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The private Heinrich Himmler : letters of a mass murderer

Title: The private Heinrich Himmler : letters of a mass murderer / edited and with commentary by Katrin Himmler and Michael Wildt ; translated by Thomas S. Hansen and Abby J. Hansen.
Author: Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945
Publication: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2016].
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344 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"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 while Michael Wildt, a renowned expert on the Nazi regime, provides historical context to the letters and their author. The entire work was translated by Thomas S. Hansen and Abby J. Hansen"--

Uniform Title

Correspondence. Selections. English

Alternative Title

Correspondence.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Records and correspondence.
Personal correspondence.

Note

Original German edition: Munich : Piper Verlag, 2014.
Includes index.

Call Number

JFE 16-3586

ISBN

9781250064653 (hardback)
1250064651 (hardback)

LCCN

2015042404

OCLC

907965785

Author

Himmler, Heinrich, 1900-1945, author.

Title

The private Heinrich Himmler : letters of a mass murderer / edited and with commentary by Katrin Himmler and Michael Wildt ; translated by Thomas S. Hansen and Abby J. Hansen.

Publisher

New York : St. Martin's Press, [2016].

Edition

First U.S. edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

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Added Author

Himmler, Katrin, 1967- editor.

Wildt, Michael, 1954- editor.

Hansen, Thomas S. (Thomas Stansfield), translator.

Hansen, Abby J., 1945- translator.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3586

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