Heinrich Louisbode Himmler, a German with a Japanese appearance, was thin, wore a pair of glasses, did not smile, and had a serious expression, like an old-fashioned teacher. If you don't know Himmler, I'm afraid no one can tell from his looks that this is an executioner who has killed more than six million people.
Himmler was born into a family of teachers in Munich, his father was the king's teacher, and as a result of this relationship, Prince Wittelsbach Heinrich, an adviser to the Privy Council of Bavaria, personally named Himmler and became his godfather. In a conservative family atmosphere, Himmler developed a serious and serious character, he had excellent grades and was loyal to Catholicism. At this time, no one would have imagined that he would become a butcher who frantically persecuted clergy and wielded butcher knives at innocent people.
Himmler was thin and polite, but he always had a dream of a general in his heart, and he fantasized about commanding an invincible army and sweeping away all enemies for the country. However, since Himmler was wearing glasses, the Imperial fleet rejected Himmler. Seventeen-year-old Himmler reluctantly entered the army with the help of his father, but when he finished training and joined the infantry regiment, the war was over, and he had to retire.
After retiring from the army, Himmler joined the Bavarian Social Democratic Liberal Regiment, in a vain attempt to make a contribution to the Wehrmacht by attacking Red Munich. However, as Himmler suffered from typhoid fever and continued to deteriorate, his goal was again frustrated.
Himmler, who failed again, also lost the help of the royal family, and he was forced to choose to apply for agriculture and become an agricultural university student. Himmler was a vegetarian, but he opened a chicken farm, and his goal was to open the farm to the world and become the largest chicken company in Germany. Unfortunately, the reality is very bone-chilling, and before Himmler can show his fists, he will be infected with wind and cold again, and the chicken farm will not be solved.
It was Hitler who changed Himmler's fate, and his speech inspired Himmler, who has since become a fanatical believer in Hitler. In Hitler's November coup d'état, the flag bearer who carried the flag at the forefront was Himmler. Later, during Hitler's political struggle with Strasser, Himmler also defected to Hitler, which earned him Hitler's trust and value.
In 1927, at the age of twenty-seven, Himmler became deputy national leader of the SS. However, even such a high-ranking official could not satisfy Himmler, a man with a strong desire and an obsession with power. Therefore, Himmler continued to expand the power of the SS, and he continued to give advice to the leaders of the Nazi Party, and to continuously improve the status of the SS. By 1934, Himmler had become Prussian police inspector general and Gestapo chief. After the destruction of Röhm's SA, the SS became the core force of the Nazi Party.
Himmler became Hitler's pawn, using his position to promote dictatorship and create an atmosphere of terror in order to maintain the rule of the Nazi Party, while he had already begun to experiment with concentration camps.
Himmler's dislike of the Jews came from his youth. Himmler attached great importance to agriculture, and he often went deep into peasant groups to communicate with them, and in his view, German peasants were the source of German strength. However, Himmler found that the peasants' incomes were not high, and the profits were taken away by Jewish merchants. This created a sense of disgust for the Jews in Himmler, and Hitler's racial theory deepened Himmler's hatred of the Jews.
In order to vent his hatred of the Jews and to implement Hitler's plan for reuse, Himmler began his inhuman genocide after the outbreak of World War II.
In the German-Polish War of 1939, Himmler sent an Einsatzgruppen to follow the Germans, and when the Germans defeated the Polish army, his Einsatzgruppen would come out and kill all Polish intellectuals and people who might be a threat to German rule, most of them Jews. This was the beginning of the infamous "Himmler Project".
Himmler had concentration camps in all the areas occupied by the Germans, imprisoning all Jews, stripping them of all their property, and committing inhumane genocide against them.
The extermination of tens of millions of Jews is actually unacceptable to many Germans, so the resistance to the plan to exterminate the Jews is also huge. In the beginning, the Nazis decided to exile all Jews to the Soviet Union, leaving them tortured to death by the cruel environment. However, the German offensive did not go well, and this plan could not be implemented in the end.
By 1942, the Nazi Party had convened a conference to discuss the treatment of Jews. Some of the people at the meeting did not approve of the genocide of the Jews, but Himmler insisted on the extermination plan. Eventually, with Hitler's support, Himmler embarked on his frenzied extermination plan. Beginning in 1942, Himmler set up a number of extermination camps, and he advocated the total elimination of the Jews, in the process in which five million Jews were brutally killed by Himmler.
Supposedly, Himmler should have been Hitler's die-hard loyalist, bound to Hitler's fate. However, when the wind was not right, and seeing that Germany was about to lose, Himmler went so far as to contact the Allies in private. In order to show his sincerity, Himmler also released more than a thousand Jews from the concentration camp. Hitler was furious when he learned of this and marginalized Himmler.
Himmler wanted to surrender to the Western Allies, but his plan was too late, and Hitler confessed in a daze that Germany had failed, but that he would coexist with the Third Reich, and in his speech Hitler also scolded Himmler's betrayal.
Since Germany had been utterly defeated, Himmler's value to the West was lost, and Hitler's public rebuke of him made Himmler intolerable to the German Nazis.
After Dönitz, who had succeeded Hitler, refused to enter the cabinet, Himmler put on his SS uniform and began to flee, but only two weeks later he was captured by the British.
Himmler knew he had the blood of six million people on his hands, Jews, Soviets, And British, French, and Americans. The heartbroken Himmler had offended the whole world. Knowing that he would not have a good end, Himmler bit the cyanide capsule in his denture and committed suicide, ending his blood-stained life.