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    Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluːɪtpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐ] ; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of...
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    Margarete Himmler (née Boden; 9 September 1893 – 25 August 1967), also known as Marga Himmler, was the wife of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Margarete...
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    Elfriede Emma Anna Burwitz (née Himmler; 8 August 1929 – 24 May 2018) was the daughter of Heinrich Himmler and Margarete Himmler. Her father, as Reichsführer-SS...
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    The plan, named after its originator, Heinrich Himmler, was supervised by Reinhard Heydrich and managed by Heinrich Müller. The goal of this false flag...
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  • Katrin Himmler (born 1967) is a German author. She is the granddaughter of Ernst Himmler (1905–1945), who was the younger brother of Heinrich Himmler, one...
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    Hermann Himmler (23 December 1905 – 2 May 1945) was a German Nazi functionary, electrical engineer and younger brother of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Ernst...
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    Ludwig Himmler (29 July 1898 – 22 June 1982) was a German Nazi functionary, mechanical engineer and older brother of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Gebhard...
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  • The Heinrich Himmler papers are a collection of papers held by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Some limited items from the collection were...
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    Hedwig Potthast (category Personal staff of Heinrich Himmler)
    mistress of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, with whom she had two children. Born in 1912, Potthast began as Himmler's secretary in 1936 and by 1938...
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    made the decision to eliminate him with the assistance of SS leaders Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich. On 30 June 1934, the entire SA leadership were...
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    became acquainted with many members of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) including Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich, although Müller in the Weimar period was generally...
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    July 1934. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, urged on by Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, ordered a series of political extrajudicial executions intended to...
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    the only prominent Nazi leader to do so. In early 1936, SS leaders Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich terminated their membership of the Roman Catholic...
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    Ernst Kaltenbrunner (category Heinrich Himmler)
    assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, and a brief period under Heinrich Himmler, Kaltenbrunner was the third Chief of the Reich Security Main Office...
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    Posen speeches (category Heinrich Himmler)
    The Posen speeches were two speeches made by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS of Nazi Germany, on 4 and 6 October 1943 in the town hall of Posen (Poznań)...
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    castle at Wewelsburg remodeled and expanded by the head of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, which he intended to be a center for the SS. It is unknown whether...
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  • 111-24; Bradley F. Smith, Heinrich Himmler: a Nazi in the making 1900-26 (Stanford, Calif., 1971); Josef Ackermann, Heinrich Himmler als Ideologie (Göttingen...
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  • of Heinrich Himmler Gebhard Ludwig Himmler (1898–1982), German Nazi functionary and older brother of Heinrich Himmler Gudrun Burwitz, née Himmler (1929–2018)...
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    the others in 1943 and eight new blocks were built. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, approved the site in April 1940 on the recommendation...
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    Reichsführer-SS (category Heinrich Himmler)
    the SS. The longest-serving and most noteworthy office holder was Heinrich Himmler. Reichsführer-SS was both a title and a rank. The title of Reichsführer...
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  • Himmler's wartime diaries were found in Russia at a defense ministry archive in Podolsk in 2013. They were written by assistants of Heinrich Himmler and...
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    Schutzstaffel (category Heinrich Himmler)
    volunteers to provide security for party meetings in Munich. In 1925, Heinrich Himmler joined the unit, which had by then been reformed and given its final...
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    members in 1928 as the SS continued to struggle under the SA. After Heinrich Himmler took over the SS in January 1929, he worked to separate the SS from...
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    Gestapo (category Heinrich Himmler)
    oversight of the Gestapo passed to the head of the Schutzstaffel (SS), Heinrich Himmler, who was also appointed Chief of German Police by Hitler in 1936. Instead...
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    was an award of Heinrich Himmler's Schutzstaffel (SS). It was not a state decoration, but rather a personal gift bestowed by Himmler. It became a highly...
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    in the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany. After its opening by Heinrich Himmler, its purpose was enlarged to include forced labor, and eventually,...
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    command structure of the Reich Security Main Office, subordinate to Heinrich Himmler, and the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office or WVHA. At the...
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  • later made a cameo appearance in The Last Crusade as Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, opposite Michael Sheard (who himself auditioned for Toht) as Adolf...
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  • Martin Bormann, the propagandist Alfred Rosenberg, and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. Some Nazis, such as Hans Kerrl, who served as Hitler's Minister for...
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    serving as a special duties officer on the staff of the Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler from January 1935 through 1 April 1936. Then in late 1937, he was promoted...
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