Community challenged to remember victims of the Holocaust Mar 25, 2008
Heinrich Himmler was the second most powerful Nazi behind Hitler. Oskar Schindler- worked to help the Jewish people. (Rensselaer Republican, IN)
The Dictator’s Astrologer’ book signing at Borders Mar 21, 2008
Woven into the crushing Nazi regime are Afra s experiences with Adolph Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, head of the dreaded Gestapo, her love for Egon Beyer, her daughter Ellen s dancing career in the cabarets and touring with the Special Services, the death of her son-in-law in the snowy wastes of Russia, and Afra s finally finding peace in sunny California. This book also reveals Hitler s mad obsession for power, his bizarre relationship with Geli Raubal, his conquest of most of Europe, his fatal... (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Nazi persecution of gays is explored in exhibit at URI Mar 16, 2008
In 1943, SS chief Heinrich Himmler approved a medical experiment designed to "correct" gay men of their sexual preferences. Two men died from complications of the surgery, the exhibit says. (Boston Globe)
Turning a terrorist into a cult hero Feb 20, 2008
If Mughniyeh may so-easily be described in some Western media as a great national leader, then how do we describe the likes of SS commander Heinrich Himmler and his henchmen, any of the faceless KGB assassins who operated during the Cold War, or any who committed war crimes under Slobodan Milosevic. says Phares, who directs the Future of Terrorism Project for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. (Townhall.com)
German state railway confronts Holocaust role Jan 24, 2008
"A large amount of documentation has helped historians detail the close cooperation between the Nazi regime and the railways which was necessary for the Holocaust to succeed.In January 1943, Heinrich Himmler, who was head of the SS, the Nazi elite force, wrote to Albert Ganzenm?ller, the secretary of state for transport and the deputy director of the Reichsbahn, pleading for more train stock."If I have any hope of quickly dealing with matters, I must have more haulage trains. Help me to get... (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Exhibit chronicles Nazi abuse of gays Nov 27, 2007
Heinrich Himmler decreed formation of the Central Office for Combatting Homosexuality and Abortion. Increased surveillance led to denunciations, arrests and convictions, transfer to concentration camps and persecution in Nazi-occupied territories. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Posters and Propaganda Nov 23, 2007
The SS wedding rings were awarded personally by Heinrich Himmler (leader of the SS). You were wedding yourself to the organization, like a fraternal organization. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Work begins on Nazi Gestapo museum Nov 3, 2007
Next door once stood the Hotel Prinz Albrecht, which housed the leadership of the SS, the party's dreaded paramilitary unit -- including Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich -- and the Reich Security Main Office. Officials prepared the 1942 Wannsee Conference, where Nazi leaders formalized their plans for the Holocaust, at the site. (CNN -- World)
The Himmler Brothers Oct 27, 2007
Arendt was referring to Adolf Eichmann but her analysis could have applied to the greatest murderer of them all, the head of Hitler's SS, Heinrich Himmler. He was not some kind of monster. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Danish website upset Catholics Oct 26, 2007
The controversial Danish satirical group Surrend has posted a Polish-language website which puts the late Polish-born Pope John Paul II in hell, alongside Nazi Germany's infamous propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels and feared SS commander Heinrich Himmler. "Respectable Polish Catholics, the place from which I address you is fiery hot. At the beginning of my stay at the epicentre of fire I, John Paul II, was a little dismayed by the fact that having been a faithful servant of God, I ended up in hell... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)
Police arrest neo-Nazis in Serbia Oct 9, 2007
The Simon Wiesenthal Center had said that the march was to mark the birthday of Heinrich Himmler, the chief of Hitler's SS, and he welcomed the decision to ban it. The right-wing nationalists had called for the demonstration against the secession of Kosovo where majority ethnic Albanians want independence from Serbia. (International Herald Tribune)
Arrests at Serbian neo-Nazi rally Oct 8, 2007
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre had said that the march was to mark the birthday of SS chief Heinrich Himmler and welcomed the decision to ban it. Eight Bulgarians were arrested earlier on Sunday in Belgrade, after police said they were planning to travel to Novi Sad to join the march. (Aljazeera.Net)
Neighbors recall ex-Nazi guard Oct 7, 2007
