Himmler’s personal journals had unveiled more horrific and tragic events from World War II that have been architected by the SS as well as other plans that have been made but due to the tides of war changing in 1944 have never been accomplished. The journal goes as far as explaining in detail hundreds of SS meetings that have taken place before and during the war. It also contains how Himmler decided to kill millions of people. The diary of Heinrich Himmler reveals how he had a massage before ordering the killing of 10 Poles. At the same time, he almost fainted when pieces of the brain of a Jew, shot, reached his coat.
The memoir that was written in 1938, 1943 and 1944 also reflects the end of the Second World War. It was discovered in the Russian military archives in Podolsk. The diary served as a calendar for Himmler, finding data, places, meetings, and his decision to send millions to their death. The document also contains macabre details of how he decided to kill hundreds of thousands of other people besides those who died in the holocaust.
A Wolf with no Fangs
He was known to be sensitive when he saw blood, in an August 1941 journal, detailing how he witnessed the mass murder of Jews in a pit at the exit of the city of Minsk (today’s Belarus). He almost fainted when a victim’s brain touched his coat. Director-Professor Nikolaus Katzer of the German Institute of History in Moscow described the document as “of major importance to history”.
It contains over 1,000 pages and was discovered 71 years after Himmler was captured by British soldiers. Recognized during interrogation, he swallowed a cyanide capsule he had hidden in a table, dying within minutes.
Himmler (in the right foreground) is pictured here at the camp at Auschwitz III during his visit on 17 and 18 July 1942
Himmler led the entire Nazi state terror apparatus, from the secret state police (Gestapo) to the concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz and Treblinka.
The diary shows that between 1943 and 1945 he met 1,600 people and wrote down details about their lives. After a visit to the concentration camp in Buchenwald (Germany), he noted: “We had a snack in the cafe at the SS casino.” In another journal, he wrote that he witnessed the “efficiency” of diesel engines in the Nazi Sobibor camp in Poland, where 400 people were killed in the demonstration. A total of 250,000 people were gassed in the concentration camps, almost two hours after Himmler arrived.
In the diary there are references to Puppi, (the nickname he used for his daughter Gudrun), she still lives in the suburbs of Munich, where she founded a charity called “Stille Hilfe” (Silent Help). Writings about Margarethe Sieghroth, the woman he married in 1928 and gave a daughter to Gudrun, were also discovered in the diary. He also mentioned his adopted son Gerhard.
Heinrich Himmler and his daughter Gudrun in 1938
Details of the wedding between General Hemann Fegelein and Gretl Braun as part of Hitler’s retreat in Obersalzberg, Bavaria, were also revealed in the diary.
Fegelein was one of Himmler and Hitler’s favorites, while Gretl was the sister of Eva Braun, the woman who lived in the shadow of the Third Reich and was the leader’s mistress. Three days before the wedding, Fegelein was arrested on Hitler’s orders on suspicion of treason.
The diary was discovered two years after the letters he sent to his daughter and wife, photographs, and a cookbook written by Himmler, all discovered in Israel.
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