How Did Himmler Help Hitler
In this report I will talk about Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, and Rudolf Hess, who were Nazi Party leaders and officials and were related to Adolf Hitler. I will also discuss who these people were and what they did, why they did these things, when they did these things, where they did these things, and perhaps how they did these things. The first of these officers was Heinrich Himmler. Himmler was the head of the Gestapo (German State Police) and the Waffen-SS (militarized units of SS, which stands for Schutzstaffel, a group of Hitler's personal body guards), and Minister of the Interior from 1943 to 1945. He was also the organizer of the mass murder of Jews in the Third Reich. Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich on October 7, 1900, the son of a religious, Roman Catholic schoolmaster, and was educated at a secondary school in Landshut. Himmler served as an officer in the Eleventh Bavarian Regiment at the end of World War I, and later obtained a diploma in agriculture from Munich Technical High School in 1922.
Later on Himmler joined a Para-military, nationalist organization and participated in the Munich Beer-Hall putsch. Then in the year of 1927 he got married, and returned to poultry farming, but wasn't successful. In January 1929, he was appointed as the head of Hitler's personal bodyguards. He was a superb organizer, and had already …show more content…
expanded the SS to 50,000 men from 300 by 1933. By the year of 1936, Himmler had combined police power in Germany and was named Chief of the German police on June 17 of that year. Now as the chief, his power was unlimited, and in addition he was also responsible for the security services and the concentration camps.
Himmler's men staged the fake border incident that Hitler used to justify the invasion of Poland at the outbreak of World War II. As the war went on, the armored portions of the SS began to rival the Armed Forces for power in the military field, which ended in Himmler's being named Minister of the Interior in 1943 and chief of the Replacement Army in 1944. Right up to the end, he was one of Hitler's most loyal men.
It came time, when Hitler started to order total destruction of the Jews, and for this job he chose his most loyal follower, who was Himmler. Himmler obeyed the order he received with his usual thoroughness and efficiency. He carried out his orders with efficiency and enthusiasm. The first murders were carried out by shooting. The SS men wanted something more efficient that would accelerate the killing, and would save time for them. As a result poisonous gases were used, which killed people much faster. It is estimated that around 6 million Jews were killed during the Final Solution, and as many as another 6 million non-Jews. Himmler was thoroughly involved in implementing the final solution. At a speech in Poznan on October 4, 1943, Himmler said: I am talking about the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people. It is one of those things that is easily said. "The Jewish people is being exterminated," every Party member will tell you, "perfectly clear, it's part of our plans, we're eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, a small matter."
At the end of the war, Himmler made attempts to negotiate peace through the world, especially with the Jewish Congress. He attempted to flee in disguise in May 1945, however he was captured by British forces, and he admitted his identity. When a doctor was asked to search him to ensure he did not have hidden poison in his possession, then Himmler bit down on a cyanide capsule hidden in his mouth, and was dead in a few minutes. Like Hitler, he chose suicide as his way to exit the world as well.
Another important Nazi party member was Adolf Eichmann. He was born in Solingen on March 19, 1906, the son of a middle-class Protestant family that had moved to Linz Austria. This was where Adolf spent his youth and ultimately failed to complete his engineering studies. Later he worked as a laborer, and eventually became a salesman for a Vacuum Oil Company.
On April 1, 1932 Adolf Eichmann joined the Austrian Nazi Party. After Adolf lost his job, he joined the exiled Austrian legion and underwent fourteen months of military training. In 1934 Adolf found an opening in Himmler's Security Service (SD Sicherheitsdienst, Nazi party's own intelligence and security body). By the beginning of 1935 he was the official responsible for Jewish questions' at the Berlin head office of the SD. In the year 1937 Adolf Eichmann went and explored the possibilities of Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany to Palestine.
From August 1938 Adolf was in charge of the office for Jewish emigration in Vienna. Then Eichmann started the deportation of Jews and over 150,000 Jews left Austria. By 1939 Adolf Eichmann was handling forced deportations to Poland. In December 1939 Eichmann was transferred to Gestapo of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA - Reichssicherheitshauptamt, the central security department of the German Reich, formed in 1939, and combining the security police and the S.D.) where he started dealing with Jewish affairs and evacuation. In the year 1941 his resettlement department began the task of creating death camps, and developing gassing techniques.
