Heinrich Himmler

A German Nazi Party politician, police administrator, and military leader. From 1929 to 1945, he served as Reichsführer-SS, the supreme commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS), overseeing Nazi Germany's security and police apparatus, the concentration camp system, and the Waffen-SS. Controlling a vast security and repressive apparatus that included the Gestapo, SS intelligence, and the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), he became one of the primary architects and perpetrators responsible for the planning and execution of the Holocaust—the mass murder of European Jews. Toward the end of World War II, he also commanded certain German military units, but after attempting to negotiate a separate peace with the Western Allies as the war situation deteriorated, he was stripped of all offices by Hitler. He was captured by British forces in May 1945 and committed suicide on the 23rd of that month.

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Year	Heinrich Himmler
1900	Birth of Heinrich Himmler (Period: October 7, 1900, Location: Munich, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (present-day Munich, Federal Republic of Germany))
1914	World War I (Age: 13 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front, Belgium and France)
1919	Postwar Revolution in Germany and Armed Conflicts over the Bavarian Soviet Republic (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1919, Location: Bavaria, Germany, mainly around Munich)
1923	Joining the Nazi Party (Age: 22 years old, Period: August 1923, Location: Bavaria, Germany) Beer Hall Putsch (Age: 23 years old, Period: November 8–9, 1923, Location: Munich, Germany)
1928	Marriage (Heinrich Himmler, Margarete Boden, Age: 27 years old, Period: July 3, 1928, Location: Berlin-Schöneberg, Germany (civil marriage); followed by church wedding in Zepernick, Brandenburg)
1929	Appointment as Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler, Age: 28 years old, Period: January 1929, Location: Germany)
1931	Establishment of the SD (SS Security Service, Age: 30 years old, Period: 1931, Location: Germany)
1933	The Holocaust (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1941–1945, Location: Across Occupied Europe under Nazi Germany) Control of the German Police Apparatus (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1933–1936, Location: Various locations in Germany) Expansion of the Concentration Camp System (Age: 32 years old, Period: 1933–1945, Location: Germany and German-occupied territories)
1934	Night of the Long Knives (Age: 33 years old, Period: June 30 – July 2, 1934, Location: Various places in Germany)
1939	World War II (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: UK, France, North Africa, Mediterranean, Atlantic, etc.) Mass Murder by the Einsatzgruppen (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1939–1944 (especially 1941 onwards), Location: Eastern Europe including Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Baltic states) Establishment of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA, Age: 38 years old, Period: September 1939, Location: German security apparatus centered in Berlin)
1941	Promotion of Generalplan Ost (General Plan for the East, Age: 40 years old, Period: 1941–1942 onwards, Location: Eastern Europe, especially Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Baltic region, etc.)
1942	Operation Reinhard (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1942–1943, Location: German-occupied Poland)
1943	Posen Speeches (Heinrich Himmler, Age: 42 years old, Period: October 4 and 6, 1943, Location: Posen in German-occupied Poland (now Poznań, Poland))
1944	July 20 Plot (Age: 43 years old, Period: July 20, 1944, Location: Wolf's Lair in Rastenburg, East Prussia, Germany)
1945	Himmler's Secret Peace Negotiations with the Western Allies (Age: 44 years old, Period: Spring 1945, Location: Germany and Stockholm, Sweden, etc.) Command of Army Group Vistula (Age: 44 years old, Period: January–March 1945, Location: Eastern Front including Eastern Germany and Western Poland) Dismissal by Hitler (Age: 44 years old, Period: April 28–29, 1945, Location: Berlin, Germany) Capture and Suicide (Age: 44 years old, Period: May 20–23, 1945, Location: Lüneburg, Northern Germany) Death of Heinrich Himmler (Age: 44 years old, Period: May 23, 1945)

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