The agenda of the leader of the Nazi SS, Heinrich Himmler, reinforces the view of historians about the mass murders and routine in the Germany of Adolf Hitler became institutionalized.
Bild newspaper this week published excerpts from the calendar, which was found in a Russian archive in 2013 and will be published next year.
The entry for January 3rd, 1943, released Wednesday by the newspaper, shows that Himmler took a late breakfast followed by a massage, and spoke by telephone with his wife and daughter. He finished the day by ordering the execution of civilians in Poland in retaliation for an attack on a police station, and families delos agents, who did not respond to aggression, were sent to concentration camps.
The political scientist Hannah Arendt once said that the subordinate of Himmler Adolf Eichmann was an example of the “banality of evil”.
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