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Archive focus: Himmler's final days

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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.

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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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