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| “ | It is the curse of the great to have to walk over corpses. | „ |
| ~ Heinrich Himmler, 1941. Quoted in the capitulation message for Ordenstaat Burgund. |
| “ | Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our culture: otherwise it is of no interest to me. | „ |
| ~ Heinrich Himmler, 1943. Quoted in a loading screen tip. |
Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler is the main antagonist in the Hearts of Iron 4 mod The New Order: Last Days of Europe. He is the leader of the Ordenstaat Burgund (Order-State of Burgundy), a de jure subject of the Greater German Reich but de facto independent state run by his SS.
He serves as a major antagonist in the overall storyline, the main antagonist of Reinhard Heydrich's storyline, the overarching antagonist of the other Germany storylines, or possibly a villainous protagonist should the player choose to play as Burgundy.
In-Game Description[]
Heinrich Himmler has been a loyal member of the Nazi Party for decades, having even joined in the abortive Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 1923. And much like the months following the Putsch, the Reich's failures have left Himmler embittered, disillusioned, and more devoted to his ideology than ever before.
When the postwar euphoria wore off and the grand projects began to strain German industry, Himmler's faith wavered. When the economy collapsed and the government in Germania was powerless to save it, his faith faltered. And when the Russians nearly took back Moskowien, his faith shattered. This could not be a Jewish plot or Allied sabotage. Nobody stabbed the Reich in the back... except the Nazis themselves.
Himmler became convinced that the Nazi Party had been corrupted and was rotting Germany from the inside out. It was Himmler's duty - no, his mandate - to save the Reich from itself. From Paris, to Germania, to the rapidly-disintegrating A-A Line in the east, Waffen-SS units prepared to topple Hitler and right Germany's course. However, Speidel got wind of the plot and snuffed it in the cradle with Operation Backfire.
With word of Himmler's plan leaked, and dozens of divisions captured, it seemed as if the SS was doomed. Hitler, in a rare moment of lucidity, knew that killing Himmler would trigger a civil war, so he offered Himmler a fiefdom far away from Germania, one where he could stay out of Reich politics: SS-Ordensstaat Burgundy. Himmler reluctantly accepted, leaving control of the Deutschen-SS to his loyal lieutenant Reinhard Heydrich, and left for Ost-Paris. But Himmler has only grown more steadfast in his views, and he has not forgotten the injustice against him...
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Himmler was born into a conservative middle class Catholic family in Bavaria. Joseph Gerhard Himmler was his father and Anna Maria Himmler was his mother. He began training with the Landshut Cadet Corps, since his father used his connections with the Royal Family to make him an Officer. His brother, Gebhard, served on the Western Front of the First World War and saw combat, receiving the Iron Cross and eventually being promoted to lieutenant.
In November 1918, while Himmler was still in training, the war ended with Germany's defeat, denying him the opportunity to become an officer or see combat. After his discharge on 18 December, he returned to Landshut. After the war, Himmler completed his grammar-school education. From 1919 to 1922, he studied agriculture at the Munich Technische Hochschule (Tehnical School) following a brief apprenticeship on a farm and a subsequent illness.
Although the many regulations that discriminated against non-Christian minorities had been eliminated during the unification of Germany in 1871, antisemitism continued to exist and thrive in Germany and other parts of Europe.
Himmler was antisemitic by the time he went to university, but not exceptionally so; students at his school would avoid their Jewish classmates. He remained a devout Catholic while a student and spent most of his leisure time with members of his fencing fraternity, the "League of Apollo", the president of which was Jewish. Himmler maintained a polite demeanor with him and with other Jewish members of the fraternity, in spite of his growing antisemitism.
During his second year at university, Himmler redoubled his attempts to pursue a military career. Although he was not successful, he was able to extend his involvement in the paramilitary scene in Munich. It was at this time that he first met Ernst Röhm, an early member of the Nazi Party and co-founder of the Sturmabteilung ("Storm Battalion"; SA). Himmler admired Röhm because he was a decorated combat soldier, and at his suggestion Himmler joined his antisemitic nationalist group, the Bund Reichskriegsflagge (Imperial War Flag Society).
