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Heinrich Himmler

1900–1945 · 20th century

Heinrich Himmler was Reichsführer of the SS from 1929 and from 1936 chief of all German police, including the Gestapo. He built the SS into a state within the state that ran the concentration camps, and he was the principal organiser of the Holocaust and of the murder of millions of others. Captured by British troops in May 1945, he killed himself with poison.

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Heinrich Himmler. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/heinrich-himmler
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