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Heinrich Himmler

Geburtstag: 7. Oktober 1900
Todesdatum: 23. Mai 1945

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler war ein deutscher Politiker der NSDAP. Er machte in den 1920er Jahren als Reichsredner und Parteifunktionär Karriere und wurde 1929 von Adolf Hitler an die Spitze der damals noch der Sturmabteilung unterstellten Schutzstaffel berufen. Himmler gelang es in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, vor allem in den Jahren 1934/36, insbesondere durch den sogenannten Röhm-Putsch, der von ihm geleiteten Organisation und damit auch sich selbst immer mehr Befugnisse innerhalb des NS-Regimes zu schaffen, insbesondere durch das Erlangen der vollständigen Kontrolle über die gesamte Polizei, die Kontrolle über die nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager, über den Inlandsgeheimdienst und den Aufbau militärischer, nicht direkt der Wehrmacht unterstehender Verbände .

Als Reichsführer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei sowie Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums , später auch Reichsinnenminister und Befehlshaber des Ersatzheeres , hatte Himmler vor allem während des Zweiten Weltkriegs eine Machtposition, die nur von der Hitlers übertroffen wurde. Mit Hilfe der SS, des Sicherheitsdienstes, der Geheimen Staatspolizei und anderer von ihm direkt oder indirekt kontrollierter Organe hatte Himmler ein System der Überwachung, der Willkür und des Terrors etabliert, mit dem die Menschen im Einflussbereich des NS-Regimes eingeschüchtert und kontrolliert, vermeintliche oder tatsächliche politische Gegner verfolgt, inhaftiert, entrechtet und ermordet wurden. Er ist einer der Hauptverantwortlichen für den Holocaust, den Porajmos, die Ermordung von Millionen von Zivilisten und Kriegsgefangenen im Rahmen seines Generalplans Ost sowie für zahlreiche andere Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit.

Himmler sondierte in der Endphase des Krieges auf vielfältige Weise seine persönlichen Optionen für eine Zeit nach Adolf Hitler. Eigenmächtige Verhandlungsversuche mit den westlichen Alliierten, die von diesen abgewiesen und öffentlich gemacht wurden, führten dazu, dass Hitler ihn am 29. April 1945 all seiner Ämter und Titel enthob und Haftbefehl gegen ihn erließ. Nach einem vergeblichen Fluchtversuch geriet Himmler in alliierte Gefangenschaft und beging wenige Tage später Suizid, nachdem seine Identität aufgedeckt worden war. Sein Leichnam wurde an unbekannter Stelle in der Lüneburger Heide begraben.

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„Ob bei dem Bau eines Panzergrabens 10.000 russische Weiber an Entkräftung umfallen oder nicht, interessiert mich nur so weit, als der Panzergraben für Deutschland fertig wird.“

— Heinrich Himmler
Posener Rede, Internationaler Militärgerichtshof Nürnberg (IMT): Der Nürnberger Prozess gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher. Delphin Verlag, Nachdruck München 1989, ISBN 3-7735-2523-0, Band 29: Urkunden und anderes Beweismaterial, Seite 123, zitiert nach "Posener Rede auf de. wikipedia. org

Über Krieg

„Wir werden mit dem Christentum in noch stärkerer Form als bisher fertig werden müssen. Mit diesem Christentum, dieser größten Pest, die uns in der Geschichte anfallen konnte, die uns für jede Auseinandersetzung schwach gemacht hat, müssen wir fertig werden. Wenn es unsere Generation nicht tut, würde es sich, glaube ich, noch lange hinziehen. Wir müssen innerlich mit ihr fertig werden. Ich habe heute an dem Begräbnistag von Heydrich in meiner Rede mit voller Absicht meine tiefste innere Überzeugung eines Glaubens an Gott, eines Glaubens an das Schicksal, an den Uralten, wie ich ihn nannte – das ist das alte germanische Wort: Wralda – ausgesprochen. Wir werden für alle Dinge wieder Maßstäbe in unserem Volk finden müssen, den Maßstab des Makrokosmos und des Mikrokosmos, der Sternenhimmel über uns und die Welt in uns, die Welt, die wir im Mikroskop sehen.“

— Heinrich Himmler
- Quelle: Heinrich Himmler: Geheimreden 1933 bis 1945 und andere Ansprachen. Bradley F. Smith und Agnes F. Peterson, Hg. Frankfurt am Main: Propyläen, 1974, ISBN 3549073054, Rede vor den Oberabschnittsführern und Hauptamtschefs im Haus der Flieger in Berlin am 9.6.1942 S. 159f. III

