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Holocaust Historical Society. Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich on 7 October He was 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 the First World War, later obtaining a diploma in agriculture from Munich Technical High School where he studied from to After working briefly as a salesman for a firm of fertilizer manufactures, the young Himmler joined a para- military, nationalist organisation and participated in the Munich Beer- Hall putsch of November as standard- bearer at the side of Ernst Rohm.

Himmler served as secretary to Gregor Strasser and was his deputy district leader in Bavaria, Swabia, and the Palatinate and he was also acting propaganda leader of the Nazi Party from to After marrying in , Himmler returned to poultry farming for a time but was singularly unsuccessful in the business of raising chickens. These two men ensured that the Nazis ensured that the Nazis consolidated their power within Bavaria in In March Himmler was appointed Munich Police President and shortly afterwards he became Commander of the political police throughout Bavaria.

In September he was appointed Commander of all political police units outside Prussia and, though formally under Hermann Goering, became head of the Prussian Police and Gestapo on 20 April The turning- point in Himmler's career was his masterminding of the purge of 30 June which broke the power of the SA and paved the way for the emergence of the SS as an independent organisation responsible for safeguarding the embodiment of the National Socialist idea and translating the racial goals from theory into brutal practice.

Himmler was a very able organizer and administrator, meticulous, calculating and efficient and he possessed an amazing capacity for work and lust for power, manifested itself in his accumulation of official posts and his role in the development of organized State terrorism against all opponents of the Third Reich.

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In he had established the first concentration camp in Dachau, near Munich and in the next few years, with Hitler's encouragement greatly extended the range of persons who qualified for internment in the camps. Himmler's philosophical mysticism, his cranky obsession with mesmerism, the occult, herbal remedies and homeopathy went hand in hand with a narrow- minded fanatical racialism and commitment to the ' Aryan ' myth.

By the end of the 's the possibility of forging the Greater Germanic Reich of the future came close to realization as Himmler reached the peak of his power.