Heinrich Himmler headed the elite Nazi Party military unit known as the Schutzstaffel (SS), or protection staff, even before Adolf Hitler's seizure of power in Germany in 1933. A ruthless and efficient bureaucrat, Himmler bore responsibility for the SS...

The German National Socialist politician Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) commanded the SS, Hitler's elite troops, and was head of the Gestapo. He was perhaps the most powerful and ruthless man in Nazi Germany next to Hitler himself. Born in Munich,...

HUGH THOMAS. St. Martin's, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 0-312-28923-5 Thomas established himself as an expert on Nazi forensics in his previous work, The Murder of Adolf Hitler, and here he speculates that Himmler never committed suicide in 1945--or, at any rate, that the...

Milton Goldin explores Himmler's ambitions to establish the SS as a 'state within a state', and highlights schemes the Nazis devised to finance the organisation through industrial enterprise and plundered Jewish assets. Long before links between Swiss banks and the Third Reich...

Today is Wednesday, May 23, the 143rd day of 2007. There are 222 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On May 23, 1934, bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, La.On this date:In...

New photographs of Adolf Hitler taken before World War II show the Nazi leader arriving at a concert dressed in tails, receiving flowers from two blond girls at a music festival and getting out of a black convertible.Charles Turner, a music composer who was recruited...

Provides a biography of Nazi commander Heinrich Himmler, who worked closely with Hitler during World War II. Describes Himmler's management of the concentration camps and explores his rise through the ranks of the SS.

This is an exploration of the life, motives and activities of Heinrich Himmler, Hitler's close ally. He was the creator of the Schutzstaffel, or the SS, and gained power over the Gestapo.