Word: heinrichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conditional peace with any Wehrmacht generals' regime that kicks out the top Nazis. To many a Wehrmacht general the Russian offer makes sense.* But it can be accepted only by an Army revolt. Hitler's strongest man in the way of such an anti-Nazi Putsch is Heinrich Himmler -supreme boss of the German home front; commander of 600,000 splendidly trained and well-armed SS youths, supersaturated with Naziism, mostly stationed on the home front...
...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...
Next morning, with Germany seething with rumors of unrest, there was still bigger news. All German home affairs were placed under Gestapo rule as Heinrich Himmler, dread head of the Nazi secret service, was named Minister of the Interior and "Chief of the Reich Administration...
...Including: Erich Weinert, anti-Nazi poet (President); Major Karl Hetz (first Vice President); Lieut. Count Heinrich von Einsiedel, great grandson of Bismarck (second Vice President); Wilhelm Pieck, onetime leader of the Communist bloc in the Reichstag, 29 other less important Germans...
Stockholm also reported that in bomb-shambled Hamburg demonstrators demanded an immediate end to the war and an active struggle against Hitler. Many local Gauleiter had fled; those who remained were unable to cope with the situation. Late in the week Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler arrived to supervise restoration of order in the least Nazi of German cities...