A German priest discovered he was the grandson of Heinrich Himmler after recognising a photograph of the Holocaust architect’s mistress as his own grandmother. Henrik Lenkeit, 49, was horrified to ...

BERLIN -- As a young girl, Katrin Himmler asked her grandmother about the man in a black suit in a photograph hanging on her living-room wall. Her grandmother didn't say much, but she cried. The man ...

Most of us have family members that we find rather embarrassing, or that are possibly even disreputable, but that sort of low-grade familial resentment is put in perspective by talking to Katrin ...

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Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler and his daughter Gudrun. Vanessa Lapa, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, has made a documentary called The Decent One, based on Himmler's letters to his wife and ...

Although Adolf Hitler had no children, many senior Nazis did. How do those offspring and other relatives of such war criminals as Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler view their ancestral guilt? It’s ...

The film's protagonist is Heinrich Himmler, the merciless Nazi leader and a key architect of the Final Solution. The film's director is Vanessa Lapa, the grandchild of Holocaust survivors. Her family ...