Philipp Bouhler

Biography

One year later, Bouhler became Police Chairman of Munich, and only a month later, he was appointed head of Adolf Hitler's Chancellery, a post specially created on 17 November 1934 that was first and foremost set aside for Party business. In this job, for instance, secret decrees might be prepared, or internal business managed, before being brought before Adolf Hitler. Moreover, Bouhler was Chairman of the "Official Party Inspection Commission for the Protection of National Socialist Literature" (Der Chef der Kanzlei des Führers und Vorsitzender der Parteiamtlichen Prüfungskommission zum Schutze des NS-Schrifttums), which determined what writings were suitable for Nazi society, and which were not. Various methods of killing were tried out. The first killing facility was Schloss Hartheim in Upper Austria. The knowledge gained from the euthanasia program was later applied to the industrialized annihilation of other groups of people, such as Jewish people.

In 1942, Bouhler published the book "Napoleon – Kometenpfad eines Genies" ("Napoleon – A Genius's Cometary Path"), which became a favorite of Hitler's. He had also published a National Socialist publication Kampf für Deutschland (Fight for Germany) in 1938.

Bouhler and his wife committed suicide on 19 May 1945, just after they were apprehended by American troops and were being transported to Dachau concentration camp, which was used as a facility to imprison Nazis after it was liberated by American forces toward the end of the war.

Bouhler was portrayed by Mark Strong in the 2008 film Good.

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Category:1899 births Category:1945 deaths Category:Action T4 Category:People from Munich Category:People from the Kingdom of Bavaria Category:German military personnel of World War I Category:German people of World War II Category:Nazi leaders Category:SS generals Category:Nazis who committed suicide Category:Holocaust perpetrators