"They must be trained," the order from SS commander Heinrich Himmler said, "to tear apart anyone except for their handler.". Federal investigators contacted Henss and asked him to come for an interview at their Atlanta office. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Discredited Irving plans comeback tour Sep 29, 2007
He added: "In my opinion now the real killing operations took place at the Reinhardt camps west of the Bug river. In the three camps here [Sobibor, Belzec, and Treblinka] Heinrich Himmler's men (mostly Ukrainian mercenaries) killed possibly as many as 2.4 million in the two years up to October 1943. There is now nothing to be seen of the Reinhardt camps, neither stick nor stone, so few tourists go there. I have visited all four sites earlier this year." ... He added: "I do accept that the Nazis... (Guardian Unlimited)
* World News Quick Take Sep 21, 2007
The 20 labels from the "Der Fuehrer" line show Hitler raising the Nazi salute and his generals, including Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Hess. The black and white labels are imprinted with the mottoes "Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer" (one people, one empire, one Fuehrer) and "Sieg heil," a slogan proclaimed by Hitler as a greeting or in front of the masses. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Inspired by the Nazis Sep 13, 2007
Adolf Eichmann visited him in Palestine in the 1930s; he was a friend of Heinrich Himmler ... Adolf Eichmann visited him in Palestine in the 1930s; he was a friend of Heinrich Himmler. (Townhall.com)
Good looking out Sep 8, 2007
Pe a is no Heinrich Himmler, annihilating creatures deemed unworthy to live. He is supervisor of the Santa Cruz County Animal Care and Control Center. (Nogales International, AZ)
Living in the shadow of Heinrich Himmler Aug 14, 2007
When Katrin Himmler was 15, a classmate at her Berlin school asked her during a history lesson if she was related to Heinrich Himmler, the feared head of Hitler's SS and a key architect of the Holocaust ... During the research, detailed in her book The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History, published in Britain for the first time this summer, she discovered that far from being the black sheep of the family as she had been led to believe, Heinrich Himmler, the man who described the... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
FEATURE-Secrets of Nazi camp brothels emerge decades on Jul 11, 2007
Nazi commander Heinrich Himmler had ordered the creation of camp brothels in 1941. His logic was chilling -- male prisoners would work harder if offered the incentive of sex, and if only a few had this privilege it would crush solidarity. (AlertNet)
A honey of a read: Elmore Leonard's female lead might be the best since Jackie Burke Jul 1, 2007
He may be just a butcher, but with those owlish pince-nez glasses pinched on his nose, he's a dead ringer for Hitler's chief henchman, Heinrich Himmler -- and proud of it. And then there's his habit of pointing his finger at her like a gun each time he noisily passes gas. (North County Times)
Engaging characters brighten `Up in Honey's Room' Jun 27, 2007
He's also a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler and thinks they might have been separated at birth. Carl thinks Walter might be hiding some escaped German POWs. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
Film in Staten Island basement sets off a real furor Jun 26, 2007
A reel of film plucked from the wartime rubble of a German opera house shows Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler enjoying a Richard Wagner music festival before the start of World War II.. The film, sent home by U.S. serviceman Walter Ladziak, was found 10 years ago after Ladziak's brother-in-law, who received the package, died. (New York Daily News)
Chemical Ali: The end of an overlord Jun 25, 2007
Ali Hassan al-Majid was the Heinrich Himmler of Iraq. After Saddam Hussein appointed him the all-powerful overlord of northern Iraq in March 1987 he oversaw the murder of more than 180,000 Kurds in just over a year. (Independent)
Architecture of mass murder Jun 23, 2007
In 1997, Saul Friedl. nder published "The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939," the first of his projected two-volume history of "Nazi Germany and the Jews." In the introduction to that volume, he announced his intention of "establishing a historical account of the Holocaust in which the policies of the perpetrators, the attitudes of surrounding society and the world of the victims could be addressed within an integrated framework." Such a framework has indeed been missing from most historical... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
EDITORIAL: Munich 1934, Gaza City 2007 Jun 18, 2007
