regime at the expense of the military leadership.

Due to his position, Speer was able to describe the personalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself.

Hitler had Hermann Fegelein ( Himmler's SS representative at Hitler's HQ in Berlin ) shot, and ordered von Greim ( with Reitsch ) to fly to Dönitz's headquarters at Ploen and arrest Himmler.

On 7 June 1944 Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg planned to detonate a bomb at a meeting there, but his fellow conspirators would not give him approval to do so because Himmler and Hermann Göring were not also present.

On the day of the assassination attempt, Hitler ordered an investigation, reprisals and suggested that Himmler send SS General Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski to Prague, as according to Karl Hermann Frank's post-war testimony, Hitler knew Zelewski to be harder than Heydrich.

During their discussions for a post-Hitler future, it was agreed that various Nazi leaders like Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, provided that they were willing to break with Hitler could have a leading role in a post-Nazi government.

The events surrounding Blomberg's marriage inspired Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler to arrange a similar affair for Commander-in-Chief Werner von Fritsch.

Unfortunately for Blomberg, his position as the ranking officer of the Third Reich alienated Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, who conspired to oust him from power.

It was exhibited at Zeughaus, military museum in Berlin, which Hitler was to visit on the Heroes ' Memorial Day with Himmler and Hermann Göring.