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Heinrich Himmler
Holocaust denying writer and historian David Irving (AP/Alik Keplicz/File)
March 19, 2019, 9:06 am
British Holocaust denier David Irving to lead Nazi death camp tour
Publicity for the $3,650 trip calls the camps ‘controversial’ and describes Irving as a ‘Hitler expert’
By Marcy Oster
The family of Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler: daughter Gudrun, left, wife Margaret, center, and Heinrich, right, date unknown. (German Federal Archive, Image 146-1969-056-55/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA)
June 29, 2018, 3:29 pm
SS chief Himmler’s daughter worked for German spy agency
In bid for transparency about Nazi links in its past, BND reveals Gudrun Burwitz-Himmler was employed by it from 1961 to 1963, when the service had many ex-Nazis on its payroll
By AP
SS chief Heinrich Himmler (center) shakes hands with Hitler's photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann, around 1941 (public domain)
June 20, 2018, 1:57 pm
New book claims a ‘secret deal’ between Nazis and Allies cut the Holocaust short
Journalist Max Wallace writes that a hushed-up pact between Heinrich Himmler and his sworn enemies prompted the SS chief to destroy the gas chambers of Auschwitz. Experts disagree
By Matt Lebovic
A telegram from senior Nazi Heinrich Himmler to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, probably dating to 1943, found in the archives of the National Library, March 29, 2017.
March 30, 2017, 3:53 am
In rediscovered telegram, Himmler offers Jerusalem’s mufti help against ‘Jewish intruders’
Hitler’s deputy assures pro-Nazi Haj Amin al-Husseini of Nazis‘ ‘particular sympathy‘ for struggle of ‘freedom-loving Arabs’ of Palestine and beyond
By Sue Surkes
Notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele as a young doctor and the 'ramp' at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May of 1944, where Mengele sometimes selected inmates for life, death or 'experimentation' (Public domain)
October 27, 2016, 12:02 pm
The long, twisted shadow cast by Nazi medical experiments
Seven decades after Nazi camp inmates were tortured in the name of medical research, it is increasingly clear the experimentation was conducted by scientists well beyond known ‘Nazi hacks and SS quacks’
By Matt Lebovic
In Berlin, Germany, the memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe, November 2012 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
September 29, 2016, 11:57 pm
Targeting students, Holocaust deniers up their game online
As disputers of the Shoah attract new adherents, historians such as ‘Denial’ protagonist Deborah Lipstadt warn against implementing European-style laws
By Matt Lebovic
Heinrich Himmler in 1939 (AFP)
August 5, 2016, 11:05 am
Himmler diaries reveal chilling details of Nazi wartime life
Journals illustrate how the SS chief kept tabs on even the banal minutiae of his daily routine, even as he oversaw the systematic slaughter of European Jewry
By AFP
Heinrich Himmler with his daughter Gudrun ca. 1941 (Vanessa Lapa’s 'The Decent One' via JTA)
August 1, 2016, 9:36 pm
Himmler’s diary discovered in archive in Russia
Nazi SS leader recorded ‘effectiveness’ of the diesel engines used to gas prisoners at the Sobibor death camp
By JTA
A mother cradles her new born baby in the Kovno ghetto hospital. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of George Kadish/Zvi Kadushin)
May 5, 2016, 10:55 am
Groundbreaking study exhumes untold Nazi brutalization of women’s bodies
Author Beverley Chalmers says we owe it to victims and survivors to know the unspeakable crimes — including rape, experimentation and forced abortion — committed against them
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, 1939. (Bundesarchiv, Bild via Wikimedia Commons)
April 5, 2016, 4:06 pm
UK author exposes the oft-forgotten horrors of a Nazi death camp for women
In ‘If This Is a Woman,’ Sarah Helm goes inside Germany’s Ravensbrück, where up to 90,000 women perished during the Holocaust
By JP O’ Malley
A scene from 'My Sister' with twins Elizabeth and Emily Hinkler. (Encio Box)
March 3, 2016, 11:56 pm
On stage in LA, a sisterhood of survival in pre-Nazi Germany
Two-woman show ‘My Sister’ explores life in Germany’s Weimar Republic, and the ominous threats on the horizon
By Lisa Klug
Holocaust denier David Irving (photo credit: public domain via wikipedia)
February 24, 2016, 5:29 am
Don’t host Holocaust denier David Irving, Dutch group appeals to event halls
Watchdog urges venues in The Hague to ban author after news emerges of planned lecture
By JTA
In this 1938 file photo Heinrich Himmler, second right, chief of secret police, and Dr. Wilhelm Frick, right, and other leading members of the Nazi party march along Koenigliche Platz in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/file)
November 4, 2015, 9:08 pm
Most German Interior Ministry staff after WWII were ex-Nazis
Many officials had been in the SS, some served under Himmler, study shows
By AP
Heinrich Himmler at Dachau in 1936. (Friedrich Franz Bauer/Wikimedia Commons/German Federal Archive)
February 17, 2015, 10:38 pm
Italian town makes Himmler its poster boy in tourism brochure
Mayor says no offense intended after pamphlet distributed at Milan tourist expo features portrait of Nazi commandant, linked to legend of Roman treasure
By Rossella Tercatin
Heinrich Himmler at Dachau in 1936. (Friedrich Franz Bauer/Wikimedia Commons/German Federal Archive)
November 11, 2014, 4:23 pm
‘Decent’ Himmler documentary in running for Oscar
Belgian-born Israeli Vanessa Lapa uses secretly held collection of Nazi leader’s correspondence and photos to make challenging film
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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