Reichsfuhrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, Minister of the Interior from 1943 to 1945 and organizer of the mass murder of Jews in the Third Reich, Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich on 7 October 1900. The son of a pious, authoritarian Roman Catholic schoolmaster who had once been tutor to the Bavarian Crown Prince, Himmler was educated at a secondary school in Landshut. He served as an officer cadet in the Eleventh Bavarian Regiment at the …showed first 75 words of 1929 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1929 total…is a page of glory in our history which has never been written and shall never be written. [Ed. Classified British intelligence documents released by London indicated Himmler sought to win asylum for himself and 200 leading Nazis in the final days of World War II by offering cash and the freedom of 3,500 Jews held in concentration camps. According to the documents, the concentration camp inmates were to be sent to Switzerland in two trainloads (JTA, 9/21/99).]