
Culling details from diaries, letters, and speeches captured from German archives, Padfield uses Heinrich Himmler's own words and observations to probe the life of the strangely ordinary man who became Hitler's most powerful lieutenant and one of history's most ruthless executioners...




A grimly compelling study of Hitler's SS and Gestapo chief who masterminded the attempted extermination of the Jewish race in Europe. Peter Padfield explores Himmler's mind through his diaries, letters, ordinances and speeches, and suggests that the roots...



