Himmler - The Pan / Ballantine Illustrated History of World War II

War Leader Book No. 10

Hitler was surrounded by sycophants and toadies, men who competed for shares in the spoils of power. Göring, Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler stood out among this new German aristocracy, and of the three it was Himmler, the obsessive gatherer and filer of information, who eventually came to wield most real power. As head of the Gestapo and the concentration camps it was he who organized the extermination of more than 10,000,000 people...