The Himmler Brothers Author:Katrin Himmler When Katrin Himmler, Heinrich's great-niece, was 15, one of her school mates asked during a history lesson if she was related to the Himmler. Yes, she stammered, at which there was a deathly hush in the classroom. The teacher, embarrassed and unsure, quickly moved the lesson on. As she grew older, Katrin gave her family history a wide berth - bu... more »t married to an Israeli whose family was confined to the Warsaw Ghetto and with a young, half-Jewish son, she realises that she cannot evade the past so easily. Katrin Himmler's cool but meticulous examination of the Himmler story reveals a?? in all its dark complexity a?? the gulf between the 'normality' of bourgeois family life and the horrors perpetrated by one member.« less