Heinrich Himmler

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.

Known For

Nuremberg

Night and Fog

Days That Shook the World

Apocalypse: The Second World War

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour

Crusade in Europe

Wizards

Hitler's bodyguard

All Movies (39)

• Ghosts of Alderney: Hitler's Island Slaves2025 · as Self (archive footage)
• Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• The March on Rome2022 · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
• Belgique nazie2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth2020 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Stolen Children2020 · as Himself - Politician (archive footage)
• All Against All2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals2019 · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
• Hitler's Evil Science2019 · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
• Dawn of the Nazis2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hitler and the Apostles of Evil2015 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Decent One2014 · as Self (archive footage)
• Himmlerin kanteleensoittaja2014 · as Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS)
• The Nazi Gospels2012 · as Self (Archive)
• Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer2008 · as Self (archive footage)
• In Love with Adolf Hitler2007 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Private Voice of Hitler2006 · as Self (archive footage)
• Wie konnte es geschehen? - Teil 1: "Deutschland erwache..." (1914 - 1938)2006 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Saddam and the Third Reich2005 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Goebbels Experiment2005 · as Self (archival footage)
• I 600 giorni di Salò1991 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Opus pro smrtihlava1984 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hitler: A Career1977 · as Self (archive footage)
• Wizards1977 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Swastika1974 · as Self (archive footage)
• Portrait of Anton Adriaan Mussert1970 · as Self (archive footage)
• Triumph Over Violence1965 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Battle of France1964 · as Self (archive footage)
• Secrets of the Nazi Criminals1963 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• To Arms, We Are Fascists!1962 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Night and Fog1956 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• So war der deutsche Landser1955 · as Self (archive footage)
• Adolf Hitler - Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer: Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte1953 · as Self (archive footage)
• Distant Journey1949 · as Self - Politician (archive footage)
• Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today1948 · as Self
• Will It Happen Again?1948 · as Self (archive footage)
• Ich habe meine Pflicht getan1939 · as Self
• The Victory of Faith1933 · as Self
• Der Nürnberger Parteitag der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei1929 · as Self

All TV Shows (12)

• Apocalypse: The Fall of Hitler2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Greatest Events of World War II in Colour2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Загадки века с Сергеем Медведевым2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• Deutschlands große Clans2014 · as Self (archiveFootage)
• Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler2011 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hitler's bodyguard2010 · as Self (archive footage)
• Apocalypse: The Second World War2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• Eva Braun or the Banality of Evil2007 · as Self (archive footage)
• Days That Shook the World2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• Nuremberg2000 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• WWII: The Lost Color Archives2000 · as Self (archive footage)
• Crusade in Europe1949 · as Self (archive footage)