Adolf eventually became a high-ranking official in Nazi Germany, and a member of SS (Schutzstaffel). He was largely responsible for the extermination of millions of people during the Holocaust, in particular the Jews. He also organized the identification and transportation of people to various concentration camps. Adolf Eichmann is known as, and is often referred to as Chief Executioner'.
After World War II, Eichmann was captured by US troops.
However, in 1946 he managed to escape from a prison camp. After many travels Eichmann settled in Argentina in 1958, under the name of Ricardo Klement. Soon Eichmann was tracked down by Israeli secret agents on May 2, 1960, living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Nine days later he was secretly taken to Israel, to be publicly tried in Jerusalem. The trial took place between April 2 and August 14, 1961. On December 2, 1961 Eichmann was sentenced to death for crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity. On May 31, 1962 he was hanged in Ramleh
prison.
Another important Nazi member was Rudolf Hess. Rudolf Hess was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on April 26, 1894. He was son of a prosperous wholesaler and exporter. Hess was a shy and an insecure man who later displayed near religious devotion, dedicated loyalty and absolute blind obedience to Hitler. In 1934, Hess gave a revealing speech stating - "With pride we see that one man remains beyond all criticism, that is the Führer. This is because everyone feels and knows: he is always right, and he will always be right. The National Socialism of all of us is anchored in uncritical loyalty, in the surrender to the Führer that does not ask for the why in individual cases, in the silent execution of his orders. We believe that the Führer is obeying a higher call to fashion German history. There can be no criticism of this belief." Führer was Adolf Hitler's title in Nazi Germany.
Hess had served in the German Military during the outbreak of World War 1. Afterwards he joined the fledgling Nazi Party on July 1, 1920. He was the sixteenth member of the Nazi Party. Hess was a fearless fighter who fought with Para-military and others who often tried to disrupt Hitler's speeches.
In 1923, Hess participated in the Nazi attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government, and was imprisoned with Hitler at the Landsberg Prison. After his release in 1925, Hess served as a personal secretary to Hitler for several years. In 1932 he was appointed as the Chairman of the Central Political Commission of the Nazi Party and SS General as a reward for his loyal service.
Hess was often rewarded by Hitler for his loyalty, but was never given major influence in matters of state due to his lack of understanding of the mechanics of power and his inability to take any action on his own initiative. He was granted with titles such as Reich (Federal) Minister without portfolio, member of the Secret Cabinet Council, and member of the Ministerial Council for Reich Defense. In 1939 Hess was even elected to be Hitler's successor after Göring.
However over time Hess' limited power was further weakened as Hess had only one desire, which was to serve Hitler, so he couldn't do much. As a result Hitler distanced himself from Hess. As Hess wanted to regain his importance in front of Hitler, he put on a Luftwaffe uniform and flew a German fighter plane alone toward Scotland. Hess wanted to convince the British Government that Hitler only wanted Lebensraum for the German people, and had no wish to destroy a fellow 'Nordic' nation. Nordic refers to Germany and Scandinavian nations.
Hess proposed to the British that if the British would allow Nazi Germany to control Europe, then the British Empire would not be further harmed by Hitler. He insisted that German victory was expected and even threatened that the British people would be starved to death by a Nazi blockade around the British Isles unless they accepted his generous peace offer.
Ultimately, Hess displayed signs of mental instability to his British captors (those who captured him in Britain) and they concluded he was half mad and represented only himself. As a result Hess was imprisoned for the duration, and was treated like any high ranking POW. Hess was also declared insane by Hitler, and was disowned by the Nazis.
