Year of publication: 2015 | Pages: 344 | Format: 168 × 238 mm, hardcover

Samples from the recently discovered correspondence of the Himmler couple supplemented with entries from Heinrich Himmler's pocket calendar and from the diaries of his wife and daughter. The seemingly innocent letters are of exceptional historical value and give an insight into the private life of the second man of the Third Reich. They show the unshakable conviction of a German couple who think of themselves as participating in the "big time" and are unable to recognize that these are big crimes.
The letters show Heinrich Himmler as a husband and father of a family as well as a staunch anti-Semite and an active Nazi.
"Even with that amount of work, I'm doing very well."
Heinrich Himmler in July 1941 Marze
As ridiculous as these letters may sometimes sound today, their apparent petty-bourgeois normality must fundamentally frighten us.
From the foreword by Katrin Himmler and Michael Wildt