Himmler: Fanatical perpetrator of the Holocaust | Beyond the Myth | Ep2. | Documentary

foreign [Music] [Music] guard [Music] a black order [Music] the end result is a crime the likes of which the world has never seen [Music] [Music] at the end of 1942 the Nazi regime still rules over large parts of Europe but a German Victory is becoming ever more distant the final decision against Hitler's wehrmacht is made on the Eastern Front [Music] SS Chief Himmler usually stays at his headquarters horvald from there he writes to his family on boxing day I have to work a lot but that doesn't matter [Music] lies deep in East Prussia in close proximity to Hitler's Walsh schanser headquarters if you want to know what Hitler is thinking you should look at what Himmler is doing no one interprets and understands Hitler's Desires in racial policy with a better track record of accuracy than Heinrich Himmler what himmler's working days looked like is revealed in his duty calendar which was found in a Moscow archive in 2016. [Music] the appointments of the reichsfura SS are noted here such as the inspection of the SS Honda Commando the code name for the zombie bore extermination camp in occupied Poland Himmler wants to inspect the murder Factory personally in February 1943. the camp management is forewarned and reports in advance due to a Total Transport blockade the camp is currently not in full operation but sufficient for intended observations 200 Jewish girls and women are brought to sovivor from the surrounding area they think they are in a labor camp and have to undress to take a shower carbon monoxide is introduced into the shower rooms the girls and women suffocate at the dinner afterwards Himmler praises the work of the perpetrators across is this sort of rather weak person was in fact one of the most evil and one of the strongest people in the creation of this racial horror nightmare that was created by Nazi Germany Heinrich Himmler Hitler's most powerful accomplice why does he of all people become a mass murderer [Music] towards the end of the second world war Himmler is the most powerful German apart from Hitler responsible for Terror occupation despotism and the Holocaust Millions fear his name one who meets him at that time is troudel younger from 1942 one of Hitler's private secretaries she gets to know the SS Chief and is surprised [Music] him actually appeared quite shy not at all self-confident or military or even brutal he had rather the appearance of a somewhat shy Bourgeois man the murderer of the century has every chance of a middle class life he was born in Munich in 1900 into what seems to be an orderly world [Music] in Bavaria the king rules and in the family the father rules this is also the case with a himless his father Joseph is a respected grammar school teacher Mother Anna looks after the household and her three sons Heinrich is the second eldest his Parental Home Catholic conservative educated then the first world war upsets the order Heinrich Himmler like so many others is enthusiastic about the war and desperately wants to become a soldier but he's too young the fact that Germany loses the war in 1918 is in himmler's view a national and personal catastrophe it was bitter for him now that he would volunteered after his amateur and wanted to take up an officer career did not get to serve on the front line that is could no longer prove himself in this Great War Himmler has to bury his dreams throughout his life he's driven by having to make up for what he has missed then in November 1918 the revolution sweeps the monarchs from the throne Germany becomes a democracy Himmler believes in the lie that only the revolution led to defeat in 1919 radical right-wing paramilitary units bloodly put down the Munich Soviet Republic the men of the so-called National right fight against Communists and Jews in the wake of the war's defeat people look for scapegoats and resort to conspiracy theories an anti-Semitism is essentially nothing but a conspiracy theory some student fraternities no longer admit Jews because they are allegedly not of the German race the University of Munich imlays studied agricultural Sciences here from Summer 1919 onwards he became a member of a student fraternity it was still less the anti-Semitism that appealed to him than the soldially toughness Himmler graduates in 1922. afterwards he is unemployed and disoriented he leaves the Catholic Bavarian people's party and joins the right-wing extremist military Association rice Creek's Flagger shortly afterwards he becomes a member of the nsdap November 1923 Adolf Hitler leads an attempted coup in Munich [Music] is in on it and seals off authorities on ludwigstrasse behind the barricades Himmler as a proud bearer of the Reich war flag he's a soldier now if only for a brief moment the coup attempt fails after only a few hours from now on the book lists that Himmler meticulously compiles more and more felkish and anti-semitic writings and Germanic heroic sagas he writes I feel that I belong to these tutons but today however I am very alone and feeling this books about Hitler are now on his lists too his verdict on Hitler in 1924 his speeches are Splendid pieces of germanism and arianism [Music] Hitler sits in prison for nine months for high treason he then re-founds the nsdap he wants to come to power by winning elections imler becomes a party member again and breaks with his parents political ideas for good he becomes an Ardent Nazi and radical anti-semite in his younger days it seems that Himmler wasn't particularly anti-semitic but he becomes much more anti-semitic as he