Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was a German politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, a leading member of the German Nazi Party, and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. He is primarily known for being a principal architect of the Holocaust. After serving in a reserve battalion during the First World War without seeing combat, Himmler went on to join the Nazi Party in 1923.