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Heinrich Himmler

Germanyb. 7 October 1900 · d. 23 May 1945Add to favourites

Reichsführer-SS from January 1929 until 1945 and one of the main architects of the Holocaust, who ran the concentration and extermination camps and the Einsatzgruppen death squads. In late 1944 he was given command of Army Group Upper Rhine. In March 1945 he secretly explored peace talks with the Western Allies, and Hitler dismissed him from all posts on 28 April 1945 and ordered his arrest. He died by suicide with cyanide on 23 May 1945 in British custody at Lüneburg.