Among the notes that Himmler scribbled on a notepad during the call were two words: “Arrest Jekelius.” After a brief stint in jail, Jekelius was drafted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the Russian front, where he was swiftly captured by Red Army soldiers and shipped off to the Lubianka prison camp in Moscow. There, he earned his final footnote in history by befriending a fellow POW who later became a patient of Viktor Frankl, the psychiatrist-author of Man’s Search for Meaning, a memoir of surviving three years in Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, and Dachau. In a section of the book about redemption,
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