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Heinrich Himmler: The Nazi Leader’s Master Plan
World War II | Soon after, trains began disgorging thousands of new settlers—ethnic German families forcibly removed from villages and towns in northern Ukraine. The local SS troops left them in no doubt, however, as to who ruled the new colony. SS agricultural specialists doled out parcels of land to the new arrivals and notified each family of the SS quotas of milk and produce that they would be required to meet. They also informed the settlers that they could expect to have their crops confiscated whenever the SS needed them. This was not the sort of SS settlement Himmler had originally planned, but he intended to set matters straight as soon as Germany won the war, bestowing large parcels of land in the East on his SS men and officers. The opportunity never arrived. The tide of war turned against the Third Reich, forcing the SS leader to shelve the blueprint that he and Konrad Meyer had labored over so diligently. Soon after the German surrender in the spring of 1945, Himmler committed suicide. And in the months that followed, his senior officers found themselves housed in postwar internment camps, instead of the great estates they had been promised. Today all that remains of Himmler’s sinister vision are a few former SS farmhouses straddling the road in Mehrow. Heather Pringle is a Canadian journalist whose work has appeared in the BBC History Magazine, Archaeology, Geo, National Geographic Traveler and Discover. She has written four books, including The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust (Hyperion, 2006). This article was written by Heather Pringle and originally published in the April 2007 issue of World War II Magazine. For more great articles, subscribe to World War II magazine today! Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Tags: Historical Conflicts, Historical Figures, World War II
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2 Comments to “Heinrich Himmler: The Nazi Leader’s Master Plan”
Nazis are HOT!
By Naomi Stewart on Aug 11, 2008 at 4:36 pm
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From the article:
““German Ancestral Heritage” Society for the Study of the History of Primeval Ideas…
…Like other senior Nazis, Himmler believed the future master race needed to be weaned from the moral decay of the cities and restored to the rustic lives of their forefathers.”
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{I don’t know how Hot it is but…]
What’s “sinister” about that? In premice?
Ironically it sounds very similar to early american theory and goal (and Zionism!!)…
We are all profoundly prone to misinterpretation and brainwashing when it comes to what went down in the 19th and 20th century…
By spell on Sep 20, 2008 at 10:31 am