Preview

How Did Himmler Help Hitler

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
1836 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
How Did Himmler Help Hitler
In this report I will talk about Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, and Rudolf Hess, who were Nazi Party leaders and officials and were related to Adolf Hitler. I will also discuss who these people were and what they did, why they did these things, when they did these things, where they did these things, and perhaps how they did these things. The first of these officers was Heinrich Himmler. Himmler was the head of the Gestapo (German State Police) and the Waffen-SS (militarized units of SS, which stands for Schutzstaffel, a group of Hitler's personal body guards), and Minister of the Interior from 1943 to 1945. He was also the organizer of the mass murder of Jews in the Third Reich. Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich on October 7, 1900, the son of a religious, Roman Catholic schoolmaster, and was educated at a secondary school in Landshut. Himmler served as an officer in the Eleventh Bavarian Regiment at the end of World War I, and later obtained a diploma in agriculture from Munich Technical High School in 1922.
Later on Himmler joined a Para-military, nationalist organization and participated in the Munich Beer-Hall putsch. Then in the year of 1927 he got married, and returned to poultry farming, but wasn't successful. In January 1929, he was appointed as the head of Hitler's personal bodyguards. He was a superb organizer, and had already
…show more content…
However, in 1946 he managed to escape from a prison camp. After many travels Eichmann settled in Argentina in 1958, under the name of Ricardo Klement. Soon Eichmann was tracked down by Israeli secret agents on May 2, 1960, living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Nine days later he was secretly taken to Israel, to be publicly tried in Jerusalem. The trial took place between April 2 and August 14, 1961. On December 2, 1961 Eichmann was sentenced to death for crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity. On May 31, 1962 he was hanged in Ramleh

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    After the attempt had failed, “Hitler told German radio listeners a coup by a ‘clique of ambitious, conscienceless, and criminal and stupid officers’ had failed and would be dealt with in true National Socialist fashion” (McDonough). Five thousand people who were against Hitler were executed that day (McDonough). “In an attempt to protect himself, Fromm organized the execution of Stauffenberg along with three other conspirators in the courtyard of the War Ministry” (“Claus von…

    • 606 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    * At midnight between May 31 and June 1, 1962, Eichmann was executed by hanging…

    • 1420 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Hitler and Stalin are names that will be forever remember as evil master minds of killing millions of people in order to create a perfect race. In this paper, there will be a comparison of Hitler and Stalin’s careers. Also, investigating which one had a greater impact on the twentieth century.…

    • 485 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Eichmann was born on March 19, 1906 near Cologne, Germany, into a middle class Protestant family. His family moved to Austria following the death of young Adolf''s mother. He spent his youth in Linz, Austria, which had also been Hitler's hometown. As a boy, Eichmann was teased about his looks and dark complexion and was nicknamed "the little Jew" by classmates. After failing to complete his engineering studies, Eichmann had various jobs including working as a laborer in his father's small mining company, working in sales for an electrical construction company and also worked as a traveling salesman for an American oil company. In 1932 at age 26 he joined the growing Austrian Nazi Party at the suggestion of his friend Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Eichmann then became a member of the SS and in 1934 served as an SS corporal at Dachau concentration camp. In September 1934 Eichmann found relief from the monotony of that assignment by getting a job in Heydrich's SD, the powerful SS security service. Eichmann started out as a filing clerk cataloging information about Freemasons. He was then assigned to the Jewish section, which was busy collecting information on all prominent Jews. This marked the beginning of Eichmann's interest in the Jews.…

    • 1661 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    History Unit 3 Notes

    • 7232 Words
    • 29 Pages

    * Became involved politics, rose head National Socialist Germans Workers’ Party (Nazi); skillfully used democracy against itself, became chancellor January 30, 1933, appointed self dictator ( March 23, 1933), banned other parties, disbanded Reichstag (German parliament)…

    • 7232 Words
    • 29 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    In 1937 he joined the Nazi party, then in 1938 he went to the SS. In 1942 he volunteered to go to a concentration camp, he was sent to the death…

