Heinrich Himmler - Founder of the Nazi Concentration Camps (Biography)

Heinrich Himmler - Founder of the Nazi Concentration Camps is the biography of Heinrich Himmler, a commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS), as well as one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. As Reichsführer-SS he controlled the SS, and to a degree, all the German police and security forces (including the infamous Gestapo). As founder and officer-in-charge of the Nazi concentration camps and the Einsatzgruppen death squads so well-known for their notoriety, Himmler held final command responsibility for annihilation of Jews and other groups whom the Nazis deemed unworthy to live, including gypsies, homosexuals, short people, and people with physical and mental disabilities. Shortly before the end of the war, he offered to surrender all of Germany to the Allies if he was spared from prosecution as a Nazi leader. He was arrested by British forces shortly after the end of the European war, and committed suicide with cyanide just after his arrest. Heinrich Himmler - Founder of the Nazi Concentration Camps is highly recommended for those interested in reading more about this notorious Nazi.