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 end of World War I, later obtaining a diploma in agriculture from Munich
Technical High School where he studied from 1918 to 1922.
After working briefly as a salesman for a firm of fertilizer manufacturers,
the young Himmler joined a para-military, nationalist organization and
participated in the Munich Beer-Hall putsch of November 1923 as
standard-bearer at the side of Ernst Rohm, Secretary to Gregor Strasser and
his deputy district leader in Bavaria, Swabia and the Palatinate, he was also
acting propaganda......

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