In 1922, Himmler became more interested in the "Jewish question", with his diary entries containing an increasing number of antisemitic remarks and recording a number of discussions about Jews with his classmates. His reading lists, as recorded in his diary, were dominated by antisemitic pamphlets, German myths, and occult tracts. After the murder of Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau on 24 June, Himmler's political views veered towards the radical right, and he took part in demonstrations against the Treaty of Versailles. Hyperinflation was raging, and his parents could no longer afford to educate all three sons. Disappointed by his failure to make a career in the military and his parents' inability to finance his doctoral studies, he was forced to take a low-paying office job after obtaining his agricultural diploma. He remained in this position until September 1923.
Career in the SS[]
Himmler joined the Nazi Party on 1 August 1923, receiving party number 14303. As a member of Röhm's paramilitary unit, Himmler was involved in the Beer Hall Putsch—an unsuccessful attempt by Hitler and the Nazi Party to seize power in Munich. This event would set Himmler on a life of politics. He was questioned by the police about his role in the putsch but was not charged because of insufficient evidence. However, he lost his job, was unable to find employment as a farm manager, and had to move in with his parents in Munich. Frustrated by these failures, he became ever more irritable, aggressive, and opinionated, alienating both friends and family members.
In 1923–24, Himmler, while searching for a world view, came to abandon Catholicism and focused on the occult and in antisemitism. Germanic mythology, reinforced by occult ideas, became a religion for him. Himmler found the Nazi Party appealing because its political positions agreed with his own views. Initially, he was not swept up by Hitler's charisma or the cult of Führer worship. However, as he learned more about Hitler through his reading, he began to regard him as a useful face of the party, and he later admired and even worshipped him. To consolidate and advance his own position in the Nazi Party, Himmler took advantage of the disarray in the party following Hitler's arrest in the wake of the Beer Hall Putsch. From mid-1924 he worked under Gregor Strasser as a party secretary and propaganda assistant. Travelling all over Bavaria agitating for the party, he gave speeches and distributed literature. Placed in charge of the party office in Lower Bavaria by Strasser from late 1924, he was responsible for integrating the area's membership with the Nazi Party under Hitler when the party was re-founded in February 1925.
That same year, he joined the Schutzstaffel (SS) as an SS-Führer (SS-Leader); his SS number was 168. The SS, initially part of the much larger SA, was formed in 1923 for Hitler's personal protection and was re-formed in 1925 as an elite unit of the SA. Himmler's first leadership position in the SS was that of SS-Gauführer (district leader) in Lower Bavaria from 1926. Strasser appointed Himmler deputy propaganda chief in January 1927. As was typical in the Nazi Party, he had considerable freedom of action in his post, which increased over time. He began to collect statistics on the number of Jews, Freemasons, and enemies of the party, and following his strong need for control, he developed an elaborate bureaucracy. In September 1927, Himmler told Hitler of his vision to transform the SS into a loyal, powerful, racially pure elite unit. Convinced that Himmler was the man for the job, Hitler appointed him Deputy Reichsführer-SS, with the rank of SS-Oberführer.
Around this time, Himmler joined the Artaman League, a Völkisch youth group. There he met Rudolf Höss, who was later commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, and Walther Darré, whose book The Peasantry as the Life Source of the Nordic Race caught Hitler's attention, leading to his later appointment as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture. Darré was a firm believer in the superiority of the Nordic race, and his philosophy was a major influence on Himmler.
It was here that Himmler achieved and centralised power in the Schutzstaffel, making it a force to be reckoned with, through its business holdings, Waffen-SS Units, Loyal Units as well as operating the concentration camps.
Second World War[]
Himmler played an instrumental role in winning World War II for Germany, as by 1939, the SS had ballooned into various branches involved in administration, combat and extermination. SS units would be raised to fight in combat, such as Waffen-SS units formed from the defeated nations, as well as the formation of Einsatzgruppen units, instrumental in keeping order and enforcing the Final Solution in the occupied territories of the new Reichkommisariats formed from Operation Barbarossa.
He was essential to the Nazi Administration, as one of the architects for the Final Solution in Generalplan Ost, as well as ensuring that the money and assets acquired from the occupied territories and deported populations funded the war economy, allowing the German economy to reap the spoils of war. However, these new spoils of war would soon turn Himmler into a raving madman.
