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Himmler

American

[him-ler, him-luhr] / ˈhɪm lər, ˈhɪm lər /

noun

Heinrich 1900–45, German Nazi leader and chief of the secret police.

Himmler British

/ ˈhɪmlər /

noun

Heinrich (ˈhainrɪç). 1900–45, German Nazi leader, head of the SS and the Gestapo (1936–45); committed suicide

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Himmler

Britton, assigned to search the barn where Himmler was hiding, discovers, and is allowed to keep, the madman’s slippers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Fromm covers much of this ground again, analyzing Heinrich Himmler and Josef Stalin as case studies of the sadist driven by the need to dominate.

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2024

Some 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau before Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS, ordered the camp closed and evacuated in January 1945 as the Soviet army rapidly advanced on it.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

And every other dish the Germans order sounds to him like Heinrich Himmler or Joseph Goebbels.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2021

According to Himmler, the teenagers said, “Swing Heil” instead of “Heil Hitler.”

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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