We are not dealing with individual psychopaths; we are not dealing with a Reichsführer who was merely the sum of Heinrich Himmler’s genes and experiences, a man who could be described as either ‘indecisive’ or ‘ruthless’ or labelled with any of the attributes he has been given here. We are dealing with something which was infinitely greater and infinitely less than the sum of ‘Himmler’s’ characteristics,
