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By any standard, upper-echelon Nazi Henrich Himmler checked in as one of the most vile and reprehensible individuals in history, responsible for unspeakable atrocities against the human race. But what sort of familial and psychological background could possibly have accounted for this? This documentary looks beyond the evil façade to provide some startling answers to these questions. An unflinching biographical chronicle, it examines Himmler's upbringing in a Bavarian bourgeois family, his role as a willing servant to Adolf Hitler, and his control of the single most evil economic empire in history, marked by massive slavery and the extermination of millions.