For educational purposes
Himmler, the enforcer with his SS brigades was the most powerful of all Hitler's aides as well as being the most ruthless.
His brave new world consisted of concentration and death camps, security services and the Gestapo. No-one more typified the terror of the Holocaust than Himmler.
Heinrich Himmler's skill was in being unprepossessing, he knew how to exploit the advantage he gained from being long underestimated by Hitler's other aides.
No one would ever have suspected that of all people he would become the most powerful man in the Third Reich after Hitler.
Utilising newly discovered archive material, original sound recordings and exclusive eyewitness testimonies, a picture is built up of an unassuming but single-minded enforcer of perhaps the most willing, but undoubtedly also the most terrible of Hitler's aides.