Heinrich Himmler Quotes

“As a supporter of a ‘German Socialism’, Strasser advocated views different from those of Hitler, particularly on social and economic issues. He demanded the ‘nationalization’ of land and of the means of production, and within the NSDAP represented a decidedly anti-capitalist stance.”
― Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler: A Life

“Germanic mythology, reinforced by all sorts of occult ideas, evidently became for him a kind of substitute religion.”
― Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler: A Life

“He was not one of those Nazi supporters who were attracted by the ‘Führer’s’ charisma; instead, he became politically involved primarily in the context of the general preparations for a putsch that were being carried out by right-wing paramilitary organizations in the years 1922/3. If he had a political hero at this time it was Röhm, not Hitler.”
― Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler: A Life

“He distanced himself more and more from Roman Catholicism. Instead, he became increasingly preoccupied with works that, in his view, dealt with occult phenomena in a serious ‘scholarly’ way; for example, a book about ‘Astrology, Hypnosis, Spiritualism, Telepathy’,33 topics which, at the peak of the inflation and during the subsequent period of upheaval, were generally in vogue.34 In 1925 he was to read a book about the power of pendulums,35 and in the same year he approached an astrologer with a request for four horoscopes.36 He was impressed by an account of the Pyramid of Cheops—‘history built and written in stone and a representation of the universe, which a genius has written in the form of this pyramid’—since it showed ‘a range of knowledge that we conceited people of culture have long ago lost and even now have not recovered to the same extent’.37 During January and February 1923 he read a book on Spiritualism, and commented in his notes that it had convinced him that Spiritualism was true. Thus, Himmler assumed that it was possible to communicate with the souls of the dead.38 Already, in May 1921, he had read a book twice within a short time which claimed to prove there was life after death; despite being somewhat sceptical, he was inclined to believe the evidence put forward. ‘The transmigration of souls’, he noted at the end of his commentary on it.39 It was a topic that was also to preoccupy him after he became Reichsführer-SS (RFSS).”
― Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler: A Life

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― Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler: A Life

“entry into the old imperial castle of Prague, the Hradschin. He described it as follows: ‘The Führer went into a barely furnished room, turned to your father, and embraced him, delighted that it had been granted to him to”
― Peter Longerich, Heinrich Himmler: A Life