While watching a documentary about Nazi Germany, Henrik Lenkait uncovered a shocking detail about his family: his biological grandfather was Heinrich Himmler.

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 ...

"The Handwriting of a Mass Murderer" is how Germany's Die Welt newspaper bills its eight-part series featuring excerpts of Heinrich Himmler's personal letters accompanied by family photos, which are ...

Hitler's right-hand man, Himmler was a feared and fanatical man known for his leading role in the Final Solution and Holocaust. So, imagine how Henrik felt when aged 47 he discovered by chance that ...

A German priest discovered he was the grandson of Heinrich Himmler after recognising a photograph of the Holocaust architect’s mistress as his own grandmother. Henrik Lenkeit, 49, was horrified to ...

Extracts from Heinrich Himmler‘s newly-discovered diaries have revealed the grisly everyday routine of the mastermind of the Holocaust in the depths of World War 2. The diaries were thought to have ...

A sense of irony is helpful, perhaps even necessary, to truly appreciate “The Decent One,” the new documentary about Heinrich Himmler. The paradox begins with the title character. He was the architect ...

Let’s be honest, there’s something about Nazis that makes them impossible to ignore. Those boots, those salutes, that deeply creepy goosestep. And then of course there’s the small matter of their ...

BERLIN --Germany's foreign intelligence agency has confirmed that the daughter of top Nazi Heinrich Himmler, who led the SS, worked for it as a secretary in the early 1960s. The BND told Bild ...