It is not to often that a man is seen as the very personification of evil. So is the case of Heinrich Himmler who was not only the head of Hitler’s SS police, but was also in charge of the death camps in the east. Himmler’s life and his impact on the rise and fall of the Nazi State is a horrifying story that brings us to the very depths of the nature of evil in the human character.

Heinrich Himmler was born on October 7, 1900, a son of a secondary school instructor and strict Roman Catholic who lived in Luneberg, Germany. His father being the former tutor of the Princess of the Bavarian Court, Himmler had completed his secondary school instruction at a school in Landshut. Himmler originally intended to be a farmer and went on to receive a diploma in agriculture from the Munich Technical School in 1922. At age 18 and after World War I when Germany was at a all time low, Himmler despised the Weimar Republic and expressed hatred for anyone who was anti-Germany. After working briefly as a salesman for a firm of fertilizer manufactures, the young Himmler joined a para-military, right wing national organization. It was here where Himmler first came in contact with Hitle

In July of 1944, Himmler attained the rank of Chief of the Army’s Home Organization- now second only to The Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. But Himmler’s empire was already crumbling from within and under attack from without. Weakened on all fronts, he was attacked after 1944 by Martin Bormann, who tried to revitalize the party organization as a rival of the SS. Bormann emerged victorious in April 1945, when Hitler ordered Himmler’s arrest because he tried to propose peace with the Allies. The chief of the SS tried to win asylum for himself and 200 leading Nazis in the final days of World War II by offering cash and the freedom of 3,500 Jews, according to British intelligence documented released last year. The concentration inmates were to be sent to Switzerland in two trainloads. The offer was made by Heinrich Himmler and orchestrated by his intelligence

that is easily said. “The Jewish people is being exterminated,”

power by one man of such evil set forth the merciless slaughter of millions (Breitman, 88)”.

extermination of the Jewish people. It is one of those things

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