Buenos Aires, 24 February 2011 (Télam, by Alberto Galeano) .- When he was arrested by British troops, the Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler was no longer the half-sarcastic smile with which had become one of the main causes of the Holocaust.
Two days later, 23 May 1945, the head of the Gestapo (secret police) was put in the mouth a cyanide capsule before being reviewed by a British doctor, who noticed a strange object in your molars but could not prevent his death.
photography after his suicide came to light now in London and will be auctioned on 29 March in Bristol England, Dreweatt home.
Himmler had shaved his mustache, put a patch over one eye and submitted false documents that helped him anything to hide his true identity and flee from the allied forces that had occupied Berlin.
But despite his trickery, the British were that they were in the presence of the head of the powerful SS, the elite body that had sworn allegiance to Adolf Hitler, at a time of living the last days of World War II.
The photo, taken by out Guy Adderley, shows a bald man with glasses and hands placed on the abdomen, after being captured near Bremen.
The Latin American director of the Wiesenthal Center, Sergio Widder, told Telam that Himmler as commander of the SS was in charge of the liquidation of the Jews, and to control all the Nazi concentration camps (Auschwitz , Mauthausen, Majdanek, Treblinka, among others). "
"He was a convinced Nazi. Was responsible for investigating the foiled attack on Hitler, committed by Count Claus von Stauffenberg. His suicide was related to the fall of the Reich. The Nazis knew the world was going to complain about what they had done, "said Widder.
Born October 7, 1900 in Munich, Himmler was one of the most committed to the Nazi genocidal policy, since from the beginning was a man very close to Hitler.
In 1929 he was appointed Reichführer des Schutz-Staffel (SS), the elite bodyguard for Hitler, in order to expand the activities of this organization grew from 300 members to 50,000 in just three years.
In 1934, Himmler is appointed chief of the Gestapo, with which it plans to "Night of Long Knives" in which they are killed top leaders of the SA (an auxiliary of the National Socialist Party), which gives more power to SS take over security, intelligence and Nazi spy.
"He was the head of the organizations most bloodthirsty of the SS, a group composed of people of Aryan race that was required to swear allegiance to Hitler to give his life for him," said historian Abraham Telam Zilberman, adviser Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires.
"Himmler had one of the major responsibilities of destroying populations whole, made up of Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, Catholic priests, anyone who did not like the Nazis fell into the hands of these people and was deported to the extermination camps supervised by the SS "he said.
Zilberman also recalled that "it was an organization that did great business with German companies such as Siemens, Bayer, who used the prisoners as labor forces or as guinea pigs for medical experiments."
"Everything ran Himmler," he added.
late 1944 and early 1945, Himmler tried to negotiate the German surrender to Allied forces, for which he was accused of "treason" by Hitler in the days before the fall of Berlin.
"The head of the Gestapo was captured and committed suicide. Did not meet the commitments it made as a Nazi loyalty oath, "said Zilberman.
As Himmler's personality, the historian said it was an ordinary person with a family who participated in Nazi society.
"Very little is known about his private life was a farmer, raising chickens before joining the Nazis, and his veterinary degree. It was a character on the front row. There are not many documents bearing his signature. He was known more for its title-head of the SS, which by name " said.
Himmler was a strong man with a cold intelligence and analytical, methodical and accurate in his work, he wrote in 1939, the historian Philip St.C. Walton-Kerr.
"On the surface is dark, with a face and expressionless eyes, half-cynical smile of the kind that deserves the word sardonic. Does not come into action until it has reviewed and decided on its program to the last detail ... "he says.
The man who coordinated the slaughter of some six million Jews and between 200,000 and 500,000 Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and Communists, was buried in an unmarked grave in a forest near Lüneburg, Germany. (Télam) .-
Source: http://www.elcomercial.com.ar/index.php?option=com_telam&view=deauno&idnota=28841&Itemid=116
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