Heinrich Himmler’s personal copy of “Mein Kampf” was recently obtained by a leading Jewish museum in New York. Scholars say the underlining in the copy now at A Living Memorial to the Holocaust — The Museum of Jewish Heritage shows that the SS and Gestapo chief was thinking about the Final Solution as early as 1927, when he began reading Hitler’s manifesto.
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