Himmler Brothers

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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 & the horrors perpetrated by one member. This riveting family memoir provides essential new information on the private life & background of one of the twentieth- centurys most notorious killers -- not a lone evil executioner but a middle-class family man loved & fully supported by his respectable German family. It also offers a unique account of one womens courageous attempt to deal with her chilling inheritance. It is part of the creeping discomfort in reading her book to realise the incredibly ordinary middle-class background of these three sons of a rather pompous provincial headmaster & to see how right until the end he was almost able to convince himself it hadnt happened like it had Sunday Times You get a vivid sense of a particular kind of German conservatism
- Roman Catholic monarchist
- & of how weirdly it found an outlet in the upstart part-pagan thuggery of Nazism Independent One can only admire her bravery.. . In a way Katrin Himmlers book is not a story about the past but one about the present. The most interesting details are the ones she gives of her own quest Daily Telegraph