Himmler's role in the Holocaust
- Himmler raised a police force, called the SS, of a mere 290 men to over 3,000 in his first year.
- In three months the SS grew to 52,000.
- Heinrich was quite picky and only allowed the best of the "master race" into the SS.
- He was not the first to run the concentration camps but soon took over in 1934,