It is notable that Himmler appears to have played little part in the decisions of these fateful days.[20] Göring, von Ribbentrop, von Weizsäcker of the Foreign Ministry, Keitel, Bormann had been at Hitler’s side; Goebbels had whipped up the press against the Poles. Himmler had remained working feverishly in Berlin, co-ordinating his Verfügungstruppe and reinforced Totenkopf battalions and SD–Security Police Einsatzkommandos with the Army command. If he exercised the malign influence on the Führer attributed to him by Goerdeler and others of the opposition, it does not seem to have amounted to
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