Thomas established himself as an expert on Nazi forensics in his previous work, The Murder of Adolf Hitler, and here he speculates that Himmler never committed suicide in 1945—or, at any rate, that ...

"Evil monster, murderer, Nazi," - that's how Henrik Lenkeit describes his grandfather. It sounds extreme until you discover that the man he's referring to was the ruthless Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ...

As a young man, he was convinced that nobody liked him. But by the time he was in his early 20s Heinrich Himmler had become the Chief Sycophant of the most popular man in Germany: Adolf Hitler. There ...

In 1941, Heinrich Himmler took time out from organizing the Final Solution to write to his 12-year-old daughter, Gudrun: “In life, one must always be decent, courageous and kind-hearted.” This ...

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