The Memoirs of Doctor Felix Kersten

by Dr. Felix Kersten, Dr. Ernst Morwitz (Translator), Konrad Maiden (Introduction)

Overview

This book, first published in English translation in 1947, is the fascinating autobiography of Dr. Felix Kersten, a Russian-born Finnish osteopath who tended to Heinrich Himmler in Germany during World War II and who contended he had obtained some amelioration of treatment of Jews and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787201811
Publisher:	Lucknow Books
Publication date:	10/21/2016
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	222
File size:	80 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Felix Kersten (30 September 1898 - 16 April 1960) was the personal physical therapist of Heinrich Himmler, both before and during World War II, and became well-known for using his contacts with Himmler to help people persecuted by Nazi Germany. Born to a Baltic German family in Tartu (Dorpat), Imperial Russia (now Estonia), Kersten fought in World War I in the German Army and arrived in Finland in April 1919 with the German forces, obtaining Finnish citizenship in 1920. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant into the Finnish Army in 1921. After the War, Kersten lived in West Germany and Sweden, obtaining Swedish citizenship in 1953. His war memoirs were first published in English translation in 1947. He died in Stockholm, aged 61.