When she asked what grandpa Ernst did in the Third Reich, Katrin Himmler’s father used to tell her that he was basically an apolitical man who was prodded into joining the Nazi Party by his elder ...

There were up to 14,000 children of such liaisons in Norway. Some were the progeny of SS chief Heinrich Himmler's Lebensborn ('fountain of life') plan to produce a master-race of blondhaired Aryans.