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Heinrich Himmler, as head of the infamous SS, was one of the worst mass murderers in history. He was directly or indirectly responsible for the systematic murder of over 11 million innocent people. Himmler was both tenaciously anti-Christian and anti-Semitic. The number of lives lost under his administration included about 6 million Jews and over 5 million others, including Catholic priests, intellectuals, and high-level military personnel.

For this reason, the name Heinrich Himmler "stands today as the symbol of the mass murders committed by the Third Reich... Himmler was Nazism." Himmler was head of the infamous SS (Schutzstaffel, or Security Squad) and the chief architect of the Final Solution to the Jewish "problem," namely, their total annihilation.

Under his command, the SS, who worked as concentration camp guards, enslaved over 15 million innocent people. The two most important architects of the Holocaust were Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich. Himmler was determined that what he referred to as the Jewish race "must disappear from the face of the earth."

00:00 Context
01:33 Himmler’s Background
08:50 Himmler’s Many Anti-Semitic Programmes
11:34 Producing a Pure German Race
13:44 Himmler Builds the SS into a Powerful Organization
15:48 Himmler as a Mass Murderer

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