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German Newspaper Publishes Top Nazi's Letters (Audio of Himmler Speech Glorifying Holocaust)
AP Via Yahoo News ^ | KIRSTEN GRIESHABER

Posted on 01/26/2014 1:21:54 PM PST by lbryce

One black-and white photo shows Heinrich Himmler on an idyllic family outing, holding his wife's hand while his blond, pigtailed daughter is picking flowers. Others show the SS Nazi leader feeding a little fawn or taking a bath at Lake Tegernsee near his home in Bavaria.

The family-friendly, intimate scenes are part of a previously unseen collection of photos, recipe books and about 700 letters and notes believed to be written by Himmler, one of the Nazis most responsible for the Holocaust.

Excerpts from the collection appeared in seven full pages of the German paper Welt am Sonntag on Sunday. They contain large-sized images of Himmler surrounded by his family and excerpts from his love letters to wife Marga, calling her "my sweet, beloved little woman."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bavaria; germany; gestapo; heinrichhimmler; himmler; holocaust; laketegernsee; nazi; theholocaust; weltamsonntag; worldwareleven; wwii
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Himmler was one of the worst genocidal murderers in history. A chicken farmer by trade, the rise of Hitler and breaking out of WW2 catapaulted Himmler into one of history's most fearsome, feared criminals.

Here below you can hear the audio of Himmler's speech discussing the glorious deed that was the Holocaust.

Text in English is available below.

Posen speech
Main article: Posen speeches

"Die Ausrottung des jüdischen Volkes"

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An excerpt from the Posen speeches where Himmler discusses the on-going extermination of the Jews.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Himmler_Posen_Speech_-_Extermination_of_the_Jews_excerpt,_Oct_4,_1943.ogg

Audio Link of Himmler's Speech on Facilitation of the Holocaust

On 4 October 1943, during a secret meeting with top SS officials in the city of Posen and on 6 October 1943, in a speech to the party elite—the Gau and Reich leaders—Himmler referred explicitly to the "extermination"

I also want to refer here very frankly to a very difficult matter. We can now very openly talk about this among ourselves, and yet we will never discuss this publicly. Just as we did not hesitate on 30 June 1934, to perform our duty as ordered and put comrades who had failed up against the wall and execute them, we also never spoke about it, nor will we ever speak about it. Let us thank God that we had within us enough self-evident fortitude never to discuss it among us, and we never talked about it. Every one of us was horrified, and yet every one clearly understood that we would do it next time, when the order is given and when it becomes necessary.

I am now referring to the evacuation of the Jews, to the extermination of the Jewish People. This is something that is easily said: 'The Jewish People will be exterminated', says every party member, 'this is very obvious, it is in our program — elimination of the Jews, extermination, a small matter.' And then they turn up, the upstanding 80 million Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. They say the others are all swines, but this particular one is a splendid Jew. But none has observed it, endured it. Most of you here know what it means when 100 corpses lie next to each other, when there are 500 or when there are 1,000. To have endured this and at the same time to have remained a decent person — with exceptions due to human weaknesses — has made us tough, and is a glorious chapter that has not and will not be spoken of. Because we know how difficult it would be for us if we still had Jews as secret saboteurs, agitators and rabble-rousers in every city, what with the bombings, with the burden and with the hardships of the war. If the Jews were still part of the German nation, we would most likely arrive now at the state we were at in 1916 and 17 ... [135][136]

Hitler's motivation for authorising Himmler's speeches was to ensure that all party leaders were made aware of these plans and actions. Thus, it would be impossible for them to later deny knowledge of the killings. Because the Allies had indicated that they were going to pursue criminal charges for German war crimes, Hitler tried to gain the loyalty and silence of his subordinates by making them all parties to the planned genocide.

Heinrich Himmler one of history's most fearsome, feared criminals, having facilitated one of the worst genocides in history.

Compare the two images, one, a black-clad leather demon, the other an effefminate looking gay pansy, his fishing rod points to a rare day off from catching much bigger fish, the dichotomy of images chilling in its portrayal.


1 posted on 01/26/2014 1:21:54 PM PST by lbryce
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To: lbryce
Rumor has it that Himmler was fun at parties.
2 posted on 01/26/2014 1:26:22 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: lbryce

I can’t recall which one but I have read that one of the top Nazi’s turned out to be a Russian or at least Communist spy.

Anyone know who it was?


3 posted on 01/26/2014 1:26:57 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: lbryce

An episode of “Nazi Hunters” on the Military Channel recently featured Himmler. He cheated his date with the hangman by taking cyanide, just like Goering.


4 posted on 01/26/2014 1:29:07 PM PST by dainbramaged (Windage and elevation, Mrs. Langdon; windage and elevation.)
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To: dainbramaged

“He cheated his date with the hangman by taking cyanide, just like Goering.”

Goering...”The Happy Hun.” Yeah, right.


