History - Hitler and his Henchmen

This year in history we are studying the rise and fall of Hitler and the Second World War. We learned that some of the causes leading to the Second World War were the unfairness of the Treaty of Versailles and Hitler's nationalist ideology. Hitler bacame Germany's Fuhrer (leader) in 1933, but he was quite lazy, so he left ordinary work to his subordinates, even because he couldn't have done everything on his own. His three most loyal and obedient followers (henchmen) were: Hermann Goring (1893-1946), Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), and Josef Goebbels (1897-1945). Hermann Goring took control of the economy and, most important, of the German airforce. He was very popular in Germany but his popularity declined after his airforce failed to win the Battle of Britain. Heinrich Himmler had control of the SS and the Gestapo (the Prussian Secret State Police), and he was also the one who organized the Night of Long Knives, when Ernst Rohm, another one of Hitler's henchmen, was killed. Josef Goebbels had control of the media and was in charge of propaganda.