"Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life."
-Heinrich Himmler
-Heinrich Himmler
Himmler took this opportunity to do what he had always wanted to do and fight for and work with his nation. He was getting angry at his political opponents, so he came up with the idea of the work camps. The first one was in Dachau.
"I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere."
-Heinrich Himmler
-Heinrich Himmler
Dachau
"It [Dachau] was a abandoned munitions factory and Heinrich Himmler decided in March 1923 to convert this site into a work camp."
-Professor Steven Rimming
Dachau was maintained by the S.S. Dachau was filled with around 200 political prisoners. This work camp had eleven barrack buildings, was surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and there were three guard towers.
"Himmler decides to use Dachau to accomplish his next goal, he wants to expand the S.S. into an organization that polices the entire German nation."
-The Narrator of "Nazi Mega Weapons-The S.S."
Himmler then realizes that these political prisoners can be used to construct more camps.
-Professor Steven Rimming
Dachau was maintained by the S.S. Dachau was filled with around 200 political prisoners. This work camp had eleven barrack buildings, was surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and there were three guard towers.
"Himmler decides to use Dachau to accomplish his next goal, he wants to expand the S.S. into an organization that polices the entire German nation."
-The Narrator of "Nazi Mega Weapons-The S.S."
Himmler then realizes that these political prisoners can be used to construct more camps.
"It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case."
-Heinrich Himmler
-Heinrich Himmler
Night of the Long Knives
"Himmler plots to engineer the downfall of the S.A. and its leader, Ernst Rohm."
-The Narrator of "Nazi Mega Weapons-The S.S.
"Himmler is facing a problem in the S.A. which is very much thriving. And suddenly there is a power struggle emerging and Himmler simply can not tolerate it. Himmler's solution to this is basically to eradicate the S.A. leadership."
-James Holland, Historian
"To get the fuhrer on his side, Himmler fabricates compelling evidence that Rohm has been planning to overthrow Hitler. In an event called "The Night of the Long Knives," hundreds are rounded up and taken into custody. Hitler personally sees that Rohm is taken under arrest and handed over to the S.S."
-The Narrator of "Nazi Mega Weapons-The S.S."
"Himmler slowly but surely convinces Hitler that he can't have him languishing in a prison cell. As for any motive or rallying point for any radicals or discontented people and eventually Hitler is persuaded."
-James Holland, Historian
"Two days after Rohm's arrest, Himmler calls on his most loyal stooge, Theodore Eicke."
-The Narrator of "Nazi Mega Weapons-The S.S.
"Rohm is given a pistol with a singal bullet in it and is told to do the decent thing and shoot himself and end his life. When they go back in ten minutes later, they see that Rohm had not moved a single muscle, [and he was murdered]."
-James Holland, Historian
-The Narrator of "Nazi Mega Weapons-The S.S.
"Himmler is facing a problem in the S.A. which is very much thriving. And suddenly there is a power struggle emerging and Himmler simply can not tolerate it. Himmler's solution to this is basically to eradicate the S.A. leadership."
-James Holland, Historian
"To get the fuhrer on his side, Himmler fabricates compelling evidence that Rohm has been planning to overthrow Hitler. In an event called "The Night of the Long Knives," hundreds are rounded up and taken into custody. Hitler personally sees that Rohm is taken under arrest and handed over to the S.S."
-The Narrator of "Nazi Mega Weapons-The S.S."
"Himmler slowly but surely convinces Hitler that he can't have him languishing in a prison cell. As for any motive or rallying point for any radicals or discontented people and eventually Hitler is persuaded."
-James Holland, Historian
"Two days after Rohm's arrest, Himmler calls on his most loyal stooge, Theodore Eicke."
-The Narrator of "Nazi Mega Weapons-The S.S.
"Rohm is given a pistol with a singal bullet in it and is told to do the decent thing and shoot himself and end his life. When they go back in ten minutes later, they see that Rohm had not moved a single muscle, [and he was murdered]."
-James Holland, Historian
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