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    of Hitler’s bodyguards, and his boss, Heinrich Himmler, was impressed with his work (“Reinhard Heydrich” 1). The Nazi Party consisted of a multitude of perpetrators in the Holocaust, the Nazis themselves provoked all of the immoral acts on the Jewish population. However, the Nazis had to get orders from someone, and Reinhard Heydrich was that someone. After attaining management of the German police forces, the SS, and the Gestapo Heydrich, alongside Himmler, had full control of anyone who…

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    According to Jim Rohn, “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” In the young adult novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the boys stranded on the island establish different objectives, varying from the discipline of survivors who long for salvation to capturing the beast. During the novel, many of the survivors are swayed by a dominant leader, from their initial path of salvation onto one that provides them with instant temporary happiness and then struggle, rather than…

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    known as Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III (“Auschwitz”). In 1941, Heinrich Himmler, a leading member of the Nazi Party in Germany, had grand plans for Auschwitz. Despite this, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party, had conflicting ideas. Throughout the time of 1940 to May of 1941, Auschwitz served as a concentration camp for Polish political prisoners. It was not until May of 1941 that SS Commander Himmler said to Hoess, that Hitler had given orders “for the final solution of…

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    compassion or complete indifference. The cold and Heinrich Himmler’s kid; is untimely metamorphose into the chief architect of Jewish concentration camp, a master in the genocide concept, while at the same time supervise the Nazi V-1 rocket program. On the other hand Griffin’s self- reflected on her own interrupted girlhood, a dysfunctional family dynamic and living with an abusive Grandmother trying to transformed her into a woman. The Himmler diaries is a constant reminder to Griffin about…

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    In 1933, Himmler and Heydrich realized that they had created a strong enough organization to challenge and discredit the SA. Himmler and Heydrich began by trying to manipulate Goring and penetrate the SA's hold on Prussian police activities. Goring was extremely willing to support the SS's counter-SA activity since he had already questioned SA loyalty and believed he could gain political power if the SA was out of the picture. In addition, the SA's police activities were rivals to Goring's…

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    Viking Identity

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    established whose purpose was to provide definitive proof of the Aryan race throughout Europe primarily as part of the Nordic race. (Bouchard, 2011: 37) Headed by Hienrich Himmler, his interest in the German past and Kossinna’s supposed Aryan/ Norse runes led to the eventual establishment of the Vikings as a Germanic/Aryan culture. Himmler in particular expressed interest in excavations at the Viking site of Hedeby in southern Jutland. (Mahsarski 2015: 27) Prior to the Germans taking over…

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    In January 1942 the leaders of the Nazi party met to discuss the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” or the “Final Solution” which was the codename for the Nazi plan to massacre the Jewish people. During World War II it was implemented under the rule of Adolf Hitler the Führer of Nazi Germany. The persecution of Jews were dominant beliefs of Nazi principles. The Nuremberg laws implemented in 1935 made official the Nazi racial theories. These laws prohibited German Jews from Reich citizenship…

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    later said that he needed a place to place prisoners in the Silesia region. Sachsenhausen concentration camp commandant Walter Eisfeld was sent by Richard Glücks (head of concentration camps inspectorate) to inspect the site. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel approved the site in April, 1940. The first prisoners were 30 German criminal prisoners transferred from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss (Manager of the camp) thought that…

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    Dbq Death Marches

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    camp. The evacuations of these camps were ordered by a Nazi chief officer named Heinrich Himmler. Death marches were prolonged journeys by foot and train getting to the interior of the Reich with three purposes. These purposes were, so the prisoners would not fall into enemy hands alive, so they could not tell their stories of what happened to them in these camps, to keep production of military supplies, and Himmler believed that they could be used as hostages for bargaining with the western…

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    (Rice, p.76) stated that “due to the lack of evidence from the time passed since the Holocaust it is hard for anyone, whether a historian or scientist, to tell when the first formal steps were taken for the beginning of the Final Solution.” Leader Heinrich…

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