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Heinrich Himmler
www.auschwitz.dk/Himmler
www.auschwitz.dk/Himmler
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•Head of the Gestapo
•Head of Secret State Police (SS)
•Overseer of the extermination at Concentration Camps
Who Was Heinrich Himmler?
history1900s.about.com
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Himmler’s profession before he entered into the military
Thought he could (reasonably) apply agricultural techniques to humans with respect to breeding
Poultry Farmer?
www.ansi.okstate.edu/poultry/chickens/
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What was the SS?
•Group of men intended to serve as bodyguards for the Nazi Leaders
•Viewed by Himmler as an elite group that should maintain the characteristics of the supreme Aryan race
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERss.htm
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Himmler’s Inhuman Ideology
-Believed that the world was overrun by subhuman races, and the superior race (Aryan) should return back to power
-Intended to do everything in his power to see that this happen
www.holocaust-history.org/short-
essays/heinrich-himmler
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Step 1:
•Encourage breeding among acceptable Germans
-Set up SS mating houses where women were kept for SS men to sleep with
-Aryan children raised in these houses
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Step 2:
•Require all military personnel to have Aryan characteristics and heritage
-physical requirements: minimum height, proper bone structure, no Slavic or Mongolian characteristics
-Officers: Pure Aryan descent with proof back to 1750
-Enlisted men: Pure Aryan descent with proof back to 1800
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-Took children who had Aryan characteristics from their parents and took them back to Germany for Germanization
-Kidnapped children from Poland, Russia and the Ukraine
-Total: 200,000 children stolen
Step 3:
•Find other source of Nordic future
history1900s.about.com
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Step 4:
•Uproot and Eliminate those of inferior racial background
There was a “Jewish Question” as in what needed to happen in order to remove this race from Europe
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Step 4: (cont)
•Uproot and Eliminate those of inferior racial background
-Uproot these people and move them East into Russia
-Idea of moving them onto reservations
www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
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Step 4: (cont)
•Uproot and Eliminate those of inferior racial background
-Trafficking inferiors out of Europe not efficient enough for Himmler
-Final Solution: Extermination first by mass shootings, then ultimately by gas
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Proof of Himmler’s Extreme Racial Ideas
Conducted by the Ancestral Heritage Society who also conducted the various terrible experiments on the people at concentration camps
Archaeological excavations to find remains of the original Aryan Race
www.bioch.ox.ac.uk
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Proof of Himmler’s Extreme Racial Ideas (cont)
The cataloguing of people around the world
Wanted to prove that race could be judged by the color of eyes and the size of skull
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Proof of origin of the Aryan Race believed to be a mystical place like Eden
Proof of Himmler’s Extreme Racial Ideas (cont)
This is the Nordic myth of a lost continent that brought advanced thought and civilization to the world like Atlantis
www.venezuelatuya.com/
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Reincarnation of Ancient Aryan Leader
Himmler believed he was the reincarnation of King Heinrich I who was a 10th century Saxon King
Proof of Himmler’s Extreme Racial Ideas (cont)
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Wewelsburg
Himmler’s castle in which he held secret religious ceremonies to honor the past Aryan Supremes
www.wwiirelics.com/Kassel2003/Wevelsburg2.jpg
Proof of Himmler’s Extreme Racial Ideas (cont)