"If you want to know what Hitler was thinking, look at what Himmler was doing. The essence of the popular understanding of the Holocaust is that Hitler ordered the genocide and that his followers persecuted and killed the Jews because they hated them. .
Richard Breitman, author of the Architect of Genocide, disagrees with this functionalist view. he argues that Hitler, and the SS did indeed opt for mass murder because the logic of their anti-semitism, holding all Jews to be an implacable, mortal danger to Germany's existance, caused them to choose the most thorough going "final" solution imagineable. However, Breitman rightly conceives of Himmler as the geonocides "architect" whom Hitler commissioned and later monitored. He adds that the Holocaust and the concentration camps were Himmler's infernal creation.
An early Nazi, Himmler participated in the Beer Hall Putsh in Munich in 1923 and in 1929 he became the head of the fledgling SS, the Nazi Praetorian gaurd and eventually the revival and vanquisher of Rhom and the SA. Gradually, through masterful organizational skills, astute manuevering in the corridors of Nazi power, and a thorough devotion to his leader, he gathered all police and security powers under his control and built the SS, the most powerful institution in Germany.
Breitman uses this information to acknowledge Himmlers virtually unchecked power in Europe. Genocide, enslavement, despoliation, and the creation of new "men" were issued from his nazified world view, at the center of which was a fantasy prone racism and anti-semitism, which held all Jews to be Germany's foremost and deadliest enemies.
Their racism and anti-semitism led each to become obsessed with the "ideal" of extirpating the putative perniciousness of the Jews. Hitler, the visionary leader, conceived and laid down the outlines of the Nazi policy toward the Jews.
Dr. Heinrich lived an ordinary life. Every day he would go down to his lab and try to unlock the secrets of the human mind. His cognitive science position was a very complex job, of course. It often was frustrating work. His world was at a very competitive age and the government he worked for had wa...
Tess Nader Kirk English II – Pre IB 22 April 2014 The More Pessimistic Side of Love Displayed by Heinrich Heine and William Blake A piece of yarn or string can hold something together, or with one pull, it can make something fall apart. ... These two extreme sides of love can be shown in the lyric poem "The Lotus Flower" by Heinrich Heine and "Broken Love" by William Blake. Heinrich Heine's poem is a self-therapy type of work portraying a girl as a lotus flower, getting excited when her lover comes to her at night, but showing the sorrows of love when he lea...
Heinrich Himmler and his role in the Gestapo It is not to often that a man is seen as the very personification of evil. So is the case of Heinrich Himmler who was not only the head of Hitler's SS police, but was also in charge of the death camps in the east. ... With Hitler's plan of the Final Solution imminent he turned to Himmler which Hitler called "Der Treue Heinrich" (Loyal Heinrich) for its execution. ... It was Heinrich Himmler who laid out the plans and devised the schemes which les to these killings. ... Heinrich Himmler then committed suicide after biting a c...
Heinrich Himmler was, like the majority, among those that frightfully mistreated the Jews, as well as others. ... Heinrich Himmler was a busy man, as he was appointed minister of the interior in 1943. ... Heinrich Himmler's life came to an abrupt end when he was captured by the British attempting to flee. ... Heinrich Himmler became a very powerful man in his years serving as Adolf Hitler's "right hand man." ... As you have seen, Heinrich Himmler was a dark and troubled man throughout most of his life. ...
Some artifacts were uncovered by a man named Heinrich Schliemann and his wife in the 1870s. ... Heinrich Schliemann also was the man who wanted to find this site, he did actually find ancient seal stones or milk stones which are sometimes used as stamps, that showed signs of being older than ancient Greek years. ... The fact that really persuaded me was the that Heinrich Schliemann found the seal stones that dated back before ancient Greek times. ...
Niobium Niobium is the forty-first element of the periodic table. Niobium was not the original name of the element. Charles Hatchett discovered the mystery element in 1801 in an ore known as columbite. He had originally called it columbium because it was so closely related to columbite. Although he...
The Limbic System The limbic system consists of the parts of the brain that regulate memory motivation, and emotion. Although researchers aren't quite sure if all the structures are actually "limbic" or even if they form a "system." The key structures researchers think form the limbic system:...
Types of Bees Heinrich states that about 20,000 species of bees exist in the world. ... (5-7) According to Heinrich, social bees live in colonies where population can range from 10 to as many as 80,000 members. ... Additional structures used only for pollen packing are found on the inner leg. (21-23) Heinrich discusses that a bee has two thin wings on each side of the thorax. ...