具体描述
Once upon a time the Himmlers were just a normal German family, middle-class, hard-working, well-educated. There were three brothers, Gebhart, Heinrich, and Ernst. Heinrich grew up to become the head of Hitler’s SS, mastermind of the concentration camp system, and chief perpetrator of the Holocaust. When Katrin Himmler, Heinrich’s great-niece, was 15, one of her schoolmates 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 and the teacher, embarrassed and unsure, quickly moved the lesson on. As she grew older, Katrin gave her family history a wide berth, but married to an Israeli whose family was confined to the Warsaw Ghetto and with a young, half-Jewish son, she realizes that she cannot evade the past so easily. Katrin Himmler’s cool but meticulous examination of the Himmler story reveals—in all its dark complexity—the gulf between the "normality" of bourgeois family life and the horrors perpetrated by one member and a more nuanced portrait of Heinrich himself emerges—not a lone evil executioner, but a middle-class family man, loved and fully supported by his respectable German family.
作者简介
卡特琳•希姆莱，1967年生于德国丁斯拉肯市，德国纳粹党卫队头目海因里希•希姆莱的侄孙女。大学期间主修政治学，并参与了现代史研究的多个项目，包含种族主义和跨文化交际等题目的研究。丈夫为以色列犹太人，其祖辈在波兰遭到过德国纳粹的迫害。
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读后感
出生在和平年代的我们，对一战、二战来说都是感觉久远的事情，是一段斗争和反抗的历史。对于二战时期的海德里因希姆莱这个人物仅仅停留在纳粹德国的头号法西斯战犯，一个是个臭名昭著的人物，制造了犹太种族的大屠杀，是"有史以来最大的刽子手"。依然记得《辛德勒的名单...
提到希姆莱的姓氏，首先想到的是三兄弟中的海因里希•希姆莱，他曾经是德国纳粹时期的一个重要政治任务，第二次世界大战时期作为党位对首领，对欧洲600万犹太人、同性恋者、共产党人和20万至50万罗姆人的大屠杀以及德国对苏联的东方总计划的倡导者和鼓动者，与他的两个兄弟相...
