Heinrich Himmler : A Life (156 page)

95
. BAB, NS 19/4003, speech at the Gruppenführer meeting in Dachau, 8 November 1936.

96
. BAB, NS 19/4004, Gruppenführer meeting in Bad Tölz, 18 February 1937.

97
. OA Moscow, Himmler file, mortgage declaration from the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank of 15 November 1938; Galke to the accounts department of the Brown House, 16 June 1937. Further correspondence related to the purchase in the same file.

98
. BAB, NS 19/440, arrangements for payment of rent (1938).

99
. USHMM, Acc. 1999.A.0092, Margarete Himmler’s diary, 13 June and 4 August 1939, on the completion of the Valepp hunting lodge.

100
. OA Moscow, Himmler file, Wolff to the mayor for Tiergarten district, 5 November 1934, and Wolff to the landlord, the Mitteldeutsche Stahlwerke, 17 August 1937.

101
. Ibid. letter from the Märkische Elektricitätswerk AG to the office of the RFSS, 9 July 1937.

102
. Ibid. Bormann to Himmler, 10 July 1937.

103
. USHMM, Acc. 1999.A.0092, diary of Margarete Himmler, for example 30 March and 26 June 1938 and also 29 March 1939.

104
. Ibid. 5 February, 5 March and 2 April 1938.

105
. Ibid. 3 July 1938.

106
. Ibid. 1 April 1938. For further complaints about servants see 2 April, 16 August, and 31 December 1938, 13 August and 14 November 1939.

107
. Ibid. 2 April 1938.

108
. Ibid. 29 March 1939.

109
. Ibid. 2 April 1938; in addition, 15 April and 31 December 1938.

110
. Ibid. 8 April 1939. ‘Yesterday I spoke to Gerhard’s mother. She was very sad but naturally does not want him back. She won’t even have him for Easter. And she still wants to go on drawing money for him too.’

111
. Ibid. 15 March and 16 October 1939.

112
. BADH, ZM 1668, file 13, comments of the RFSS on the occasion of the deliberations of the Expert Advisory Panel on Population and Racial Policy on 15 June 1937.

113
. BAB, NS 19/4004, 18 February 1937, cited in Himmler,
Geheimreden
, 84.

114
. BAB, NS 7/220, SS judge on the staff of RFSS to main department, SS Court, 24 November 1941.

115
. BAB, NS 19/3978, Personal Staff (Brandt) to Dr Kümmerlein, judge in the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht), 29 March 1944.

116
. BAB, NS 2/175, note on the file from the Clan Office, 25 August 1941.

117
. Himmler to Wüst and Sievers, 17 August 1944, published in Himmler,
Reichsführer!,
no. 344. The ‘Friedelehe’, a term that has continued to provoke controversy, is a construct of the historian Herbert Meyer (
Friedelehe und Mutterrecht
(Weimar, 1927)). See also Schwarz,
Fra
u, 89 ff., and also the comments that Himmler is claimed to have made on this matter to his masseur (Felix Kersten,
Totenkopf und Treue. Heinrich Himmler ohne Uniform. Aus den Tagebuchblättern des finnischen Medizinalrats Felix Kersten
(Hamburg. 1952), 223 ff.).

118
. Obersturmbannführer Weigel to Himmler, 26 June 1944, and also Personal Staff (Brandt) to Hildebrandt, 2 October 1944, both published in Himmler,
Reichsführer!
, no. 326a and b.

119
. Schlessmann to Himmler, 30 January 1945, and also Himmler’s reply of 12 February 1945, both published ibid. nos. 380a and b.

120
. BAB, NS 19/4006, speech to the leadrship corps of the SS Division ‘Das Reich’, 19 June 1942.

121
. On these exhortations from Himmler cf. Ackermann,
Himmler
, 126 ff.

122
. Letter of 6 December 1944, published in Himmler,
Reichsführer!
, no. 366.

123
. Himmler to Brandt, 22 October 1943, published ibid. no. 277.

124
. BAB, NS 19/2970, RFSS, 21 June 1943, published in Himmler,
Reichsführer!
, no. 215.

125
. Ibid.

126
. BAB, NS 19/3127, letter of 28 October 1936.

127
. BAB, NS 19/3127.

128
. BAB, NS 19/1275, Wolff to Feierlein, 14 July 1938; Feierlein’s reply, 16 August 1938; Letter from Wolff, 29 August 1938.

129
. Ibid. Wolff to Feierlein, 10 October 1938.

130
. Ibid. Feierlein to Wolff, 7 May and 22 June 1939.

131
. BAB, NS 19/3973, principles of the Lebensborn, 13 September 1936.

132
. A doctor who in 1938 had been dismissed from the SS on account of a miscarriage he had induced in a nurse he had made pregnant was, according to Himmler’s instruction, to be readmitted only if he declared himself in agreement with the ‘Führer’s clearly expressed view’ that if possible a family should include four sons (Personal Staff (Brandt) to Personnel Main Office, 9 March 1943, published in Himmler,
Reichsführer!
, no. 217).

133
. BAB, NS 19/3594, scheduled leave in accordance with the order of the RFSS of 2 October 1942.

134
. BAB, NS 19/2651, Himmler to Frau E., 15 April 1942.

135
. Himmler to Darré, 29 March 1938, and head of the Personnel Main Office, 13 September 1939, re the Mayr/Engler-Füsslin family, both published in Himmler,
Reichsführer!
, no. 27 and no. 50; cf. Schwarz,
Frau
, 49 f.

