Himmler, Katrin/Wildt, Michael Himmler privat. Briefe eines Massenmörders

When Heinrich Himmler and Marga Siegroth meet in 1927, their affection is mutual. The couple are united in their anti-Semitism ("the Jewish pack") as well as in their dream of country life. Himmler, as a functionary of the NSDAP, often travels "with the boss" Hitler, advises his "Liebchen" from afar to "preserve the elderberry as mush"; Marga proudly reports to her husband that their house is the "meeting place of all National Socialists".

While Himmler rises to become the most powerful man behind Hitler after 1933 and organises the "final solution of the Jewish question" as Reichsführer SS and head of the German police, he sends his "little wife", who is travelling through occupied Poland for the Red Cross ("the indescribable filth") "dear thoughts for Mother's Day", boasts about all the "work" he has done and encloses photos of his trips to the SS Einsatzgruppen and Waffen SS units. The harmlessness of the letters is only apparent; behind the petty-bourgeois façade, the violence and lack of empathy that also characterised the Himmlers' private lives become visible.