Mr Lenkeit learned that Mrs Potthast gave birth to Helge, a son, in 1942, followed by Nanette-Dorothea, Mr Lenkeit’s mother, ...

The book had long lingered there. Known, but not acknowledged. Sitting on her father’s bookshelf for decades after the war in Western Europe had culminated in an Allied victory on May 8, 1945. Except ...

It is a simple sign-off in a love letter from husband to wife – but just a few words betray the brutal and horrific reality of the author’s day job... “I’m off to Auschwitz. Kisses. Yours, Heini.” For ...

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Work diaries chronicling the daily activities of Hitler’s henchman Heinrich Himmler have surfaced in Russian military archives. The recovered texts speak volumes about a key figure behind the ...

Heinrich Himmler was a Nazi leader in Germany. He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany, appointed Commander of the Home Army by Adolf Hitler. Himmler is held highly responsible for the ...

Nearly 700 of the former Nazi SS chief's private letters and photos have surfaced. The documents are deemed authentic, though experts debate their actual historical value. Hundreds of private letters ...

The daughter of Heinrich Himmler, who led Adolf Hitler’s ruthless SS, worked as a secretary for West Germany’s spy agency in the 1960s despite never renouncing Nazism and remaining active in far-right ...

Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi SS, made a secret wartime mission to an abbey in Spain in search of what he believed was the Aryan Holy Grail, a new book claims. Himmler visited the famous ...

Heinrich Luitpold Himmler ( 7 October 1900 – 23 May 1945) was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and later the Minister ...