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Report on Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, and Rudolf Hess. In this report
I will talk about Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, and ...
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In this report I will talk about Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, and Rudolf Hess, who were Nazi Party leaders and officials and were related to Adolf Hitler. I will also discuss who these people were and what they did, why they did these things, when they did these things, where they did these things, and perhaps how they did these things.
The first of these officers was Heinrich Himmler. Himmler was the head of the Gestapo (German State Police) and the Waffen-SS (militarized units of SS, which stands for Schutzstaffel, a group of Hitler's personal body guards), and Minister of the Interior from 1943 to 1945. He was also the organizer of the mass murder of Jews in the Third Reich. Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich on October 7, 1900, the son of a religious, Roman Catholic schoolmaster, and was educated at a secondary school in Landshut. Himmler served as an officer in the Eleventh Bavarian Regiment at the end of World War I, and later obtained a diploma in agriculture from Munich Technical High School in 1922.
Later on Himmler joined a Para-military, nationalist organization and participated in the Munich Beer-Hall putsch. Then in the year of 1927 he got married, and returned to poultry farming, but wasn't successful. In January 1929, he was appointed as the head of Hitler's personal bodyguards. He was a superb organizer, and had already expanded the SS to 50,000 men from 300 by 1933. By the year of 1936, Himmler had combined police power in Germany and was named Chief of the German police on June 17 of that year. Now as the chief, his power was unlimited, and in addition he was also responsible for the security services and the concentration camps.
Himmler's men staged the fake border incident that Hitler used to justify the invasion of Poland at the outbreak of World War II. As the war went on, the armored portions of the SS began to rival the Armed Forces for power in the military field, which ended in Himmler's being named...
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