Über Gott, Über Schicksal, Über Ehe, Über Alter

„Ich sagte, die erste große Friedensaufgabe ist die Wiederinstandsetzung der gesamten SS und Polizei und die weitere Verschmelzung von SS und Polizei. Die zweite Aufgabe ist die Hereinholung und Verschmelzung der germanischen Völker mit uns. Die dritte Aufgabe ist die Siedlung und Völkerwanderung in Europa, die wir vollziehen. Die Völkerwanderung der Juden werden wir in einem Jahr bestimmt fertig haben; dann wandert keiner mehr. Denn jetzt muss reiner Tisch gemacht werden.“

Über Ehe

„I don't want to hear anymore of your difficulties. For an SS officer there are no difficulties; his duty is always to remove difficulties himself as soon as they arise. How you do it is for you to figure out, not me.“

— Heinrich Himmler
Addressing Rudolph Höss, perhaps in July 1942, during a visit to Birkenau POW camp (Kriegsgefangenenlager), where the inmates' and guards' deficient living conditions were pointed out, from Höss's autobiography http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2006/04/correction-corner-2-himmlers-visit-to.html written in a Polish prison, Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz, pp. 286ff. (1996)

„Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA — ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.“

— Heinrich Himmler
This quotation has not been confirmed to come from Himmler, its attribution to him on the Internet coming from some point before 2000, as in the Site of the Sentient quotelist http://web.archive.org/web/20000823073240/http://www.siteofthesentient.com/alltags.html

„... to put an end to the epidemics, we were forced to burn the bodies of an incalculable number of people who were destroyed by the disease. So we were forced to build crematoria, and on this account they are loosing a bond for us. "He also stated that he punished the culprit if the atrocities occurred in the camps." On the Einsatzgruppen: "The war on the Eastern front made the demands more difficult for our soldiers. A terrible climate, never-ending distances, an enemy population and constantly apparent partisans. Just because it was difficult, the troops prevailed. So they were forced to destroy entire villages if there was resistance and gunfire from such a village. Russians are not ordinary enemies, we can not understand their mentality. In the most desperate situations, they would refuse to capitulate. If, because of these difficulties in the East, the Jewish people suffered large casualties, it must be remembered that the German people also suffered severely."“

— Heinrich Himmler
April 20, 1945 in a meeting with Norbert Masur, a representative of the World Jewish Congress.

„In the brief monthly reports of the Security Police, I only want figures on how many Jews have been shipped off and how many are currently left.“

— Heinrich Himmler
To Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Quoted in "Hitler and the Final Solution" - Page 137 - by Gerald Fleming - History - 1987

„One basic principle must be the absolute rule for the S. S. men. We must be honest, decent, loyal, and comradely to members of our own blood and nobody else. What happens to a Russian and a Czech does not interest me in the least. What the nations can offer in the way of good blood of our type we will take, if necessary by kidnapping their children and raising them here with us. Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our culture: otherwise it is of no interest to me. Whether ten thousand Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging an anti-tank ditch interests me only in so far as the anti-tank ditch for Germany is finished. We shall never be tough and heartless where it is not necessary, that is clear. We, Germans, who are the only people in the world who have a decent attitude towards animals, will also assume a decent attitude towards these human animals. But it is a crime against our blood to worry about them and give them ideals, thus causing our sons and grandsons to have a more difficult time with them. When somebody comes up to me and says: 'I cannot dig the anti-tank ditch with women and children, it is inhuman, for it would kill them,' then I have to say: 'You are the murderer of your own blood, because if the anti-tank ditch is not dug German soldiers will die, and they are the sons of German mothers. They are our own blood....' Our concern, our duty, is our people and our blood. We can be indifferent to everything else. I wish the S. S. to adopt this attitude towards the problem of all foreign, non-Germanic peoples, especially Russians....“

— Heinrich Himmler
The Posen speech to SS officers (6 October 1943)

„I know there are some people in Germany who become sick when they see these black uniforms, we understand the reason for this, and do not expect we shall be loved by all that number of people; those who come to fear us in any way or at any time must have a bad conscience towards the Fuhrer and the nation. For these persons we have established an organisation called the Security Service.“

— Heinrich Himmler
From his treatise The Security Squadron as an Anti-Bolshevik Battle Organisation, 1936

„It is vital we rid ourselves of [homosexuals]; like weed we must pull them up, throw them on the fire and burn them. This is not out of a spirit of vengeance, but of necessity; these creatures must be exterminated.“

