Heinrich Himmler

Known for ActingBorn 1900-10-07Died 1945-05-23Munich, Germany

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and later the Minister of the Interior, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). Serving as Reichsführer and later as Commander of the Replacement (Home) Army and General Plenipotentiary for the entire Reich's administration (Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung), Himmler rose to become one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany as well as one of the persons most directly responsible for the Holocaust. As overseer of the concentration camps, extermination camps, and Einsatzgruppen (literally: task forces, often used as killing squads), Himmler coordinated the killing of some six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma, many prisoners of war, and possibly another three to four million Poles, communists, or other groups whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live or simply "in the way", including homosexuals, people with physical and mental disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and members of the Confessing Church. Shortly before the end of the war, he offered to surrender both Germany and himself to the Western Allies if he were spared prosecution. After being arrested by British forces, he committed suicide before he could be questioned.Read more

Movies & web series

Secrets of the Nazi Criminals

Belgique nazie

Will It Happen Again?

Apocalypse: The Second World War

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour

Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals

The Battle of France

Apocalypse: The Fall of Hitler

WWII: The Lost Color Archives

Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth

Night and Fog

Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler

Portrait of Anton Adriaan Mussert

Hitler and the Apostles of Evil

So war der deutsche Landser

Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate

Nuremberg

Hitler: A Career

Hitler's Evil Science

All Against All

The Nazi Gospels

Triumph Over Violence

Days That Shook the World

Crusade in Europe

The March on Rome

To Arms, We Are Fascists!

The Decent One

Swastika

The Goebbels Experiment

In Love with Adolf Hitler

Hitler's bodyguard

Der Nürnberger Parteitag der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei

Distant Journey

Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

Dawn of the Nazis

Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer

Wizards

Opus pro smrtihlava

The Victory of Faith

Adolf Hitler - Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer: Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte

Ghosts of Alderney: Hitler's Island Slaves

Stolen Children

Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым

Himmlerin kanteleensoittaja

Deutschlands große Clans

Eva Braun or the Banality of Evil

The Private Voice of Hitler

Wie konnte es geschehen? - Teil 1: "Deutschland erwache..." (1914 - 1938)