Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. But his actions cast a large shadow that the rest of the family were standing in, many of them hiding in there. She decided to investigate and, using documents, letters and interviews, she uncovered the story her family had kept hidden. In the latter part of the book it is almost fitting that we discover her partner is Jewish and they have a half-Jewish child.

Robert Hawks, however, wrote in The Independent: "Katrin does try to turn some equivocal evidence into revelations of her family's complicity, but her prosecutorial stance gets in the way of empathy. Katrin Himmler is a freelance author, holding readings and lectures in Germany and abroad, above all for students. Please Note: By their very nature, all signed books will have been handled several times before they get to you. Heinrich grew up to become the head of Hitler's SS, mastermind of the concentration camp system and chief perpetrator of the Holocaust.It is an intriguing insight into a nobody who became totally corrupt with his misguided and evil credo and who never knew when to stop. Originally written as self-therapy, the book stands as a testament to the enduring legacy of guilt the Nazis left behind for future generations.

He brought his brothers and family down with him and the book shows how self delusion can mask the most horrible of crimes against humanity. You get a vivid sense of a particular kind of German conservatism and of how, weirdly, it found an outlet in the upstart, part-pagan thuggery of Nazisim . Despite her family being told her grandfather Ernst had had no interest in politics, Katrin discovered that he was an enthusiastic Nazi who had joined the party in 1931, and was also an officer in the Schutzstaffel (SS).For reasons she does not quite explain, he wanted to see if they shed light on what his father and uncle got up to while their brother was achieving notoriety. Doug Johnstone wrote in The List: "Katrin's book is admirably level-headed, a meticulous memoir of an extraordinary family, and the author never resorts to histrionics, preferring to let the facts speak for themselves. The shame seems understandable from Katrin Himmler's own father's perspective as he is one of the children born to these brothers. Himmler is one of the protagonists of the television documentary Hitler's Children (in German: "Meine Familie, die Nazis und Ich") [4] of the Israeli director Chanoch Zeevi about descendants of the Nazi elite, amongst them Rainer Höss.