Himmler: Reichsführer-SSA detailed biography of Himmler, from his childhood to his suicide in 1945. Stresses the psychological aspects of Himmler's antisemitism. Shows that the creator of the concentration camp empire was not a fanatical antisemite from a young age, as Hitler was, but adopted it from the atmosphere of post-World War I Germany. Himmler was not obsessed by pathological antisemitism; he regarded the extermination of the Jews in Europe as his political duty, as a kind of military operation. Dwells also on the euthanasia program and its connection with the mass killings of the Jews and the SS machinery. |
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