Heinrich Himmler: The Nazi Occultist Of The German Schutzstaffel | True Evil | Timeline

this channel is part of the history hit Network [Music] they seem like ordinary men articulate educated civilized but they will turn into depraved Twisted monsters they will commit acts of unimaginable cruelty for which they will feel no shame or remorse here is true evil Heinrich Himmler one of the most evil men in human history begins as a mild-mannered bookish intellectual who loves tradition country Pursuits and nature he will become one of the most terrifying champions of the Third Reich a monster even by Nazi standards no name is more associated with Nazi atrocities than that of Himmler Himmler will help to Define Nazi ideology more than most of the other Nazi leaders Himmler is an ironing log and he's really interested in ideas and systems of belief and creating a whole new culture particularly for the SS the transformation of Himmler into a Nazi monster is the story of the total collapse of morality and civilization in Germany the story of Heinrich Himmler gives real insights into how Nazism evolved how in 20 years a civilized European humanist country descends into such barbarism and darkness Heinrich Himmler is as close as any human has ever been to True evil [Music] in July 1942 Heinrich Himmler is inspecting Auschwitz birkenau he is delighted smiling in approval it is everything he had hoped for everything he had envisioned in this Camp alone more than a million people will be murdered most of them Jewish but how did Himmler and the men around him come to the Twisted conclusion that this human Slaughter was the right thing to do how could any human be capable of such monstrous cruelty twenty years earlier Nazism is virtually unheard of and the man who will be one of its greatest heroes Heinrich Himmler is just taking his first steps towards moral Oblivion [Music] Heinrich Himmler is from a traditional middle-class conservative Catholic Family himmler's strict parents bring up their children to respect the old rural German values of order love of nature community and tradition Himmler comes from a deeply conservative background he holds almost medieval views about the roles of women about the roles of the people and about what Germany should be like when Himmler goes to University he studies Agricultural Science as part of his course he works on a farm in the small mountain town of friddlefing agriculture is more than an economic activity to Himmler it is an expression of a traditional German culture and life which he fears is dying out he goes hiking in the Bavarian mountains he attends farming and craft shows and is an active member of the folk Community for Himmler this is the idea that he's been looking for he's in communion with nature the land the German people that he's believed so much and read so much about and it's here that he really gets interested in the idea of blood and soil blood and soil is the rallying Cry of Germany's voke or folk movement they believe that communities are organic people like plants grow out of the soil and belong to the land like plants and animals people are the result of breeding and evolution blood and soil ideologies very important to Himmler and it becomes the foundation for his worldview his politics if you love history then you'll love history hit our extensive library of documentary features everything from the ancient origins of our earliest ancestors to the daring mission to Sink the Bismarck history hit has hundreds of exclusive documentaries with unrivaled access to the world's best historians we're committed to Bringing history fans award-winning documentaries and podcasts that you cannot find anywhere else sign up now for a free trial and timeline fans get 50 off their first three months just be sure to use the code timeline at checkout he Embraces it fully [Music] but in the 1920s age-old rural German values are under threat from Germany's fast expanding cities to the dismay of the vocalists German Peasants who were once legally tied to the land are now free to move they migrate in ever increasing numbers to the cities in search of money excitement and freedom [Music] rural conservatives like Himmler are appalled in the cities there is a corrupt mingling of sexes and classes and races cities pose a mortal threat to the traditional German values he holds dear to Himmler find my Society is anathema it encapsulates everything that he thinks is wrong with modern liberal democracy he sees it as Loose as a moral as everything that Germany shouldn't be the cities are the product of capitalism and for capitalism the vocalists blame the Jews for centuries European Jews have been banned from owning land forced to find other ways to make a living so they tended to live in cities and work in business eighty percent of Germany's department stores were owned by Jews to Himmler the Jews represent everything that's wrong with Germany as he sees it under the Weimar Republic they're linked to capitalism they're linked to modernity they're linked