Heinrich Himmler
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Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich in 1900. He was an early follower of Adolf Hitler[Citation Needed], and in 1936 he was named chief of police for all of Germany. When the SS was established in 1925 Himmler was given command of that also. In 1943 he was made Minister of the Interior and Minister of Home Defense in 1944. He committed suicide in 1945 after being arrested by British troops following the German surrender.
Himmler was one of the most sinister of all the Nazi leaders. Millions were killed by men under his command.
- [He was] meticulous, calculating and efficient, [with an] astonishing capacity for work and irrepressible power-lust. [1]
Hitler depended upon Himmler's loyalty up to nearly the end when it was discovered Himmler was negotiating with the Western Powers. [1] Friedrich Hayek, an Austrian economist, in a chapter entitled "Why the worst get on top" of his contemporaneous Road to Serfdom observed "Advancement within a totalitarian group or party depends largely on a willingness to do immoral things. The principle that the end justifies the means, which in individualist ethics is regarded as the denial of all morals, in collectivist ethics becomes necessarily the supreme rule. There is literally nothing which the consistent collectivist must not be prepared to do if it serves ‘the good of the whole’, because that is to him the only criterion of what ought to be done." [2] Himmler displayed the brutal nature of this collectivist mentality taken to its logical extreme wherein he explained,
| “ | Whether 10,000 Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging an anti-tank ditch interest me only in so far as the anti-tank ditch for Germany is finished. [3] | ” |
References
- ↑ Reichsführer Himmler Pitches Washington Sweden, John H. Waller, Studies in Intelligence, CSI Publications, Unclassified Studies Volume 46, Number 1, 2002.
- ↑ Friedrich A. Hayek, Road to Serfdom, Why the worst get on top, pg. 43 - 49, Reader's Digest Condensed Version, April 1945.
- ↑ Reichsführer-SS Himmler speaking to SS Major-Generals, Poznan, October 4, 1943, Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression- Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Off., 1946, Vol. IV, p. 559. Retrieved from the jewishvirtuallibrary.org 06/16/07.
