Theorist of Cosmic Ice
Christopher Clark
- BuyHeinrich Himmler by Peter Longerich, translated by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe
Oxford, 1031 pp, £25.00, October 2012, ISBN 978 0 19 959232 6
The ascent (if that’s the right word) of Heinrich Himmler to become the chief architect of Nazi genocide is one of the strangest strands of the regime’s story. There have been several studies of this enigmatic man, but Peter Longerich’s massive biography, grounded in exhaustive study of the primary sources, is now the standard work and must stand alongside Ian Kershaw’s Hitler, Ulrich Herbert’s Best and Robert Gerwarth’s Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich as one of the landmark Nazi biographies. As the author of a celebrated study of the Holocaust, Longerich is better able than his predecessors to situate Himmler within the vast machinery of genocide. And he brings to his task a gift for capturing those mannerisms that are the intimate markers of personality.
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Vol. 34 No. 19 · 11 October 2012 » Christopher Clark » Theorist of Cosmic Ice
pages 11-12 | 3085 words