adopts the whole bigger Nazi ideological package it's almost anti-Semitism follows being a Nazi rather than precedes it Himmler makes politics his profession in 1925 and starts as a minor party Secretary of the nsdap in 1927 he was already part of the extended leadership Circle two years later he took over the leadership of the so-called shutsstuffle Hitler's Shield Squadron imler becomes rice fira SS about 500 men for personal security barrier Services Hall Marshals more a group of bodyguards than an elite true The Troop with the skull and crossbones on its cap is still rather insignificant but Himmler has great goals when Himmler takes over as the rice fuhrer SS he has an ambitious project I turned it into a kind of a racial aristocracy of the future Germany Himmler develops admission criteria for the SS applicants must demonstrate characteristics of the Nordic type they are to become the elite of the master race Compassion or tolerance are not criteria [Music] in January 1933 Hitler becomes Reich Chancellor the Nazis are in power Himmler and the SS are not initially among the winners of the hour the Reich sphere SS initially remains in Munich it is not until two months after the seizure of power that his chance comes in March the elected government of Bavaria is deposed from Berlin and Hitler supporters take over the town hall in the provisional Nazi government Himmler is police chief of Munich a springboard to power please Himmler is certainly not a great charismatic he's certainly not an embodiment of the SS ideal either but Himmler is a brilliant and ruthless politician who always knows how to fill the right posts and to put the right followers in the right positions in order to get closer to his goals um as police chief Himmler is in charge of the political police in Munich a forerunner of the Gestapo he fills leading positions with SS men their mission is violence [Music] the first symbol of himmler's rule is the Dachau concentration camp [Music] the SS becomes an instrument of Oppression Himmler uses his control over Dachau over a rest in Bavaria to develop a proposition for policing throughout Nazi Germany in which all the policemen and the SS will be United under his leadership himmler's organized Terror and Bavaria makes an impression and secures him the support of Nazi officials throughout the Reich his inconspicuous appearance deceives many a potential rival in truth Himmler is a ruthless tactician a networker of power and the Nazi Reich [Music] Heinrich Himmler accepted a great many state and party functionaries into the SS he was able to equip these functionaries with fancy uniforms by Fiora ranks skull rings honorary swords and the like this was very popular because many gal lighters for example like to put on an SS General's uniform when they came into contact with Verma commanders in order to be able to act and confer with them at eye level [Music] thank you himmler's power has been growing steadily since 1933 Hitler appreciates the SS Chief's loyalty and efficiency the dictator's private secretary Witnesses Hitler's praise [Music] I once seen Hitler bring up the subject of Himmler and concentration camps at table and Hitler mentioned that Himmler was using a very clever system he put a notorious arsonist in charge of the firewatch and of course Himmler said you can be sure my fuhrer that no fire will break out there one had the feeling that this was a well-organized psychologically skillfully managed labor camps Nazi propaganda portrays himmler's Dachau Concentration Camp as an institution of progress but a powerful Superior still stands in the way of the SS a chief anstroom in his army of millions of sa men the SS is only a small subunit Himmler wants to distance himself from the notoriously undisciplined sa and works on the reputation of his SS unconditionally loyal to Hitler obedient to death engraved on the SS Dagger of honor is my honor means loyalty Hitler has an instrument in the SS that he can trust very strong unlike for example the early sa on the road which is not necessarily so centrally oriented towards him ESS is his instrument in June 1934 Hitler has Ernst Rome and parts of the sa leadership murdered by men of the SS behind the scenes Himmler had been instrumental in direct in the Intrigue against Rome Hitler rewards himmler's betrayal of the sa and lifts the SS out of its shadow Himmler becomes directly subordinate to Hitler as rice fura SS it is typical of Himmler that he was never an outwardly acting Alpha leader that he always defined himself in the serving role the role of working towards Hitler and it is precisely this working towards Hitler that makes it possible for him and also enables his organization to rise as it does unconditionally devoted to Hitler and internally in the growing Empire of the SS an autocrat who wants to regulate even the smallest details personally [Music] Himmler wants to build the SS on the model of Germanic Heroes [Music] for the men this meant constant military drill and lots of sport SS men are supposed to be strong and true to party lines Himmler sets a good example as a right-hander he practices shooting with his left hand and trains doggedly for the Reich Sports badge in silver which he finally achieves in 1936 it was not enough for gold the demands on his SS men are higher the distant vision is actually via the SS as a nucleus as a model that of a kind of breeding Elite to actually renew the German people so to weed out what he perceived as bad racially and to bring people back to this Nordic idea the SS as a breeding order for the preservation of the Germanic Nordic