The book had long lingered there. Known, but not acknowledged. Sitting on her father’s bookshelf for decades after the war in Western Europe had culminated in an Allied victory on May 8, 1945. Except ...

Heinrich Himmler was a Nazi leader in Germany. He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, appointed Commander of the Home Army by Adolf Hitler. Himmler is held highly responsible for the ...

No matter how much is written about Nazi Germany, there is always some new horror to behold and some new paradox to ponder. That’s how I felt when I opened a remarkable and wholly fascinating new book ...

Work diaries chronicling the daily activities of Hitler’s henchman Heinrich Himmler have surfaced in Russian military archives. The recovered texts speak volumes about a key figure behind the ...

Kersten’s Lists: A Saviour In The Depths of Hell, by Francois Kersaudy (Headline £25, 416pp) On February 3, 1945, Heinrich Himmler’s enormous, bear-like masseur, Felix Kersten, sent his secretary Frau ...

Gudrun Margarete Elfriede Emma Anna Burwitz, born Himmler, was the daughter of Heinrich Himmler and Margarete Himmler. Her father, as Reichsführer-SS, was a leading member of the Nazi Party, and chief ...

The daughter of Heinrich Himmler, who led Adolf Hitler’s ruthless SS, worked as a secretary for West Germany’s spy agency in the 1960s despite never renouncing Nazism and remaining active in far-right ...

Not long ago, I reviewed Peter Longerich’s benchmark biography of Heinrich Himmler in these pages—a work of meticulous and compelling scholarship about the master architect of the Final Solution, a ...

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Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and later the Minister ...