In 1945, Hess was returned to Germany to stand trial before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. He still continued to display loyalty to Hitler, ending with his final speech - "It was granted me for many years to live and work under the greatest son whom my nation has brought forth in the thousand years of its history. Even if I could I would not expunge this period from my existence. I regret nothing. If I were standing once more at the beginning I should act once again as I did then, even if I knew that at the end I should be burnt at the stake " In spite of his mental condition, he was sentenced to life imprisonment at Spandau Prison. Afterwards he committed suicide in 1987 at age of 92. To conclude all the three men were members of the Nazi Party, and were followers of Adolf Hitler. These three men have exterminated millions of Jews and have caused millions of them to suffer, blindly following Hitler and in their lure to rule Europe. In my thinking these three men were totally insane for killing the Jews and having them to suffer. They have done such terrible things, which could never be forgotten and excused.
Later on Himmler joined a Para-military, nationalist organization and participated in the Munich Beer-Hall putsch. Then in the year of 1927 he got married, and returned to poultry farming, but wasn't successful. In January 1929, he was appointed as the head of Hitler's personal bodyguards. He was a superb organizer, and had already …show more content…
expanded the SS to 50,000 men from 300 by 1933. By the year of 1936, Himmler had combined police power in Germany and was named Chief of the German police on June 17 of that year. Now as the chief, his power was unlimited, and in addition he was also responsible for the security services and the concentration camps.
Himmler's men staged the fake border incident that Hitler used to justify the invasion of Poland at the outbreak of World War II. As the war went on, the armored portions of the SS began to rival the Armed Forces for power in the military field, which ended in Himmler's being named Minister of the Interior in 1943 and chief of the Replacement Army in 1944. Right up to the end, he was one of Hitler's most loyal men.
It came time, when Hitler started to order total destruction of the Jews, and for this job he chose his most loyal follower, who was Himmler. Himmler obeyed the order he received with his usual thoroughness and efficiency. He carried out his orders with efficiency and enthusiasm. The first murders were carried out by shooting. The SS men wanted something more efficient that would accelerate the killing, and would save time for them. As a result poisonous gases were used, which killed people much faster. It is estimated that around 6 million Jews were killed during the Final Solution, and as many as another 6 million non-Jews. Himmler was thoroughly involved in implementing the final solution. At a speech in Poznan on October 4, 1943, Himmler said: I am talking about the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people. It is one of those things that is easily said. "The Jewish people is being exterminated," every Party member will tell you, "perfectly clear, it's part of our plans, we're eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, a small matter."
At the end of the war, Himmler made attempts to negotiate peace through the world, especially with the Jewish Congress. He attempted to flee in disguise in May 1945, however he was captured by British forces, and he admitted his identity. When a doctor was asked to search him to ensure he did not have hidden poison in his possession, then Himmler bit down on a cyanide capsule hidden in his mouth, and was dead in a few minutes. Like Hitler, he chose suicide as his way to exit the world as well.
Another important Nazi party member was Adolf Eichmann. He was born in Solingen on March 19, 1906, the son of a middle-class Protestant family that had moved to Linz Austria. This was where Adolf spent his youth and ultimately failed to complete his engineering studies. Later he worked as a laborer, and eventually became a salesman for a Vacuum Oil Company.
On April 1, 1932 Adolf Eichmann joined the Austrian Nazi Party. After Adolf lost his job, he joined the exiled Austrian legion and underwent fourteen months of military training. In 1934 Adolf found an opening in Himmler's Security Service (SD Sicherheitsdienst, Nazi party's own intelligence and security body). By the beginning of 1935 he was the official responsible for Jewish questions' at the Berlin head office of the SD. In the year 1937 Adolf Eichmann went and explored the possibilities of Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany to Palestine.
From August 1938 Adolf was in charge of the office for Jewish emigration in Vienna. Then Eichmann started the deportation of Jews and over 150,000 Jews left Austria. By 1939 Adolf Eichmann was handling forced deportations to Poland. In December 1939 Eichmann was transferred to Gestapo of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA - Reichssicherheitshauptamt, the central security department of the German Reich, formed in 1939, and combining the security police and the S.D.) where he started dealing with Jewish affairs and evacuation. In the year 1941 his resettlement department began the task of creating death camps, and developing gassing techniques.
Adolf eventually became a high-ranking official in Nazi Germany, and a member of SS (Schutzstaffel). He was largely responsible for the extermination of millions of people during the Holocaust, in particular the Jews. He also organized the identification and transportation of people to various concentration camps. Adolf Eichmann is known as, and is often referred to as Chief Executioner'.
