After the war he drifted into one of the many right wing organisation that were very common at the time. It is here that he came into contact with Hitler. He took part in the Hitler putsch (the attempt to overthrow the government) in 1923. He married Margaret Boden in1926, in that same year he also became assistant propaganda leader in the Nazi party. He joined the SS a division of the SA in 1925. In 1929 Hitler appointed him head of the SS, whose primary role was to act as bodyguard to Hitler. The size of the SS in1929 was 280 but due to Himmler's unrelenting enthusiasm and determination to impress Hitler, Himmler increased membership to 50,000 by 1933. Hitler was always afraid o

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Himmler was inspired by a combination of racism and the vision of Hitler's perfect world, caused him to establish concentration camps. His concern for "racial purity" led to the encouragement of special marriage laws that would increase the amount of children of perfect "Aryan" couples. The establishment of the Lebensborn (Fountain of Life) institutions at which girls would couple with SS men, both selected for their "perfect" Aryan qualities for the same reason. He suffered, however, from psychosomatic illnesses that took the form of intestinal cramps and severe headaches. Himmler was squeamish, and on one occasion he almost fainted at the sight of a hundred Jews, including women, being shot to death at one of his concentration camps. This helped lead to the introduction of poison gas as "a more humane and efficient means" of execution. Himmler gained jurisdiction over the courts and the civil service as well. He used these powers to exploit Jews as slave laborers, and to gas millions of Jews who could not work. He instituted medical experiments on "subhumans", to determine their resistance to extremes of cold and decompression. This made Himmler one of the greatest mass murders in history. Towards the end of the War, in November 1944, he tried to conceal the evidence of mass murder in the extermination camps and permitted the transfer of several hundred camp prisoners to Sweden. He also trie

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