Master race as Himmler put it a concrete mission [Music] the order of the SS at the center was blood German blood swear by German blood as early as 1931 Himmler gives his SS men the order to marry in the interests of preserving racially and hereditarily good blood as he writes but no SS man is allowed to marry without permission anyone who disobeys the order is removed from the troop every potential bride is checked for a value to the SS for Aryan origin hereditary health and racial purity the race and settlement office which also examines the SS candidates for their suitability is responsible for the examination but Himmler himself had the final say on the suitability of the brides interferes in the private lives of the relatives gives advice in the case of childlessness for example he gives the women advice on what fertility treatments they should have he makes sure that mothers attend training courses and that the brides are politically reliable only then does he Grant a marriage license Himmler knows all about married life he has been married since 1928. his wife Margaret is blonde blue-eyed a nurse and seven years older than him daughter gudrun is born in 1929. Himmler presents himself as a devoted family man even from a distance he regularly telephones and writes to his wife Margarita as in the summer of 1942 I will be in Lublin zamos Auschwitz Lemberg in the next few days and then in the new quarters I'm curious to know if and how it will work with the telephone well have a wonderful time with our daughter many warm greetings and kisses yours Papi since Margarita can't have any more children the himlas take in a foster child in 1933 the son of a deceased ssman [Music] himmler's efforts to urge SS men to become fathers are rather unsuccessful of the 250 000 SS men in 1938 only 39.7 percent were married the number of children per SS man is one far below the desired Target in view of the low birth rate Himmler has the lebensborn association founded in 1936. the first Lehman's born home is opened near Munich others follow they are discrete maternity homes not only for SS couples Himmler wanted to prevent children from being aborted for fear of an illegitimate birth and that is why he created maternity homes in his laban's born where unmarried women could go to give birth to their illegitimate children afterwards they wanted to they could give them up for adoption and then go back to their lives without loss of reputation the labensporn gives preference to SS families for children born out of wedlock the project is financed by compulsory levees on SS men the highest amount is played by the childless around 9 000 babies are born in leadens-born homes by the end of the war Offspring for the self-proclaimed Master race [Music] only those suitable for racial politics are admitted to a laden spawn When The War Began Himmler went one step further at the end of 1939 he issued a procreation order directly to the SS man among them in Poland the young Theologian gerion Goldman Goldman who becomes a Franciscan monk after the war Witnesses the order being proclaimed foreign then he reads to us so many young Germans died in the Polish campaign they have to be replaced and in Germany droves of good German girls are waiting for the soldiers who will then sleep with them so that the fuhrer will have new children he really said that publicly Himmler unequivocally calls on SS men to Father Offspring outside of marriage the SS would take care of illegitimate children this order was especially by the Vermont leadership interpreted as asking the German women to cuckold their men who had been drafted into the wehrmacht with ssmen they were considerable protests even the SS men do not want to procreate on himmler's orders so Yuma himself should see to it the right sphere that he gets enough children that was the reaction oh they were Furious Himmler has to rescind the order but he sticks to his ideas secretly since 1939 he has had a mistress his secretary Hedrick potthast 12 years his Junior she gives the mass murderer two more children in view of stagnating birth rates in Germany Himmler pursues a new project the germanization of children from the occupied Eastern territories the only Criterion racially good blood an inhuman by conviction [Music] foreign foreign ER gives orders to hunt for blonde and blue-eyed children like alloys tradetsky at the age of three he was targeted by himmler's henchmen in the middle of the night as s men order his mother to wake aloys dress him and take him on the guard to the next station when they arrive at the trains the children are taken away from their mothers and distributed among the wagons for little alloys the beginning of a new life the first thing the stolen polish children do is undergo a physical examination according to Nazi racial Doctrine 21 characteristics such as eye color or body hair count the result decides their future the children were divided into 10 or 12 racial groups I belong thank God to the super Aryan race number one Alloys is considered fit to be a German and is given up for adoption first however he and hundreds of others are placed in children's homes in the Reich homes like the lebensborn home zonnen Visa Sunny Meadow in corinthalis in Saxony from 1942 stolen children from Poland also live here they're only allowed to speak German are given a new past a new name afterwards I was told that my father had been an SS officer murdered by polish Bandits Alloys becomes Alfred the stolen polish child a convinced German Nazi who detests the polls I really felt like a German boy I did we worshiped Hitler