to all of the things that national socialism will bring an end to Himmler has to stop his postgraduate agricultural studies when his parents are unable to support him in 1922 he is reduced to working as an assistant clerk in a fertilizer Factory he is poor weedy unattractive and bitter his social life revolves around his parents and their friends the very very character he's as from a physical Aryan specimen as it's possible to get in his young days he had suffered constantly from ill health but Himmler is about to find some meaning and direction in his life he comes across a small new political party in Munich which seems to Echo his views it is the National Socialist German Workers Party or Nazi party it opposes Jewish capitalism and Promises to take Germany back to Traditional Values an enthusiastic young Himmler signs up to its paramilitary organization the SA or brown shirts he's nothing like most of the members of the sa who are tough guys you know they were Street Fighters and he's nothing like that at all I mean he's he's he's the wimpy kid he's lacking a sense of Manliness a sense of potency a sense of Effectiveness and so by joining this organization here he is just papering over the cracks he can pretend to be what he's never going to be in real life Himmler may not be a tough guy but he is clever and zealous and graduates to Hitler's new personal protection Squad the SS to begin with the SS is just a small unit within the brown shirt Army but when the ambitious Heinrich Himmler takes charge in 1929 he decides to build the SS into something bigger when Himmler becomes active in the SS it is a very small organization only about 300 officers it is not yet anywhere near the gigantic institution that it becomes later on but Himmler is absolutely dedicated and he's given a large degree of autonomy to build this organization which is answerable directly to Adolf Hitler Himmler starts to recruit more SS men but in the early 1930s it is still dwarfed in size and importance by the brown shirt sa which has a staggering 3 million members it was important for Hitler to have a private Army but it grew and it grew and it grew and it got away from him to the point where it was actually larger than Nevada the actual German army foreign shirt Army has its own politicians it is funded directly by the state the brown shirts are fiercely loyal to their leader Ernst Rome who is Hitler's main rival in the Nazi movement the first Rome he's the head of the sa becoming more and more powerful in his own right and Hitler wasn't going to have that so first of all he speaks to Rome and he says I can't have this happening but Rome is above any kind of criticism at this point and so Hitler takes matters to another level and Hitler rum represents everything they're not he's very overweight he's homosexual he's seen as being very syboritic somewhat sort of Lucian corruptor figure and so therefore they see the brown shirt and room as something that needs to be expunged got rid of a list of key essay leaders is drawn up Himmler gets Hitler to invite them along with Rome to a high-level meeting of the town of bad visay with the brown shirt leadership in one place they're setting ducks June 30th 1934 at six in the morning while the sa topped brass is still in bed himmler's men stormed their hotel some sa leaders are shot there and then many more including Rome are arrested and later shot without trial the night of the long night is a brutal Purge Hitler moves all opposition within the party [Applause] Heinrich Himmler is now free to build his own Nazi State security Empire without Rome out the way Himmler is able to expand his power base the night of the Long Knives is where Himmler really wins his Spurs as a Nazi it's where he demonstrates to Hitler his absolute and blind loyalty and as a result he is rewarded almost immediately Hitler allows Himmler to build up the SS it will no longer be a small bodyguard unit the SS takes charge of Nazi intelligence and a new SS military Wing is formed the SS verfogenstruper this will soon become known and reviled across Europe as the Waffen SS Himmler wants the SS to be the greatest military machine on the planet Bar None in order to bring this about he decides to curate very carefully the kind of people that make it into this Elite fighting force so he believes in kind of selection and he wants to take only the people who have the purest German blood to choose and cultivate his SS Superman Himmler will use the same techniques of plant and animal breeding he learned as a student to join the SS you had to meet very rigorous racial standards your background your parentage came along favorite a certain physical appearance the stereotypical tall blonde hair blue eyes Himmler has a very specific and unique vision for the SS this is not just going to be a police force or an army for him it transcends all of that this is going to be the embodiment of the Heron match this is where the new Aryan race Finds Its Champions and to ensure the super breed continues and improves