New York, Jan. 27 (ANI): Heinrich Himmler's personal letters, diaries and photographs have been published for the first time this weekend by the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot and the German paper Die Welt.
The private collection of hundreds of personal letters, diaries and photos provide a rare glimpse into the family life of one of Himmler while he was organizing the mass extermination of Jews, the New York Daily News reported.
German newspaper's website Die Welt wrote that while the documents don't change the overall picture of the Nazi reign of terror, they did add many details about Hitler's top aide's personality, his daily life and his world.
Die Welt wrote that signs of Himmler's immeasurable anti-Semitism and his obsessiveness were apparent in the early letters from 1927.
The archive had been hidden in Tel Aviv for decades. Chaim Rosenthal, an Israeli artist and collector, revealed in 1982 that he had bought the trove that year from the former adjutant to Gen. Karl Wolff - Himmler's liaison officer with Hitler and also commanded the SS - the Nazi special police - in Italy.
Rosenthal, who served as a consul for cultural affairs at the Israel Consulate in New York, paid 40,000 dollars for the letters that he said the adjutant had stolen from General Wolff's estate. (ANI)
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