Heinrich Himmler’s Adoration of Islam
By: Emerson Vermaat
Militant Islam Monitor
Monday, June 08, 2009

Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Hitler’s notorious “Reichsführer SS” (Federal leader of the SS) and chief of the German police, is one of the greatest mass murderers of the 20th century. Not only was he directly responsible for the death of at least six million Jews but also for the death of countless others most of whom belonged to so-called “inferior races” or simply despised Nazism. Moreover, a lot of German enemies and political opponents of the “Third Reich” also died in concentration camps and prisons – as a result of the brutal practices of SS and State Security Police or “Gestapo.” (Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller had once visited Russia where he had been impressed by the methods of Stalin’s secret police.)

Less well known is the fact that the same Heinrich Himmler warmly embraced Islam or “Mohammedanism” as it was called then. He admired the religion of the Muslims because it promised that there will be “beautiful women in paradise for those who die in battle.” (Many of today’s suicide bombers – often sexually frustrated young males – have also deluded themselves into believing that 72 smiling “Huris” or virgin beauties are waiting for them in paradise.)

Felix Kersten (1898-1990) was Himmler’s personal masseur and confidant. It was seven years after the war that Kersten published his sensational memoirs, “Totenkopf und Treue.” The Kersten memoirs were also published in English but, unfortunately, the original chapter on Himmler’s “Enthousiasm for Islam” (“Begeisterung für Islam”) was conspicuously lacking in the English edition. Although some of Kersten’s claims are exaggerated, other parts of his memoirs seem to be fairly reliable. Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel, two leading Himmler biographers, believe that Kersten “became the most powerful influence in Himmler’s life after the death of Heydrich.” There is no doubt that Kersten met Himmler quite often and that they were very close friends. This is apparent, for example, from the numerous references to Kersten in Himmler’s 1941/42 office diary/appointment book (“Dienstkalender”), published in Hamburg in 1999. On March 21, 1945, Himmler wrote a very friendly letter to Kersten, thanking him for a recent visit:

“This time I was again delighted when you came here and used your tremendous medical skills as a token of (our) long friendship. In the many years we know each other we discussed many problems.”

Kersten kept notes of everything Himmler told him. He was the only man whose “miraculous hands” could relieve Himmler’s pain. Himmler’s health was rather poor as he was suffering from severe stomach cramps. “The moment he was relieved of pain, Himmler began to unburden his mind,” Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel write.

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From the article:

British historian Peter Longerich recently published a 1035-page study on Himmler quoting, inter alia, from documents in the German Federal Archives in Berlin (“Bundesarchiv Berlin”). Longerich quotes Himmler as saying in November 1944 that Islam is “a practical and sympathetic religion for soldiers.” “It promises that those who fall in battle will go to heaven.”

We find similar quotes in Kersten’s 1952 book. On December 1, 1942, Himmler told Kersten:

“Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior who dies in battle. This is the kind of language a soldier understands. When he believes that he will be welcomed in this manner in the afterlife, he will be willing to give his life, he will be enthusiastic about going to battle and not fear death. You may call this primitive and you may laugh about it, but it is based on deeper wisdom. A religion must speak a man’s language.”

Himmler, whose parents were devout and conservative Bavarian Catholics, publicly left the Catholic Church in the summer of 1936. In his conversations with Kersten he later lashed out against the Catholic Church, the Vatican and Christianity in general. Christianity does not promise anything to the soldiers and warriors who die in battle, Himmler said. They either go to hell or heaven – there is just no reward for fighting bravely. “And now compare this, Herr Kersten, to the religion of the Mohammedans, a religion of people’s soldiers.”

In other words, Himmler admired the Muslim concept of martyrdom: if you die on the battlefield as a jihadist (Muslim holy warrior) and so become a martyr, you will be amply rewarded in the afterlife (“paradise”). This is precisely what Haj Amin Al-Husseini told the Muslim soldiers in the SS.

It was in the first half of 1942 that Himmler and an SS officer named Adolf Eichmann befriended this firebrand cleric – the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem whom the Nazis had welcomed to Berlin. Haj Amin Al-Husseini, whose hatred of the Jews equalled that of the Nazis, arrived in Nazi Germany in November 1941 and was received by Hitler that same month. The Grand Mufti wanted the Nazis to approve his plan for a pro-Nazi Muslim fighting force or “Arab legion.” Hitler initially declined, but Himmler was enthousiastic about the idea. In November 1943, the SS Reichsführer sent a telegram to the Grand Mufti, saying there existed “a natural bond between National Socialist Greater Germany and the freedom loving Mohammedans throughout the world.”

Heinrich Himmler was the leader of the SS. He is one the worst mass killers ever. Himmler also had a soft spot for Islam. He lamented that Germany was a Christian nation and wished it was a Muslim nation. I have known this for years. Makes sense to me. Why? Nazis and Muslim extremists hate Jews and Western Civilization, along with Communists and Fascists. They share the same goals of destroying Western Civilization. After World War II, many Nazis fled to the Middle East, which was second to South America. ODESSA operated in the Middle East. Most went to Egypt and Syria. Some went to Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, and Palestine. The most notable of them are Alois Brunner (Adolf Eichmann’s lieutenant), Leopold Gleim (head of Gestapo in Poland), and Franz Stangl (Commander of Treblinka Death Camp, he later fled to Brazil). Many of them converted to Islam, most notably Gleim, who became Ali al-Nashe.