A photograph of Heinrich · Himmler immediately after unpublished suicide is auctioned

National Leaders of the GuardAnd all the German police chiefs and the Hitler cabinet minister of the interior,Concentration campYaGestapoTo direct the Jewish extinction policy (Holocaust) Of "the leading figure" alsoHeinrich · Himmler. At the end of World War I failed to negotiate peace negotiations with the United States but failed and escaped using Honorari to be dismissed when it was dismissed but it was detained by the British Army and became a prisoner of war and in May 1945 Poisoning is committed suicide.

Among the pictures taken by UK intelligence officials after the Himmler's suicide, what seems to be auctioned by the bereaved families of the photographer immediately after suicide that had never been published.

Details are as below.Picture of Heinrich Himmler moments after suicide on sale - Telegraph

In May 1945, while fleeing with the aides, it was detained by the British Army and was used as a prison camp.LüneburgHimura, who was sent to the hideout of the hideout, initially claimed a pseudonym, but it could not bear the poor treatment at the camp and said "I am Heinrich Himmler". After that, on May 23, which had questioned as a war criminal on the next day, it hid in the back teethPotassium cyanideIt is said that she killed her capsule and killed herself.

Pictures of corpses in a posture where they fell off the cot along with the announcement of Himmler's suicidepropagandaBecause of this, some pictures were put on the auction this time, the unpublished thing that the photographer 's British Army Information Department Guy Adderley kept as a memorial. It is considered to have been taken within a few minutes after death.


A famous picture announced after Himmler's suicide. Compared to the photo on the auction this time on, the direction of the body with respect to the direction of the cot is different, and the published picture may be in a way to distrust that it was directed as if the struggle suffered and fell from the bed. not.


British Army soldiers know the situation 100 years validConfidentiality contractThe fact that the dead body was buried in the forest of Luneburg by four British soldiers and since the tombstone was not made and the precise place filled was not recorded, it has not been discovered since then, It seems that there is still a conspiracy theory attached.

Himura's Death Mask created by the British Army is London'sImperial War MuseumIt is on display in.


The picture kept by Guy Adderley, along with other belongings on March 29thBristolThe auction price is expected to be from 2000 to 3000 pounds (about 270,000 yen to 400,000 yen) because it is sent to a war related auction to be held at. Some of the collections to be exhibited are in front of the building of Lüneburg where Himmler committed suicide and there are pictures of Mr. Adderley with the officers of the British army and the Russian army.

Malcolm Claridge, an auctioneer and expert on war related collections, said: "This is a very important historical collection, Himmler is Hitler's Reichs Fürler (guard leader) and Nazi Germany 2 He was a man with the second power who oversees Gestapo and concentration camps and is considered a planner of the Holocaust.The Adderley's collection is a collection of HYUMLER's hidden hidden caustic potash He will take us to that room that chewed the capsule. "