4. Himmler, the Most Horrible Nazi Next to Hitler
With his common everyday man looks, receding chin, and office clerk glasses, Heinrich Himmler could have modeled for a stock image of the innocuous bureaucrat. Yet, Himmler was probably the most feared man in Germany, and second only to Hitler in responsibility for Germany’s wartime atrocities. Indeed, in his capacity as Reichsfuhrer-SS, Himmler was the man in charge of overseeing and carrying out the Holocaust. Captured after the war, he escaped trial and certain execution by swallowing cyanide.