Heinrich Himmler was head of the SS and a key architect of the Holocaust A document vital to the capture of top Nazi Heinrich Himmler has been unearthed in the UK 75 years after his death.

Heinrich Himmler.Bettmann Archive “Maybe it is a powerful tool to help educate, but because you’re gonna go down that route, know what you are doing, because words have power,” he said.

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 ...