It is not at all common for a book on the history of Third Reich criminals to put you in a sauna with a naked Heinrich Himmler. Richard J. Evans, one of the world’s leading experts on Nazi Germany, chooses to open his biographical portrait of the sinister character with the image of the Reichsführer SS shorn of his flashy black uniform, in fact naked, in a Finnish sauna, showing “a swollen, pinkish belly, with the navel strangely in relief, like a delicate rosebud.”
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