Heinrich Himmler is one of the protagonists of The Wallenberg Dossier. He is actually the official that orders to open a Dossier regarding Wallenberg and give Eichmann the responsibility of collecting intelligence around Wallenberg.
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, Protection Squadron of the SS, and a leader of the Nazi Party of Germany. Himmler had enormous power in the Nazi Germany and was a major organizer of the Holocaust.
Himmler studied agronomy in university and joined the Nazi Party in 1923 and then the SS in 1925. He was appointed Reichsführer-SS by Adolf Hitler in 1929 and moved forward to develop the SS from a simple battalion of a few hundred soldiers to the powerful Protection Squadron controlling the Nazi party. He then dedicated to the planning and development of concentration camps. His main skills were loyalty, organizational skills, ability to choose his collaborators
From 1943 he became Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo, Secret State Police. He also controlled the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the SS. Himmler was attracted by occultism and Völkisch aspects, he promoted esoteric rituals into the SS.
Himmler formed the Einsatzgruppen and built extermination camps. As overseer of the Nazi genocidal programs, Himmler directed the killing of some six million Jews, between 200,000 and 500,000 Romani people, and other victims. The total number of civilians killed by the regime is estimated at eleven to fourteen million people.
Towards the end of World War II Hitler appointed Himmler a military commander and Commander of the Replacement Army and General Plenipotentiary for the administration of the entire Third Reich, Generalbevollmächtigter für die Verwaltung. He became commander of the Army Group Upper Rhine and the Army Group Vistula. Himmler attempted to open peace talks with the western Allies without Hitler’s knowledge when he realized that Germany was loosing the war. Hitler dismissed him from all his posts in April 1945 and ordered his arrest. Himmler attempted to hide, but was arrested by British forces. He committed suicide on 23 May 1945.
