Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and later the Minister ...

Not long ago, I reviewed Peter Longerich’s benchmark biography of Heinrich Himmler in these pages—a work of meticulous and compelling scholarship about the master architect of the Final Solution, a ...

Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler and his daughter Gudrun. Vanessa Lapa, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, has made a documentary called The Decent One, based on Himmler's letters to his wife and ...

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 ...

"The Handwriting of a Mass Murderer" is how Germany's Die Welt newspaper bills its eight-part series featuring excerpts of Heinrich Himmler's personal letters accompanied by family photos, which are ...

BERLIN - One black-and white photo shows Heinrich Himmler on an idyllic family outing, holding his wife's hand while his blond, pigtailed daughter is picking flowers. Others show the SS Nazi leader ...

THE MEMOIRS OF DOCTOR FELIX KERSTEN(288 pp.)—Translated by Ernst Morwitz—Doubleday ($3.50). This is history told by a masseur who sometimes snooped. The late Heinrich Himmler believed that his ...

Gudrun Margarete Elfriede Emma Anna Burwitz, born Himmler, was the daughter of Heinrich Himmler and Margarete Himmler. Her father, as Reichsführer-SS, was a leading member of the Nazi Party, and chief ...

Peter Longerich, trans. from the German by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe. Oxford Univ., $34.95 (832p) ISBN 978-1-19-959232-6 With access to new material, Longerich (Holocaust), professor of history ...

The film's protagonist is Heinrich Himmler, the merciless Nazi leader and a key architect of the Final Solution. The film's director is Vanessa Lapa, the grandchild of Holocaust survivors. Her family ...