Four years after the unit was formed, the SS was put in the hands of Heinrich Himmler, a racist extremist who was a very good friend of Hitler. The years of his management were a big time of change for the group, since it increased from 300 members to 50000. Each member had to have Aryan characteristics (tall, blonde hair and blue eyes), physical perfection and racial purity. Their symbol consisted of two Ss in the shape of lightning bolts with skulls and silver daggers around them. This made the members feel superior to the average Storm Troopers of the SA (Sturmabteilung) to which they were inferior to in the first place.
(Otto) Adolf Eichmann was Lieutenant Colonel in the Nazi Secret Services (SS), and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was in charge of relocating the jews into ghettos and extermination camps. When the Nazis began to invade the Soviet Union, Eichmann became responsible for Jewish deportation to extermination camps, where they were gassed. After Germany invaded Hungary, and transports had stopped, 437,000 of Hungary’s 725,000 Jews had been killed.
Heinrich Himmler was born October 7, 1900; He was a German politician, police administration, and military commander. He grew up in a comfortable and conservative Roman Catholic and middle class family. Himmler got his high school degree and got his degree in agriculture at the institute at the Institute of Technology in Munch. He was married to Margerete Boden and he had one daughter. Growing up he had suffered from health problems, including lung infections, typhoid fever and chronic gastrointestinal ailments.
When one thinks of the most evil and powerful person through history, one often thinks of Adolf Hitler. However, most of the feats accomplished by Hitler would have been impossible without the help of his lesser known right-hand man, Heinrich Himmler. Deemed “the second most powerful man in Germany during World War II” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), he helped Hitler carry out his brutal genocide of the Jewish religion. Heinrich Himmler played an extremely important role in the Holocaust.
Hitler’s generals strongly disagreed with his policies even to the point of attempting an assassination. Multiple times Hitler’s officer tried to stop him from wreaking havoc on the German way of life. Their repeated warnings went unheard, resulting in Germany’s downfall. The German war effort was vastly influenced by the Anti-Nazi tendencies of Hitler’s senior officers.
The Death head officers where the high-ranking members of the SS, a group of men that were regarded as the elite members of the nazi party. Hitler's original group of soldiers was the SA. The two parties eventually became one under the leadership of Hitler. Himmler, wanted the SS, his group, to become the supreme, elite group of the nazi party and got over 3000 men to join the SS which made the SS become the superior, elite party. Himmler secretly worked to kill Ernst Rohm, the leader of the SA. In 1934, Hitler became worried that the SA had became too powerful and commanded the SS to execute the higher ranking members of the SA. One of the people executed was Ernst Rohm, which boosted the position of Himmler. All the members of the SS had
In the beginning Adolf Hitler couldn 't run all of germany by himself so he elected officials to take charge while he was worrying about taking over the world. “Heinrich Himmler who was appointed Reichsfuhrer- SS in 1929 and from its very inception he saw the SS as an elite force, as an elite unit, the party 's "Praetorian Guard," with all SS personnel selected on the principles of racial purity and unconditional loyalty to the Nazi Party” (Holocaust Education). Himmler took his job very seriously, he took barely trained bodyguards and turned them into an elite force who was know as “Schutzstaffel or SS “. There was nothing that Himmler didn 't do that impress the fuhrer,”Thanks to his control of the police Himmler was able to build up the concentration camps, in order to provide “protective custody” for political suspects.” Since Hitler and Himmler were
Fascism was around approximately forty years. From 1921-1943, Mussolini was the Fascist leader in Italy and Hitler was the Fascist leader in Germany. Many people thought Fascism could improve their countries because the leaders who stepped up to power, promised great improvements. They also convinced the citizens that they had nothing more to worry about. When Fascist leaders were brought to power, they promised the people their lives would be better and their country would be saved. Fascism was good for people who complied with the rules, but not for those who talked against their leaders. Fascism in the 1920’s lead Europe to support of the middle class and economic instability.
