The Himmler Brothers

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 and a more nuanced portrait of Heinrich himself emerges – not a lone evil executioner, but a middle-class family man, loved and fully supported by his respectable German family.

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...well, not a happy ending story but perhaps something to add to the understanding how the nazis got the power and Heinrich became the Reichsführer...

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