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Himm⋅ler

[him-ler; Ger. him-luhr]
–noun
Hein⋅rich [hahyn-rikh] , 1900–45, German Nazi leader and chief of the secret police.
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Himm·ler   (hĭm'lər)   
German Nazi leader. Second in power to Hitler, he directed the Nazi elite forces, the SS (1929-1945); commanded the Third Reich's police and secret police, the Gestapo (1936-1945); and coordinated the operation of the concentration and extermination camps (1941-1945). Captured by the British, he killed himself.
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