“Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology, it is a matter of cleanliness. In just this same way anti-Semitism for us has not been a question of ideology but a matter of cleanliness.”
– Heinrich Himmler
The leader of Nazi Germany’s fanatical SS and mastermind behind the Holocaust, Himmler orchestrated a mass murder on an industrial scale – not seen before or since.