Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground- breaking study, an easy man to underestimate—short, pudgy, near-sighted, chinless. Yet Himmler holds a ...

By the time George Orwell published this piercing insight into totalitarianism, in 1949, Heinrich Himmler had been dead four years. But Himmler, the founder and leader of Nazi Germany's infamous ...