136
.
Statistisches Jahrbuch der Schutzstaffel der NSDAP 1938
, 87 ff.

137
. Ibid. 90.

138
. BAK, NL 1126/34, ‘From the political life of our dear son Heinrich.’

139
. Breitman, ‘Mein Kampf’.

140
. Himmler,
Brüder Himmler
, 140.

141
. Correspondence in BAK, NL 1126/13; Himmler,
Brüder Himmler
, 143 f.

142
.
Brüder Himmler
, 165; see also
Völkischer Beobachter
(Munich edition) of 2 November 1936.

143
. Himmler,
Brüder Himmler
, 131 ff., 144 f., 153 ff., 166 ff., and 192 ff.

144
. BAB, NS 19/2651, 22 October 1937, Personal Staff to Obersturmführer Ernst Himmler re approval of a loan application.

145
. Ibid. Ernst Himmler to Heinrich Himmler, 25 May 1944, in which he advises him to remove Major Schmidt, a Jew, as deputy manager of the Lorenz firm; see also NS 19/1541, report on Belgium, 1941. See Himmler,
Brüder Himmler
, 209 ff.

146
. Himmler,
Brüder Himmler
, 117 f. and 156 ff.; BAB, BDC, SS-O Gerhard Himmler.

147
. Himmler,
Brüder Himmler
, 174 ff.

148
. BAB, NS 19/2651, Ernst Himmler to Heinrich Himmler, 25 May 1944.

149
. See the relevant SS-O files in BAB, BDC.

150
. Düsterberg,
Johst
, 287.

151
. Correspondence in BAB, BDC, SS-O Johst; see Düsterberg,
Johst
, 289.

152
. BAB, BDC, SS-O Johst, letter of 29 March 1938.

153
. Düsterberg,
Johst
, 294.

154
. BAB, BDC, SS-O Johst.

155
. Ibid. 9 December 1940.

156
. Ibid. letter of 3 April 1944. The letter refers to Himmler’s speech in Posen on ‘Freedom Day’, 24 October 1943 (BAB, NS 19/4011); see Düsterberg,
Johst
, 318.

157
. BAB, BDC, SS-O Johst, poem on Himmler’s birthday, 1937; letter of thanks from Himmler, 15 April 1937; for further examples see Düsterberg,
Johst
, 289.

158
. ‘Der Neue Orden’,
SS-Leitheft
, 2/11 (1936–7), 29 f.; ‘Zum einjährigen Bestehen des Schwarzen Korps’, in
Das Schwarze Korps
, 12 March 1936;see Düsterberg,
Johst
, 294 f.

159
. BAB, BDC, SS-O Johst, 31 March 1943;see Düsterberg,
Johst
, 301.

160
. See Kersten’s memoirs,
Totenkopf
, and also the commentary on sources and literature in the appendix.

1
. BAB, NS 19/4004, Gruppenführer meeting in Bad Tölz, 18 February 1937.

2
. See above pp. 122 ff.

3
. Himmler,
Geheimreden
, 79. There are no further details on dates.

4
. BAB, NS 19/4005, speech to the Gruppenführer meeting in Munich, 8 November 1938, published in Himmler,
Geheimreden
, 25 ff., quotation p. 37 f.

5
. BAB, NS 19/4006, 26 February 1939.

6
. Adolf Hitler,
Reden und Proklamationen 1932–1945. Kommentiert von einem deutschen Zeitgenossen
, 2 vols., ed. Max Domarus (Neustadt a. d. Aisch, 1963), ii. 1057.

7
. BAB, NS 19/4005, speech to the Gruppenführer meeting in Munich, 8 November 1938, published in Himmler,
Geheimreden
, 25 ff., here 49.

8
. BAB, NS 19/3666, published in: Himmler,
Geheimreden
, 51. There is no date given, but the speech must have been given between January 1939 and the beginning of the war.

9
. Ronald Smelser,
Das Sudetenproblem und das Dritte Reich (1933–1938). Von der Volkstumspolitik zur nationalsozialistischen Auβenpolitik
(Munich, etc., 1980), 151 f.

10
. Ibid. 156 ff.

11
. BAB, BDC, SS-O Lierau, in particular the letter of 6 December 1938 to Kelz.

12
. On Nazi ethnic policy in the second half of the 1930s see Hans-Adolf Jacobsen,
Nationalsozialistische Außenpolitik 1933–1938
(Frankfurt a. M. and Berlin, 1968); Valdis O. Lumans,
Himmler’s Auxiliaries: The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and the German National Minorities of Europe, 1933–1945
(Chapel Hill and London, 1993); Tammo Luther,
Volkstumspolitik des Deutschen Reiches 1933–1938. Die Auslanddeutschen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Traditionalisten und Nationalsozialisten
(Stuttgart, 2004).

13
. Jacobsen,
Nationalsozialistische Auβenpolitik
, 90 ff.

14
. Ibid. 175 f.

15
. Ibid. 225 ff.

16
. Ibid. 231 f.

17
. BAB, BDC, SS-O Lorenz, Schmitt, SS head of personnel, to Lorenz, 10 January 1938.

18
. Jacobsen,
Nationalsozialistische Auβenpolitik
, 234.

19
. BAB, BDC, SS-O Behrends; Aronson,
Heydrich
, 161 f.

20
. Hans-Adolf Jacobsen (ed.),
Hans Steinacher: Bundesleiter des VDA 1933–1937. Erinnerungen und Dokumente
(Boppard a. Rh., 1970), doc. no. 109, meeting with SS Obergruppenführer Lorenz, 23 April 1937.