Heinrich Himmler Quotes
I did not feel justified in exterminating the Jewish men and leaving the women and children alive to avenge them.
See Talaat Bey {40621} for a similar twisted logic.
Heinrich Himmler, 1900-1945, Minister of Interior and Gestapo Chief, Nazi Germany, Statement at his Nuremberg trial, 1945
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Eichmann had been responsible for the logistics of murdering most of the over 6 million civilians in WWII. With the aid of pro Nazis in South America he had been hiding there from the allies and justice. Israeli agents located him, kidnapped him, and transported him to Israel where he was tried and hung for crimes against humanity.
Kaltenbrunner was one of the major war criminals declared guilty at the Nuremberg Trials and hanged. In this message he reported that he personally saw to the murder of Italian Jews and political prisoners in custody. As his defense, he claimed that he was just following orders, and he personally did not kill anyone.
He was shot in 1944 for his involvement in an attempt to kill Hitler
The non-violent resistance tactics of the White Rose were so threatening to the Nazi German regime that Sophia and other members were executed by guillotine beheading as a particularly harsh example. The graphic is a postage stamp that Germany has issued in her honor.
The Nazis and most of the Arabs were allies in WWII. The Jews of Palestine—although they were opposed to many of the British policies regarding Palestine—were active in the Allied cause contributing units to the British Army. Although the Germans were brutal to civilians, murdering millions, they refrained from public pronouncements or exhortations to kill civilians in most cases. The Arabs did not. The Mufti was actually given the rank of General in the Nazi SS and had his own SS unit. In this despicable exhortation he actually uses a concept and wording from the Koran. See {584355}. This quotation is important in that it refutes a common claim by some Palestinians that it was only the Germans who were responsible for the Holocaust and the post war Jewish Refugee problem and that the Palestinians had to bear the price rather than place Israel in Europe. This quotation and the other by the Grand Mufti prove that Palestinians were not only complicit in persecution of Jews but took a leadership and advocacy role.
Zangwill had been asked to be part of a team to assesses the accusations of pogroms against Jews in the Ukraine.
“Lebensraum” was a German expansionist concept of the time which has no good English translation. Literally, it means “living room”. The Germans had this notion that the German race and nation had to have more land to accommodate the growth of the German people. And because the Germans were a superior race, they were entitled to the land surrounding Germany in which to have Germans grow and thrive. The “inferior” peoples who lived on the land could be exterminated so that Germany would have this expansion room. The “Death’s Head units” were special German elite troops who used the Death’s Head as a symbol on their uniforms. Some of the Generals were concerned that the rest of the world would condemn Germany and possibly interfere if they exterminated the Poles. Hitler pointed to the example of the Turks who had killed most of the Armenians in the Armenian Genocide in the early 20th century. They got away with it with no outside interference, and there were no international consequences for Turkey. Hitler, convinced that the Armenian genocide was the precedent, thought Germany could easily get away with murdering the Gypsies, seriously handicapped, homosexuals, Russians, Poles and Jews. For other quotations on the Armenian Genocide, see {51838}, {638251}, {620602}, {620603}, {620604}, {620605}, {620600}, and {620606}
The assassination was attempted in 1944 and after its failure, he was shot be a firing squad.
Over the years Sherman’s advocacy of Indian extermination went beyond the Sioux to all Indians.
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), and a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of the Holocaust.
