The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History

When Katrin Himmler, the great-niece of Heinrich Himmler, the head or Hitler's SS and chief perpetrator of the Holocaust, was fifteen, one of her schoolmates asked during a history lesson if she was related to the Himmler. 'Yes,' she stammered, at which there was a deathly hush in the classroom and the teacher, embarrassed and unsure, quickly moved the lesson on. As she grew older - and having married an Israeli Jew with whom she had a son - Katrin realized that she could no longer avoid her fam...