Himmler issues his engagement and marriage order it wasn't just the individuals who were making up the SS that timla carefully vetted it was their wives as well he had such control over their lives he wouldn't let them marry anyone unless they conform to certain standards like breed or animals potential SS wives must beat standards of appearance and physical and mental health Himmler even demands gynecological and other examinations to test for child rearing potential if the proposed wife is judged to be unlikely to be capable of rearing a child she is sent for hormone treatment at the SS's expense if the treatment proves successful Himmler will approve the marriage [Music] Himmler asserts puritanical control upon the SS a Himmler sees this as a Revival of the Teutonic Knights which was as of 12th century military order which came to represent the essence of germanness good breeding was always the boast of Europe's aristocracy they were bred to be naturally Superior it was in the blood and it was this absurd genetic snobbery that inspired Nazi eugenics yimler and many SS officers were obsessed with fascinated with the British aristocracy for SS trainees there was a whole etiquette manual that was modeled on how the British aristocracy deported itself how they dressed how they addressed each other how one held a champagne class properly to toast Himmler is trying to build a new aristocracy it's to be a very particular Germanic type but it will be the new aristocracy of Germany [Music] like medieval knights recruits to himmler's SS pledged their allegiance on a sword Himmler sees them as a new romantic order of Aryan Warriors he even gives the SS their own castle in weaversburg Himmler imbused the castle at wevelsberg with all sorts of imagery and symbolism of the great medieval German King Heinrich because by then Himmler has come to believe that he is The Reincarnation of King Heinrich you have these two sides to Himmler and by extension two sides to the SS one is the brutal pragmatism of running this this organization and the other is the sort of quasi-religious mysticism that underpins himmler's beliefs and the SS Himmler is after his own religion of arianism under the Nazis ancient Pagan festivals are revived Echoes of a primitive golden age before the warlike German Spirit was weakened by the soft sentimental morality of Christians and Jews the morality that we have this liberal judeo-christian inflected morality that is what's evil that's what needs to be stamped out because that is what prevents greatness Himmler rejects Christianity and Embraces New Age Pagan mysticism Himmler has a real passion for the occult he into the mumbo jumbo he's into the astrology he he's into all these old Legends and myths he's into various artifacts that he thinks will literally bring power in 1935 Himmler sets up a group within the SS called the Anna nerber The Honorable will spend Millions sending people around the world trying to prop up himmler's Cod beliefs he sends teams off to Tibet to discover whether Tibet was once a German Colony there are people investigating whether the Buddha was in fact German one of himmler's lead gurus and Inspirations in the honor neighbor is a man called viligoot who is an insane lunatic obsessed with this German prehistory and Himmler first meets him at a conference on Nordic questions in Nordic history but he brings him into the honor neighbor and promotes him to become its most recognizable figure says he is descended from Aryan priest Kings he says the German race goes back to 230 000 Years BC when Giants roamed the Earth and there were three suns in the sky unfortunately for him it becomes widely known that vinegar had spent some time in a mental Asylum where he'd been sectioned so reluctantly Himmler has to let him go in it all nonsense fundamentally it's just crap the one person who thinks it's crap actually is Hitler Hitler delivers a speech denouncing occultism as a distraction Himmler is told he has serious work to do [Music] [Applause] Hitler intends to purge Germany and Europe of Jews and to do it will be the job of Himmler and his SS Heinrich Himmler head of the SS sees his power grows still further when in 1934 he takes charge of the German secret police the gahaima studs politai known across Germany as the Gestapo the Gestapo is declared above the law unaccountable to the courts a perfect instrument of State Terror when we look at the Gestapo it tells us a lot about the relationship between the German public and the Nazi regime gestapo was always a relatively small organization in terms of the number of its personnel for the war many Germans wanted the world to believe that they lived in constant Terror of rest and harassment and interrogation and imprisonment by the Gestapo the truth is that the vast majority of non-jewish Germans never met a Gestapo officer they never had any contact with the Gestapo the Gestapo also benefited from the fact that a considerable number of Germans were willing to inform on each other to denounce each other