Report On Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, And Rudolf Hess
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In this report I will talk about Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Eichmann, and Rudolf Hess, who were Nazi Party leaders and officials and were related to Adolf Hitler. I will also discuss who these people were and what they did, why they did these things, when they did these things, where they did these things, and perhaps how they did these things.
The first of these officers was Heinrich Himmler. Himmler was the head of the Gestapo (German State Police) and the Waffen-SS (militarized units of SS, which stands for Schutzstaffel, a group of Hitlers personal body guards), and Minister of the Interior from 1943 to 1945. He was also the organizer of the mass murder of Jews in the Third Reich. Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich on October 7, 1900, the son of a religious, Roman Catholic schoolmaster, and was educated at a secondary school in Landshut. Himmler served as an officer in the Eleventh Bavarian Regiment at the end of World War I, and later obtained a diploma in agriculture from Munich Technical High School in 1922.
Later on Himmler joined a Para-military, nationalist organization and participated in the Munich Beer-Hall putsch. Then in the year of 1927 he got married, and returned to poultry farming, but wasnt successful. In January 1929, he was appointed as the head of Hitlers personal bodyguards. He was a superb organizer, and had already expanded the SS to 50,000 men from 300 by 1933. By the year of 1936, Himmler had combined police power in Germany and was named Chief of the German police on June 17 of that year. Now as the chief, his power was unlimited, and in addition he was also responsible for the security services and the concentration camps.
Himmlers men staged the fake border incident that Hitler used to justify the invasion of Poland at the outbreak of World War II. As the war went on, the armored portions of the SS began to rival the Armed Forces for power in the military field, which ended in Himmlers being named Minister of the Interior in 1943 and chief of the Replacement Army in 1944. Right up to the end, he was one of Hitlers most loyal men.
It came time, when Hitler started to order total destruction of the Jews, and for this job he chose his most loyal follower, who was Himmler. Himmler obeyed the order he received with his usual thoroughness and efficiency. He carried out his orders with efficiency and enthusiasm. The first murders were carried out by shooting. The SS men wanted something more efficient that would accelerate the killing, and would save time for them. As a result poisonous gases were used, which killed people much faster. It is estimated that around 6 million Jews were killed during the Final Solution, and as many as another 6 million non-Jews. Himmler was thoroughly involved in implementing the final solution. At a speech in Poznan on October 4, 1943, Himmler said: I am talking about the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people. It is one of those things that is easily said. “The Jewish people is being exterminated,” every Party member will tell you, “perfectly clear, its part of our plans, were eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, a small matter.”
At the end of the war, Himmler made attempts to negotiate peace through the world, especially with the Jewish Congress. He attempted to flee in disguise in May 1945, however he was captured by British forces, and he admitted his identity. When a doctor was asked to search him to ensure he did not have hidden poison in his possession, then Himmler bit down on a cyanide capsule hidden in his mouth, and was dead in a few minutes. Like Hitler, he chose suicide as his way to exit the world as well.
Another important Nazi party member was Adolf Eichmann. He was born in Solingen on March 19, 1906, the son of a middle-class Protestant family that had moved to Linz Austria. This was where Adolf spent his youth and ultimately failed to complete his engineering studies. Later he worked as a laborer, and eventually became a salesman for a Vacuum Oil Company.
On April 1, 1932 Adolf Eichmann joined the Austrian Nazi Party. After Adolf lost his job, he joined the exiled Austrian legion and underwent fourteen months of military training. In 1934 Adolf found an opening in Himmlers Security Service (SD Ð- Sicherheitsdienst, Nazi partys own intelligence and security body). By the beginning of 1935 he was the official responsible for ÐJewish questions at the Berlin head office of the SD. In the year 1937 Adolf Eichmann went and explored the possibilities of Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany to Palestine.
From August 1938 Adolf was in charge of the office for Jewish emigration in Vienna. Then Eichmann started the deportation of Jews and over 150,000 Jews left Austria. By 1939 Adolf Eichmann was handling forced deportations to Poland. In December 1939 Eichmann was transferred to Gestapo of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA – Reichssicherheitshauptamt, the central security department of the German Reich, formed in 1939, and combining the security police and the S.D.) where he started dealing with Jewish affairs and evacuation. In the year 1941 his resettlement department began the task of creating death camps, and developing gassing techniques.
Adolf eventually became a high-ranking official in Nazi Germany, and a member of SS (Schutzstaffel). He was largely responsible for the extermination of millions of people during the Holocaust, in particular the Jews. He also organized the identification and transportation of people to various concentration camps. Adolf Eichmann is known as, and is often referred to as ÐChief Executioner.
After World War II, Eichmann was captured by US troops. However, in 1946 he managed to escape from a prison camp. After many travels Eichmann settled in Argentina in 1958, under the name of Ricardo Klement. Soon Eichmann was tracked down by Israeli secret agents on May 2, 1960, living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Nine days later he was secretly taken to Israel, to be publicly tried in Jerusalem. The trial took place between April 2 and August 14, 1961. On December 2, 1961 Eichmann was sentenced to death for crimes against the Jewish people and crimes against humanity. On May 31, 1962 he was hanged in Ramleh prison.
Another important Nazi member was Rudolf Hess. Rudolf Hess was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on April 26, 1894. He was son of a prosperous wholesaler and exporter. Hess was a shy and an