Moreover, these battalions were to be under the operative command and disposal of Reichsfuhrer of SS Heinrich Himmler.

Horn turned out be Deputy Reichsfuhrer, Rudolph Hess.

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

Himmler was close to his first daughter, Gudrun, whom he nicknamed Püppi (" dolly "); he phoned her every few days and visited as often as he could.

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.

Himmler visited the Wewelsburg for the first time on 3 November 1933.

Kolo remained a transfer point for Jews deported to Łódź, and Nazi officials, including Heinrich Himmler, visited the town.

Höss testified that Himmler visited the camp in 1942 and " watched in detail one processing from beginning to end ".

On 30 June 1941 Himmler visited the newly-formed Bezirk Bialystok district and pronounced that more forces were needed in the area, due to potential risks of partisan warfare.

Before and during World War II, he was sympathetic to Nazi Germany, which he visited in 1937 at the invitation of Heinrich Himmler.

Heinrich Himmler visited Norway in 1941.

On 13 October 1941, Heinrich Himmler gave SS and Police Leader Lublin, SS Brigadeführer Odilo Globocnik, two orders which were closely connected with each other: to start Germanizing the area around Zamość and to start work on the first German Nazi extermination camp in the General Government near Bełżec.

Himmler joined the Nazi Party ( NSDAP ) in August 1923 ; his Party number was 14, 303.

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

* August 24 – WWII: – Heinrich Himmler is named Reichminister of the Interior in Germany.

On 27 June 1944 the Gestapo took the tapestry to the Louvre and on 18 August, three days before the Wehrmacht withdrew from Paris, Himmler sent a message ( intercepted by Bletchley Park ) ordering it to be taken to " a place of safety ", thought to be Berlin.

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.

Polish historians like Pospieszalski and Janusz Kutta point to a Nazi top secret false flag Operation Himmler ( which took place on August 31 – September 1 ) and was designed to create an illusion of Polish aggression against Germany.

With Kurt Daluege and Heinrich Himmler, August 1933

He was executed in August 1944 under orders from Heinrich Himmler.

In 1944, Himmler convinced Adolf Hitler to put the V-2 project directly under SS control, and on 8 August Kammler replaced Walter Dornberger as its director.

Greiser ’ s Poznań was considered the Germanised city par excellence and on 3 August 1943 he hosted a national gathering of Gauleiter and senior Nazis, including Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler.

By contrast, the Swiss historian Philippe Burrin argues that such a decision was not made before August 1941 at the earliest, pointing to orders given by Himmler on July 30, 1941 to the 2nd SS Cavalry Regiment and the SS Cavalry Brigade operating in the Pripet Marshes in the Pripyat operation calling for the murder of male Jews only while the Jewish women and children were to be driven into the Marshes.

During a visit to Russia in August 1941, Himmler witnessed the Einsatzgruppen killings first-hand and concluded that shooting Jews was too much of a " psychological burden " for his men.

Following Hitler's 22 August 1943 order for Heinrich Himmler to use concentration camp workers for A-4 production, 107 inmates arrived at Nordhausen from Buchenwald on 28 August 1943, followed by 1, 223 on 2 September.

In August 1943, Goerdeler and his friend, the Oberbürgermeister of Stuttgart, the disillusioned SA-Brigadeführer Karl Strölin sent a joint memo to the Reich Interior Minister, the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler complaining about the anti-Semitic and anti-Christian policies of the Nazi regime, asking for the end of the " emergency " laws that had suspended civil rights in Germancy since 1933, and called for the end of the NSDAP influence on the judiciary.

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

The SS-VT was renamed the " Waffen-SS " in a speech made by Adolf Hitler in July 1940 ; on 1 August Himmler established the Kommandoamt der Waffen-SS ( Waffen-SS Command Office ) within the new SS-Führungshauptamt ( FHA ) under Gruppenführer Hans Jüttner.

In August 1934, Himmler received permission from Hitler to form a new organisation from the SS Sonderkommandos and the Politischen Bereitschaften, the SS-Verfügungstruppe ( SS-VT ).

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.

In a secret letter written on 31 August 1935, Hitler compelled Himmler to make an exception for Maurice and his brothers, who were informally declared " Honorary Aryans " and allowed to stay in the SS.

In August 1943, Ivan Mihailov left Zagreb incognito for Germany where he was to visit the main headquarters of Hitler and the headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst, where he spoke to Hitler and Himmler and other top German leaders.

On 1 August, 1940, the " Dirlewanger " was assigned to anti-partisan duties in the General Government region in Poland, and was answerable only to Heinrich Himmler ..

On 24 August, SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler sent a letter to the Brigade, praising its fighting spirit.

In a report to Hitler of December 20, 1942, Himmler indicates that the Einsatzgruppen had executed 363, 211 Jews between August and November, 1942.

* 1942 – Holocaust: Porajmos – Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.

In 1942, the Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler ordered the Lublin District SS-und Polizeiführer Odilo Globocnik to build the first extermination camps during Aktion Reinhard ( 1941 – 43 ), the operation to annihilate every Jew in the General Government ( occupied Poland ).

After Heydrich's 1942 assassination, Himmler assumed the leadership of the RSHA, but in January 1943 Ernst Kaltenbrunner was appointed Chief of the RSHA.

On 21 June 1941, the day before invasion of the Soviet Union, Himmler commissioned the preparation of the Generalplan Ost ( General Plan for the East ); the plan was finalised in July 1942.

As in 1942, he was more outspoken about what was happening than Himmler would have liked: " Our state ’ s security requires that we take whatever measures seem necessary to protect the German community from Jewish threat ," he wrote in May.

50 stills from the filming in Krün near Mittenwald were later found and from these, surviving prisoners were able to identify 29 camp inmates who worked for Riefenstahl and were then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the first weeks of March 1943 following Himmler ’ s December 1942 decree.

Dr Sigmund Rascher, an SS doctor based at Dachau, reported directly to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and publicised the results of his freezing experiments at the 1942 medical conference entitled " Medical Problems Arising from Sea and Winter ".

By 1942, with his power waning, Göring fell out of favor and was replaced in the Nazi hierarchy by Himmler.

It is built near the site of the previous village of the same name which, as part of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was on orders from Adolf Hitler and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942.

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.

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

On December 16, 1942, Himmler ordered that the Romani candidates for extermination should be deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

On 13 October 1941, SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik ( headquarters in Lublin ) received a verbal order from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler to start immediate construction work on the first Aktion Reinhard camp at Bełżec, in the General Government, Poland ( operational March 1942 ).

From 1939 to 1942 he was Heinrich Himmler's personal aide and a deputy chief in the Reich Main Security Office under Heydrich who answered only to Himmler.

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 ".

Himmler ordered the development of gas vans, and these were used by the Einsatzgruppen for mass killings from 1942.

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.

On March 23, 1942, Himmler asked Oswald Pohl " to gradually develop a diet which, like that of Roman soldiers or Egyptian slaves, contains all the vitamins and is simple and cheap ".

In a letter to Himmler dated 30 May 1942, Greiser referred to an authorisation he had previously received from Himmler and Heydrich for the Sonderbehandlung ( Special Handling, execution without judicial process ) of 100, 000 Jews of the Wartheland, about one-third of the total Jewish population of that territory.

Until 1942, it was the highest SS rank inferior only to Reichsführer-SS ( Heinrich Himmler ).

Equal on paper to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall, but in fact more akin to Reichsmarschall from 1942 onward as Himmler amassed ever greater power.

After making Wolff a full SS-Obergruppenführer, Himmler dismissed him in 1942.