Summary Himmler played a key role in elimination of all opposition to Hitler and Holocaust’s implementation.
BERLIN (AFP) - Hundreds of private letters, notes and photographs belonging to Hitler s henchman Heinrich Himmler have been found in Israel, a German newspaper reported Saturday.
Himmler, a visceral anti-Semite who was chief of the SS and German police, played a key role in the elimination of all opposition to Hitler and implementation of the Holocaust: the concentration camps were under his authority.
The personal documents belong to a private collection in Tel Aviv, said Die Welt, which possesses copies of them.
They include mainly letters to Himmler s wife Marga, which date from 1927 -- six years before Hitler came to power -- to 1945, the last written five weeks before he committed suicide on May 23 to avoid trial.
Germany s national archives authenticated the documents.
The documents "change nothing about the general image of the horrible Nazi dictatorship," said Die Welt which has financed a documentary using the material to show Himmler s private life.
