HIDDEN love letters from Heinrich Himmler to his wife have shed new light ... In one typically banal reference to the biggest death camp run by the Nazis, he says: "I'm going to Auschwitz.

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 ...