[Personal Correspondence of Heinrich Himmler]

The file contains correspondence either written as a response by Heinrich Himmler or subordinates to letters addressed to him by SS personnel, Nazi party and SS members. Some of the requests concerning Himmler, included in this file, are reports about SS members who have not given up their catholic beliefs and practices, personal reprimands written by Himmler himself criticizing the operational and ordonance requests of lower ranking SS leaders on the Balkans. Additionally, Himmler seeks to errect a school for political indoctrination of SS leaders as well as receiving complaints of unnamed Gauleiters regarding the immediate formation of two new infantry divisions. Furthermore, the file contains letters of Himmler showing his reluctancy and indignation in punishing SS leaders with a personal relationship to him. In this case he is reprimanding a higher SS general and police leader, Herman Höfle, and threatens him with consequences should the latter not show some more leadership abilities. Himmler also congratulates and further instructs the highest ranking SS leader in the Netherlands, Rauter, to increase terror tactics and executions if Dutch resistance were to increase, since he received numerous reports to that effect. Finally, the file also contains a tractise of Himmler regarding the illegality of homosexuality and his condemnation thereof as a "sabotage" of the "body" of the German nation.