The forgotten story of Himmler's personal physical therapist, Felix Kersten, who saved the lives of 60,000 Jews during the Second World War.

The true story of Heinrich Himmler's personal physical therapist who used his influence over the S.S. commander to save the lives of thousands.

The astonishing true story of Heinrich Himmler's personal physical therapist who used his influence over the S.S. commander to save the lives of thousands.

Felix Kersten, an exceptional masseur, was the only person able to relieve Himmler's crippling and chronic abdominal pain. Although he was resolutely anti-Nazi, he continued to work for Himmler throughout the war, trading his services for that of prisoners' lives.

François Kersaudy's meticulously researched Kersten's Lists, explores how by the end of the war, Felix Kersten had helped to obtain the liberation of some 100,000 people, including 60,000 Jews. It is a vital and too little known chapter of the Second World War and one worthy of greater recognition.

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FRANÇOIS KERSAUDY, OBE, FRSL, a former research fellow at Keble College, Oxford, and professor at the University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne. He speaks nine languages and is well known in France for his biography of Winston Churchill and his many books on Charles De Gaulle. His work published in English includes Churchill and De Gaulle and Norway, 1940.

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The astonishing true story of Heinrich Himmler's doctor who used his influence over the S.S. commander to save the lives of thousands.