Heinrich Himmler: My Great-Uncle

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🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Katrin Himmler's great-uncle was Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, and one of the principle architects of the Holocaust. Katrin has confronted her family legacy with a book, Die Brüder Himmler, translated into English as ‘The Himmler Brothers. A German Family History’. She is a German author and political scientist, and has also edited, together with the historian Michael Wildt, private letters from Himmler that had been only recently discovered in Israel. The Private Heinrich Himmler: Letters of a Mass Murderer was published in the UK last year. In conversation with James Holland, she discusses Himmler, his brothers, and reveal the burden of this Nazi family legacy.

Recorded at Chalke Valley History Festival 2017.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone we have had a new exciting rebrand you may have noticed we are now the
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0:35.2	For this episode, I've dug back through the History Hit Archives to hand-pick one from the Chalk Valley
0:40.4	History here.
0:41.4	This is with the brilliant James Holland so you already
0:43.9	know it's going to be fascinating. It concerns what happened to the families of
0:48.2	high-profile Nazis after the Second World War.
0:52.6	To find out all this, James spoke with the great niece of Heinrich Himmler,
0:56.6	Katrin Himmler.
0:58.0	Himmler was of course the head of the dreaded SS, the second most powerful man after Adolf Hitler and the architect of the Holocaust.
1:06.0	And so this is a uniquely moving episode.
1:08.8	Katrin is both honest and revealing in what she says, and personally I found this to be an incredibly sobering talk. Thank you, Katchen, very, very much for coming. I know it must seem incredibly overwhelming coming to this
1:35.5	rather mad corner of of Southwest England and the first thing you see is
1:40.9	sort of you know a lineup of British Second World War
1:44.3	25 pounders and a hurricane and we've just been down talking to the Vikings and
1:51.3	had a chat with a gladiator and all sorts of stuff and I know it is all a bit odd.
1:56.4	But anyway, but thank you very much for coming.
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