to the gestapo and I think political loyalty explains why Germans inform on each other by the late 1930s Himmler is the most powerful man in the Nazi State machine second only to Hitler Himmler has risen to extraordinary Heights he's now the head of the Gestapo he's the head of the police he's the head of the SS and he's the head of the SD he's almost made himself Bulletproof but Himmler does not seek power for its own sake he wants to use it to turn back the clock to restore Germany to its idyllic pre-capitalist past of happy smiling peasants working the land Himmler and the Nazi vocalists are nature lovers they send soldiers into the countryside to plant trees and establish nature Reserves the Nazis promote vegetarianism and Herbal Remedies and pass laws to protect animals himmler's SS even has its own supply of organic food himlo wants to bring Germany's corrupted Urban masses back to the countryside to do this in 1931 he opens the SS race and resettlement office to run it he appoints Richard Walter daray Richard Derry was an important ideologue who came to be very close to himland he believed in the blood and soil ideology more than anything he believed in racial segregation he wanted to forge together a body of people who were racially pure and he believed that would make them stronger [Music] Urban workers are urged to return to the land with the offer of free plots existing small farmers are forbidden from selling land effectively tying them once more to the soil but Germany's population has swelled in recent decades to resettle them the Nazis will need more land they call it living space or laban's realm and they will get it by taking Poland [Music] their ultimate goal is to expand into Poland transform Poland into living space for the German race [Music] so what does that mean for the Polish population the Nazi's objective is to destroy Poland to destroy the Polish state polish culture foreign ideological perspective one of the key missions for Himmler was around a fox Deutscher the German people the race of German people who were spread over Europe and he wants to see them all reunited they have to be brought together into a greater right key to this plan for the fox Deutsche is to resettle them so all of the lands that have been cleared to the east of former Slavic lands are going to be handed over and dedicated to this new vast world of the fox Deutsche the German people genocide in Eastern Europe will create space for himmler's Rural Utopia to get the ball rolling Himmler offers half a million Germans a fresh start in the newly conquered territories the race and resettlement office checks their backgrounds and grants them land taken from the genetically inferior polish population [Music] but this presents a Eugenics dilemma over the years many poles and Germans have interbred Himmler wants to spare any Aryans living in Poland if you were demon to be of an Aryan pedigree or look like you were they would measure the gap between the eyes and the size of the skull one of the most diabolical things the SS does is if a Polish family had children that fit the racial stereotype those children would be taken from that family and they would be given as a form of adoption to German settler families moving into Poland around 200 000 polish children are declared to be Aryan by the Nazis taken from their parents and sent for re-germanization as for the children who didn't conform to those features they were often sterilized [Applause] while a few polish Aryans are spared Slavic poles and in particular Jewish polls are not imner is now fulfilling his lifelong Ambitions of uniting the German people and he's also weeding out the toxic elements of the Lesser races and the Lesser cultures the fact is Heinrich Himmler has terrifying plans to to change the racial landscape of Europe it is with Nazi ethnic cleansing in Poland that the story of the Holocaust begins every party member that's clear it's part of our program elimination of the Jews extermination right we'll do it this was the final solution and it was to be carried out by Hitler's most trusted men the SS the elimination of Europe's Jews starts in Germany to begin with Jews have their assets confiscated and some are forced to seek refuge in other countries himmler's policy of deportation is brutal long-standing members of the community are uprooted and forced to flee these people are refugees but ultimately they are the lucky ones what happens next is seen in this disturbing footage himmler's SS men begin dragging Jews out of their homes beating them stripping them and herding them into ghettos when the ghettos become too crowded and difficult to control they're sent to newly built concentration camps Dachau is the first concentration camp in Nazi Germany it's distinct from a prison it's a place where you send enemies of the state enemies of your party these aren't crimes in traditional terms but they are crimes in the Nazi State Jews opponents of the Nazis and others are rounded up and locked away [Music] it's a place