Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror ...

In 1933, the Dachau camp was commissioned by Heinrich Himmler as the first concentration camp in Germany. In the beginning, mainly political prisoners were imprisoned in Dachau Concentration Camp.

Heinrich Himmler, Commander of the SS ... the camp would be a backwater no longer, but the biggest concentration camp in the Nazi state. But as Höss witnessed, the local Nazi leader had problems ...

Heinrich Himmler ... Military Intelligence Museum Himmler's documents, complete with false name and stamp Next morning, the three men were taken to a detention camp. Once there, Hizinger asked ...

German industrialists from many of Germany’s biggest businesses met with Heinrich Himmler once a month to discuss how they could best work with those running the camps. Himmler was one of the most ...

A 67-year-old former policeman in the Chelmno concentration camp in Nazi-occupied ... 1942 from the sectional Gestapo leader to Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler, which read: “The special treatment ...

Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich ... Yet Himmler holds a peculiarly memorable place in the roster of Nazi war criminals: he was the man most closely associated with the creation and operation of the ...

(JTA) — Many are familiar with the names of the larger Nazi concentration camps like ... The other was a letter from Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler to the camp commander ordering “no surrender ...