Reichsführer

[ rahykhs-fy-ruhr ]

noun

, German.

1. the title of the chief of the Schutzstaffel.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Reichsführer¹

Literally, “Reich leader”

Example Sentences

Clearly, the Reichsführer took the term "consciousness of guilt" to an entirely new level, worried about the emotional strain of so many manual shootings of Jews on the mental health of his SS executioners.

From Salon

Rarely has the psychology of impunity and genocide been made so explicit as it was in the October 1943 address by Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the SS, during an address to a group of senior officers and Einsatzgruppen leaders in occupied Poland — chilling remarks acknowledging the stress involved for loyal German soldiers when carrying out orders for "the extermination of the Jewish people."

From Salon

Two days later, word came that Himmler had set himself up as a new Reichsführer, and was negotiating with the Swedes.

From The Guardian

Heinrich Himmler, the chicken farmer who rose to become Reichsfuhrer of the SS and chief architect of the final solution, called the killings "an unwritten and never to be written page of glory in our history."

From Time Magazine Archive

Conceived by Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler, the designs have been drawn by Air Ministry Architect Dr. Ernst Sagebiel, who plans not only to lay out the biggest paved space on earth but to demolish church steeples, chimneys, high tension towers for miles around.

From Time Magazine Archive