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Archive focus: Himmler's final days

History without compromise.

Around Himmler's death in British custody, revisit the documents, private papers, and command records behind the SS leadership and the regime's final collapse.

“Irving knows more than anyone alive about the German side of the Second World War.”
Sir John KeeganThe Daily Telegraph, 20 April 1996

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Himmler, command, and collapse

Primary-source studies of Himmler, the Nazi leadership, and postwar reckoning

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