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Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈluːɪtpɔlt ˈhɪmlɐ] ⓘ; 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the German Nazi Party, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany.
Date: June 27, July 3–4 and July 12–13, 1941 ... Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, ... The second trial took place in 1973, again before the regional court in ...
Some of the most prominent Nazis—Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels—had committed suicide and therefore could not be tried. [90] [91] The prosecutors wanted to try representative leaders of German politics, economy, and military. [92] Most of the defendants had surrendered to the United States or United Kingdom. [93] [53]
Added to haphazardly, this list was the basis of those to be prosecuted at Nuremberg. Some of the most prominent Nazis—Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels—had died by suicide and therefore could not be tried. [5] [6] The French prosecution added Konstantin von Neurath, former governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Heinrich Himmler: A Life. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-959232-6. MacDonald, Callum (1998) [1989]. The Killing of Reinhard Heydrich: The SS 'Butcher of Prague'. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80860-9. Mastný, Vojtěch (1971). The Czechs Under Nazi Rule: The Failure of National Resistance, 1939–1942. New ...
Himmler named his deputy Reinhard Heydrich to head the Gestapo on 22 April 1934. [25] Himmler envied the independence and power of the SA, although by this time he and Heydrich had already begun restructuring the SS from a bodyguard formation for Nazi leaders (and a subset of the SA) into its own independent elite corps, one loyal to both ...
He was the highest-ranking member of the SS to face trial (Himmler having died of suicide in May 1945) at the Nuremberg trials, where he was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Kaltenbrunner was sentenced to death, and was executed by hanging on 16 October 1946.
The Hexenkartothek (known as the "H-special order" project [1]) was an investigation into witch trials led by SS-Untersturmführer Rudolf Levin under the orders of Heinrich Himmler. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Himmler organised a team of SS researchers to collect historical records of witch trials with the goal of proving that the Catholic Church had used the ...