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Heinrich Himmler / Peter Longerich ; translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe.

by Longerich, Peter.

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Oxford University Press, 2012.

Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945.

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel.

Nazis -- Germany -- Biography.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.

xviii, 1031 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Translation of: Heinrich Himmler : Biographie.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [749]-991) and index.

Himmler's early years. Childhood and youth ; The student of agriculture ; Struggle and renunciation ; A new start in Lower Bavaria ; The Party functionary ; Reichsführer-SS -- Inside the Third Reich. The takeover of the political police ; From Inspector of the Prussian Gestapo to Chief of the German Police ; The State Protection Corps -- The Order. Ideology and religious cult ; Himmler's leadership style ; Himmler as educator ; The SS family -- Into war : ambition and disappointment. War preparations and expansion ; War and settlement in Poland ; A new racial order ; Repression in the Reich ; Shifting borders : The year 1940 -- The greater Germanic Reich : living-space and ethnic murder. An ideological war of annihilation ; From mass murder to the 'Final Solution' ; The murder of the European Jews ; Settlement policy and racial selection ; The 'Iron law of ethnicity' : recruitment into the Waffen-SS ; A Europe-wide reign of terror -- Downfall in stages ; A turn in the war : a new opportunity? ; Collapse.

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