No Banality in This Evil （操） http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/186722/no-banality
Himmler’s daughter Gudrun was born in 1929, and the most haunting story
told by the family’s correspondence is the record of the cozy relationship
between a murderous father and his admiring daughter. On the occasion of
Gudrun’s first birthday, Himmler draws the outline of her hand into the “
bang journal” he and Marga kept about Gudrun’s development. Marga writes
to her husband about how a worried Gudrun had asked her whether “Uncle
Hitler” will ever die. Their humdrum domestic life stands in marked
contrast to Himmler’s bloodthirsty brutality elsewhere.
