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 ...

It is hard to think of two people more honoured in their own time and more hated by history than the terrifying double act of Heinrich ... rather than wrong. Himmler’s biography is better ...

nine women elude their SS guards, escaping a Nazi death march from a sub-camp of Ravensbruck, the only concentration camp built exclusively by orders of Heinrich Himmler to imprison women.

Heinrich Himmler, the head of the vaunted SS and one of the chief architects of the holocaust against the Jews and anyone else who did not fit his vision of a pure Germany. In this documentary ...

As the right-hand man of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler was perhaps the most feared man in Nazi Germany. Under his command, the monsters of the SS had carried out unspeakable horrors, not least ...

As chief of the SS, Heinrich Himmler had commanded more than a million ... Peter Longerich’s huge new biography on the “Reich Leader SS” addresses this question and many others.

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 it was no ordinary book. It was Heinrich Himmler’s — one of the chief architects of the Holocaust — personal copy of Adolf Hitler’s Volume I of “Mein Kampf,” replete with ...

John Fletcher Sisson (middle), shown here in Germany in 1945, served in the 4th Infantry Division during WWII and returned home with Heinrich Himmler's personal copy of "Mein Kampf."(Photos ...