CHRIS Harrison wasn’t expecting to find a story about his soldier father sitting next to the death mask of the Nazi monster Heinrich Himmler.
The 64-year-old received a picture text message depicting the scene from a friend who had visited the Imperial War Museum North, in Manchester.
Chris, of Somerlees, Cawthorne, said he was ‘very surprised’ to open it and see a news article about his Canadian father’s marriage to his mother on display next to the plaster cast of Himmler’s face taken after his death.
Himmler was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Europe, the head of the SS, and responsible for conceiving and overseeing implementation of the so-called Final Solution, the death camps where millions of Jews were annihilated.
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