camps? Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s right-hand man, was the main architect of the Holocaust, using elements of mysticism and a fanatical believe in the racist Nazi ideology to justify the murder of millions of victims. In his entire lifetime, Himmler coordinated the killing of approximately six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Italians, and millions of Soviet prisoners of war (Heinrich Himmler). Heinrich Himmler was born on October 7, 1900 in Munich. His father was Joseph Gebhard Himmler, a secondary-school
The Life Of Heinrich Himmler 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
she discusses the abnormal strict childhood experiences of Heinrich Himmler. The main question that Griffin answers are: how did he become this way? We only knew him as a Nazi leader but we did not truly understand him and why he did the things he did. Griffin talks about how Himmler had an extremely strict father that was so stern, that he would constantly watch over Himmler’s shoulder as he was writing in his journal everyday. Himmler had what seemed like a traumatic, fearful childhood. “What
murder of the Jews in The Third Reich, Heinrich Himmler is born in Munich, Germany. Himmler graduates from high school in Landshut. Himmler receives his degree in agriculture from the Technical University in Munich. Himmler joins the Nazi Party. Himmler marches in the Beer Hall Putsch against the German government. Himmler marries Margarete Boden. Adolf Hitler appointed Himmler Reichsfuhrer SS. Himmler creates the Security Service of the Nazi Party. Himmler establishes the SS Race and Settlement
Heinrich Himmler was the Reich Leader of the SS of the Nazi party from 1929 until 1945. Himmler controlled a huge ideological and bureaucratic empire that made him distinct for many, both inside and outside the Third Reich, as the second most influential man in Germany behind Hitler himself, during World War II. Given overall responsibility for the security of the Nazi empire, Himmler was the senior Nazi official responsible for conceiving and overseeing execution of the Final Solution, the Nazi
Heinrich Himmler was a powerful man in WW II. He was the one with power under Hitler himself, a devoted loyalist to Hitler and the Nazi party. Heinrich Himmler is one of the main reasons for which the SS was formed. His power made him a dangerous man during WW II. He was born in 1900 and died in 1945. During this time he was responsible for the concentration camps and the SS during this horrible time of the Holocaust. “Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich, October 7, 1900. He grew up in a staunchly
Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler was the Reich Leader (Reichführer) of the dreaded SS of the Nazi Party from 1929 until 1945. Heinrich presided over an immense ideological and bureaucratic empire that defined him for many (on the inside and outside the third Reich) as the second most powerful man in German during the time of World War Two. Heinrich was born on October 7, 1900 into the middle- class. He was born in Munrich, Germany. (www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/himmler.html) In
Greed, covetousness, avarice, cupidity; these are what killed Heinrich Himmler, the second most powerful man in Germany to Adolf Hitler during World War II. As the second most feared man in the Nazi regime, (Smith) he could not handle just being the second most; he had to be the most powerful. Himmler was in charge of the SS, SA, SD, Gestapo, and eventually provisional president of the police of Munich. The Holocaust began in Germany in the early 1920s and ended in 1945. The Holocaust caused
lady once expressed her thoughts on parenting children by stating, "Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them." In “Our Secret” Heinrich Himmler is named after a prince, whom his father believes he can be like one day, as long as he makes the right decisions. Heinrich’s father controls what he writes in his journal, making Heinrich leave out emotions. Gebhard’s intimidating demeanor is exposed through the line, “He has the face of one who looks for mistakes. He is vigilant”
started off as a small group to personally guard Hitler and other Nazi officials. The SS later started to gain popularity and members when Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler to be commander of the SS. Himmler wanted to separate the SS from the SA (Hitler’s original guards) and make them a larger and more powerful elite group of guards. By 1932, Himmler had built up the SS to thousands of members. When Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, the SS grew to over 50,000 members. That year, Hitler announced
