The most famous account of Nazi horrors is the “Anne Frank Diary, ” which, from the perspective of a teenage girl, shows atrocities committed in Nazi Germany. Now another diary promises to move further into the wounds of World War II: nearly a thousand pages of the diary of Nazi boss Heinrich Himmler were discovered after 70 years.

A few pages had been discovered before, but the new find brings a new idea of ​​what it was like to live during one of humanity's most terrible periods. Germany's Bild newspaper is publishing the diary of one of the Nazi Party leaders. Dinner stories and phone calls to her daughter are as commonplace as the order of a mass murder in Himmler's writings.

Many writings are similar: Himmler's day began with a 2-hour massage session and then called his wife, Margarete, and daughter, Gudrun - the latter, now 86, was involved in recent scandals in Germany. on account of neo-Nazi apologies.

Over 1, 000 pages of Heinrich Himmler's diary were lost for 70 years

Family Routine and Cruel Murders

Journalist Damian Imoehl, who is releasing Himmler's reports, finds it interesting that the Nazi military man is an owl father and a cold-blooded killer. “He was very careful with his wife and daughter, despite his extramarital relationship with his secretary. But it also has the man side of horror, ”says Imoehl.

Some crueler passages of World War II take on routine contours in Himmler's words. “SS-Sonderkommando Tour” is what is written on the day Himmler took a trip to see the diesel engines that would later be used in a gas chamber. Since there were not many Nazi prisoners that day, 400 women and children were brought from a nearby town to test the equipment. After that, Himmler went to a sumptuous dinner.

The commander was stripped of power and arrested in April 1945 when he was caught negotiating a deal with the Allies. He fled, was captured by the British and killed himself with cyanide a few months before the end of World War II.

Henrich Himmler with his daughter Gudrun in 1941