It would be easy to cast all blame for the holocaust on one man, Adolf Hitler; the leader of Nazi Germany and the man whose face has now come to personify true evil. However, no one man could truly ...

The World War II extermination of Europe's Jews by Nazi Germany began after the invasion of Poland in 1939 and increased in scale with the creation of death camps.

Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground- breaking study, an easy man to underestimate—short, pudgy, near-sighted, chinless. Yet Himmler holds a peculiarly memorable place in ...

The Nazis called it the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question ... The leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, and his deputy Reinhard Heydrich, introduced the gas chambers in 1941, an extermination ...

The Nazis called it the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" and killed six million Jews from across Europe -- more than a third of the world's Jewish population at the time. A religious Jewish ...

Though the Final Solution was ideologically motivated ... from dollars to the English pound." In July 1942 Heinrich Himmler again visited Auschwitz. There were approximately 30,000 inmates ...

the "The Decent One" exposes a unique and at times uncomfortable access to the life and mind of the merciless "Architect of the Final Solution" Heinrich Himmler.

The Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was liberated 80 years ago, is an enduring symbol of the Holocaust. Part of German dictator Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" plan for the genocide of ...

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler (right ... in charge and Adolf Eichmann taking the minutes, the Nazis’ “Final Solution” was articulated: All Jews under Nazi control were to die.