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Himmler.- Bouhler (Philipp) Napoleon: Kometenbahn eines Genies, presentation copy signed by Himmler on front endpaper, dated 10th July 1942, plates, original cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, 8vo, Munich, 1941. ⁂ Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), leading member of the Nazi Party of Germany, commander of the SS and principal architect of the Holocaust. The inscription reads "S S Brigadefuhrer Klingemann in ?Kummersdorf H. Himmler 10.VII. 1942". Just after the tide had turned against the Germans in their invasion of Russia and with Operation Case Blue underway, this gift of a biography of Napoleon from Himmler to another member of the SS is particularly resonant.