Nazi war criminal Heinrich Himmler commits suicide while in British custody 70 years ago this hour (May 23 1945)

1940s, The Holocaust, World War II


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(Wednesday, May 23, 1945, 11:04 p.m. CEST; on the Western Front and Eastern Front during World War II) — Nazi official Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the people most directly responsible for the Holocaust, committed suicide tonight by biting into a cyanide capsule while in British custody in Luneburg, Germany.


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