Heinrich Himmler

The first-ever comprehensive biography of Heinrich Himmler, SS-Reichsführer, Nazi Interior Minister, and Chief of Police, whose name has become a byword for the terror, persecution, and destruction that characterized the Third Reich.

(Oxford)

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Roger Moorhouse, BBC History Excellent ... well crafted and engaging ... comfortably surpassing the offerings of previous biographers, it is surely set to become the definitive work for a generation.

New York Times Book Review supremely enlightening

New Statesman There have been many attempts to describe the life and opinions of Heinrich Himmler, but this one ... is the first thorough scholarly biography to appear

Mail on Sunday very well documented

Booklist A superbly researched account

Literary Review a work of staggering scholarship

Sunday Telegraph splendid

Richard J. Evans A masterpiece.

Ian Kershaw A highly impressive biography, resting on exhaustive exploration of available sources.

The Sunday Times Gigantic book

Sunday Telegraph Splendid...Longerich gives it a depth and breadth it has previously lacked.

(Oxford)

Abbreviatons and Glossary; Prologue; PART I: THE YOUNG HIMMLER; 1. Childhood and Youth; 2. The Student of Agriculture; 3. Struggle and Renunciation; 4. A New Start in Lower Bavaria; 5. The Party Functionary; 6. Reichsfuhrer SS; PART II: IN THE THIRD REICH; 7. The Take-Over of the Political Police; 8. From Inspector of the Prussian Gestapo to Chief of the German Police; 9. The State Protection Corps; PART III: THE ORDER; 10. Ideology and Religious Cult; 11. Himmler's Leadership Style; 12. Himmler the Educator; 13. The SS Family; PART IV: AMBITION AND DISAPPOINTMENT; 14. War Preparations and Expansion; 15. War and Settlement in Poland; 16. A New Racial Order; 17. Repression in the Reich; 18. Shifting Borders: The Year 1940; PART V: THE GREATER GERMANIC REICH: LEBENSRAUM AND ETHNIC MURDER; 19. An Ideological War of Annihilation; 20. From Mass Murder to the 'Final Solution'; 21. The Murder of the European Jews; 22. Settlement Policy and Racial Selection; 23. The 'Iron Law of Ethnicity': Recruitment for the Waffen-SS; 24. A Europe-wide Reign of Terror; PART VI: DOWNFALL IN STAGES; 25. Can a Turn in the War Present an Opportunity?; 26. Collapse; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Comments on Sources and Literature; Bibliography; Index

(Oxford)