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Two years later, a power-thirsting Himmler got full control of the SS, and became SS Reichsführer.
From a number of letters and speeches of Himmler it becomes clear, that he referred to the annihilation of the Jews in Europe - the Holocaust - as a task which he had to carry out on the behalf of the highest authority in the Third Reich - Adolf Hitler.
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In 1941, Himmler summoned Rudolf Hoess, SS Commandant of the largest killing center ever created, the death camp Auschwitz. He told him that the Führer had given the order for a Final Solution of the Jewish Question and that we, the SS, must carry out that order.
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