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Award-winning journalist on four continents for the past 43 years. Been a press officer for the City of Newark, NJ, for the past 23 years. Two obsessions in life beyond my family: Baseball and history. Live and die with the Yankees and San Francisco Giants. Father was a talented cartoonist and historian of American comic strips, daughter is a talented cartoonist and uses that ability in doing interactive computer books for kids at a publishing company in New York.
Heinrich Himmler….one of the most evil men in history. He said that it was permissible to practice genocide, but not for profit. His satraps profited anyway.
He was obsessed with the occult, sending people to Tibet to find the origins of the “Aryan race.” That obsession kept him socially apart from his master with the dust-bug mustache, who thought Himmler’s ideas were loony, even by Der Chef’s questionable standards.
Himmler tried to be a tough guy, but failed. The “Grand Inquisitor” nearly fainted at watching a mass execution in Ukraine. He competed in SS sports events, and the judges inflated his scores. He buried his chin in his hand in photographs, as it didn’t make him look fierce.
Ultimately, Himmler tried to save his own skin and Germany’s by bargaining his last prisoners to the Swedes in return for a surrender to Eisenhower (but not the Russians) and being kept in charge of Germany and its police force. Ike ignored the offer. Der Chef found out about it and fired “Der Treu Heinrich” three days before shooting himself.
Himmler shaved off his mustache, fled to Schleswig-Holstein, and offered his services to the new Fuehrer, Doenitz. The admiral waved Himmler away. Heinrich wandered around, and was captured by a British officer of Jewish descent. While being searched, Himmler bit down on his cyanide capsule, and died. Having spared the International War Crimes Tribunal one more case, the British buried the “Grand Inquisitor” in an unmarked grave.