The Private Heinrich Himmler
Title | The Private Heinrich Himmler PDF eBook |
Author | Katrina Himmler |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2016-03-08 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1466870893 |
The English translation of the letters of Heinrich Himmler and his wife, recently authenticated by the Bundesarchiv and serialized in Die Welt At the end of World War II, it was assumed that the letters of Heinrich Himmler were lost. Yet sixty years after Himmler's capture by British troops and subsequent suicide, the letters mysteriously turned up in Tel Aviv and, in early 2014, excerpts were published for the first time by the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot providing a rare, if jarring, glimpse into the family life of one of Hitler's top lieutenants while he was busy organizing the mass extermination of the Jews. It was generally held that Himmler, once appointed head of the SS, blended seamlessly into the Nazi hierarchy. The image that emerges, however, is more subtle. Himmler is seen here as a man whose observations can often be characterized by their unpleasant banality; a man whose obsession with family life ran alongside a brutal detachment from all things human, a serial killer who oversaw the persecution and extermination of all Jews and other non-Aryans, and those opposed to the regime. His letters remove any doubt that he was the architect of the Final Solution, and a man who was much closer to Hitler than many historians previously thought. The letters in this edition were arranged by Katrin Himmler, the great-niece of Heinrich and Marga Himmler, and Michael Wildt, a renowned expert on the Nazi regime, who also provide historical context to the letters and their author. The entire work was translated by Thomas S. Hansen and Abby J. Hansen.
Heinrich Himmler
Title | Heinrich Himmler PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Longerich |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 1053 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0199592322 |
A biography of Henrich Himmler, interweaving both his personal life and his political career as a Nazi dictator.
The Himmler Brothers
Title | The Himmler Brothers PDF eBook |
Author | Katrin Himmler |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2012-05-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0330475991 |
Katrin Himmler’s cool but meticulous examination of the Himmler story reveals – in all its dark complexity – the gulf between the ‘normality’ of bourgeois family life and the horrors perpetrated by one member. This riveting family memoir provides essential new information on the private life and background of one of the twentieth- century’s most notorious killers – not a lone evil executioner, but a middle-class family man, loved and fully supported by his respectable German family. It also offers a unique account of one women’s courageous attempt to deal with her chilling inheritance. ‘It is part of the creeping discomfort in reading her book to realise the incredibly ordinary middle-class background of these three sons of a rather pompous provincial headmaster and to see how, right until the end, he was almost able to convince himself it hadn't happened like it had' Sunday Times ‘You get a vivid sense of a particular kind of German conservatism - Roman Catholic, monarchist - and of how, weirdly, it found an outlet in the upstart, part-pagan thuggery of Nazism’ Independent ‘One can only admire her bravery . . . In a way, Katrin Himmler's book is not a story about the past, but one about the present. The most interesting details are the ones she gives of her own quest’ Daily Telegraph
Heinrich Himmler
Title | Heinrich Himmler PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Manvell |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2007-09-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1628731206 |
Authors Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel, notable biographers of the World War II German leaders Joseph Goebbels and Herman Goring, delve into the life of one of the most sinister, clever, and successful of all the Nazi leaders: Heinrich Himmler. As the head of the feared SS, Himler supervised the extermination of millions. Here is the story of how a seemingly ordinary boy grew into an obsessive and superstitious man who ventured into herbalism, astrology, and homeopathic medicine before finally turning to the "science" of racial purity and the belief in the superiority of the Aryan people.
Heinrich Himmler
Title | Heinrich Himmler PDF eBook |
Author | PETER. MANVELL FRAENKEL (ROGER.) |
Publisher | Frontline Books |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2017-11 |
Genre | Germany |
ISBN | 9781526713391 |
'There are no better biographies of Goering, Goebbels and Himmler in existence'. - New York Review of Books Heinrich Himmler was the commander of the SS, and as founder and officer-in-charge of the Nazi concentration camps and the Einsatzgruppen death squads, he was responsible for implementing the extermination of millions of people. By the time he died he was the second-most powerful man in Germany and regarded himself as Hitler's natural successor, going so far as to attempt to negotiate independent peace with the Allies. Based on US documents handed over to the German Federal Archives and the testimonies of Himmler's family and staff, this book examines how a seemingly ordinary boy grew into an obsessive and superstitious man who ventured into herbalism and astrology before finally turning to the science of racial purity and the belief in the superiority of the Aryan race. Filled with insights into Himmler's private life, activities and beliefs, this is an important study of one of the most sinister figures of World War II. AUTHORS: Roger Manvell (1909-1987) and Heinrich Fraenkel (1897-1986) were both critically acclaimed authors, who collaborated on several projects involving the history of Germany's Third Reich. They are best known for their comprehensive biographies of Nazi leaders including 'Doctor Goebbels', 'Goering' and 'The Men Who Tried to Kill Hitler'.
Himmler
Title | Himmler PDF eBook |
Author | Willi Frischauer |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2016-10-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1787202410 |
Originally published in 1953, this masterly study of Heinrich Himmler is a forceful, dispassionate analysis of a man who rose from obscure beginnings as an agricultural student to a position of almost absolute power, until, in the Nazi twilight, he challenged Hitler himself. Outwardly insignificant, diffident—possessing neither the flamboyance of Goering nor the incisiveness of Goebbels—Himmler, head of the dreaded Secret Police, yet made himself the man most feared in the Nazi hierarchy—and as much by his ‘friends’ as his enemies. Only when the incredible facts about Himmler’s extraordinary hold over his colleagues became known were the full depths of the infamy to which Nazism had brought Germany revealed. Based on journalist Willi Frischauer’s unique knowledge of the background and sequence of events which gave rise to the Hitler regime, he manages to unearth the evidence, building up, stone by stone, the mosaic of Himmler’s true portrait. A fully documented and unforgettable narrative.
Heinrich Himmler
Title | Heinrich Himmler PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Fraenkel |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2017-11-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781526713421 |
There are no better biographies of Goering, Goebbels and Himmler in existence New York Review of Books** Heinrich Himmler was the commander of the SS, and as founder and officer-in-charge of the Nazi concentration camps and the Einsatzgruppen death squads, he was responsible for implementing the extermination of millions of people. By the time he died he was the second-most powerful man in Germany and regarded himself as Hitler's natural successor, going so far as to attempt to negotiate independent peace with the Allies. Based on US documents handed over to the German Federal Archives and the testimonies of Himmler's family and staff, this book examines how a seemingly ordinary boy grew into an obsessive and superstitious man who ventured into herbalism and astrology before finally turning to the science of racial purity and the belief in the superiority of the Aryan race. Filled with insights into Himmlers private life, activities and beliefs, this is an important study of one of the most sinister figures of World War II.