Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler and his daughter Gudrun. Vanessa Lapa, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, has made a documentary called The Decent One, based on Himmler's letters to his wife and ...

Kino Lorber has acquired U.S. rights to the Heinrich Himmler documentary “The Decent One,” which recently won the Best Documentary award at the Jerusalem Film Festival. Directed by Vanessa Lapa, “The ...

Much of the history of human thought has revolved around our efforts to understand the nature of evil, which have never yielded anything like a satisfactory result. We are fascinated by serial killers ...

A sense of irony is helpful, perhaps even necessary, to truly appreciate “The Decent One,” the new documentary about Heinrich Himmler. The paradox begins with the title character. He was the architect ...

„Der Anständige” heißt der Film, den die in Belgien aufgewachsene und in Israel lebende Regisseurin Vanessa Lapa über ihn gedreht hat. Schon das klingt wie eine Provokation. Aber genauso hat er sich ...

Heinrich Himmler -- the Nazi Gestapo chief, head of the German police in the Third Reich, head of the Reich Main Security Office, and Reich Minister of the Interior -- was born to a Catholic family ...

In 1941, Heinrich Himmler took time out from organizing the Final Solution to write to his 12-year-old daughter, Gudrun: “In life, one must always be decent, courageous and kind-hearted.” This ...

"The Handwriting of a Mass Murderer" is how Germany's Die Weltnewspaper bills its eight-part series featuring excerpts of Heinrich Himmler's personal letters accompanied by family photos, which are ...

As a young man, he was convinced that nobody liked him. But by the time he was in his early 20s Heinrich Himmler had become the Chief Sycophant of the most popular man in Germany: Adolf Hitler. There ...

The film's protagonist is Heinrich Himmler, the merciless Nazi leader and a key architect of the Final Solution. The film's director is Vanessa Lapa, the grandchild of Holocaust survivors. Her family ...