Heinrich Himmler
Historical Figure

Heinrich Himmler

German Nazi leader of the SS (1900–1945)

About Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was a German Nazi politician and military leader. He was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel from 1929 to 1945. He was a leading member of the Nazi Party, and one of the most powerful figures in Nazi Germany. He was also one of the main architects of the Holocaust, the genocide of Europe's Jewish population.Wikipedia ↗

Associated Events

Genocide1933 CE – 1945 CE

The Holocaust

The systematic, state-sponsored genocide of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

Empire1933 CE – 1939 CE

Rise of Nazi Germany

Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, and rapidly transformed the Weimar Republic into a totalitarian one-party dictatorship through a combination of legal manipulation, intimidation, and violence.