Heinrich Himmler

had intentions of creating a supreme Arian race. Slowly, Hitler began to oppress the Jewish people of Germany. Germany’s first official concentration camp, Dachau, was opened in March of 1933. Many of Dachau’s first prisoners were communists. Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi Elite guard, also known as the SS, ran this concentration camp. By July of 1933, German concentration camps held over twenty seven thousand people in “protective custody”. In 1933, Jews in Germany numbered around…

The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million other people such as the disabled, communists, homosexuals and Soviet prisoners of war by the Germans leading up to and during WWII under the command of Nazi Party leader, Adolf Hitler. Historians have problems putting a date on the Holocaust due to the fact that there are three different views all backed with their own evidence and subjective interpretations to support them. The views are the intentionalist view, the…

Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and Sturmabteilung (SA). As a result of the first set of trials for those of major war criminals, 12 well known Nazi members were sentenced to death while 5 committed suicide to avoid being captured. These included Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Hans Krebs and Joseph Goebbels. Additionally, three were acquitted and other members were sentenced to be executed or hanged. Also, there were several defendants who hoped to receive a lenient sentence claiming…

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” (Edmund Burke). In the book Hitler’s Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World’s Most Notorious Dictator, by Bill O’Reilly, details the last days of, conceivably, the most reviled and evil man in history: Adolf Hitler. Most of the book is focused inside the bunker where Hitler spent his last days near the end of World War II. It gave specific details about the last desperate attempt of Hitler to turn…

In this essay I will be discussing the life of Adolf Hitler and the rise of the Nazi Party. The areas I’ll be discussing include Hitler’s early life covering his family, education and his involvement in World war 1.The rise of the Nazi party and how Hitler came to power. The different organizations that controlled the Nazi State and laws the persecuting the Jewish people. Hitler was born on the 20th of April 1889; he had a disappointing childhood and adulthood and could never live up to his…

Himmler was Hitler’s appointed military commander. He personally orchestrated several of the camps, and is responsible for many of the deaths in the Holocaust.The worst of the experiments were at Dachau, Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Natzweiler, Ravensbruck, and…

projects that involved the expansion of existing camps, the construction of new camps and production of weapons and related goods to contribute to the German War effort (“Concentration Camp System: In Depth”). Hitler’s most trusted and loyal worker, Heinrich Himmler, was ordered to build a concentration camp near a polish city known as Auschwitz to hold Polish prisoners and to provide slave labor for new German-run factories that would be built nearby. As Hitler continued to conquer various…

the Jewish Combat Organization because the Jewish Military Union had more conservative political views. Despite this, these two organizations joined efforts to prevent Germans from liquidating ghettos any further. In October of 1942, SS chief Heinrich Himmler ordered the evacuation of all residents of the Warsaw ghetto. The Jewish Combat Organization and the Jewish Military Union began to arrange the resistance in Warsaw (“Warsaw Ghetto…

high altitude, freezing experiments, twin experimentation, and transplant experiments. There were also other torture methods of the war. Did we learn anything from these horrendous experiments or were they simply torturous without reason? Heinrich Himmler heard that Dr. Carl Clauberg…

“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don’t ask for their love; only for their fear,” Heinrich Himmler, leader of the Waffen-SS and prominent member of the Nazi Party. The Nazi Party was founded after WWI by veterans and revolutionaries hoping to see a change in their countries’ civilian-led government. Led by Adolf Hitler, the Nazi party became the only political party in Germany from 1933-1945 using religious like nationalism,…