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The Story of Felix Kersten, Himmler's Doctor, Who Saved More Than 100,000 Lives, A Saviour in the Depths of Hell Written by François Kersaudy The astonishing true story of Heinrich Himmler's masseur who used his influence over the brutal Nazi S.S. commander to save the lives of over a hundred...

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The Story of Felix Kersten, Himmler's Doctor, Who Saved More Than 100,000 Lives, A Saviour in the Depths of Hell

Written by François Kersaudy

The astonishing true story of Heinrich Himmler's masseur who used his influence over the brutal Nazi S.S. commander to save the lives of over a hundred thousand people, including about sixty thousand Jews.

German industrialist Oskar Schindler is well known for having saved a thousand Jews from Nazi extermination during World War II. Yet Finish national Felix Kersten, Heinrich Himmler's personal physician, remains almost unknown to this day.

Only Kersten was able to relieve the Reichsführer of his crippling and chronic abdominal pains. Though despising the Nazis, he continued to work for Himmler throughout the war, using his position to pass intelligence to Finland, Sweden and the resistance in the Netherlands, and demanding as payment from Himmler the liberation of victims sentenced to imprisonment or death.

Drawing on unseen archive material from Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands and Israel, François Kersaudy guides us in the footsteps of a man who exploited the politics of hatred and fear within the Third Reich to save the lives of over a hundred thousand people, including sixty thousand Jews.

Paperback, 416 pages, notes, bibliography, illustrated, index, A general WWII history and a Dutch heritage title