Heinrich Himmler

Anatomy of a Mass Murderer

Author: Michael Kloft

Length: 52'

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Heinrich Himmler is considered the incarnation of a mass murderer, the driving force behind the indescribable crimes that has made the National Socialist dictatorship so unique in modern history. An early henchman of Hitler’s, Himmler slowly but surely rose to become one of the mightiest "prefects" of the Nazi state. He turned an insignificant gang of thugs into a pseudo-religious order, and his "SS state" became a highly feared instrument of terror. As a compliant servant to his "Führer", Himmler controlled an economic empire in which hundreds of thousands of slave workers were exploited, including extermination camps in which millions of people were murdered. Using rare and hitherto unpublished archive material, photographs of historic sites and records of interviews with select persons, this film biography shows how - and, above all, why - Himmler, the offspring of a Bavarian bourgeois family became a "monster of history".

year of production: 2008