The Life and Death of Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) • David Irving (2012) •🕞1h 22m

• David Irving’s dissenting work on Heinrich Himmler is based on actual letters, diaries, and documents exclusively available to him and on twenty years of research and interviews with Himmler’s generals and private staff, including an analysis of his murder on May 23, 1945, by a special British killing unit.

• Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was a German (Nazi) politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the German (Nazi) Party, and one of the most powerful men in (Nazi) Germany. (He is primarily known for being one of the main architects of the Holocaust.)

• After serving in a reserve battalion during the First World War without seeing combat, Himmler went on to join the (Nazi) Party in 1923. In 1925, he joined the SS, a small paramilitary arm of the Nazi Party that served as a bodyguard unit for Adolf Hitler. Subsequently, Himmler rose steadily through the SS's ranks to become Reichsführer-SS by 1929. Under Himmler's leadership, the SS grew from a 290-man battalion into one of the most potent institutions within Nazi Germany. Throughout his career, Himmler acquired a reputation for good organisational skills as well as for selecting highly competent subordinates, such as Reinhard Heydrich. From 1943 onwards, he was both Chief of the Kriminalpolizei (Criminal Police) and Minister of the Interior, which gave him oversight of all internal and external police and security forces (including the Gestapo). He also controlled the Waffen-SS, a branch of the SS that served in combat alongside the Wehrmacht in World War II.

• About David Irving:
David John Cawdell Irving was born on March 24, 1938, in Essex, England, the son of a Royal Navy Commander. After education at London University, he spent a year working in a steel mill in Germany, where he perfected his fluency in the language. His first book, the best-selling The Destruction of Dresden, was published in 1963, when he was 25 years old. This was followed by many others. His books have appeared in a range of languages. Several have been serialized in prominent periodicals. He has contributed articles to some 60 British and foreign periodicals, including the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Express in Britain, and Stern and Der Spiegel in Germany.

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