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1900–1945 Germany
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), and a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of the Holocaust.
Also known as: Himmler, Himmler, Heinrich
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I hope to see the very concept of Jewry completely obliterated.
The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.
Alberto Rivas Visions of Reality - A Study of Abnormal Perception and Behavior (2007)
One rejects as un-German and impossible the Bolshevist method of physical extermination of a people.
However, in their centuries-long history the Poles were never able to create such an organization that could be called a state.
This is a page of glory in our history, which has never been written and is never to be written...
"This is a hard job, but if the act is not carried out at once, instead of us exterminating the Jews, the Jews will exterminate the Germans at a later date."
I still lack to a considerable degree that naturally superior kind of manner that I would dearly like to possess.
"[W]e had the moral right vis-à-vis our people to annihilate this people [the Jews] which wanted to annihilate us."
the Posen speeches (1943)
In the brief monthly reports of the Security Police, I only want figures on how many Jews have been shipped off and how many are currently left.
Anyone who thinks of homosexual love is our enemy. We reject anything which emasculates our people and makes it a plaything for our enemies, for we know that life is fight, and it is madness to think that men will ever embrace fraternally.
I don't want to hear anymore of your difficulties. For an SS officer there are no difficulties; his duty is always to remove difficulties himself as soon as they arise. How you do it is for you to figure out, not me.
It is vital we rid ourselves of [homosexuals]; like weed we must pull them up, throw them on the fire and burn them. This is not out of a spirit of vengeance, but of necessity; these creatures must be exterminated.
Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology, it is a matter of cleanliness. In just this same way anti-Semitism for us has not been a question of ideology but a matter of cleanliness.
Harold Kaplan Conscience and Memory: Meditations in a Museum of the Holocaust (1994)
[We have] the moral duty toward our race to kill this [Jewish] race that wanted to kill us.
...the curse of the great to have to walk over corpses.
I know there are some people in Germany who become sick when they see these black uniforms, we understand the reason for this, and do not expect we shall be loved by all that number of people; those who come to fear us in any way or at any time must have a bad conscience towards the Fuhrer and the nation. For these persons we have established an organisation called the Security Service.
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA — ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.
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