of course the greatest thing for us was the SS Alloys is adopted by a family from koblenz who are true to the Nazi cause for him they soon become his parents but the real mother in Poland never stops looking for him when he learns the truth after the war the world collapses for him he visits his mother and has to stay in Poland against his will etsky remains scarred by himmler's program for the rest of his life [Music] child stealing in general and I was also a victim of it is one of the most serious offenses not only for the nation for the family but also for for the individual and of course it will always leave scars inside even if you don't notice them on the outside Himmler has tens of thousands of children deported to Europe too as it is called refreshed Germanic blood many never find out where they really come from [Music] the SS identifying Marx black uniform and white Rune symbols that Himmler wanted to stand for toughness and Germanic heroism [Music] is [Music] Heinrich Himmler is the father of this organization it was only when he became Reich sphere in 1929 and this unique mixture of political extremism racist insanity and occult cultic rituals took shape all that makes up the SS is shaped by Himmler wants to take the SS back to the supposedly glorious times of the Nordic race historically this is nonsense but the SS Chief eagerly invents corresponding laws symbols and rights such as the solstice celebrations correlation glorify Germanic cult becomes a pseudo-religion the SS is supposed to be an order that determines the whole life of its men [Music] has his own cult objects designed for this purpose such as the so-called yield lump supposedly of Nordic origin it is produced in the SS's own porcelain Factory in Munich a central element of the black cult instead of Christmas SS members are supposed to celebrate Yul foreign as a present to create this cult this is all part of himmler's attempts to hold the association together to glue it together through a unique worldview but also by inventing new rituals the Collegiate Church of quedelenburg built as the burial place of the German King Henry in 1936 on the thousandth anniversary of his death Himmler visits the medieval complex on the Castle Hill for Himmler the king is more than just a namesake and credenberg is less of a church than an Aryan shrine [Music] the Saxon King Henry is glorified as an Aryan ancestor King Henry founded the German Empire fought against Slavs and conquered territories in the east goals also pursued by the Nazis King Heinrich and his wife were buried in the Crypt of the cathedral in the Middle Ages but the body is missing a disgrace for Himmler the SS Chief gives orders to dig without success the inhabitants of quedlinburg like Heinz Mueller witness a lie about the bones of the king so they took bones out of the catacombs of the crypt below from the Collegiate ladies who'd been buried there and then a year later passed them off as Henry's remains in 1937 himless solemnly had the fake King's bones buried in the Crypt from 1938 the SS take over the cathedral and the monastery church services are no longer possible Himmler turns the cathedral into a place of pilgrimage for the SS in the search for Nordic Germanic Heritage Himmler is happy with every kind of support in 1935 he founds the Arnon air Association archaeologists and amateurs are commissioned by the SS to find evidence of early Aryan times to prove the superiority of the Nordic race here too in the environs of Berlin they dig on behalf of the SS ook big light scientifically most of it is worthless in the end it was more of a kind of Germanic idolatry because it wasn't about researching how the Germanic tribes actually lived but rather an attempt to project one's own views back onto an imaginary germanicness Germanic jugglery drilled into the SS men and training courses what himmler's black order still lacks is a ritual meeting place the vivaldsburg near paderborn the location alone made the castle interesting for Himmler in the middle of the supposed Heartland of the Germanic tribes in 1934 the SS took possession of the Renaissance Castle the weaversburg was to become a spiritual and strategic Center in particular the highest level of ss leadership that is the SS obergruppenfura where to meet regularly at Weaver's book to negotiate future issues Himmler visits the weaversburg regularly as he writes in his pocket diary to inspect the renovation work [Music] thank you the more comprehensive his claim to power the more Monumental his plans after the final Victory the weevilsburg is to become the center of a huge complex gigantomania or the SS [Music] imler has a Ring of Honor made for his officers and veterans [Music] with a skull as a sign of contempt for death runes as symbols of germanism and himmler's signature including the date of the award after the death of their wearers O-rings are to be kept in vivaldsburg Castle construction work on the castle begins in 1939 concentration camp prisoners are deployed as laborers among them was Max holvick in 1943. holvick is a Jehovah's Witness then called Bible scholars the denomination with its magazine the Watchtower is persecuted by the Nazis like all Jehovah's Witnesses Max holvig is a conscientious objector he is arrested taken to concentration camps and used in the Reconstruction of evilsburg Castle [Music] on the ground floor of the North Tower the SS over gobenfura Hall is being built Himmler wants to meet with his SS Generals in a pseudo-medieval ambiance he has a marble Mosaic worked into the middle of the floor of course the work was also done