Himmler was one of the main architects of the Holocaust , using his deep belief in the racist Nazi ideology to justify the murder of millions of victims . Longerich surmises that Hitler , Himmler , and Heydrich designed the Holocaust during a period of intensive meetings and exchanges in April – May 1942 . The Nazis planned to kill Polish intellectuals and restrict non-Germans in the General Government and conquered territories to a fourth-grade education . They further wanted to breed a master race of racially pure Nordic Aryans in Germany . As an agronomist and farmer Himmler was acquainted with the principles of selective breeding , which he proposed to apply to humans . He believed that he could engineer the German populace , for example , through eugenics , to be Nordic in appearance within several decades of the end of the war
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Heinrich Himmler