Masterfully interweaves the narrative of himmlers personal and political life with the wider history of the nazi dictatorship. Real history and the alleged silencing of heinrich himmler. Perhaps more than any other single nazi leader aside from hitler, his name has become a byword for the terror, persecution, and destruction that characterized the third reich. Heinrich himmler was born on october 7 1900, in munich, to gebhard himmler and anna maria himmler. Little in either himmlers or heydrichs upbringing would have indicated their future line of work. Yet sixty years after himmlers 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. As head of the ss, chief of police, reichskommissar for the consolidation of germanness, and reich interior minister. Masterfully interweaving the story of himmlers personal life and political career with the wider history of the nazi dictatorship, longerich shows how skilfully he. Buy heinrich himmler reprint by peter longerich isbn. Named one of the best books of the year by the telegraph from renowned german holocaust historian peter longerich comes the definitive onevolume biography of adolf hitlers malevolent minister of propaganda. Himmler was there to see a new dieselpowered gas chamber in action, but no new prisoners were scheduled to arrive that day. Praise for heinrich himmler there have been several studies of this enigmatic man, but peter longerichs massive biography, grounded in exhaustive study of the primary sources, is now the standard work and must stand alongside ian kershaws hitler, ulrich herberts best and robert gerwarths hitlers hangman.
Peter longerich born 1955 in krefeld is a german professor of history. Next to hitler, himmler emerged as the most powerful man in nazi germany. Therefore it is necessary, longerich convincingly argues, not merely to portray himmler the man but also the institutions he created in his own image. The daily telegraph praise for heinrich himmler there have been several studies of this enigmatic man, but peter longerichs massive biography, grounded in. Heinrich himmler by peter longerich, 9780199651740, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Heinrich married margarete boden on july 3 1928, at age 27. The nazi murder and persecution of the jews, also published by oxford university press, which is widely recognized as the standard account of the nazi. In this, the firstever comprehensive biography of the ssreichsf hrer, leading german historian peter longerich puts every aspect of himmlers life under the microscope. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The nazi persecution and murder of the jews, 2010, etc. We know surprisingly little about heinrich himmlers early career. Buy heinrich himmler by peter longerich from waterstones today.
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Heinrich himmler by peter longerich the sunday times. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read heinrich himmler. Heinrich himmler is an interesting figure to study. Himmler, heinrich 1900 1945, leader of the ss and chief of german police, an architect of the final solution, and one of hitlers main advisors. He has published widely on the history of nazi germany and the holocaust, including holocaust. Heinrich himmler peter longerich oxford university press.
Katrin himmlers cool but meticulous examination of the himmler story reveals in all its dark complexity the gulf between the normality of bourgeois family life and the horrors perpetrated by one member. The holocaust differs from other genocides in recent history for one main reasonthere is no other example in which a minority was annihilated so systematically on the orders of a head of state and through the apparatus of government. His legal battles mostly behind him, david irving has resumed work on heinrich himmler. The firstever comprehensive biography of heinrich himmler as head of the ss and chief of police, a central figure in the nazi war of racial extermination and oppression. You learn from the book how much himmler was into the. We can only wonder, as biographer peter longerich asks, how could such a banal personality attain such a historically unique position of power. In 1999 my publishing imprint focal point publications invited californian writer joe bellinger to speak at cincinnati on the strange death of heinrich himmler. Peter longerich is professor of modern german history at royal holloway university of london and founder of the colleges holocaust research centre.
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Heinrich himmler historical records and family trees. The originals of these papers were located in a salt mine in the salzburg region and seized in 1945 by american forces. With an active marketplace of over 175 million items, use the alibris advanced search page to find any item you are looking for through the advanced search, you can find items by searching specific terms such as title, artist, song title, genre, etc or you can narrow. In this, the firstever comprehensive biography of the ssreichsfuhrer, leading german historian peter longerich puts every aspect of himmlers life under the microscope. As head of the ss, chief of police, reichskommissar for the consolidation of germanness, and reich interior minister, heinrich himmler enjoyed a position of almost unparalleled power and responsibility in nazi germany. At the end of world war ii, it was assumed that the letters of heinrich himmler were lost. Diaries of holocaust architect heinrich himmler discovered. Pdf himmler shoah resource center, the international school for holocaust studies.
Yet, in spite of his central role in the crimes of the nazi regime, until now himmler has remained a colourless and elusive figure in the history of the period. While hitler came from austrian peasant stock, himmler, who was born in 1900, and heydrich. As a member of a reserve battalion during world war i, himmler did not see active service. Longerich, the first historian to make use of the goebbels diaries in a biographical work, engages and challenges the selfserving portrait the propaganda chief left behind. He was at hitlers right hand guy who jumped at anything that came up. Paramilitary organizations in germany from 18711945 dtic.
Masterfully interweaving the story of himmler s personal life and political career with the wider history of the nazi dictatorship, longerich shows how skillfully he. How could the son of a prosperous bavarian catholic public servant become the organizer of a system. Masterfully interweaving the story of himmlers personal life and political career with the wider history of the nazi dictatorship, longerich shows how skilfully he exploited. We can only wonder, as biographer peter longerich asks, how could such a banal personality attain such an historically unique position of power. In this epically gripping portrait, longerich notes that the ss leaders squalid end chewing a cyanide capsule in prison explained the lack of a himmler legend. Goring, goebbels, himmler, heydrich and revolutionary totalitarian. Heinrich grew up catholic but later became a big antichristian. If you dont and if you dont know much about himmler in my opinion, the most sinister of of hitlers henchmen this is a comprehensive biography. Peter longerich in 2012, little if any in depth attention was given to the study of himmlers personal relationships. Peter padfield does an excellent job of capturing, and often analyzing, the life of himmler from his catholic childhood, through his initial failures of military life, through his rise to become one of hitlers inner circle and the most powerful person in the third reich. Yet he was hitlers top enforcer, in charge of the gestapo, the ss, and the socalled final solution. Download paper pdf united states holocaust memorial museum. Heinrich himmler by peter longerich obsessed with detail and control, heinrich himmler hid extraordinary evil behind a mask of mundanity. Heinrich himmler peter longerich download free ebook.