committed by Nazi Germany, an entire population was simply robbed of their existence. In “Our Secret,” Susan Griffin tries to explain what could possibly lead an individual to execute such inhumane acts to a large group of people. She delves into Heinrich Himmler’s life and investigates all the events leading up to him joining the Nazi party. In“Panopticism,” Michel Foucault argues that modern society has been shaped by disciplinary mechanisms deriving from the plague as well as Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon
twentieth century and in particular the era of the Second World War as a basis for her study. The essay discusses a number of people but they all tie in to Heinrich Himmler. He is the extreme case, he who can be linked directly to every single death in the concentration camps. Griffin seeks to examine Himmler because if she can discern a monster like Himmler than everyone else simply falls into place. The essay also tries to deduce why something like the Holocaust, although never mentioned directly, can
The idea that a single person’s actions can resonate and intrude into other people’s lives is a concept not often though about. Being that each of us has our own individual life to worry about, it is hard to imagine that we are all deeply interconnected to others within the human race. We often tend to only think of ourselves and our immediate families; disregarding our relationship to everyone else in this world. Each one of us holds a position in life in which we all influence one or more persons
Secret” is a hybrid of memoir, history, and journalism, and is built with these discrete strands: the Holocaust; women affected by World War II directly or indirectly in their treatment by husbands and fathers; the harsh, repressive boyhood of Heinrich Himmler, who grew up to command Nazi rocketry and became the key architect of Jewish genocide; the testimony of a man scarred by war; and Griffin’s own desperately unhappy family life and harsh, repressed girlhood. In between these chunks are short italic
Leo and Himmler A person’s life can be influenced immensely by the suffocation of parent’s, and other mentors, who brainwash youth into a uniform lifestyle which lacks individuality, and creates violence. In Susan Griffin’s book “Our Secret”, she effectively compares and contrasts Leo and Himmler to her reader by describing actions that took place in both character's childhood, teenage years , and adulthood, to aid her reader in understanding acceptance, as well as change in the course
World War II is an important event in history. Adolf Hitler, a ruthless dictator who rose to power, segregated and killed millions of Jews during the Holocaust. Hitler wanted absolute power over all of Europe, so he took advantage of the worldwide depression to gain political power and support, promising to make Germany great again. However, there were many that did not approve of his methods, and opposed his Nazi party and ideals. So, Hitler used two organizations, the SS and Gestapo, to silence
Rudolph Diels in charge of them, ecstatic that one of his men was in a powerful and important position. However, in April 1934, this secret police caught the interest of Adolf Hitler, who appointed Heinrich Himmler in charge of the Gestapo. Himmler thought Diels too soft for the job, and replaces him with Heinrich Muller (“The Gestapo”). The Gestapo policemen were chosen based on what skills they acquired and what ranking they were trying to be in. Lower ranks did not need as much party loyalty as the higher
from her book,‘A Chorus of Stones’, helps to set information about the first atomic bombs. Griffin alternates between the information of the first atomic bombs and the struggles in the personal lives of regular people and major figures, such as, Heinrich Himmler and her own family. While reading ‘Our Secret’, the lessons of reading, writing, and thinking are iterated throughout the work. The structure and features of her work are foreign to many such as myself, because the use of this method has not
aimed entirely at the Jewish communities. The SS, the Elite Guard of the Nazi state, soon regarded the mobile killing methods, mainly shooting and/or gas vans, as inefficient as psychological trouble on the killers. In the autumn of 1941, Heinrich Himmler assigned SS General Odilo Globocnik (SS and police leader for Lublin) to take out the operation of systematically murdering the Jews of the general government. This operation was then given the codename Aktion Reinhard after Heydrich (who
Dachau In 1933, Heinrich Himmler, the Chief of Police in Munich at the time, conversed with officials of a abandoned gunpowder factory, later, Himmler traveled to this factory to see if it could hold prisoners. In that same year, the first elimination camp was opened. The building of Dachau, concentration camp, led to the construction of hundreds of other camps used to eliminate the Jews. The Dachau concentration camp originally held political prisoners, but was made larger to incorporate forced