Real History, and memories of an Essex wartime village Documents on the Never before has a corner of the curtain been lifted to give such an ugly glimpse of the way that the decent, civilized, nice-guy democratic regimes really operated in WW2. June 3, 2005 (Friday) Key West (Florida) A BRITISH researcher Steven Kippax has informed me that the Public Record Office has documents confirming beyond doubt that Heinrich Himmler was liquidated.

He quotes the documents content to me, and adds diffidently, “If you would like scans of my photocopies of the documents let me know and I’ll send them to you over the weekend.” I respond: “Yes please, urgently! Those documents appear to have extraordinary value. Nothing in the press about them so far as I have seen. Why not? I wonder who ‘Thomas’ was. I spotted that the page narrating his death had been retyped.”

He replies just minutes later with images of these extraordinary documents from file FO800/868 — Sir John Wheeler Bennett to Robert Bruce Lockhart , May 10, 1945 , setting up the murder, and a telegram from ‘Mr Thomas’ from Bremen in northern Germany to Bruce Lockhart

on May 24, 1945 confirming that the deed has been done: Further to my orders we successfully intercepted H.H. last night at Lüneburg before he could be interrogated. As instructed action was taken to silence him permanently. I issued orders that my presence at Lüneburg is not to be recorded in any fashion and we may conclude the H.H. problem is ended. A copy was sent to Winston Churchill himself the next day.

The other letter is from file HS8/944 (SOE records), a letter from Churchill’s crony, Brendan Bracken, to Lord Selborne stressing the importance of having “eradicated” Himmler before he could speak with “the Americans”. Who actually carried out the hit?

Steven Kippax writes later: “I will let you know when I dig up more info on Thomas or Ingrams and I will also check some of the RAF SD flight logs and SOE Air Liaison Section to see if anything comes up on movements to either ME42 or the Special Forces Detachment with 21st Army Group.” The mysteriously retyped page of the war diary entry of the British Second Army headquarters, relating the “suicide”, now makes sense.

I reply: “I suspect that the retyping of the second page was done to remove the name of the killer gentleman concerned. I wonder how Himmler was killed. They just handed the capsule