And that was the beginning of Himmler’s trip to Spain to steal the Grail. Himmler, second in uniform on the left, leaves the Abbey of Montserrat after visiting it on October 23, 1940.

Among the Nazi leaders, Heinrich Himmler was, as Richard Breitman observes in this ground- breaking study, an easy man to underestimate—short, pudgy, near-sighted, chinless. Yet Himmler holds a ...