SS Coup[]
As the German Economy crashed during the mid-1950s, Himmler slowly saw the Reich as a degenerate, decaying mess, who had abandoned the ideals of National Socialism. It was here that he would form a plan to seize control of the Reich with his SS units that were loyal to him, allowing him to oust Hitler and the other contenders for Fuhrer, and implement his own style of National Socialism over the entire Reich.
Along with fellow SS Generals and Officers, they would plan what would be known as the SS Rebellion, taking advantage of the West Russian War to position troops in various regions such as in West Russia, Germania and various cities.
Himmler would kickstart the SS coup against Hitler whilst the chaos of the West Russian War was ongoing. Despite the coup attempt almost succeeding, the plans would be revealed by General Hans Spiedel, which with Wehrmacht Generals managed to defeat the SS units that planned to attack them from the rear.
Meanwhile in Germania, in an act of possibly saving the nation from further strife and due to the pressing issue of the West Russian War, Hitler offered him a compromise. Himmler's own personal fiefdom, formerly a dream of his, to run the regions of Belgium and Northern France in return for peace. In addition, Hitler would see that the SS would split into two distinct organisations, with the Deutsch-SS under Reinhard Heydrich and the Burgundische-SS under Heinrich Himmler, in return for an oath from Himmler that he was not to intervene in Germany's politics, which he accepted begrudgingly.
Despite now having his own personal fiefdom, Himmler waits in the shadows of Burgundy, waiting for his next move to strike.
In Game[]
At the start of the game in 1962, the Burgundians tested their first nuclear weapon. The same year, Himmler sent a captured Japanese assassin to kill Hitler as part of a false flag operation. This attempt fails, and so Himmler changes his plan from taking over Germany to something new: bathing the world in nuclear hellfire, in the hopes tht the "subhuman" races will die and only the Aryan race will be left standing.
When the German Civil War begins, Himmler takes the opportunity to invade France and take more land. The civil war also sees Ukraine declare independence; to prevent a coming famine, Burgundy works large numbers of it's slave population to death to produce enough food. Burgundy also begins a cultural genocide of the French and Belgians in their newly-conquered territories, making all of their citizens subordinate to an artificial "Burgundian" culture.
Himmler orchestrates SS activities worldwide that will leade to a nuclear apocalypse. He arms militants in the Middle East to trigger a global oil crisis as militants plunge the region into chaos. He also gives money to both white supremacists and black nationalists in the USA to destabilize the country. Similarly, he gives arms to all of the warlord factions in Western Russia, ensuring that Russia is stuck in never-ending war.
Personality[]
Heinrich Himmler is depicted as cruel, megalomaniacal, paranoid, and spiteful. He has little tolerance for what he considers "decadence," to the point that even Nazi Germany itself is too lukewarm for him. He also treats his own people and allies as little else than pawns.
Ironically given the amount of people he's killed, Himmler is noted to be squeamish at the sight of blood. When faced with a enraged Heydritch, Himmler reveals himself to be a coward who can only stutter and pathetically and weakly defend himself by saying his actions were necessary.
Sentences[]
| “ | For an SS officer there are no difficulties; his duty is always to remove difficulties himself as soon as they arise. | „ |
| “ | SS men must be honest, decent, loyal, and comradely to members of our own blood and nobody else. What happens to a Frenchman and a Belgian does not interest me in the least. | „ |
Trivia[]
- Himmler's plan for a nuclear apocalypse isn't based on any plan the real-world Heinrich Himmler had. Instead, it's based on the 1978 book The Turner Diaries by an American neo-Nazi named William Luther Pierce.
- Just like his real-world counterpart, Himmler is squeamish around blood.
- If you use console commands to artificially make England an Esoteric Nazi state, the leader of England will be a barely-disguised Himmler named "Heinrich HMMLR". Since England cannot naturally follow Esoteric Nazism, this is just an easter egg.
External Links[]
- Heinrich Himmler on the The New Order: Last Days of Europe Wiki.
- Heinrich Himmler on the Pure Evil Wiki.
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