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In 1943, Himmler became Interior Minister, and in July of 1944, he attained the rank of chief of the army’s home organization - now second only to Adolf Hitler.
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But Himmler’s empire was already crumbling from within and under attack from without. Weakened on all fronts, he was attacked after 1944 by Martin Bormann, who tried to revitalize the party organization as a rival of the SS. Bormann emerged victorious in April 1945, when Hitler ordered Himmler’s arrest because he had tried to propose peace to the
Allies.
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