Bavarian People's Party
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The Bavarian People's Party was a principally Catholic Christian democratic political party in Bavaria during the Weimar Republic. After the collapse of the German Empire in 1918, it split away from t
Plakat Bayerische Volkspartei 1919
Gustav Ritter von Kahr
Heinrich Himmler
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Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was a German Nazi politician, police administrator, and military leader. He was the fourth and longest-serving Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel, serving from 1929 to 1945. H
Bavarian People's Party
…since it had a rural Catholic core electorate with solid local structures that proved largely resistant to the emerging National Socialist movement. Heinrich Himmler, who had been a member since 1919, resigned from the BVP in 1923. After the Nazi Party seized power in January 1933, all 19 BVP deputies in the Reichstag…
Himmler in 1942
Himmler as a child
Himmler in 1929
Himmler and Rudolf Hess in 1936, viewing a scale model of Dachau concentration camp