Himmler

A truly epochal work by German historian and renowned Nazi expert Peter Longerich reveals the last unresolved questions surrounding Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) - the author has uniquely pieced together a mosaic of Himmler's personal life history, political biography and the Nazi realities of the time, opening up a surprising insight into the overall history of the Nazi dictatorship.

There are a lot of stereotypes about Himmler: sometimes he is a pedantic bureaucrat, sometimes he is portrayed as a gloomy ideologue of the so-called "bureaucrat". the final solution. Peter Longerich, however, provides the reader with an overall overview of all the areas that are in some way related to Himmler's responsibility and actions, and shows how this man personified the structure and destructive dynamics of the Nazi dictatorship in an incredible way.

This is the first truly thorough biography of the Reichsführer of the SS and the SS Weapons Commander, the head of the Gestapo, Commissioner for the consolidation of German nationality, Minister of the Interior and organizer of the mass murder of Jews, reveals Himmler's involvement in the terror, persecution and extermination - was responsible for both the repressive system within the Reich, ...for crimes committed in concentration and extermination camps, the atrocities committed by the SS on the Eastern Front or the uprooting and displacement of millions of people under German rule.