Himmler hoard of letters and diaries discovered in Israel
Source: The Guardian
Lost letters, photographs and diaries by Heinrich Himmler have been discovered in Israel, shedding new light on one of the men most directly responsible for the Holocaust.
The stash of documents from the Nazi era is currently held in a bank vault in Tel Aviv, but has been authenticated by the German federal archive, considered the world's leading authority on material from the period. Its contents are to be published over eight days in the newspaper Welt am Sonntag, starting on Sunday with Himmler's letters to his wife Margarete.
The letters portray a man whose cheerful mood is often at odds with the historical crime he helped to orchestrate. "I am travelling to Auschwitz. Kisses, your Heini," he wrote to his wife before setting off to inspect the concentration camp where he directed the killing of some 1.5 million people, mostly Jews.
Himmler and his wife shared antisemitic feelings, as well as a joint dislike of Weimar-era Berlin. "Poor sweetie, has to tussle with those wretched Jews over money," the SS leader wrote to his spouse on 16 April 1928.
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In the 1980s, Rosenthal tried to sell the letters after the German Federal Archives had authenticated them. But in 1983 German magazine Stern published excerpts from an alleged Hitler diary that turned out to be fake. In that atmosphere, the world wasn’t interested in more documents from Nazi leaders that could turn out to be forgeries.
When Rosenthal was 90, his son finally persuaded him to hand over the material for publication and, in 2007, Belgian diamond dealer David Lapa bought them for a symbolic fee, Die Welt reported. Lapa gave the documents to his daughter Vanessa, a film director, to make a documentary about them.
In 2011, Vanessa Lapa approached a reporter at Die Welt through her lawyer and proposed that the material be published. Later, at a meeting with a reporter from the paper, she brought Himmler's letters and photographs from 1927 to 1945 – the year he committed suicide.
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