Heinrich Himmler
Date of birth: 1900-10-07
Place of birth: Munich, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Гайнріх Гіммлер, Heinrich Luitpold 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.
Movie Credits
Night and Fog
1956-01-29
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Opus pro smrtihlava
1984-01-01
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
1962-04-25
Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
1948-11-21
How, in November 1945, after the end of the World War II and the fall of the Third Reich, the intern
The Victory of Faith
1933-12-01
Follows the Fifth Nazi Party Rally (Nuremberg, 30 August–3 September 1933) and shows the then close
The March on Rome
2022-10-20
The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922
Hitler: A Career
1977-07-08
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the T
Ich habe meine Pflicht getan
1939-01-01
Documentary film from a National Socialist perspective on the political development of Germany from
Der Nürnberger Parteitag der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei
1929-01-01
A film about the Nuremberg Party Congress of the NSDAP in 1929.
Belgique nazie
2021-12-10
The Battle of France
1964-06-03
A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.
The Private Voice of Hitler
2006-11-28
Everyone knows the public archive footage of Hitler. But most of it is silent. What was he saying? S
In Love with Adolf Hitler
2007-06-12
This film captures the affair, full of love, lust, and despair, between Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun,
Secrets of the Nazi Criminals
1963-02-25
Documents the major trial of the Nazi war criminals and the violent acts that they were accused of.
Himmlerin kanteleensoittaja
2014-01-30
"Himmlers Kantele Player" - about Finnish student, who decides to leave University of Sorbonne and
Dawn of the Nazis
2017-01-01
How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungr
Hitler's Evil Science
2019-05-25
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scienti
Wizards
1977-02-09
After the death of his mother, evil mutant wizard Blackwolf discovers long-lost military technologie
Will It Happen Again?
1948-05-15
An account of Adolf Hitler's rise and fall, his relationship with Eva Braun and their days of leisur
Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals
2019-08-31
September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these
The Decent One
2014-02-09
Through previously undiscovered private letters, photos and diaries that were found in the Himmler f
Adolf Hitler - Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer: Dokumente der Zeitgeschichte
1953-11-13
The film begins with the First World War and ends in 1945. Without exception, recordings from this p
Stolen Children
2020-03-11
June 1941, during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the mass abduction of partic
All Against All
2019-11-21
This richly illustrated historical documentary investigates the mechanism of nationalist feelings th
Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer
2008-01-01
Born into a Bavarian bourgeois family, Heinrich Himmler became the driving force behind the indescri
I 600 giorni di Salò
1991-11-19
the italian social republic was born in september 1943 after the armistice with the allies and the l
Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth
2020-10-22
Countless people around the world know the pictures from Leni Riefenstahl's films, even if they have
Distant Journey
1949-06-03
Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a C
Hitler and the Apostles of Evil
2015-01-20
This portrait that goes against the grain depicts the Führer as a lazy, isolated leader, cut off fro
Wie konnte es geschehen? - Teil 1: "Deutschland erwache..." (1914 - 1938)
2006-01-01
In 1945, 160 German cities lay in ruins and the loss of millions of lives, billions in material asse
Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate
2023-06-27
A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exp
The Nazi Gospels
2012-01-01
The religious roots of Nazi ideology and practice.
Triumph Over Violence
1965-12-31
Romm pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only in
Ghosts of Alderney: Hitler's Island Slaves
2025-10-24
Visual artist Piers Secunda seeks out Hitler's Island Slaves. Meeting families of survivors, Secunda
So war der deutsche Landser
1955-03-25
The Goebbels Experiment
2005-04-13
The Nazi propaganda mastermind behind Hitler speaks in first person as actor Kenneth Branagh reads p