Heinrich Muller: Gestapo Chief (Holocaust Biography)

Rating:
Summary: An Easy Read About A Perplexing Figure
Review: This is the first secondary source of which I am aware that takes as established the survival of SS-Grueppenfuehrer Heinrich Mueller after World War II (see the volumes by Gregory Douglas on Mueller published by R. James Bender, San Jose, CA).

It is well written, at a junior-high to high school level, and although the first of the "Holocaust Biographies" series for juvenile readers I have seen, if it is representative of their quality, it is a harbinger of an excellent group of books. This book also provides good explanations of Fascist/Nazi motivations, their actions, and the Holocaust. It also discusses the complex motivations of such a man as Mueller himself, who rose from obscurity to one of the highest and most important positions in the Reich.

Regarding Mueller, it is mostly definitive, and will introduce the young reader to the perplexing vicissitudes of foe-becomes-friend as loyalties shift in our modern world.