The Himmler brothers...

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...

 

Am reading the book and so far so good. Great insight. Very brave of her to write the thing....

 

have you read it yet kai