Heinrich Himmler was born on 7 October 1900 in Munich, Germany.
Himmler was one of Hitler's most trusted subordinates, serving as Minister of the Interior of Nazi Germany, Head of the SS, and Minister of German National Affairs.
The Nazi concentration camps, led by Himmler, massacred nearly 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of civilians of other nationalities. The German press described Himmler as "the biggest executioner ever".
Human history is rife with bloody massacres carried out as a result of acts of expansion. For example, after the Japanese army occupied Nanjing, China, Matsui Ishigen ordered large-scale murder and rape of women, creating the Nanjing Massacre.
There was also the genocidal campaign of European colonists against native Americans, and the Spanish colonist Vasco Balboa gave blankets stained with smallpox virus to indians with the intention of genocide against indigenous peoples.
So what kind of a man was Himmler, and how did he become a genocidal demon?
First, he was a weak agricultural man who used his military uniform to cover up.
Himmler was frail and sickly from an early age, and had myopia at an early age. At that time, the German royal family advocated force, and as the godson of Prince Heinrich, Himmler was educated to be proud of being an officer.
Infant Himmler
Infant Himmler. He also had a keen interest in agriculture and ran a chicken farm for a time after joining the Nazi Party.
Therefore, he did not even pass the physical education class, and his biggest dream was to enter the Imperial Navy. Later, Himmler was defeated, so he begged his father to join the army.
Less than a year later, Germany was defeated in World War I, and an economic crisis ensued. Himmler, who had not yet had time to go to war, retired from the army, and his father hoped that he would have a stable job suitable for him.
So Himmler was sent to a vegetable farm to learn farming, and became an authentic agricultural man. Soon after, Himmler entered the University of Munich to study agriculture. After graduation, he successfully entered an agricultural company as an employee.
But Himmler still had fanatical military dreams in his heart, he hated his overly white and thin image, in order to leave scars on his face and prove his fierceness, he specially went to participate in underground duels and hand-to-hand combat; in his spare time, he often carried rifles with his friends and participated in various militia organizations.
Himmler was actually a man who lacked purpose and self-confidence. He wrote in his diary: "In the eyes of others, I was just an indecisive and nosy talker. "More than once I wanted to live abroad and escape from reality.
Under the appearance of the Predator, Himmler is still the weak and powerless nongko man. However, his acquaintance with Hitler completely changed him.
Second, he was a power freak who was parasitic to Hitler.
Himmler, Hitler and Röhm met while participating in right-wing politics. Hitler was gushing on the podium, and Röhm, a scarred World War I veteran, whose confidence and charm made Himmler envious.
Himmler and Hitler
He then followed the two to the Beer Hall Coup and witnessed Hitler's journey from defeat and arrest to rebuilding the Nazi Party.
At this time, Himmler became Hitler's "nc fan" and relied on Hitler and the growing Nazi Party to become the leader of the SS. The SS was a police force that monitored Nazi insiders.
The SS had expanded from a few thousand to 50,000, but Himmler was not satisfied with controlling only Bavaria.
The process of Himmler's seizure of power can be divided into three steps.
The first step is to create a tense atmosphere of assassination suspicion. He first took a prisoner from the prison and charged him with assassinating the Fuehrer. Later, he captured Soviet spies, intercepted Swiss intelligence, and portrayed himself as a "detective" who anticipated various assassinations.
Hitler was so frightened that he was suspicious and hurried to send Himmler to form a new guard.
The second step is to merge the most powerful police force, the Roma Stormtroopers. Himmler found another of Roma's rivals, Goering, who was in charge of half a German policeman, and used the scandals of Goering's subordinates to force him to ally with him.
Göring, who was pinched by the handle, had to cooperate and fabricated evidence of Röhm's treason with Himmler, prompting Hitler, who was full of soldiers, to shoot Röhm.
The third step is to annex Goering's Gestapo. Himmler repeated the trick by forging information that someone was trying to assassinate Goering, and then reported to Hitler that Goering's intelligence capabilities were insufficient.
Second in command of the SS: Heide Hilly. He was also one of the main perpetrators of the Holocaust
In fact, Hitler was well aware of Himmler's intentions. But he was concerned about his own safety and recognized Himmler's loyalty, and that strengthening the centralization of power was an inevitable choice to end the strife within the party, which fulfilled Himmler's wishes.
Finally, Himmler ascended to the pinnacle of power with the "host" Hitler.
Third, he is a killer lost in racism.
However, Himmler's fake "detective" was soon revealed, and Hitler was almost killed by a bomb when he delivered a commemorative speech to the coup d'état in a beer hall, and Himmler was scolded.
How do you restore the Fuehrer's trust?
Himmler thought of racism. He ordered the pedigree certification of the new SS recruits, declaring that only the noble Aryan race could guarantee the quality of combat and loyalty to the Führer.
After receiving his approval, Himmler asked Hitler to complete the "Germanization" of German-occupied areas and establish Jewish concentration camps for "political cleansing." The loyalist even cleverly worded the possibility that the Fuehrer would be responsible for the massacre.
Once a keen believer in discussing animal love with his children, He scoffed at Goering's hunting interests, saying that one should not turn a gun on innocent animals.
Himmler's "Fountain of Life" program
Yet he carried out an endless massacre of Jews.
Perhaps it was in the face of prisoners who had no ability to resist that he could feel boundless power. Completely lost in fanatical racism, Himmler believed that there was a mysterious power that could purify the world's races, and even hired German biochemical experts to help him study the dark arts.
This time, even Hitler could not condone his madness.
Hitler came to power by advocating racial "purification" and "nationalism", and in order to cater to him, Himmler developed it into genocide and organized, ordered, and routineized this massacre, so that more and more German soldiers participated in the massacre, which reflected the law of group evil.