So, early on the morning of June 30, 1934, members of the SS, headed by Rohm's bitter rival, Heinrich Himmler, joined Hitler in laying siege to a country inn near Munich where the SA had gathered for a general conference. Rohm and his staff were dragged out of their beds and executed; at 10:00 A.M. that morning, Hitler placed a phone call from Munich to Berlin with the prearranged code word "hummingbird," which unleashed a bloodbath in more than 20 German cities in which several hundred people,... (Washington Times)
New fiction: 'Up in Honey's Room' Jun 15, 2007
The Honey of the title, Honey Deal, is a wisecracking beauty and former wife of Walter Schoen, a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler who perpetuates the myth that he is Himmler's twin brother. Schoen, a butcher, envisions a glorious martyrdom involving a far-fetched scheme to fly a plane into the Little White House in Warm Springs, Ga. (Christian Science Monitor)
Church and state Jun 7, 2007
(Heinrich Himmler head of the SS.). 25% of the population are catholic still, what a disgrace, Catholicism is a disgrace to humanity to follow this religion is a disgrace to yourself. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Today In History - May 23, 2007 May 23, 2007
In 1945, Nazi official Heinrich Himmler committed suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany. In 1960, Israel announced it had captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. (CBS 11, TX)
Plenty of characters in Leonard's 'Room' May 14, 2007
Luckily, ace US marshal Carl Webster (back from 2005's "The Hot Kid") is on their trail, and has enlisted the aid of Honey Deal, the beautiful bottle-blond ex-wife of a Nazi-loving German-American butcher, who just happens to be a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler. What happens next is not really the point. (Boston Globe)
* Nazi documents reveal `Germanized' children May 7, 2007
In files are orders from Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler's SS chief, to find children with eindeutschungsfaehigskeit -- the potential to be Germanized. Other documents tell part of the children's stories. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Local author tells tales of Holocaust era May 4, 2007
News: The Sealy News Online, Sealy Texas. Serving Sealy and Austin County, Texas, since 1887. (Sealy News, TX)
Decent Fellows Apr 16, 2007
It was the Nazi genocide mastermind Heinrich Himmler who : Most of you know what it means to see a hundred corpses lying together, five hundred, or a thousand. To have gone through this and yet -- apart from a few exceptions, examples of human weakness -- to have remained decent fellows, this is what has made us hard. (Human Events Online)
Olbermanns Rush Envy Apr 13, 2007
Mind you this is Keith Olbermann who wrote of colleague Rita Crosby that Ritas nice, but dumber than a suitcase of rocks, and who compared Dean Kenneth Starr to Henrich Himmler Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses ... Mind you this is Keith Olbermann who wrote of colleague Rita Crosby that Ritas nice, but dumber than a suitcase of rocks, and who compared Dean Kenneth Starr... (Townhall.com)
A silent springtime for Hitler? Apr 11, 2007
I already knew that Hitler was a vegetarian with a taste for nonalcoholic beer, but I didn't know that SS boss Heinrich Himmler also eschewed meat or that Hermann Goering had a "sincere interest in forest conservation." Nazi party secretary Rudolf Hess was a devotee of organic gardening. Did you know that there was an organic herb garden at Dachau. (Boston Globe)
Pity the fool Apr 1, 2007
With Germany's defeat inevitable and Allied forces approaching, SS and Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler ordered that the camps be evacuated -- with no prisoner allowed to fall into enemy hands alive. This led to forced death marches, appropriately named as in some cases 90 percent of prisoners failed to survive. (Washington Times, DC)
At G.I. Joe fest Mar 28, 2007
A veritable army of action figures was packed into the VFW hall: Mademoiselle Marie, the comely French Resistance fighter; James Bonds (in both the Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan incarnations); Nazi Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler; the Green Hornet and sidekick Kato. There was even an Osama Bin Laden, in turban and camo jacket, sitting cross-legged and clutching his weapon. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
World Briefings: Archives detail horrors of Nazi death marches (Arthur Max and Melissa Eddy) Mar 12, 2007
It is signed by Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler and dated April 14, 1945. After the war, a copy of Himmler's extraordinary order was delivered from the Dachau archive to the International Tracing Service, a unit of the International Committee of the Red Cross that manages a vast repository of wartime and postwar German records in the small resort town of Bad Arolsen. (Washington Times, DC)
Living hellNorway's 'Nazi' children who became targets of hate Mar 9, 2007
