Page "Heinrich Himmler" Paragraph 85

Historian Ian Kershaw observes that many Nazis seemed to have a " psychological block " at the end of the regime, refusing to recognise their responsibility for the barbaric actions that occurred during the Third Reich.

They lacked self-awareness, and the moral value system had completely collapsed.

In 2008 the German news magazine Der Spiegel described Himmler as one of the most brutal mass murderers in history, and the architect of the Holocaust.

Wartime cartoonist Victor Weisz depicted Himmler as a giant octopus, wielding oppressed nations in each of his eight arms.