Himmler started his career in the Nazi party as secretary to Gregor Strasser and incidentally he finished Strasser's career like so many others by arranging his murder.
Never in the limelight, working secretly, unobtrusively, ruthlessly, he has raised himself to a position where he is indispensable both because of what he does and because of what he knows, Himmler was born in the Bavarian Alps and during the last war had an office job in the 11th Bavarian Infantry,' After the war he was in Munich and joined the Nazi party by way of the Free Corps when it started; then and there he hitched his wagon to Hitler's star.
Hitler formed the Schutzstaffel, the.S., in order to protect his meetings from being broken up by the Communists, Himmler organized them as a vote-getting machine too and later as the machine which-enabled Hitler
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