where the Nazi party puts its Jews its Communists it's homosexuals it's gypsies people that aren't the right sort of people in the Nazi mindset the regime makes the existence of concentration camps known to the public this is deliberate the idea here is to publicize the existence of the camps as a warning as an unspoken indirect warning to the public the SS builds the first camps and the SS becomes the administrator of what becomes a vast system of ultimately some twenty thousand camps in Germany and in German control Europe foreign the camps serve another important function to realize his dream of genetic and racial cleansing natural selection suggests that genetically inferious strains should die out Himmler the plant breeding scientist will apply a twisted version of this logic to the human race Dachau becomes a place not just of incarceration but also a place of horror because within days Jewish prisoners start dying public prosecutors had demanded an explanation for these deaths but Himmler has established his own SS courts the SS will be judge jury and executioner free to kill as they see fit Heinrich himmler's plans to eradicate undesirables from the growing German Empire will need a new kind of military unit and so he creates a special SS task force the einsatz groupen the job of the ironsex Groupon was brutally simple it was to murder people let's not put any finer point on it than that the einsatz group and follows the German Army as it pushes East the first important element of the final solution is the eins Arts group and is the mobile execution squads that follow the regular German Army first into Poland and then into the Soviet Union these are SS units and their job is to murder Jews but also Soviet political officers Soviet citizens Roma people mentally and physically handicapped are another Target the man Himmler puts in charge of his einsatz group and death squads is Reinhard heydrich Hitler himself refers to heydrich as the man with the iron hearts and he's pretty widely considered to be the cruelest and the most brutal of all the high-ranking Nazi offices heydrich is the son of a classical composer and music teacher he is no Mindless Thug nor of the officers in his einsatz group they are doctors and lawyers and teachers half of the einsatz group and Senior officers have postgraduate degrees they are respected figures of authority and their job is to persuade and reassure ordinary troops that mass murder is scientifically and morally Justified though Christianity holds that human life is sacred according to Nazi environmentalism humans are no more important than plants and animals himmler's victims are just diseased nature the Jews are weeds they must be ripped out and destroyed these brutal unspeakable acts are actually The Logical conclusion to his way of thinking this is what justifies his actions and its thought out and its planned and its systematic at the start of the killing a Nazi lawyer Bruno Muller shows his soldiers what they must do he singles out a woman and her child takes his gun and shoots them both dead within just three days his Einstein's group in unit will shoot 24 000 Jewish men women children and babies [Music] what's remarkable about the ironsex group and it's just quite how small they actually are in total over the entire course of the war no more than 3 000 men will be employed in the ions at scripping and yet they murder nearly 2 million people they are responsible for the first major killing stage of the final solution and some historians now refer to this phase of the Holocaust as the Holocaust by bullets in 1941 Himmler visits Minsk to witness one of the many Einstein's group and massacres the soldiers have developed their preferred killing techniques victims are forced to kneel or stand over a mass grave this saves the bother of handling them has never seen a dead body before and almost faints what's worse the scale of the killing seems to be affecting his men Himmler goes to inspect the bloody activities of the einstarts grouping and he clocks quite early on that there's a bit of a problem despite the reassurances of their offices that what they're doing is scientific the troops are beginning to crack one of the problems for the SS is that the mobile execution squad's killing of hundreds of thousands of people begins to take a significant psychological toll on the executioners the soldiers are Marching into Villages slaughtering everyone men women and children the Relentless murder the total barbarism is beginning to send them mad so horrific were the sins that they encountered pretty much on a daily basis that they begin to turn to alcohol abuse they begin to become depressed the suicide rates is very very high so these brutal killers are beginning to buckle under the weights of the work that Himmler is expecting them to do Himmler realizes that a new form of mass murder must be devised something more efficient more clinical something that will to some degree Shield the murderers themselves from the full realization of what