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Heinrich Himmler
He was a failed chicken farmer who became the most feared man in Nazi Germany — running the SS, the Gestapo, and the machinery of the Holocaust with the orderliness of a bureaucrat.
1900–1945
Life Journey
Power, control and the machinery of terror
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1900
Structured upbringing
Heinrich Himmler was born in Germany into a disciplined, middle-class family, shaping his early attraction to order, hierarchy, and authority.