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208/4431.
     
3 . PRO, WO 208/4431, War Diary, Second Army Defence Company, 23 May 1945.
     
4 . Ibid. War Diary, 26 May 1945. On the location of the grave see further correspondence in this file.
     
CHAPTER 1
     
1 . Letters in the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
of 9/10 August 1980.
     
2 . Ibid.
     
3 . BAK, NL 1126/26, Family tree of the Kiene family created by Gebhard Himmler, September 1921. Agathe Kiene lived from 1833 till 1916. On the family history of the Himmlers see Bradley F. Smith,
Heinrich Himmler 1900–1926. Sein Weg in den deutschen Faschismus
(Munich, 1979), 23 ff.
     
4 . In the
Amtliches Verzeichnis des Personals der Lehrer, Beamten und Studierenden an der Königlich-Bayerischen Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität zu München
he is registered as a student from the winter semester 1884/5 to the summer semester 1890; it is also registered that he interrupted his studies from winter semester 1898/9 until summer semester 1890.
     
5 . Himmler’s great niece, Katrin Himmler, discovered the information about the stay in Russia through oral family history; see Katrin Himmler,
Die Brüder Himmler. Eine deutsche Familiengeschichte
(Frankfurt a. M., 2005), 35.
     
6 . I was informed that there is no record of Himmler’s role as tutor to Prince Heinrich in the Private Archive of the Wittelsbach dynasty (BHStA, Abteilung III).
     
7 . According to the
Blätter für das Gymnasial-Schulwesen
33 (May/June 1897), 528. The
Festschrift zur Vierhundert-Jahr-Feier des Wilhelms-Gymnasiums, 1559–1959
(Munich, 1959), 57, shows that Himmler was employed as a grammar-school teacher there during the years 1894–1902. According to Himmler,
Brüder Himmler
, 37, he was employed at the Ludwigsgymnasium from 1890 and from 1893 as a private tutor.
     
8 . BAK, NL 1126/26, Family tree of the Heyder family created by Gerhard Himmler, 1931. Anna Maria Heyder was born on 19 January 1866. Her father, Franz Alois Heyder, born on 2 July 1810 in Abensberg (Lower Bavaria), died on 17 April 1872. His ancestors, who can be traced back to the sixteenth century, were foresters. In 1839 Alois Heyder had married a widow who was eighteen years older than him before, in 1862, he married Anna Hofritter, the mother of Himmler’s mother, who was fourteen years younger than him. Cf. Smith,
Himmler
, 29.
     
9 . Himmler,
Brüder Himmler
, 38, mentions 300,000 Goldmarks, which for those days represented considerable wealth. However, the Himmlers’ lifestyle does not suggest that they possessed significant income from property in addition to the income he earned as a civil servant.
     
10 . BAK, NL 1126/1, Gebhard Himmler to Prinz Heinrich, 21 June 1900 (a thank-you letter for his agreeing to become godfather), 8 October 1900 (announcement of the birth) and 19 October 1900 (re the christening); cf. Smith,
Himmler
, 38 f.
     
11 . Smith,
Himmler
, 30 f.
     
12 . As in a farewell letter that he wrote to his wife before embarking on a journey to Greece in 1912 (Himmler,
Brüder Himmler
, 48). The fact that the family regularly attended mass is clear from Heinrich’s diary. Apart from Heinrich’s holiday diaries for 1910 and 1911 (Lenggries), 1912 (Lindau), und 1913 (Brixlegg) in Nachlass Himmler, BAK, NL 1126/6, the Himmler diaries that have survived are in the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, also as microfilm in Nachlass Himmler (BAK, NL 1126). In future they will be referred to in the notes as TB.
     
13 . Himmler,
Brüder Himmler
, 46 ff., demonstrates this in exemplary fashion from family history by means of the farewell letters that Himmler’s father wrote prophylactically to Gerhard and Ernst.
     
14 . Smith,
Himmler
, 46 f.; TB, 18 September 1915.
     
15 . BAK, NL 1126/1, Gebhard Himmler, ‘Notes on the schooling of our dear children’ (
Schulnotizen
); see Smith,
Himmler
, 43.
     
16 . Himmler,
Brüder Himmler
, 46 ff.
     
17 . At first they lived in the bride’s flat on the first floor of Sternstrasse 13 (
Adressbuch für München 1898
). Agathe