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None paid closer heed than soft-faced, whip-lipped Heinrich Himmler (TIME, Oct. 18). As the Minister of Interior, appointed less than three months ago (see cut), he stood alert to nip the rise of "any traitor chief...
...Hitler's state, Army, Junkers and Business got most of what they wanted. They were not concerned with the public trappings of political power, and most Government posts went to the middle-class Nazi rank-&-filers. It was out of that twisted class of beaten nobodies that Heinrich Himmler had come: his life and struggles show where Nazis come from and where they can come from again. And in the fifth year of World War II, his life had more than sociological importance: he had clawed his way up beside Hitler atop the Nazi muckpile. He is, with Hitler...
Beginnings. Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich in 1900, the son of a Catholic schoolteacher. At 15, Heinrich orated with high-pitched spirit against Social Democrats and Communists, and the schoolmaster of his Gymnasium told him: "You should be a Government Minister." His father told him that he was a potential criminal...
...completely suspended on Aug. 1; the coal ration this year will be 70% of the 1941 allowance-and in that winter city-dwellers wore overcoats in their homes and there was hot water just one day each week. It was in these circumstances that Hitler, on Aug. 25, appointed Heinrich Himmler Minister of the Interior, with full powers over the home front. Soon trials and executions of "defeatists" began. Himmler had to warn Party members that they would henceforth wear their Party badges or go to concentration camps. A Gestapo "observer" was assigned to every German regiment...
Propagandist Goebbels' words had long since failed. When heads fall, it will not be Goebbels who cuts them off. Until his own head falls, it will be Heinrich Himmler who swings...