Born into a Bavarian bourgeois family Heinrich Himmler became the driving force behind the indescribable crimes that made the Nazi regime so unique in modern history ...

Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground- breaking study, an easy man to underestimate—short, pudgy, near-sighted, chinless. Yet Himmler holds a ...

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 ...