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...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...
...Nazi Leaders, those indelibly stamped with the Party label-like Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Göring, Ribbentrop, Rosenberg and thousands of Nazis who hold cardinal state positions-these Germans know that perpetuation of the Nazi regime is, above all, a personal matter of life or death. They hope to consolidate their forces and successfully defend the Third Reich. They also hope, and they probably believe, that the Allies may weary, divide and make peace with a Nazi Germany...
...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...
...Himmler paraded through World War I and stayed sufficiently far from the bullets and mud. After the war he began to make his mark in Munich beer halls. He was not exactly a pimp. But he had addresses to give fat-necked provincial gentlemen on the prowl in Bavaria's capital...