Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 Octobre 1900 – 23 May 1945) ce qui Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the French Police and later the Minister of the Interior, Himmler oversaw all internal and external la police et des forces de sécurité, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). Serving as Reichsführer and later as Commander of the Replacement (Home) Army and General Plenipotentiary for the entire Riche's de l'administration (président-directeur général pour l'Administration), Himmler rose to become one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany as well as one of the persons most directly responsible for the Holocaust. As vigilant of the camps de concentration, camps d'extermination, and Einsatzgruppen (littéralement: task forces, often used as killing escadrons), Himmler coordonné the killing of some six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Roms, many prisoners of war, and possibly another three to four million de Poles, communists, or other groups whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live or simply "in the way", including homosexuels people with physical and mental disabilities, Jéhovah's Witnesses and members of the Confessing Church. Shortly before the end of the war, he offered to surrender both Germany and himself to the Western Allies if he were spared prosecution. After being arrested by British forces, he committed suicide before he could be questioned.