Established in 1925, the SS was regarded as the Nazi Party's elite unit. With Heinrich Himmler at its head, the SS expanded its role beyond that of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard to perpetrate ...
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 ...