In 1941, Heinrich Himmler took time out from organizing the Final Solution to write to his 12-year-old daughter, Gudrun: “In life, one must always be decent, courageous and kind-hearted.” This ...

Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler and his daughter Gudrun. Vanessa Lapa, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, has made a documentary called The Decent One, based on Himmler's letters to his wife and ...

Much of the history of human thought has revolved around our efforts to understand the nature of evil, which have never yielded anything like a satisfactory result. We are fascinated by serial killers ...

A photo of Heinrich Himmler during a Naval ship tour in northern Germany was released as part of a trove of letters, notes and photos that were being held by an Israeli family and published by Die ...

Heinrich Himmler -- the Nazi Gestapo chief, head of the German police in the Third Reich, head of the Reich Main Security Office, and Reich Minister of the Interior -- was born to a Catholic family ...

John Fletcher Sisson (middle), shown here in Germany in 1945, served in the 4th Infantry Division during WWII and returned home with Heinrich Himmler's personal copy of "Mein Kampf."(Photos courtesy ...

One summer evening last year, couples therapist Henrik Lenkeit, 49, was watching a TV documentary about German Nazi SS master Heinrich Himmler, architect of the Holocaust. After the show ended, ...

"Evil monster, murderer, Nazi," - that's how Henrik Lenkeit describes his grandfather. It sounds extreme until you discover that the man he's referring to was the ruthless Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ...