SS chief Heinrich Himmler was the mastermind of what’s known as the “final solution” the deliberate and systematic plan for the mass murder of the Jewish people via camps like Auschwitz.

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 ...

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler (right) tours the Monowitz-Buna building site. In October 1941 Auschwitz construction chief Karl Bischoff and SS architect Fritz Ertl were developing plans for a ...

who became the personal doctor of the chronically ill Heinrich Himmler (Serkis), Hitler’s second-in-command who was the head of the SS and is regarded as the chief architect of the Holocaust.