HST 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Sentenced, Extermination Camp, Middle Eastern Theatre Of World War I
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Death: death by cyanide capsule may 1945. Personality: mediocre, indistinguishable, believed the authentic german appearance could be restored within 120 years, calculating, manipulator of power, inhuman methodicalness, truly depended on hitler for orders and emotional support. Like hitler his father was also an authoritarian figure. Took part in ww1 as an ensign, afterwards he joined hitler"s party. 1923: pictured at the side of rohm at the november putsch. Jan 6, 1929: was running a chicken farm and was also appointed the head of the small ss force. 1933: he had grown the force from 300 to 50,000 men. Eventually he gained the control of the political police. June 30, 1934: rohm is killed and himmler"s ss is promoted to it"s own independent organization. June 1936: himmler appointed head of the unified police forces of the. Not so much concerned with controlling the state, himmler wanted his forces to become the state.