    • 693 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    wore a brown suited uniform with black pants and a red armband with a swastika. During his state of dictatorship he created the Nuremberg Laws which was the true start of the Holocaust. These laws made life for the Jews very difficult because it limited daily activities such as where they could eat, learn, work and more. Another move of action he made was initiating concentration camps where various people such as jews, gypsies, communists and gay people would go and work and be tortured for who they are. His goal was to exterminate every person that wasn't like his aryan race or was Jewish etc. Some people think Hitler…

    • 168 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    According to Source E, “Eichmann had various occupations including , working as a labourer in his father’s small mining company, working in sales for an electrical construction company as well as a travelling salesman for an American oil company.” (Quote taken from Source E).By late 1932, Adolf Eichmann became a member of the Austrian Nazi Party…

    • 176 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Nazis manipulated the police. Instead of fighting with the law, they were used to enforce mass genocide of Nazi opponents. The Nazis Fused the SS and Security Service together, much like they fused the Gestapo and other police units. The ideology of Nazis became practiced by all Nazi units.…

    • 1378 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    The Holocaust is one of the most horrific events in modern history. It is estimated around 11 million Jews were killed during the time frame of the Holocaust (Wegner G.). That time frame spans from 1933 when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany to 1945 when WWII ended. During that time period Jews, cripples, mentally handicapped, Jehovah witnesses, homeless, homosexuals and many other undesirables were removed to purify the Aryan race and to advance the German people or so it was believed.…

    • 7367 Words
    • 30 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    (“Reinhard Heydrich: In Depth,” Holocaust Encyclopedia). While traveling in Prague without guards, Heydrich was killed when two Czech agents rolled a hand grenade under his Mercedes Benz. (“Reinhard Heydrich: In Depth,” Holocaust Encyclopedia). The explosion did not immediately kill Heydrich, he died eight days later from an infected wound in his leg. As a result of this attack, Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler ordered the entire village of Lidice (a small town in Czechoslovakia) to be liquidated. (“SS Leader Reinhard Heydrich,” The History Place). Firing squads were organized, and a total of one hundred and seventy-two men over the age of sixteen were killed. Women and children were taken to concentration camps, where a strong majority of them died. Some children, who looked as though they could be Aryan, were taken to German orphanages. (“The Liquidation of Lidice,” The History Place). On June 9, 1942, a funeral was held for Heydrich, and Hitler titled him as “the man with the iron heart.” Throughout the entirety of the war, Heydrich was the only high ranking Nazi official to be…

    • 790 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Heinrich Himmler was also a dangerous man during World War 2. He led a Nazi Party and he was the second most powerful man in Germany during the Holocaust. He was one of the main people that gave the thumbs up to the plan of murdering the Jews of Europe. During Himmler’s era, he took control of the SS and the German police officers. He controlled all police forces and kept everything in order and running smoothly.…

    • 539 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    He joined the German army and furthered his genetic research. Before he had started out with being a Nazi doctor he worked at a medical clinic in Leipzig Germany. He later became a research assistant at the institute for Heredity Biology and Racial Hygiene in 1934(Histories/biographies). While Dr.Mengele was in the German army he saved two soldiers from being under a burning tank. He was sent to Berlin Headquarters of the Nazi Party where Hitler was playing the attack on the Jews in Europe. While he was there he became Senior doctor in the women's department of Auschwitz Birkenau.The women in the camp spoke to Dr.Mengele freely because of his good looks. Josef Mengele was in charge of all the camp selections because he was so feared he gained many nicknames over the years like Beautiful Devil, Angel of Death and Jewish calendar because he never forgot a day for selection on jewish holidays. When Joseph was about 20 years old in 1931 he applied to join the steel helmet, after that he applied for a membership for the SS (Schmittroth…

    • 1504 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Heinrich Himmler was the Reich Leader of the SS, his career started in 1929 through 1945.…

    • 207 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889, to a Jewish mother and a Christian father. Adolf soon transitioned into a Christian. He is the most famous person when it comes to World War II and the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the mass murder of six million Jewish citizens and everyone Adolf Hitler thought was not perfect. Judaism was a religion that didn’t believe in Jesus but did…

    • 884 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays