Movies
Vanessa Lapa’s documentary, “The Decent One,” brings the epistolary form to documentary, using narrated excerpts from a trove of top Nazi Heinrich Himmler’s diaries and letters — including those of his wife, Margarete, his parents and even eldest daughter Gudrun — to create a sort of how-did-he-get-here slice of grim history.
Oct. 9, 2014
Entertainment & Arts
Of all the neurotic conspirators who surrounded Adolf Hitler, none was more utterly weird than Heinrich Himmler, the unsmiling Reichsfuhrer-SS , organizer and commander of the German police, the concentration camps, and the Holocaust.
April 28, 1991
World & Nation
A stark reminder of the Holocaust--a speech by Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler that refers to “the extermination of the Jewish race”--went on display Friday at the National Archives.
April 17, 1993
Israel has obtained original questionnaires filled out by Hitler deputy Rudolf Hess and Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler for the 1935 “Who’s Who in the Third Reich.”
May 8, 1986
A second relative by marriage of Britain’s Royal Family was a Nazi and a general in Hitler’s SS, British newspapers reported Sunday.
April 21, 1985
The German government has asked Italy to investigate whether an Italian wine with labels depicting Adolf Hitler and fellow Nazis Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler violates a European Union resolution on combating the spread of racist images and literature.
Sept. 6, 2003
A portrait of Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler that provoked a free-speech controversy at tiny Midland Lutheran College will continue to hang in the college library, the school’s president said Monday.
April 19, 1994
Books
Germania A Novel Brendan McNally Simon & Schuster: 384 pp., $26 This IS an odd but largely engrossing hybrid of a book: part accurately reconstructed historical fiction, part comic romp as literary version of “Springtime for Hitler.”
Sept. 28, 2008
California
Feb. 19, 2015
Nearly 60 years have passed since the end of World War II, yet “The Aryan Couple” demonstrates that, although the events of the Holocaust have been exhaustively documented, they can still serve as a background for acute suspense.
Dec. 10, 2004