suggests that despite Himmler’s later speeches making light of the liquidation of Jews as purely a matter of hygiene – ‘it is not a Weltanschauungs-question to rid oneself of lice; it is a matter of cleanliness’[35] – despite this and other speeches before his SS-Führers, a part of him, perhaps much of him, rejected this solution. Yet of course he had to carry it out for it was the Führer’s wish.
