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 ...

Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground- breaking study, an easy man to underestimate—short, pudgy, near-sighted, chinless. Yet Himmler holds a ...

Goering, whose cross-examination by Allied prosecutors was concluded today, asserted that Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo chief, had kept secret the extermination of European Jewry. Questioned whether ...

In the dock were 21 captured Nazi leaders men like Hermann Göring and the satanic Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the scar-faced functionary second only to Heinrich Himmler in overseeing the death camps.

Except it was no ordinary book. It was Heinrich Himmler’s — one of the chief architects of the Holocaust — personal copy of Adolf Hitler’s Volume I of “Mein Kampf,” replete with ...