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| 1900 | Birth |  |
| 7th Oct Munich Birth of Heinrich Himmler, near Munich, son of a Schoolmaster
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| 1923 | Munich Beer Hall Putsch | |
| 9th Nov Munich Arrives to take over the War Ministry but cannot gain entrance
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| 9th Nov Munich Marches alongside Ernst Rohm who the SS would later execute
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| 1923 | NSDAP | |
| Appointed Member of the NSDAP
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| 1925 | Gauleiter | |
| Bavaria Appointed Gauleiter of Lower Bavaria
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| 1925 | Leader Propaganda Himmler | |
| Appointed Propaganda Leader of the Nazis
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| 1929 | Reichfuehrer | |
| 6th Jan Appointed by Hitler to build up a personal bodyguard
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| 6th Jan Appointed Reichshuhrer of the SS, it numbers 200 men
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| 1933 | Chief of Police | |
| Munich Appointed Chief of the Munich Police
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| 1933 | Dachau | |
| 22nd Mar Dachau Opens Dachau Concentration Camp for communists & other "political undesireables"
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| 1934 | Asst Chief Gestapo | |
| Appointed Assistant Chief of the Gestapo
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| 1934 | Commander | |
| Berlin Appointed Commander of the Prussian Secret Police
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| 1934 | Gestapo | |
| Appointed Assistant Chief of the Gestapo
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| 1934 | Purge | |
| 29th June Informs Hitler that the SA are planning a coup d'Etat the following afternoon
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| 30th June Berlin Goering & Himmler organize the arrest of the SA in Berlin
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| 1934 | Reform | |
| 20th April Berlin Goering hands over the Gestapo to Himmler
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| 20th April Berlin Himmler has control over the SS, Gestapo (political police) & SD (secret police)
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| 1936 | Gestapo | |
| 17th July Siezes control of the Gestapo
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| 1936 | Reform | |
| 17th June Himmler merges the control of the police & the SS
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| 17th June Hitler places the control of the police forces under Himmler
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| 1940 | Rule of Poland | |
| Issues a directive to breakup what remains of Poland & its races
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| 1941 | Reform | |
| 3rd Mar Given plenipotentiary powers covering all police actions in occupied territory
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| 13th Mar Given power to act independently & have jurisdiction over the Army Chiefs of Staff
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| 1943 | Concentration Camps | |
| 13th July Appointed Head of concentration camps
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| 1943 | Conference of Posen | |
| 6th Oct In Heinrich Himmler's speech at the Posen Conference Himmler, for the first time, clearly elucidated to all assembled leaders of the Reich, in frank and brutal terms, what the "Final Solution" referred to
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| 1943 | Dachau | |
| Dachau Tells the press Dachau will hold 5,000 because the judicial system cannot cope
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| 22nd Mar Dachau Announces the creation of Dachau near Munich
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| 1943 | Exile | |
| April Surrounds the Hungarian capital with Einsatzgruppen to deport 800,000 Jews
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| 1943 | Final Solution | |
| 6th Oct In Heinrich Himmler's speech at the Posen Conference Himmler, for the first time, clearly elucidated to all assembled leaders of the Reich, in frank and brutal terms, what the "Final Solution" referred to
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| 1943 | Invention V2 Rocket | |
| 22nd Aug Harz Mountains Proposes to setup a secret underground camp in the Harz Mountains to produce V2s
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| 1943 | Minister | |
| Appointed Minister of the Interior
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| 13th July Placed in charge of the concentration camps
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| 1944 | Battle of Aachen | |
| 21st Oct Aachen Attempts to hold the German line to the Swiss border
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| 1945 | Arrest | |
| 25th May Arrested by British troops
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| 1945 | Death | |
| 27th May Commits suicide
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