Alex’s Reviews > Heinrich Himmler > Status Update

"BAB, NS 19/397, cost-sheet for King Henry celebrations of 1942, 1943, and 1944; note by Brandt from 19 August 1944, who considered it more than questionable whether ‘the dignity of the King Henry celebrations and more particularly living conditions in the fifth year of war are compatible with the expenditure of 300 Reich marks on alcohol for a group of 21 people’."

"From March 1944 to April 1945 Himmler had a work detail of twenty prisoners carry out construction work on air-raid shelters on his property in Gmund. Margarete Himmler observed the progress of the work and complained about the prisoners’ poor performance; one of them died while at work."

"In his speech at the Reich Peasants’ Rally of 1935 Himmler had asserted that ‘our common and eternal enemy, the Jew’ was responsible for the violent Christianization of the Saxons, the Spanish Inquisition, the witch hunts, and the outbreak of the Thirty Years War (Schutzstaffel, 5)."

"161. ‘Das sind Staatsfeinde’, Das Schwarze Korps, 4 March 1937. See also: ‘Homosexualität und Kunst’ (11 March 1937), ‘Ächtung der Entarteten’ (1 April 1937), and ‘Was sage ich meinem Kinde?’ (15 April 1937), in which Himmler’s demand for a positive attitude towards the question of sexual relations between young people was addressed."

"According to official figures, the number of murders and cases of manslaughter declined by 46.2 per cent between 1932 and 1938, the number of cases of grievous bodily harm by 58.3 per cent, of serious cases of theft by 58.7 per cent, of blackmail by 39.6 per cent, of arson by 45.2 per cent, and of counterfeiting currency by 88.2 per cent (Deutsche Justiz, 101 [1939], 1476)."

"On 2 March 1922 he writes: ‘Had to drink a whole glass of beer in one go. Hugo, the new Senior, did not know that I had been given permission not to drink beer.’ On the following day he noted: ‘terrible stomach ache.’"

"A British Secret Service officer who questioned both of them [Himmlers wife and daughter] thought that no interrogation was necessary, as his impression was that Margarete’s life had remained relatively unaffected by her husband’s professional activities. He also attested that Himmler’s wife had retained a ‘small-town mentality’."

Goebbels:
"In the atmosphere surrounding Himmler there is something very nice, modest, and absolutely National Socialist, and this has an extraordinarily beneficial effect. One can only be thankful that, at least as far as Himmler is concerned, the old National Socialist spirit still prevails."