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...Himmler is the creator and chief of the SS (the Schutzstaffel, or black-uniformed "Elite Guard"), as well as the infamous secret police, the Gestapo. He is also Reich Minister of the Interior, and Reich Minister of Home Defense. The Volkssturm and the Volksgrenadiere (TIME, Dec. 25) are his creations, and their members are under his control until committed to action. Although Goebbels holds the imposing title of Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort, in that role the little man is simply Himmler's assistant, a sort of glorified collector of old clothes, hardware and bric-a-brac...
Professional Tool. In contrast to some Nazis who have been addicts of drink, drugs, homosexuality or women, Himmler seems almost normal. He has never paid much visible attention to the neurotic mysticism of Hitler or to the abstruse ideologies of Rosenberg. Unlike the bestial Julius Streicher, he does not appear to delight in brutality for its own sake. He simply uses terror with absolute cold-bloodedness and efficiency as his main professional tool...
...Catholic schoolteacher, onetime student of agriculture, he joined the Nazis in time for the abortive Beer-Hall Putsch in 1923, and has since applied himself to furthering Heinrich Himmler's career. The fact that he has kept ten to twelve million foreign slaves at work in Germany is a testimonial to his police ability. His continued personal rise in the last five years shows his aptness for political intrigue...
...first into insanity, then into Scotland, now broods his life away as a British captive. Göring has receded into obscurity, although he is still titular chief of the Luftwaffe. Many Gauleiter who used to hang on Göring's coattails have switched their allegiance to Himmler. The Gestapoman showed his contempt for Göring by impressing large clumps of air-force personnel into the SS and Volksgrenadiere. Göring is said to have taken up his old drug habit once more...
...Himmler and Goebbels have reached a working agreement-superficially amiable -in which Goebbels is clearly subordinate. Presumably Goebbels wants to be on the winning side in case of an intraparty fracas; presumably Himmler needs Goebbels' propaganda talents. Goebbels' paper, Das Reich, is full of praise for Himmler...