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How Did Himmler Change
Historians consider Nazi Heinrich Himmler, born on the 7th October of 1900, ‘the black soul of the wretched regime, Hitler’s most ruthless and cynical henchman, not but the crazy planner of the extermination, portrait confirmed by himself, as he liked to say to be “an executioner without mercy”.’
Himmler was fourteen when the First World War began. He followed closely its events and convinced his parents to send him at the front as officer. Unfortunately, the war ended before he was given this opportunity. Himmler was disappointed by the sudden German defeat and by the shameful peace terms inflicted by the new Republic. This caused him to change from a role model to what he became in the aftermath.
In 1923, he participated to the failed overthrow of Munich by Hitler. In this period, Himmler’s thought combined with the ambition of making carrier. In 1925 he enrolled in the SS. Here Himmler’s administrative and organizational qualities were immediately appreciated. The SS grew together with the advancing of Himmler’s carrier, of which in 1929 he became head.
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From that moment the SA were replaced by the increasing SS squads, which would have soon become sadly known for their cruelty and violent reprisals. Himmler’s project was to free the SS from government and Nazi Party control creating a state within a state, which would have soon terrified the opponents of the regime and also his personal enemies. Hitler, oddly enough, allowed him. Due to Himmler’s will, the SS organization changed and deviated

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