HEINRICH HIMMLER

INTERPRETATIOn

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

• Social - holocaust & antisemitism
• Political - third reich
• Economic - Twenty-five point Program (socialist)
• Military - world war i & ii

INFLUENCES ON LIFE

• Who? - hitler + Karl wiligut among other nazi leaders
• What? - German nationalist frat & nazi party & wwi & March beer hall putsch
• Why? - antisemitism & nazi party

SUCCESSES

• Killed over 6 million jews
• Struck fear in all
• Became a Reich leader (ss reichsführer)
• Created and led concentration system

FAILURES

• Forced to take a job at a manure processing factory
• Captured by Russians and turned over to the British
• Hitler

POV

• Negative
• Praising abilities, not actions
• Neo nazis

Insight

OUR POV

• Terrible person
• Selfish
• Coward

WHY dID HE DO IT?

• To rid the world of jews
• To make the world "More Pure"
• To control as much as possible

HIS IMPACT

• If not for him...
• Not as many Jews would have been killed
• Concentration camps would have not existed
• Nazi power would have not spread as far

WHAT WOULD HE THINK

• Would be disgusted with the tolerance
• Unhappy with the lack of nazi power

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"Gates To Hell - The Nazi Death Camps." Gates To Hell - The Nazi Death Camps. Accessed May 27, 2015