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To: Puppage
Himmler, who shot himself (after poisoning his 6 young children)

Maybe Goebbels, the guy from Berlin. He would have been Reichsfuerer if Hitler hadn't come along. Himmler was assasinated by partisans.

165 posted on 06/30/2004 9:30:43 AM PDT by RightWhale (Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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To: RightWhale
Himmler was assasinated by partisans

No, that was Heydrich. Killed by British trained Czechs. In reprisal, the Nazis killed all the men of Lidice.

166 posted on 06/30/2004 9:41:07 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: RightWhale
Maybe Goebbels, the guy from Berlin.

Correct. He was the Propaganda Minister- Hitler's Michael Moore

He would have been Reichsfuerer if Hitler hadn't come along.

Heinrich Himmler *was* the Reichsfuhrer, and commanded the SS. Hitler was just 'Fuehrer'.

Himmler was assasinated by partisans.

You're thinking of Reinhard Heydrich, every bit the poisonous little cuss that Hitler and Himmler were. He was assassinated by Czech Partisans and British operatives, IIRC. The town of Lidice was obliterated along with its population in reprisal.
Himmler, after ineptly attempting to command the Waffen SS himself, was captured by the British Army. He had a Cyanide capsule secreted on his person, which he used. I seem to remember seeing a post-mortem photograph of him, he was incongrously dressed in sterile British battledress. Looked kind of odd.

/History Geek Mode

197 posted on 06/30/2004 4:57:34 PM PDT by Riley (Need an experienced computer tech in the DC Metro area? I'm looking. Freepmail for details.)
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