Chief of the German Police and Minister of the Interior Heinrich Himmler, with his daughter Gudrun in Berlin on March 6, 1938.AP / AP Gudrun Burwitz, the true-believing daughter of Heinrich ...

After the plot failed, Heinrich Himmler and other Nazi leaders ordered the arrest and punishment of the conspirators’ families, regardless of their personal involvement or knowledge of the plot.

Hitler lost no time in rewarding the Hungarians: “Northern Yugoslavia was added to the lands returned to Hungary under the two Vienna awards and the occupation of Carpatho-Ruthenia,” writes Lebor.

Heinrich Himmler - who had been on the run with two SS henchmen after Germany's surrender to the Allies - was stopped by British troops in northern Germany on May 22, 1945.

Heinrich Himmler, the head of the vaunted SS and one of the chief architects of the holocaust against the Jews and anyone else who did not fit his vision of a pure Germany.

Hitler's last 10 days Secluded in his Berlin bunker since late March 1945, the Führer continued the war until April 22, when, for the first time, he conceded defeat. Adolf Hitler committed ...

Hitler died on this day in 1945, in the aftermath of World War II, in the most mooted way. With the Red Army just meters away, he committed suicide with his one-day wife. The Nazi Führer, who killed ...

He would remain Hitler's successor until his assassination in Czechoslovakia in 1942. In 1934, with Hitler already in power, he became Chief of Staff of the German North Sea Fleet. Hitler made him ...

He met with Hitler in 1934 to determine the details of the development of the "people's car", the Volkswagen. Thus, before the Second World War, the cult car was born, while during the war - when ...

In January 1941, Hitler permitted Himmler to begin recruiting Finns. Until recently, leading Finnish historians had argued that the volunteers were primarily non-politically minded boys of school age.