they're doing if the whole thing was institutionalized and it was done in a more impersonal way then people are going to be absolved of the blame the conclusion Himmler reaches is that the whole thing has to be mechanized the Nazis are already using carbon monoxide from car exhaust tailpipes to gas groups of people this method of killing will now be taken to the next level the Nazis turned to the German chemicals industry who were Pioneers in the manufacture of poison gas in World War One and Himmler devises a plan that will culminate in the most brutal and horrific Slaughter in human history [Music] on October the 13th 1941 Heinrich Himmler gives the orders for the construction of belzek the first of several purpose-built extermination camps he then decreased that the Jewish populations of Eastern Europe should be rounded up loaded onto trains and sent to the death camps the Jews of Western Europe will be next [Music] there was one particular camp that Himmler had his eye on it was one of the largest camps it already had an IG farben Factory there and in 1942 he turned it into something far far greater something that everybody knows the name of now and that was Auschwitz the full horror of what happened in the death camps only becomes known to the world when Allied soldiers enter them in the closing weeks of the war what they find is carefully recorded their films contain the most disturbing images ever captured on camera [Music] death is everywhere the Living Dead at first they were not known to be alive among the corpses with whom they lay in Indescribable filth some will not live more than a few hours all were once men of dignity and courage the cameras go inside the gas Chambers the plaster on the walls Bears the imprints of hands the hands of those about to die clawing hopelessly trying to escape the gas [Music] they film abandoned crematoria where the SS tried to destroy the evidence of their barbarism [Music] in Auschwitz birkenau Himmler demands not one but eight Giant Gas Chambers and 46 ovens his SS guards work around the clock murdering their Jewish prisoners the rate of murder is incredible in each chamber 2 000 people can be murdered every 90 minutes [Music] the victims know what is coming or else they sense it children cry out their mothers hold them tight as the gas enters the chambers when you start reciting the numbers killed in the Holocaust it's almost meaningless you have to really stop and think about it the numbers of people killed just in Auschwitz birkenau were 1.3 million people in this one place and of those 1.1 million of them were Jewish there's no doubt Heinrich Himmler was the chief architect of the Holocaust he was the man who put the most thought into how people could be killed on a massive industrial scale he was the person with the responsibility he was the person who with the obscene imagination who was able to carry it out in July 1942 Himmler is given a tour of Auschwitz his Flagship camp he has given a demonstration of the newly installed gas Chambers Himmler is delighted with the work of his SS men later at the Nuremberg trials a Nazi orderly describes his daily work 3 to 15 minutes to kill the people in the death chamber depending upon climatic condition s we knew when the people were dead because their screaming stopped [Music] after the bodies were removed our special commanders took off the Rings and extracted the goals from the teeth of the Corpses [Music] gold worth millions of dollars is plundered from the bodies the Nazis hoard the clothing and possessions of their victims their hair is used to weave socks for soldiers on the front tattooed skin is removed to make lampshades around 6 million Jews millions of Russian prisoners of War millions of Polish people and serbs and countless hundreds of thousands of disabled people Gypsies and others are killed it's very very difficult to estimate exactly how many people were killed in the Holocaust we'll never know a precise figure but something like 11 million people were killed the death camps are the ultimate expression of himmler's Twisted ideas his crackpot mysticism his hatred his racism his eulogizing of the German people it's all concentrated into the death camps and they are the ultimate expression of his vision [Music] thank you but Justice Himmler is sending Millions to their death in the camps the tide of war is turning by 1943 the Nazis are running out of everything Manpower Food Supplies and ironically it is the barbaric actions of hinder that ensure the Nazis will lose on himmler's orders vast resources which might have been used to fight the war are being used instead to murder Jews and others it is Himmler murders in their Millions the very farmers and workers in Eastern Europe who might have fed and sustained the Nazi war machine it is himless SS who butcher innocent Russian people who might otherwise have risen up against their own communist depressors it is Himmler and his men committing the most shocking acts of inhumanity who ensure that every decent country in the World