After World War II, Eichmann was captured by US troops.
However, in 1946 he managed to escape from a prison camp. After many travels Eichmann settled in Argentina in 1958, under the name of Ricardo Klement. Soon Eichmann was tracked down by Israeli secret agents on May 2, 1960, living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Nine days later he was secretly taken to Israel, to be publicly tried in Jerusalem. The trial took place between April 2 and August 14, 1961. On December 2, 1961 Eichmann was sentenced to death for crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity. On May 31, 1962 he was hanged in Ramleh
prison.
Another important Nazi member was Rudolf Hess. Rudolf Hess was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on April 26, 1894. He was son of a prosperous wholesaler and exporter. Hess was a shy and an insecure man who later displayed near religious devotion, dedicated loyalty and absolute blind obedience to Hitler. In 1934, Hess gave a revealing speech stating - "With pride we see that one man remains beyond all criticism, that is the Führer. This is because everyone feels and knows: he is always right, and he will always be right. The National Socialism of all of us is anchored in uncritical loyalty, in the surrender to the Führer that does not ask for the why in individual cases, in the silent execution of his orders. We believe that the Führer is obeying a higher call to fashion German history. There can be no criticism of this belief." Führer was Adolf Hitler's title in Nazi Germany.
Hess had served in the German Military during the outbreak of World War 1. Afterwards he joined the fledgling Nazi Party on July 1, 1920. He was the sixteenth member of the Nazi Party. Hess was a fearless fighter who fought with Para-military and others who often tried to disrupt Hitler's speeches.
In 1923, Hess participated in the Nazi attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government, and was imprisoned with Hitler at the Landsberg Prison. After his release in 1925, Hess served as a personal secretary to Hitler for several years. In 1932 he was appointed as the Chairman of the Central Political Commission of the Nazi Party and SS General as a reward for his loyal service.
Hess was often rewarded by Hitler for his loyalty, but was never given major influence in matters of state due to his lack of understanding of the mechanics of power and his inability to take any action on his own initiative. He was granted with titles such as Reich (Federal) Minister without portfolio, member of the Secret Cabinet Council, and member of the Ministerial Council for Reich Defense. In 1939 Hess was even elected to be Hitler's successor after Göring.
However over time Hess' limited power was further weakened as Hess had only one desire, which was to serve Hitler, so he couldn't do much. As a result Hitler distanced himself from Hess. As Hess wanted to regain his importance in front of Hitler, he put on a Luftwaffe uniform and flew a German fighter plane alone toward Scotland. Hess wanted to convince the British Government that Hitler only wanted Lebensraum for the German people, and had no wish to destroy a fellow 'Nordic' nation. Nordic refers to Germany and Scandinavian nations.
Hess proposed to the British that if the British would allow Nazi Germany to control Europe, then the British Empire would not be further harmed by Hitler. He insisted that German victory was expected and even threatened that the British people would be starved to death by a Nazi blockade around the British Isles unless they accepted his generous peace offer.
Ultimately, Hess displayed signs of mental instability to his British captors (those who captured him in Britain) and they concluded he was half mad and represented only himself. As a result Hess was imprisoned for the duration, and was treated like any high ranking POW. Hess was also declared insane by Hitler, and was disowned by the Nazis.
In 1945, Hess was returned to Germany to stand trial before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. He still continued to display loyalty to Hitler, ending with his final speech - "It was granted me for many years to live and work under the greatest son whom my nation has brought forth in the thousand years of its history. Even if I could I would not expunge this period from my existence. I regret nothing. If I were standing once more at the beginning I should act once again as I did then, even if I knew that at the end I should be burnt at the stake " In spite of his mental condition, he was sentenced to life imprisonment at Spandau Prison. Afterwards he committed suicide in 1987 at age of 92. To conclude all the three men were members of the Nazi Party, and were followers of Adolf Hitler. These three men have exterminated millions of Jews and have caused millions of them to suffer, blindly following Hitler and in their lure to rule Europe. In my thinking these three men were totally insane for killing the Jews and having them to suffer. They have done such terrible things, which could never be forgotten and excused.