5 posted on 01/26/2014 1:33:17 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Gay State Conservative

I had occasion to cross paths with the sons and daughters of these men (SS), in a very remote and unlikely corner of the world. Time and circumstance had brought them all together, where they would gather of an evening, fondly recalling their days as teenagers of the 3rd Reich. I was invited to one of their dinner parties. The old stories, Kierschwasser, and marching songs flowed freely around the table. It was in a word surreal. I still wake up in a cold sweat some nights recalling that dinner party. Yes, and Himmler was reportedly a very good dancer too.


6 posted on 01/26/2014 1:38:37 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: PowderMonkey

bttt


7 posted on 01/26/2014 1:39:42 PM PST by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: yarddog
Anyone know who it was?

It was Martin Bormann but he didn't work for the Communists. He worked for their bosses.

8 posted on 01/26/2014 1:42:16 PM PST by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: lbryce
All those pictures of a happy Himmler with his happy family. If I was a GI who found those pictures, I would have burned them all. I would have saved his writings as evidence of his crimes. But I would have burned those pictures.

Don't ask me why. They just offend me. I guess I'd make a terrible historian.

9 posted on 01/26/2014 1:45:15 PM PST by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: lbryce

Himmler was a great admirer of Islam

Heinrich Himmler’s Remarkable Admiration For Islam: “It Promises Beautiful Women In Heaven”

http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3964


10 posted on 01/26/2014 1:47:15 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: lbryce

I once worked for a small company, a foundry, in Texas that was owned by a larger company in Montreal. This company in Montreal was founded by a NAZI who had escaped from Germany at the end of WWII to South America and who later emigrated to Canada. I was summoned to Montreal in 1980 on the pretense of an a$$ chewing by the obersturmfuhrer. After the a$$ chewing, they took me to a biergarten down town and we had a grand time drinking beer and singing German marching songs. I returned the favor a couple of years later when they visited my foundry in Texas and I took them to a biergarten in West, Texas during Oktoberfest.


11 posted on 01/26/2014 2:09:22 PM PST by batterycommander (a little more rubble, a lot less trouble)
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To: dfwgator

Evil people come in every form imaginable, but they all serve the same master.

Satan.

However, the most notorious are those who achieved absolute power through the state. This is one of the primary lessons of history and it’s why every human, no matter their nationality, should limit their government.


12 posted on 01/26/2014 2:10:39 PM PST by volunbeer
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To: lbryce; KC_Lion; MestaMachine; Yehuda; Sarah Barracuda; dennisw; Eleutheria5
Himmler's letters revealed: 'I'm going to Auschwitz. Kisses'


13 posted on 01/26/2014 2:17:15 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx; lbryce; MestaMachine; Yehuda; Sarah Barracuda; dennisw; Eleutheria5; ...
What about me?

I was there, I breathed what was in the air, it effected all of us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckyTPHnr9aM

What would YOU do in a situation like that? Would we really have shaken off the Nazi Tyranny?

Also Lets Not Forget Himmler and the Grand Mufti and their Bosnian Muslim SS Division Handschar.

http://youtu.be/GVTDZMr0p_c?t=42s

14 posted on 01/26/2014 2:26:34 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: dainbramaged

He was caught by a British patrol and when identified bit on a cyanide capsule before they could open his mouth.


15 posted on 01/26/2014 2:26:36 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: onyx

Wow. For Himmler, he says it with the detachment of, hey, kids. Guess what? I’m going to Disneyland. Kisses.


16 posted on 01/26/2014 2:26:57 PM PST by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: KC_Lion

Our saving grace is a spark of rebellion that still burns brightly in the hearts of most conservatives.


17 posted on 01/26/2014 2:29:24 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: 353FMG
He was recognized in a camp after the war and the doctor set to examine him ordered him to disrobe. Imagine, the dichotomy of only days before, Himmler had sought to take over the Third Reich, announced himself Fuehrer, which of course enraged the original one, who still very much alive. That's the extent in which Himmler was psychotic.

Go forward merely a few days and he's ordered to disrobe. Having not complied the doctor ordere him once again to disrobe.

As the doctor approached him, he bit down on a cyanide capsule gidden underneath a back tooth, being dead within seven seconds. They tried reviving him but cyanide works too fast.


18 posted on 01/26/2014 2:35:39 PM PST by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: KC_Lion

>What would YOU do in a situation like that? Would we really have shaken off the Nazi Tyranny?<

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Fair question.

No one has bothered so far to shake off the tyranny here at home.

Everything is honky-dori because we love hope and change.


19 posted on 01/26/2014 2:36:10 PM PST by 353FMG
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Wow. For Himmler, he says it with the detachment of, hey, kids. Guess what? I’m going to Disneyland. Kisses.

Completely detached. Complete sociopath. Completely evil.

20 posted on 01/26/2014 2:37:11 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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