Turns against them [Music] in the end it is these very acts of calculated savagery that will cost the Nazis the war and Himmler his life foreign by the end of 1944 seven million Russian troops are heading towards Germany's eastern border the American and British armies are closing in from the West as the Allies Advance Himmler considers how his Eugenics program is likely to be seen by the rest of the world [Music] they won't understand his higher moral justification they won't listen to himmler's Scientific arguments about nature and evolution they will just see the mountains upon mountains of bodies it's pretty obvious to him live that the game is up All Is Lost but he has trouble accepting his Fates he has trouble with the idea that he's just going to go down as a mass murderer and be imprisoned and possibly executed so he begins to see all the prisoners of the sort of the Jewish people in the concentration camps as bargaining chips and one of the bargains was to say that I will release all the prisoners my concentration camps trying to make himself look sort of munificent and Grand no Allied government wants to be seen making sordid Bargains with the Nazis now Himmler panics he orders his SS to stop killing Jews the concentration camps will be evacuated to save his own skin Himmler will stop the Holocaust he orders the release of around a thousand Jews who are sent by train to Switzerland and handed over to the Red Cross meets with a member of the world Jewish Congress and says he wants to make peace with the Jews claiming that Auschwitz is merely a crematorium disposing of the bodies of people who died of typhus himmler's attempts to present himself as a humanitarian at the end of the war beggar belief did he really think the Allies would fall for this Himmler realizes that the writing is on the wall that Germany probably isn't going to win the war but what she might be able to do is to not lose it and that Germany could indeed maybe have some sort of arrangement with the Allies that she won't be conquered with the Allied Forces making advances on all fronts Himmler asks the Swiss government to approach the Allies on his behalf in the vain hope of making a deal but himmler's sinful disgusting crimes are about to catch up with him as Himmler is trying to make these deals with the Allies Auschwitz of course has been liberated by the Russians and the worldwide media has been reporting the slaughter that went on there [Music] so no one's under any Illusions by this stage that Himmler as anything other than an evil butcher when Hamlet realizes that this supposed Act of Mercy is just a total waste of time he then gets incredibly eventual and shows his true murderousness he orders prisoners in Dachau flossenburg all to be summarily executed this just shows a sort of awful vindictive evil small-mindedness of the man that if he can't get his own way he'll just kill everybody he can it's like a child knocking over his sand castle on the beach at the end of the day but doing that with the human life and many human lives Nelson where the victims of the Crooked cross died in their tens of thousands Grim pictures now we can see the incontestable truth Nelson had been guarded by SS men and SS women our most unpleasant task has been making the SS of which there are about 50 Berry the dead up to press we've buried about 17 000 people as himless crimes are revealed to the world news of his failed attempt to strike a deal with the Allies reaches Hitler when Hitler learns what hen has done he first of all strips him of all his titles and he's got a lot of titles he then calls him a traitor to his country and a traitor to him and of course for him this isn't just a job this is everything he is everything he stands for it is religious his life it's his identity and it's shattered rejected by Hitler exposed as the Butcher of millions of innocent people and with the Allies closing in Himmler now flees [Music] he disguises himself as an ordinary Soldier adopting the name Sergeant Heinrich hit singer [Music] Days Later Sergeant hitzinger is captured by a unit of British soldiers but the face of Heinrich Himmler is too well known and he is quickly exposed with the world watching Himmler is taken by British troops for interrogation in Lunenburg but concealed in his uniform is a cyanide capsule before he can be questioned Himmler bites on the vial and within minutes he is dead to the most evil life recorded in history the family didn't do it for him when he was born his body is dumped nearby in an unmarked grave [Music] Himmler the champion of organic farming and herbal medicine Himmler who promotes handicrafts and New Age mysticism [Music] Himmler who values nature more highly than Humanity Himmler the radical environmentalist who finds in science a rational justification for mass murder [Music] as close as any human has ever come to being truly evil [Music]

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Length: 48min 14sec (2894 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 22 2023