‘Then there is the man of horror’: Heinrich Himmler’s recovered diaries reveal both family man and monster

Diaries belonging to Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and architect of the Holocaust, have been recovered in a Russian archive after being thought lost for more than 70 years. The diaries, which are being published in daily excerpts by the German newspaper Bild, cover 1938 and the crucial war years of 1943…