First posted Friday, May 27, 2011

A Himmler Mystery

In a California university archives is the late-1919 private diary written by Heinrich Himmler, the SS Reichsführer. In a secret pocket at the back, David Irving found five tiny, faded snapshots, each about one inch wide. Who can identify the girl, or the house, or the lake, or the place? [Click on each image to enlarge.]

	In the pictures at the left, note the shape of the porch. The girl is arranging flowers, which is what they are good at. The house is presumably in Bavaria. Is it the same house on top of the hill above? Where is the "swan lake" seen below? And above all, who can recognise the girl. Is she the same in all the pictures? Mail us your views:

Please respect the copyright in the above images, which we have had to watermark: this kind of research is very costly, and we are not able to allow unlicensed copying.

The early diaries of Heinrich Himmler partially transcribed (pdf)