Understanding Himmler's Personalities

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To help compensate for the lack of a diary from Himmler, the diaries and memoirs of
Himmler’s subordinates and colleagues have been employed, instead. These have contributed to establishing a profile of Himmler’s personality as seen from the perspectives of his closest contemporaries. These accounts provide insights to Himmler’s character and interactions with other Third Reich leaders. Post-war interrogations were also useful in helping to understand
Himmler’s relationships. While secondary sources and biographies were also utilized in gaining background information regarding Himmler, these diaries, memoirs, interrogations, and personal accounts generally provide the most important information for a work of this kind.
The United States Army drew up G-2 reports in 1938 on the rivalry between Göring and
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Reports were also drawn up by United States authorities during the early 1940s discussing the tension between Reinhard Heydrich and Himmler. Though the studies of
Himmler’s relationships with Göring and Heydrich have added to scholarly knowledge of

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