Heinrich Himmler

Actor · 1900–1945 · Munich, Germany

Biography

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and later the Minister of the Interior, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo (Secret State Police). Serving as Reichsführer and later as Commander of the Replacement (Home) Army and General Plenipotentiary for the entire Reich's administration (Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung), Himmler rose to become one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany as well as one of the persons most directly responsible for the Holocaust. As overseer of the concentration camps, extermination camps, and Einsatzgruppen (literally: task forces, often used as killing squads), Himmler coordinated the killing of some six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Roma, many prisoners of war, and possibly another three to four million Poles, communists, or other groups whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live or simply "in the way", including homosexuals, people with physical and mental disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and members of the Confessing Church. Shortly before the end of the war, he offered to surrender both Germany and himself to the Western Allies if he were spared prosecution. After being arrested by British forces, he committed suicide before he could be questioned.

Appearances48

2020s

2025
Ghosts of Alderney: Hitler's Island Slaves
Self (archive footage)
Hitler's Cosmic Conspiracy: UFOs, Alien Artifacts and the Nazi War Machine
Self (archive footage)
2023
Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate
Self (archive footage)
78
Apocalypse: The Fall of Hitler
Self (archive footage) · 2 episodes
2022
The March on Rome
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2021
Belgique nazie
Self (archive footage)
2020
Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Stolen Children
Self (archive footage)

2010s

2019
All Against All
Self (archive footage)
Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
Self (archive footage) · 1 episode
85
Hitler's Evil Science
Self - Politician (archive footage)
2017
Dawn of the Nazis
Self (archive footage)
2016
Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым
Self (archive footage) · 2 episodes
2015
Hitler and the Apostles of Evil
Self (archive footage)
2014
The Decent One
Self (archive footage)
Himmlerin kanteleensoittaja
Self (archive footage)
2012
The Nazi Gospels
Self (archive footage)
2011
Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler
Self (archive footage) · 1 episode
2010
Hitler's bodyguard
Self (archive footage) · 13 episodes

2000s

2009
Apocalypse: The Second World War
Self (archive footage) · 6 episodes
88
2008
Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer
Self (archive footage)
2007
Eva Braun or the Banality of Evil
Self (archive footage) · 2 episodes
In Love with Adolf Hitler
Self (archive footage)
2006
The Private Voice of Hitler
Self (archive footage)
Wie konnte es geschehen? - Teil 1: "Deutschland erwache..." (1914 - 1938)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2005
Saddam and the Third Reich
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Goebbels Experiment
Self (archive footage)
2003
Days That Shook the World
Self (archive footage) · 1 episode
2000
WWII: The Lost Color Archives
Self (archive footage) · 4 episodes