The Himmler Brothers

Informationen zum Autor Katrin Himmler is the great-niece of Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, Gestapo and leading organiser of the Holocaust. She was born in 1967. Klappentext Heinrich Himmler's great-niece offers a unique account of one woman's attempt to deal with her chilling inheritanceHeinrich Himmler's great-niece offers a unique account of one woman's attempt to deal with her chilling inheritance Zusammenfassung Katrin Himmler’s cool but meticulous examination of the Himmler story reveals – in all its dark complexity – the gulf between the ‘normality’ of bourgeois family life and the horrors perpetrated by one member. This riveting family memoir provides essential new information on the private life and background of one of the twentieth- century’s most notorious killers – not a lone evil executioner, but a middle-class family man, loved and fully supported by his respectable German family. It also offers a unique account of one women’s 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 and to see how, right until the end, he was almost able to convince himself it hadn't happened like it had' Sunday Times ‘You get a vivid sense of a particular kind of German conservatism - Roman Catholic, monarchist - and 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 Himmler's 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

Product details

• Authors: Katrin Himmler
• Assisted by: Michael Mitchell (Translation), Mike Mitchell (Translation)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.06.2008
• EAN: 9780330448147
• ISBN: 978-0-330-44814-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 195 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Pan Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Nationalsozialismus, Himmler, Heinrich, Himmler, Gebhard, Himmler, Ernst, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Germany, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Biography: historical, political and military