If you look at the biographies of the leaders of German National Socialism, you can come to paradoxical conclusions: seemingly ordinary people mutated and turned into monsters capable of committing any crime. A typical example of the “banality of evil” for the Third Reich was the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler. Much less work has been written about Himmler than about other Nazi “leaders”: playing a second role in Nazi Germany after Hitler, he was behind the scenes of the political theater that existed for 12 years “ thousand-year Reich.” Candidate of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Academy of Military Sciences, employee of the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Boris Khavkin presents the latest biography of “Nazi number two” in which for the first time he uses a number of archival materials and foreign publications. For anyone interested in the history of World War II and Nazi Germany.