Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1900-10-07
Day of Death
1945-05-23
Place of Birth
Munich, Germany
Heinrich Himmler
Biography
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and later the Minister of the Interior, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). Serving as Reichsführer and later as Commander of the Replacement (Home) Army and General Plenipotentiary for the entire Reich's administration (Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung), Himmler rose to become one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany as well as one of the persons most directly responsible for the Holocaust. As overseer of the concentration camps, extermination camps, and Einsatzgruppen (literally: task forces, often used as killing squads), Himmler coordinated the killing of some six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma, many prisoners of war, and possibly another three to four million Poles, communists, or other groups whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live or simply "in the way", including homosexuals, people with physical and mental disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and members of the Confessing Church. Shortly before the end of the war, he offered to surrender both Germany and himself to the Western Allies if he were spared prosecution. After being arrested by British forces, he committed suicide before he could be questioned.
Filmography (38)
Ghosts of Alderney: Hitler's Island Slaves
2025
Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate
2023
The March on Rome
2022
Belgique nazie
2021
Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth
2020
Stolen Children
2020
All Against All
2019
Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals
2019
Hitler's Evil Science
2019
Dawn of the Nazis
2017
Hitler and the Apostles of Evil
2015
The Decent One
2014
Himmlerin kanteleensoittaja
2014
The Nazi Gospels
2012
