The Himmler Brothers
A German Family History

By Katrin Himmler, Micahel Mitchell (trans.)
September 2008
Pan Books
Distrubuted by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9780330448147
333 pages, Illustrated
$18.95 Paper

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Synopsis
It took courage and imagination for Katrin to confront the assumptions and half-truths that had taken root in the family... You get a vivid sense of a particular kind of German conservatism and of how, weirdly, it found an outlet in the upstart, part-pagan thuggery of Nazisim...The Himmler Brothers raises more questions than it answers, but that doesn't lessen in the slightest my admiration of Katrin Himmler for having written it. --.

One can only admire the bravery of Katrin Himmler . . . In a way, Katrin Himmler's book is not a story about the past, but one about the present. The most interesting details are the ones she gives of her own quest. --.

Katrin Himmler's book is important: in its meticulous detail, we see the enduring truth of the phrase "the banality of evil". It shows how a family from a cultured Munich background could produce the greatest mass murderer in the history of the world and how its other members willingly followed him on a Faustian pact with evil. --Sunday Telegraph

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