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...judicious combination of blackmail, privilege and loot, Himmler has gathered a fortune. By 1940 he had invested no less than $2,200,000 in South American countries, the Syrian carpet trade, Finland's pulp industry, life-insurance policies...
...head of the German A.R.P., Himmler must maintain law & order through hell and high bombing. As Gestapo Chief, Himmler's authority has expanded over a territory eight times the size of the original Germany he was charged with policing in 1936. As policemen of Nazi Europe, Himmler and his trained Gestapo animals have organized a program of extermination without parallel...
...this calculated mass murder, Himmler has two motives: 1) he knows that the dead do not revolt; 2) he believes that if non-German nations in Europe are sufficiently depopulated, they will be too weak in the future to block German expansion and German domination. About 10,000,000 European civilians have been killed, including an estimated 5,000,000 in Russia, 3,200,000 in Poland, 800,000 in Yugoslavia. And by Himmler's command, other millions of Europeans have been uprooted, confined and starved, forced into labor for Germany...
...Blackshirts. In his SS, Himmler has 600,000 troops and about 20 air squadrons, magnificently equipped, passionately devoted to him and their mission. A few of these divisions have been used as shock troops by Wehrmacht generals who despise and fear the SS. Some have been almost entirely wiped...
...Himmler has managed to keep most of his SS divisions on the home front. In all cities the SS occupies strategic buildings. They have been fortified and stocked with ample supplies of arms, munitions and food. If the Blackshirts should be called by Himmler to suppress a people's rebellion, or an Army Putsch, they would gladly give their lives in fulfillment of their beloved "Nibelungenlied," which ends by the glorification of final destruction...