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.

Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ... for the deaths of six million Jews in death camps. Thus, to understand the Holocaust it is first necessary to ...

Two events made April 19, 1943, an especially tragic day in the history of the Holocaust ... Enraged by the incident, Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the liquidation of the ghetto.

Heinrich Himmler had been dead four years. But Himmler, the founder and leader of Nazi Germany's infamous SS, had known it in his bones. The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust ...

"Orders and Initiatives" highlights the crucial decision-making period of the Holocaust, encompassing the secret plans of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Reinhard Heydrich. At a conference at ...

The mission – arranged in secret between a Swedish aristocrat and Adolf Hitler’s right-hand man, SS chief Heinrich Himmler – ultimately ... reports of the Holocaust due to an “informal ...

The camp, established in 1936 under the direction of Heinrich Himmler, just weeks after the Nazis came to power, was initially used mainly for the detention of regime opponents, but later ...

In the dock were 21 captured Nazi leaders men like Hermann Göring and the satanic Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the scar-faced functionary second only to Heinrich Himmler in overseeing the death camps.