Showing posts with label Heinrich Himmler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heinrich Himmler. Show all posts
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Sunday, January 26, 2014
Himmler Letters: 'I Am Travelling to Auschwitz. Kisses. Your Heini'
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| Himmler with his daughter, Gudrun |
A collection of letters, notes and photographs from Heinrich Himmler are to be published in full on Sunday, shedding light on the private life of the man who orchestrated the Holocaust.
Spanning from Himmler’s courtship of his future wife in 1927 to just a few weeks before he committed suicide in 1945, the archive published by Die Welt promises to be an unprecedented insight to the domestic relationship of the Nazi high command.
Personal archives relating to Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goerring and Joseph Goebbels have all been destroyed either by close aides or in the final onslaught on Berlin.
In excerpts released by the German newspaper on Saturday night, some exchanges between Himmler and his wife Marga contain a chilling informality.
In a July 1942 note to his wife, he wrote: “I am travelling to Auschwitz. Kisses. Your Heini.” » | Damien McElroy and Inna Lazareva | Sunday, January 26, 2014
DIE WELT: Kapitel 1: Himmler: Die Handschrift des Massenmörders » | Sonntag, 26. Januar 2014
YNET NEWS: Himmler's letters revealed: 'I'm going to Auschwitz. Kisses': Private correspondence of architect of Final Solution shows how top Nazi was willing to shoot his own mother if Hitler asked, but despite mass murder surrounding him family life was indispensable » | Yehuda Shohat and Elad Zeret | Sunday, January 26, 2014
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Friday, January 24, 2014
Heinrich Himmler's Letters to Be Published
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| Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel |
Heinrich Himmler’s love letters to his wife that also document the rise and fall of the Nazi regime are to be made public for the first time, it has been claimed.
Hundreds of the SS commander’s private letters, notes and photographs from 1927 to five weeks before his suicide in 1945 will be published by Die Welt newspaper on Sunday.
The architect of the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of six million Jews, met his future wife Marga, who ran a nursing home in Berlin, in 1927. The letters apparently detail the early months of their relationship, with Himmler signing them “Dein Heini” (“Your Heini”).
But the correspondence between the couple apparently confirms the “not-so-glamorous private life of the Himmler family”.
The relationship started to break down from 1938 onwards, as Himmler had an affair with his private secretary, but contrary to biographers of the Reichsführer SS, he remained in touch with his wife and also wrote several times to his daughter, signing them off with “Euer Pappi” (“Your Daddy”). » | Barney Henderson | Friday, January 24, 2014
DIE WELT: Verschollene Briefe Heinrich Himmlers aufgetaucht: "Welt" exklusiv: 69 Jahre nach dem Suizid Heinrich Himmlers sind in Israel Briefe und Fotos aus seinem Privatbesitz aufgetaucht. Sie geben Einblick in das Leben eines der schlimmsten Nazi-Verbrecher. » | sfk/J.S./sim | Freitag, 24. Januar 2014
DIE WELT: Heinrich Himmler's missing letters surface: "Die Welt" exclusive: 69 years after Heinrich Himmler's suicide his private letters and photographs have surfaced in Israel. They provide insight into the life of one of the main orchestrators of the Holocaust. » | sfk/J.S./sim | Translated by Thilo Maluch | Friday, January 24, 2014
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