Essay outline: I am going to talk about why Himmler was responsible for the Holocaust, in my subtopics I am going to discuss motive, possibility and the actual work Himmler had done for the Holocaust.
The Holocaust
The holocaust was one of the largest and calculatedly planned genocides of history. It was the mass murder of almost six million jews as well as members of some other oppressed groups. Behind it all, as we are taught throughout primary and middle school and can read of in many text books, was a man called Adolf Hitler. Yes, he was the leader of the Third Reich and was the Führer, but he is not the sole executive of all those unfortunate events. Hitlers most important assistant Heinrich Himmler has a big responsibility when speaking
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Heinrich Himmler: The Nazi Leader’s Master Plan. Last visited 2016. http://www.historynet.com/heinrich-himmler-the-nazi -leaders- master -plan.htm). In addition to this he was extremely loyal to Hitler, in such a manner, that he had once written his wife, if Hitler were to order him to shoot his mother, he would. (Isabel Kershner (2014). Himmler Papers Shed Light on Personal Life of a Nazi. Last visited 2016. http://www.nytimes. com/2014/01/27/world/europe/ heinrich-himmler- documents-published.html?_r=0 ). There is no data that Hitler ever odrered for such a thing, but he did ask something else from Himmler: “a Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (Heinrich Himmler. Last visited 2015-17.http://www. deathcamps. info/Nazis/page_2.htm ). Himmler was taking actions for the prosperity of the Holocaust. In 1933-1934 Himmler gained control over the “centralized concentration system”. Having planned and established the first consetration camp of its kind- Dachau, Hitler gave permission to Himmler to create a “cantralized concentration camp system” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Heinrich Himmler. Last visited 2016. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007407). This system, becoming wider during war and utlimately having 30-40 camps, would begin the mass murder of persecuted groups. He also came up with the rating arrangement for the re-birthof the “primeval master race” among the SS men who were now the “aristocracy of the Third