Topic summary
Posen speeches
Personal
- Early life
- Family
- Margarete Himmler(wife)
- Gudrun Burwitz(daughter)
- Hedwig Potthast(mistress)
- Gebhard Ludwig(brother)
- Ernst(brother)
- Katrin Himmler(great-niece)
- Richard Wendler(brother-in-law)
- Posen speeches
4th Reichsführer-SS
Organizations
Legacy
The Posen speeches were two speeches made by Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS of Nazi Germany, on 4 and 6 October 1943 in the town hall of Posen (Poznań), in German-occupied Poland. The recordings are the first known documents in which a member of the Hitler cabinet publicly spoke of the ongoing extermination of the Jews in extermination camps. They demonstrate that the German government wanted, planned, and carried out the Holocaust.