Himmler - Úplná biografie říšského vůdce SS – Longerich Peter (2020)

The truly epoch-making work of German historian and renowned expert on Nazism Peter Longerich reveals the last unresolved questions surrounding SS Reich Leader Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) - the author has uniquely pieced together the mosaic of Himmler's personal life history, political biography, and contemporary Nazi realities, thus opening up a surprising view of the overall history of the Nazi dictatorship. There are many stereotypes about Himmler: sometimes he is portrayed as a pedantic bureaucrat, other times as a grim ideologist of the so-called Final Solution. However, Peter Longerich provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of all areas related to Himmler's responsibilities and actions, showing how this man incredibly embodies the structure and destructive dynamics of the Nazi dictatorship. This first truly thorough biography of the SS Reich Leader and commander of the SS troops, head of the Gestapo, commissioner for the consolidation of German nationality, interior minister, and organizer of the mass extermination of Jews uncovers Himmler's role in terror, persecution, and extermination - he was responsible for both the repressive system within the Reich and the crimes in concentration and extermination camps, the atrocities committed by the SS on...