— Heinrich Himmler
18 Feb 1937

„We won't waste much time on the Jews. It's great to get to grips with the Jewish race at last. The more that die the better; hitting them represents a victory for our Reich. The Jews should feel that we've arrived. We want to put half to three-quarters of all Jews east of the Vistula. We will crush these Jews wherever we can. Everything is at stake. Get the Jews out of the Reich, Vienna, everywhere. We have no use for Jews in the Reich. Probably the line of the Vistula, behind this line no more. We are the most important people here.“

— Heinrich Himmler
November 25, 1939. Quoted in "Approaches to Auschwitz: The Holocaust and Its Legacy" - Page 160 - by Ismail K Merchant, Richard L. Rubenstein, John K. Roth - History - 2003

„One rejects as un-German and impossible the Bolshevist method of physical extermination of a people.“

— Heinrich Himmler
The secret memorandum Reflections on the Treatment of Peoples of Alien Races in the East (25 May 1940)

„In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system... The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment.“

— Heinrich Himmler
Speech in Potsdam (13 October 1926), quoted in Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 92-93.

„I also want to talk to you, quite frankly, on a very grave matter. Among ourselves it should be mentioned quite frankly, and yet we will never speak of it publicly. Just as we did not hesitate on June 30th, 1934 to do the duty we were bidden, and stand comrades who had lapsed, up against the wall and shoot them, so we have never spoken about it and will never [p. 65] speak of it. It was that tact which is a matter of course and which I am glad to say, is inherent in us, that made us never discuss it among ourselves, never to speak of it. It appalled everyone, and yet everyone was certain that he would do it the next time if such orders are issued and if it is necessary. I mean the evacuation out of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish race. It's one of those things it is easy to talk about - "The Jewish race is being exterminated", says one party member, "that's quite clear, it's in our program - elimination of the Jews, and we're doing it, exterminating them." And then they come, 80 million worthy Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. Of course the others are vermin, but this one is an A-1 Jew. Not one of all those who talk this way has witnessed it, not one of them has been through it. Most of you must know what it means when 100 corpses are lying side by side, or 500 or 1000. To have stuck it out and at the same time - apart from exceptions caused by human weakness - to have remained decent fellows, that is what has made us hard. This is a page of glory in our history which has never been written and is never to be [p. 66] written, for we know how difficult we should have made it for ourselves, if - with the bombing raids, the burdens and the deprivations of war - we still had Jews today in every town as secret saboteurs, agitators and trouble-mongers. We would now probably have reached the 1916/17 stage when the Jews were still in the German national body.“

— Heinrich Himmler
The Posen speech to SS officers (4 October 1943), original translation from "International Military Trials - Nurnberg Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV", US Govt Printing Offc 1946 pp. 563-4.

„It is a war of ideologies and struggle races. On one side stands National Socialism: ideology, founded on the values of our Germanic, Nordic blood. It is worth the world as we want to see: beautiful, orderly, fair, socially, a world that may be, still suffers some flaws, but overall a happy, beautiful world filled with culture, which is precisely Germany. On the other side stands the 180 millionth people, a mixture of races and peoples, whose names are unpronounceable, and whose physical nature is such that the only thing that they can do - is to shoot without pity or mercy. These animals, which are subjected to torture and ill-treatment of each prisoner from our side, which do not have medical care they captured our wounded, as do the decent men, you will see them for yourself. These people have joined a Jewish religion, one ideology, called Bolshevism, with the task of: having now Russian, half [located] in Asia, parts of Europe, crush Germany and the world. When you, my friends, are fighting in the East, you keep that same fight against the same subhumans, against the same inferior races that once appeared under the name of Huns, and later - 1,000 years ago during the time of King Henry and Otto I, - the name of the Hungarians, and later under the name of Tatars, and then they came again under the name of Genghis Khan and the Mongols. Today they are called Russian under the political banner of Bolshevism.“

— Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler speaking in Stettin to soldiers of the SS (13 July 1941)

„Some information and observations of recent date have led me to draw up plans that I would like to bring to your attention. This concerns Jehovah’s Witnesses.. . . How are we going to govern and pacify Russia when. . . we will have conquered vast areas of its territory?. . . All forms of religion and the pacifist sects must be supported . . . , among all the others the beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses. It is well-known that the latter have characteristics incredibly positive for us: Apart from the fact that they refuse military service and anything to do with war . . . , they are incredibly reliable, do not drink, do not smoke; they are relentless workers and of rare honesty. For them the spoken word stands. These are ideal characteristics . . . , enviable qualities.“

— Heinrich Himmler
In one of his letters to Gestapo chief Ernst Kaltenbrunner, July 21, 1944 cited in Awake! magazine, 1993, 4/22, article: What Hope for an End to War?

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