{"product_id":"himmlers-last-days-wendy-lower-9780063315143","title":"Himmler's Last Days: The End of Terror in Nazi Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe gripping story of the fall of Heinrich Himmler--the man who sought to perfect genocide--as he becomes the most hunted war criminal in history during the convulsive final days of the Third Reich\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeinrich Himmler, head of the SS, Gestapo, and Waffen-SS, rose to all but supreme power as architect of the concentration camps and commander of the murderous deportations, the mass sterilizations, and the gas chambers. In \u003ci\u003eHimmler's Last Days\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed historians Wendy Lower and Jonathan Petropoulos deliver an acutely revealing story of the psychic and physical unraveling of the ultimate mastermind of the Nazi terror apparatus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHimmler leaves the Führerbunker just days before Hitler's April 1945 suicide, now aspiring to be his successor, and flees a Berlin under siege.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe book tracks Himmler's desperate movements, never before reconstructed, in cinematic detail, to a series of outposts and hiding spots in the north of Germany.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEven as the camps are liberated--and the depth of Nazi genocidal evil is revealed through the testimony of living skeletons--Himmler schemes delusionally and in ill faith to parlay concentration camp prisoner releases into a deal with General Eisenhower for a partial German surrender.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe capture by the British of a disguised Himmler, his interrogation, his suicide by hidden cyanide capsule, and his consignment to an unmarked grave are vividly illuminated through eyewitness accounts and photographs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA definitive telling that casts light on the universal fate of genocidaires--and puts to rest far-right conspiracy theories regarding Himmler's supposed murder by the Allies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally, through his own desperate acts and words, Himmler is revealed as clearly as we have ever seen him. A stunning and reverberating account.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wendy Lower,Jonathan Petropoulos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0063315149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063315143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Wendy Lower","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49148607430911,"sku":"9780063315143","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/himmlers-last-days-wendy-lower-9780063315143","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}