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001 2015042404
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008 151114s2016 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2015042404
020 $a9781250064653 (hardback)
020 $z9781466870895 (e-book)
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050 00 $aDD247.H46$bA413 2016
082 00 $a943.086092$aB$223
084 $aBIO006000$aHIS027100$aHIS014000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aHimmler, Heinrich,$d1900-1945.
240 10 $aCorrespondence.$kSelections.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe private Heinrich Himmler :$bletters of a mass murderer /$cedited and with commentary by Katrin Himmler and Michael Wildt ; translated by Thomas S. Hansen and Abby J. Hansen.
250 $aFirst published in the United States by St. Martin's Press.
263 $a1603
264 1 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aOriginal German edition: Munich : Piper Verlag, 2014.
520 $a"The English translation of the letters of Heinrich Himmler and his wife, recently authenticated by the Bundesarchiv and serialized in Die Welt"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"At the end of World War II, it was assumed that the letters of Heinrich Himmler were lost. Yet sixty years after Himmler's capture by British troops and subsequent suicide, the letters mysteriously turned up in Tel Aviv and, in early 2014, excerpts were published for the first time by the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot providing a rare, if jarring, glimpse into the family life of one of Hitler's top lieutenants while he was busy organizing the mass extermination of the Jews. It was generally held that Himmler, once appointed head of the SS, blended seamlessly into the Nazi hierarchy. The image that emerges, however, is more subtle. Himmler is seen here as a man whose observations can often be characterized by their unpleasant banality; a man whose obsession with family life ran alongside a brutal detachment from all things human, a serial killer who oversaw the persecution and extermination of all Jews and other non-Aryans, and those opposed to the regime. His letters remove any doubt that he was the architect of the Final Solution, and a man who was much closer to Hitler than many historians previously thought. The letters in this edition were arranged by Katrin Himmler, the great-niece of Heinrich and Marga Himmler while Michael Wildt, a renowned expert on the Nazi regime, provides historical context to the letters and their author. The entire work was translated by Thomas S. Hansen and Abby J. Hansen"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aHimmler, Heinrich,$d1900-1945$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHimmler, Margarete,$d1893-1967$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aNazis$vCorrespondence.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Military / World War II.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / Germany.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aHimmler, Katrin,$d1967-$eeditor.
700 1 $aWildt, Michael,$d1954-$eeditor.
700 1 $aHansen, Thomas S.$q(Thomas Stansfield)$etranslator.
700 1 $aHansen, Abby J.,$d1945-$etranslator.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/653/9781250064653/image/lgcover.9781250064653.jpg