by the Concentration Camp prisoners we polished the marble floors in the worship space the Portico by hand [Music] the labor at the weaversburg as here in the Quarry brings death to hundreds SS Works slaves like Max holvig have no value in the world of himless Germanic Elite order on September 1st 1939 German troops invade Poland five weeks later the Germans celebrate themselves as Victors in destroyed Warsaw Japan Hitler and Himmler it is about living space for the Germans in the east the first step towards this is the partition of Poland [Music] the Soviet Union takes over the eastern part the West is to become German and is annexed by the Reich the rest comes under brutal German occupation as the so-called General government new Reich districts are germanized according to Hitler's specifications Himmler immediately sets to work without any consideration for the inhabitants timmler's view that for a territory to become German not only do you have to include it legally in the Third Reich by shifting boundaries but you have to transform it demographically you have to change the population of the people living there so the initial plan that Himmler proposes in the fall of 1939 is to expel we now would say ethically cleanse 8 million people from Western Poland himmler's plans are so radical that Hitler immediately entrusts him with further tasks the SS Chief becomes responsible for the quote consolidation of German nationality and thus for the entire German settlement policy in the east another increase in power for the SS [Music] and a very personal success for Himmler because even as a young man he dreamed of a life as a settler in the east in the beginning of his Nazi career at the age of 25 he joined the Ottomans a filkish settlers Association that was mainly active in Eastern Germany the artem island was a society that had what we call a blood and soil ideology they really thought that the agricultural life was the only good life the only decent life the only really German life you need to have Farm settlement expanding across Central and Eastern Europe in the 1920s members of the Ottomans set up their own settlements in Pomerania in Mecklenburg they want to return to their Origins far away from the problems of modernity to a life in the countryside as self-supporters ideas that Himmler shared throughout his life before 1933 he had a farm in Bavaria with his wife Margarita the chickens rabbits pigs and a sheepdog just like his ancestors after the Takeover Himmler no longer had time for the farm he was on the road too much foreign but even as a top Nazi he remains connected to agriculture the studied agricultural Economist lets his SS research plants nature as a source of strength [Music] even before the war Himmler founded the German Research Institute for nutrition and food [Music] not far from the Concentration Camp fences concentration camp prisoners set up the so-called herb garden here a complex with administrative buildings and greenhouses here Himmler had Research into natural healing methods and farming without artificial fertilizers carried out Eco under the sign of the SS [Music] they were actually attempts to return to a way of farming that was perceived as natural as I said today one would possibly call it organic farming but it was this idea this agrarian romantic of a farmer on his Cloud so to speak Himmler was able to realize his old dreams of Germanic land grabbing in the conquered Eastern territories from 1939 onwards [Music] under the slogan home to the Reich all Germans living as minorities east of the Reich border are to be settled in the new Reich districts so-called ethnic Germans from the Ukraine Romania or the Baltic states more than 300 300 000 ethnic Germans leave their old Homeland and settle in the annexed territories by 1941. [Music] but only racially Superior people are to be given a farm in the east Himmler has Fox Deutsche and poles checked Gilbert something that is created is an instrument of the SS this racial selection procedure is transferred to civilians in the occupied territories ethnic Germans as well as non-germans in order to decide who is or isn't a good racial person thus at least for the non-germans it becomes a decision of life and death for Himmler has space made in the new Reich districts the police and the SS make sure that the so-called poles who cannot be deported among the mainly Jews are identified and removed from the conquered territories by resettlement or murder [Music] after the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 Himmler transfers his inhuman germanization program to the newly conquered territories behind the front for him Slavs like the Red Army soldiers in the prisoner of war camp here for these peasant women near Minsk are inferior human beings useful only as labor slaves politics based on racial Mania the greatest race on Earth were the Aryans and the worst race on Earth from which all of the evil ideas whether it's Christianity or bolshevism or capitalism whatever it might be this all came from the Jews and so for him the removal of the Jews from Aryan Society was absolutely Paramount in his worldview in the years to come genocide becomes himmler's main task first perpetrated by mobile firing squads then by a perfidious system of collection and death camps [Music] Auschwitz birkenau over 1 million people are murdered here by the SS for October 4th 1943 himless service calendar records a visit to the gopenfurutagon poison the SS Chief speaks openly about the burden and self-image of the perpetrators [Music] this is [Music] [Music] there the task of murder