The Posen speech to SS generals (4 October 1943)Randolph L. Braham, , ed. (1983), Contemporary Views on the Holocaust chapter: Ernst Kaltenbrunner and The Final Solution, page: 196, place: Boston, publisher: Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing, DOI:
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[We have] the moral duty toward our race to kill this [Jewish] race that wanted to kill us.
— Heinrich Himmler
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About Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), and a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of the Holocaust.
About Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler (7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), and a leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) of Germany. Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of the Holocaust.
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