Love letters reveal private life of monster who killed six million
Jews in the Holocaust
Mirror.co.uk - 23 minutes ago
Chilling letters to wife end with Himmler signing off "I'm off to
Auschwitz. Kisses. Yours, Heini"

Evil pair: Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler
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It is a simple sign-off in a love letter from husband to wife – but
just a few words betray the brutal and horrific reality of the
author's day job... "I'm off to Auschwitz. Kisses. Yours, Heini."
For Heini is Heinrich Himmler, the SS chief who ordered the
extermination of six million Jews during the Second World War and grew
to be one of Nazi Germany's most feared men.
And he was off to inspect the death camp that saw more than 1.2million
people slaughtered as part of the Third Reich's Final Solution.
A newly-discovered collection of letters, diaries, notes and pictures
–thought to have been lost forever – has shed light on the private
life of the man who organised the Holocaust.
In his own words, Himmler reveals himself as an insecure romantic
fantasist who kept his mass murder programme from those closest to
him. He was happy to have millions killed, but did not want to upset
wife Marga with details of the horrors committed under his command.
Himmler gives away only fragments of information about his role in the
Nazi regime. Letters and photos of his trips across German-occupied
Europe were sent home but the detail of what he was doing and what he
experienced was not.
He leaves out the horrors of his mission to track down and kill
millions of Jews. And there is hardly a mention of the ghettos and
extermination camps he oversaw and which were manned by his SS and
police force. Mass murderer and family man – Himmler was both. He had
millions of people executed and always felt "decent" doing it, reveal
the documents, which were published yesterday in the German newspaper
Die Welt.
As Himmler prepared for an inspection of camps in occupied Poland in
July, 1942 and a demonstration involving the gassing of several
hundred innocent people, he wrote mundanely:
"In the next few days I'll be in Lublin, Zamosc, Auschwitz, Lviv and
then in the new quarters. I'm curious if and how I will be able to
phone, it will probably be around 2000 kilometers to Gmund. All the
best, have a nice trip and enjoy your days with our little daughter.
Many warm greetings and kisses! Your Daddy."
His favoured sign-offs to Marga were "Euer Pappi" (Your Daddy) or
"Dein Heini" (Your Heini) and he would often address her as "My dear
sweetheart" and "Dear Mummy".

The other side of a monster: Himmler and his wife
The pair met on a train from Munich to Berchtesgaden in 1927. It was
around the time the 26-year-old Himmler was put in charge of Nazi
dictator Adolf Hitler's "protection squads", the monstrous
Schutzstaffeln that would come to be known more commonly as the SS.
He and his new love shared a pathological hatred of Jewish people, the
letters reveal. In early correspondence between the courting couple,
their radical anti-Semitism is stark. In the run-up to their 1928
wedding, Marga – who was seven years older than Himmler – writes of
"Jewish scum" that scared her. Later she simply referred to them as
scum.
Her fiance only encouraged her: "Poor Lovey, you have to deal with the
miserable Jews because of money".
When Marga sold her shares in a private clinic to the Jewish co-owner
Dr Bernhard Hauschild, she wrote: "This Hauschild! A Jew will always
be a Jew!"
Himmler replied: "But don't get worked up about the Jews, dear, dear
woman, if I could only help you."
Within a decade, Himmler had grown to become one of the most sinister
top Nazis and was coordinating the Hitler regime's sick ethnic
policies.
He orchestrated the attacks of November, 1938 – known as
Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass – that saw Nazi stormtroopers
ransack and smash Jewish homes, hospitals, schools and synagogues.
At least 91 Jews were killed in the attacks, and 30,000 were locked
away in concentration camps. For many, it signalled the start of the
Nazis' Final Solution, the plan to exterminate Jews in Europe.
But even that was not enough for Marga, who wrote in her diary: "This
thing with the Jews, when will this scum leave us so that we can lead
a happy life?".
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