It would be easy to cast all blame for the holocaust on one man, Adolf Hitler; the leader of Nazi Germany and the man whose face has now come to personify true evil. However, no one man could truly ...

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.

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 ...

But concerns are mounting that the move could reignite old tensions and stigmatise individuals linked to the dark history of ...

The Germans were also encouraged to have children with them by SS leader Heinrich Himmler. Himmler, one of the most powerful men under Adolf Hitler, favoured Norwegian women, hoping they could ...

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 ...

In July 1942 Heinrich Himmler again visited Auschwitz. There were approximately 30,000 inmates there at the time, most of them Jews and Polish political prisoners. He inspected the main camp ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. Forget pigeon post, the Nazis wanted to spread war propaganda via white storks, whose range and ..

In 1933, the Dachau camp was commissioned by Heinrich Himmler as the first concentration camp in Germany. In the beginning, mainly political prisoners were imprisoned in Dachau Concentration Camp.

The prosecution entered today into the court record a secret letter dated May 1, 1942 from the sectional Gestapo leader to Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler, which read: “The special treatment in ...