When Katrin Himmler, the great-niece of Heinrich Himmler, the head or Hitler's SS and chief perpetrator of the Holocaust, was fifteen, one of her schoolmates asked during a history lesson if she was related to the Himmler. 'Yes,' she stammered, at which there was a deathly hush in the classroom and the teacher, embarrassed and unsure, quickly moved the lesson on. As she grew older - and having married an Israeli Jew with whom she had a son - Katrin realized that she could no longer avoid her family history. 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...

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