It was Adolf Hitler's henchman, Heinrich Himmler, who had encouraged liaisons between German troops and Norwegian women: part of his plan to breed an Aryan master race of blonde-haired, blue-eyed babies for the 1,000-year Reich. They were known as the Lebensborn (Fountain of Life) children and - after the war - they became targets for revenge. (BBC News -- Europe)
Picture of 'death marches' emerges from documents held by Nazi archive slated to open Mar 7, 2007
It is signed by Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler and dated April 14, 1945. After the war a copy of Himmler's extraordinary order was delivered from the Dachau concentration camp archive to the International Tracing Service, or ITS, a unit of the International Committee of the Red Cross which manages a vast repository of wartime and postwar German records in the small resort town of Bad Arolsen. (North County Times)
Review: The Bloodless Revolution Feb 24, 2007
Heinrich Himmler was an advocate. Rudolf Hess was so strict that he wouldn't eat the nonorganic vegetables cooked by Hitler's chef - whereupon the F. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Devil's plaything Feb 10, 2007
The narrator, who at the beginning of the book goes by the name of Dieter, a blond, elite member of the SS in the service of Heinrich Himmler, is a devil in the higher employ of an entity called the Maestro, a being who may or may not be Satan. Against the rules Dieter has decided to write a history of Alois Schicklgruber, a peasant born in the northern part of lower Austria in 1837, whose life the Maestro, for certain reasons, has instructed him to study and influence. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
This proposed smoking ban has some fuming Jan 29, 2007
Side-by-side portraits of Councilwoman Coralin Feierbach and Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler were posted on a smoking-rights website. Threats were e-mailed to City Hall, and police and prosecutors were called in to investigate. (Los Angeles Times)
Discovering Auschwitz Jan 28, 2007
This profitable business was operated by the Schutzenstaffel, or SS, the Nazi security force under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler. German companies like Krupp, Siemens, and I.G. Farben set up factories near the camp to take advantage of the forced labor. (American Heritage)
Justice system the best memorial to the Holocaust Jan 27, 2007
SS leader Heinrich Himmler, aware that Germany was losing the war and fearful of his own neck, ordered an end to the killings. Local commanders continued to kill Jews and to shuttle them from camp to camp by forced "death marches" until the last weeks of the war. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Editorial)
Sympathy for the devil: a fictional portrait Jan 22, 2007
You don't normally expect to open a novel and find it to be about incest, Heinrich Himmler, bee keeping, toilet training, Satanic machinations, the coronation of Russia's Czar Nicholas II, and the origins of fascism, but those are just some of the toppings on the party pizza of Norman Mailer's latest, "The Castle in the Forest," his fictionalized account of the family and youth of Adolf Hitler ... Issue number two is whether there was incest in Hitler's past and whether, as Mailer has Heinrich... (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
THE DEVIL MADE HIM DO IT Jan 22, 2007
" With its curious echoes of the opening of "Moby-Dick," this passage by Mailer's minor devil, in exile, he later explains, in the United States since the demise of the Third Reich (in which he was incarnated into the body of an SS officer serving under Heinrich Himmler), sets the tone for the rest of the novel's revelations, a mixture of awful biographical revelation about the Hitler family and dramatic philosophical declarations by our man with the metaphoric pitchfork. "I am ready to write... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Jan. 20, 1942: High-Tech Killing Jan 20, 2007
These camps, run by the SS under Heinrich Himmler, employed the most efficient technology available for accomplishing their task. Camps were situated near key railheads to facilitate the transportation of large numbers of people. (Wired News)
Read an excerpt Jan 15, 2007
Its classification was SS, Special Section IV-2a, and we were directly under the supervision of Heinrich Himmler ... Let me present Heinrich Himmler ... That is, all ranking government officials in the world except for our Heinrich Himmler. (USA Today -- Life)
As it Happened: The SS Struggle for Power Jan 4, 2007
Thereafter, Heinrich Himmler, a small, polite man who suffered headaches and was an unlikely devotee of mass murder, would nurture the SS and make it the embodiment of Nazi terror. This six-part series includes former SS officers speaking out for the first time. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
