Goering, whose cross-examination by Allied prosecutors was concluded today, asserted that Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo chief, had kept secret the extermination of European Jewry.

After the Allies agreed to bring major Nazi leaders to trial, they had trouble deciding whom to indict. Top Nazi leaders Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels had committed suicide ...

The Gestapo was the Nazis’ secret police force. In 1934, Himmler replaced Hermann Göring as its leader. Its job was to monitor the German population for signs of opposition or resistance to ...