torture in an objective way of something that was necessary in the interests of the German race not for personal gain or personal enjoyment it was very very keen on this appearance of decency but of course it was a uh a myth private photos of a camp Commander give an idea of the reality in the camps arbitrariness Reigns here some of himmler's men shamelessly enrich themselves others beat and torture SS guards in sobivore select individuals from among the Jews who have arrived to make them dance [Music] only then do they herd them into the gas chamber in himmler's view his men should as he says remain decent only those who enrich themselves must fear punishment an empty threat in reality the campuses enriches itself at all levels from the victim's possessions self-service already rains on arrival usually before the formal registration of valuables what does not officially exist cannot be embezzled Himmler is aware of the abuses but seldomly allows them to be prosecuted the image of the SS as an elite must not be damaged all right [Music] the longer the war lasts the more himless on the road his daily routine is a long string of meetings all neatly listed in the duty calendar in total thousands of conversations in between business lunches and meetings with the fura [Music] Hitler has a high opinion of Himmler in 1944. he considers him a quite outstanding personality of the Reich but Himmler still suffers from a flaw he was now surrounded by vaffane SS leaders on All Occasions who had now received the highest decorations there they were with the medals flashing away on their chests and he himself stood there wearing only the gold party batch it was only towards the end of the war that Himmler was allowed to feel like a soldier in January 1945 he was given Supreme command of army group Vistula three armies deployed on the collapsing Eastern Front [Music] the war reaches German borders himmler's Army group is to stop the advance of the Red Army from which hundreds of thousands are already fleeing Himmler is a military amateur but he has no illusions [Music] himlo was astute enough to realize in 1944 the latest that Germany was losing the war and so he began to seek a way out the horn Lucian sanatoriums in the ukumark a well-known Reich Sports sanatorium in the 1930s during the war it becomes a military hospital for many Nazi celebrities or lucians stands for relaxation Heinrich Himmler is often treated here stomach pains in mid-February 1945 he secretly meets count Falco Ben and daughter here the deputy head of the Swedish Red Cross Himmler wants to make contact with the allies and is prepared to compromise [Music] he agrees to have Scandinavian political prisoners taken from concentration camps by the Swedish Red Cross the freed concentration camp prisoners travel North through the war zone in white buses Himmler releases 15 000 Scandinavian prisoners as an advance payment for hoped for peace negotiations with the allies it was completely incomprehensible that Himmler had apparently moved into a world Beyond reality how could he imagine after all the Terrible Things he'd done and after this horrible trail of blood that laid behind him that an ally would negotiate with him in April 1945 Soviet troops are at the gates of Berlin Hitler blames Himmler and withdraws his military command the dictator here the last film shot entrenches himself in the furre bunker in Berlin on April 11 1945 U.S troops Liberate the bulgenwald concentration camp near Weimar reports of the horror go through the World Press Himmler continues to believe that the Allies are negotiating with him [Music] mler believed that the West wanted to fight the Bolsheviks rather than the Nazis he saw himself fit for this position he did not understand that the Nazis had gone much too far [Applause] during the Battle of Berlin Himmler continues his efforts to negotiate with the West then the BBC reports according to a report himnah offered unconditional surrender to Great Britain and the United States but not to the Soviet Union in the Berlin underground Hitler learns of himmler's high-handed advance the loyal Heinrich the most important accomplice commits treason [Music] as adjutant of the general staff [Music] the world shattered the most faithful of the faithful Himmler on whom he had always relied so much he had betrayed him as he put it the following day Hitler escapes responsibility by committing suicide in the end in his political will he expels Himmler from the party and takes away all his offices Himmler had followed Hitler for more than half his life now his murderous Madness ends he is 45 wanted by The Victors and empty-handed Himmler goes into hiding shaves off his beard and puts on an eye patch he goes on the Run with forged papers [Music] the once most powerful man after Hitler joins the army of defeated German soldiers he is sent to a British camp for German prisoners of War further unrecognized then he Reveals His identity and is taken to the headquarters of the British security service in luneburg a military doctor is to examine him as the doctor checks his mouth Himmler bites down on a cyanide capsule the murderer of the century dies on May 23 1945 his body is buried by the British near Luna book the exact spot is unknown while other Nazi greats continue to be revered by the incorrigible after their deaths even old Nazis and SS veterans turned their backs on Himmler the end too Inglorious the guilt to great [Music] thank you [Music]

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Length: 52min 25sec (3145 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 04 2023