[Personal Correspondence of Heinrich Himmler]

[Personal Correspondence of Heinrich Himmler] 

[Personal Correspondence of Heinrich Himmler] 

1 electronic resource (106 pages) 

The file contains correspondence either written as a response by Heinrich Himmler or subordinates to letters addressed to him by SS personnel, Nazi party and SS members such as Oskar Dirlewanger asking for the permission to volunteer in frontline combat duty once the war broke out in late 1939, the Gauleiter of Hannover (Mutschmann) asking for the imprisonment of a university professor for making derogatory statements about Reichsmarschall Herman Göring, the treasurer of the NSDAP requesting the punishment of a high ranking SS member for the embezzelment of official party funds and collection of illegal donations, high ranking military officers, such as General Wilhelm Keitel, asking Himmler to refrain from drafting the"bes" recruits exclusively for the SS (1943), Minister of the economy, Hans Frank, asking Himmler to refrain from arresting the director of an economic research institute due to the important nature of the directors work in terms of the war effort. The file also contains menial correspondence such as Himmlers explicit orders to provide some deserving Lebensborn homes with chocolate as christmas presents for the Lebensborn children as well as orders to find a misplaced coat of an aryanized blond and blue-eyed russian orphan boy, whom Himmler and his entourage fancied.