Heinrich Himmler

...while future propaganda minister Josef Goebbels was described as "an influential member of the Nazi party." Future SS chief Heinrich Himmler was characterized simply as "a racist." The files erroneously named Hitler "Adolf Jacob," also...

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...scrutinised other men who would go on to become powerful Nazis including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler. The Himmler note goes straight to the point: the first word is "racist." INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE Also under...

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...lullabies that invoke the Baby Jesus. The rewriting was supervised by the chief Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg and Heinrich Himmler led the way in de-Christing Christmas. Their plan was to remove the emotional ties of the Church and...

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...the world was subjected to 1,000 of his Christmases but an exhibition in Cologne is highlighting how the Nazis, in particular Heinrich Himmler, tried to take Christ out of Christmas. What is alarming German visitors is the realisation...

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...view, she had been far too friendly with Jews. "Liebehenschel initially held a high-ranking position in the SS, but Heinrich Himmler was unhappy that he left his wife and family for another woman, who was linked to Jews, and so he was given...

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...political and military leader and former Luftwaffe commander, was considered the third most powerful Nazi behind Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, chief of all German security forces, including the Gestapo. Goering had "a terrific sense of...

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...Nazi Christmas tradition is the Julleuchter ("Yule lantern"), a kind of candlestick which can also be seen in the exhibition. Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, had the supposedly "Germanic" lantern produced by inmates in the Dachau and...

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...operations in occupied Czechoslovakia came to a head in 1942 with the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, deputy to SS leader Heinrich Himmler and the governor of Bohemia and Moravia. Two Czech SOE agents who had trained in Britain, Jan...

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But there was more. On May 15, 1944 Budapest Jew Joel Brand was dispatched to Turkey by Adolf Eichmann (probably at Heinrich Himmler's behest) to propose exchanging a million Hungarian Jews for 10,000 trucks. It may well have been a...

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...programme. Right-wing historians have claimed the planning for the murder of six million Jews was carried out by SS chief Heinrich Himmler. Mainstream historians believe it inconceivable that Hitler did not issue verbal directives...

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