LibGuides: Primary Sources: Faces of Nazi Germany during World War II: Heinrich Luitpold Himmler

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Reichsführer of the entire SS, Military Commander of the Waffen-SS, Commander of the Gestapo, Minister of the Interior, Commander of the Home Army, and supreme leader of the administration of the entire Third Reich. Heinrich Himmler became Hitler’s second in command following the downfall of Göring. History Hit

Primary Sources Online - Heinrich Himmler

An Architect of Terror: Heinrich Himmler and the Holocaust (The National WWII Museum)
Documents - The SS and Police System (GHDI)
Documents | The Nazi Concentration Camps (Birkbeck University)
The Führer’s Decree on the Institution of a Chief of the German Police and the Appointment of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler to the Post (June 17, 1936) (GHDI)
Group Photo of an SS Wedding on the Grounds of the Main Office for Race and Settlement (1936) (GHDI)
Heinrich Himmler ( 1900-1945) (Jewish Virtual Library)
Heinrich Himmler (Spartacus Educational)
Heinrich Himmler ( United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Heinrich Himmler (World War II Database)
Heinrich Himmler, Documents on Holocaust (A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust)
Heinrich Himmler, Frank Zieris, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner (left to right) during an Inspection of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp (April 1941) (GHDI)
Heinrich Himmler, Speech before SS Group Leaders, Posen, Poland (1943)
Heinrich Himmler. (A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust)
Heinrich Himmler during an Inspection of the Dachau Concentration Camp (March 1938) (GHDI)
Heinrich Himmler Photors (World War Database 2)
Heinrich Himmler Trains for the Reich Sport Badge in Silver (1936) (GHFI)
Heinrich Himmler Views Ancient Germanic Rune Markings in a Palatinate Quarry (1935) (GHDI)
Heinrich Himmler’s Commentary on page 33 of Mein Kampf: "The Possibility of De-miscegenation [Entmischung] is at Hand" (1927) (GHDI)
Heinrich Himmler’s Order for the Arrest and Execution of Members of the Oppositional Czech Intelligentsia in Response to the Attack on Reinhard Heydrich (May 27, 1942) (GHDI)
Hermann Göring, Chief of the State Secret Police Office, names Heinrich Himmler Deputy Chief and "Inspector of the Prussian Political Police" (April 20, 1934) (GHDI)
Himmler’s Secret Directive to all Members of the SS and the Police on the Care of all Legitimate and Illegitimate Children of "Good Blood" (October 28, 1939) (GHDI)
James M. Fitzpatrick collection of German captured documents, 1936-1945 (Library of Congress)
Josef Meisinger on "Combating Homosexuality as a Political Task" (April 5-6, 1937) (GHDI)
Mountain of Shoes belonging to Murdered Jewish Prisoners at the Lublin-Majdanek Concentration and Extermination Camp (1944) (GHDI)
Nazi Perpetrators: The SS (Schutzstaffel) (Jewish Virtual Library)
Nazi Statements on "The Jewish Question." (A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust)
Occupation Terror in the Soviet Union: Partisans are Hanged to Deter Others (c. 1943) (GHDI)
Oswald Pohl’s Report to Heinrich Himmler on the Expansion of the Concentration Camps (April 30, 1942) (GHDI)
Prisoners Doing Leveling Work at the Dachau Concentration Camp (May 24, 1933) (GHDI)
Protestant Girls' Youth Organization before its Dissolution (April 1, 1934) (GHDI)
Roma and Sinti Women Weave Reed Mats in the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp (1941) (GHDI)
Room for Newborns in the "Lebensborn" Association Maternity Home in Steinhöring (Upper Bavaria) (1938) (GHDI)
Speech by Heinrich Himmler to SS Group Leaders (EUDOCS)
Statistical Report on the "Final Solution," known as the Korherr Report (March 23, 1943) (GHDI)

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