Today is the 70th anniversary of the death of Heinrich Himmler, and both the Daily Mail and the Mirror have articles about the bravery and devotion of his daughter. Of course they refer to this bravery as evil and hatred and so on.
[Source: “Warum sind wir Judengegner?” Der Angriff. Aufsätze aus der Kampfzeit (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1935), pp. 329-331. The illustration is the book’s dust jacket.]
Totenkopf (i.e. skull, literally dead’s head) is the German word for the skull and crossbones and death’s head symbols. The Totenkopf symbol is an old international symbol for death, the defiance of death, danger, or the dead, as well as piracy. It consists usually of the human skull with or without the mandible and often includes two crossed long-bones (femurs), most often depicted with the crossbones being behind some part of the skull.
