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 ...

As the second world war broke out and Germany’s Blitzkrieg campaigns managed to take over large tracts of Europe in record ...

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 ...

FELIX KERSTEN was Himmler’s personal doctor, “the magic Buddha,” as Himmler introduced him to Count Ciano, “who cures everything by massage.” For live years during the war he attended the court of ...

Albert Speer distanced himself from the Nazis' atrocities at the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal in October 1946. In History revisits a 1970 BBC interview with Hitler's former friend.

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 ...

As the architect of the Nazi Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler was in charge of a mass slaughter that included the murder of six million Jews. Now diaries have been discovered which show he was more ...