Heinrich Himmler was born on October 7th, 1900 in Munich to a middle-class Bavarian family. His father was Joseph Gebhard Himmler, a secondary-school teacher and principal. His mother was Anna Maria Himmler (maiden name Heyder), a devout Catholic and extremely attentive mother. Heinrich had an older brother, Gebhard Ludwig Himmler, and a younger brother, Ernst Hermann Himmler. Heinrich was named after his godparent, Prince Heinrich of Wittelsbach of the royal family of Bavaria, who was tutored by Gebhard Himmler. Educated at secondary school in Landshut, Himmler served as an officer cadet in the 11th Bavarian Regiment at the end of WW1, although he saw no active service. After working briefly as a salesman for a fertilizer manufacturing firm, Heinrich Himmler joined the Nazi party and in the November of 1923 participated in the Beer-Hall Putsch as a standard bearer at the side of Ernst Rohm. All of these roles combined together were a major reason for Heinrich Himmler being chosen for the jobs he received later in his militaristic life. It is surprising, that Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the primary architect of the Holocaust, has not attracted the attentions of more biographers. For all that he had taken part in for the history of the Third Reich, he appears to lack the “infamous charisma” of Heydrich or Hitler, and because of this lack of “infamous charisma” he has been presented only rarely as a primary subject for a book about the holocaust and the
Before World War II began in 1939, in 1933 there were over nine million Jews living in Europe (Holocaust Encyclopedia). Adolf Hitler decided that there needed to be fewer Jews in Europe. There were also SS guards which were members who followed Hitler’s footsteps and obeyed whatever Hitler told them to do. Millions of Jews were killed during the Holocaust and that was what Hitler and the SS guards wanted; to execute as many Jews as possible. Heinrich Himmler and the Jewish youth group in Vilna had two very different views of the Holocaust. Himmler was on Hitler’s side and believed that destroying all Jews would allow the rest of Europe to have a better life. The Jewish youth group wanted to fight for their lives in Vilna. They had lost the majority of their family members and they wanted to resist the Nazi’s, SS guards, and Hitler.
The Schutzstaffel was an elite paramilitary unit that was formed in 1925 by Adolf Hitler to serve as a personal bodyguard unit during the interwar period. The insignia for the Schutzstaffel is SS. After many commanders of the SS, Heinrich Himmler was later appointed as the commander of the Schutzstaffel.
When you hear the words “World War Two,” you may immediately think of the powerful Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler. However, there was a lesser known Adolf during that time, and his last name was Eichmann. Nevertheless, he was just as malevolent as Hitler. You may be asking yourself, “who is Adolf Eichmann?” Adolf Eichmann was one of the world's most notorious Nazis during WWII, and to understand this you will see how he was first introduced to the Nazi party, the plans he conducted during the war, where he escaped to postwar, who tracked him down and caught him, his time in captivity, the return plan, how his glory days came to an end in the Eichmann trial, and how the world reacted to the mayhem he brought about.
<br>Hitler regained control of the Nazi Party upon his release in December 1924. From 1925 to 1930 Hitler built a network of local parties over most of Germany. He also organized the Schutzstaffel or the "SS", a group that performed police tasks. They carried out violent acts against Hitler's enemies. Unemployed young men who joined Hitler's groups were given food, shelter, uniforms and a sense of purpose.
For the past seventy years, Adolf Hitler has been known as one of the most evil men in history. The Fueherer, as he was known, exhumed hatred and violence in his pursuit of power. A vile man, driven by violence and a lust for power, eventually drove himself mad with his own idealistic vision of what a perfect world would be, and how he would achieve
After World War 1 many nations had suffered a huge beating, many lives were lost, resources were scarce, people were upset and angry, people wanted some sort of leadership that was going to fix everything, they wanted guidance.
Even though Germany was left in a period of struggle and economic weakness after WW1, Adolf Hitler would take a stand by creating a party that would help refine the structure of the economy. This party, when abbreviated, was called Nazi, would also create harsh laws and unrelentless punishment. Due to the Nazi party’s quick growth, there was an immediate impact on lifestyle and politics for the people of Germany. The long term impact brought forth by the consequences or legacy of the Nazi party included a population decrease and an increase in deaths. To make both of these impacts, Hitler had to overcome many hard challenges.