Who are we, the subject of Susan Griffin’s “Our Secret” an essay that examines life connections in existence of fields of energy? The classis cause and effect scenario with more of an intellectual twist of simplicity. Her misdirection style of an informational biography, captivating and intrigues the audience. We are all a part of one connected source that interacts as the ripple effect of a pebble in the ocean that continue to expand. This is her story of revelation into herself in the experiences of Heinrich Himmler.
Heinrich Himmler is what a person can considered infamous in history. Unless you conduct research and study the holocaust, he would go unnoticed. Although his legacy still remains in secret. It was this kind of find that directs minds into new thoughts and knowledge to distinguish an identity. Griffin constantly throughout the explanation of Heinrich Himmler showed this weakness as a child continued throughout life. Himmler never measured up to the expectation placed in front of him, developing his skill of manipulation and deceit. These were the traits that he learned as a child, under constant pressure from his strict straight-laced unattached prominent father. With his father as a schoolmaster of course Heinrich’s life was going to be shaped and molded. This started with his introduction to expression, his father forcing him into robotic translations for diary entries. This skill optimally turned into his ability to write himself into history. Under his father’s rules his is forced to face the that he is inferior by
German standards, never making it physically. When alienation becomes a comfort for negativity. When Heinrich identifies the fact that acceptance of his weakness is his strengthen.
Heinrich Himmler becomes a gatherer of secrets, making him important, strong, and superior in the world his strived to become a part.

“I think of it now as a kind of mask, not an animated mask that expresses the essence of an inner truth, but a mask that falls like dead weight over the human face, making flesh a stationary object”.
Her reflection to how we hide behind mask, simple feelings of imperfection created by the masses. What makes one strong is another’s weakness. Griffin introduces Heinz into the story subtly only to grasp your attention. As she later reintroduce Heinz into the story your can almost immediately make the relation between the two. By this time Heinrich was accomplishing his goals of recognition throughout Germany and Heinz was only an example. Heinz was described as a gay boy, mirroring Heinrich’s true feelings as a boy. Heinz accepted who he was in his life. Heinz did not feel inferior to society, he wasn’t given the chance. This would have been okay for future societies but in 1933 Himmler decided that homosexuality was a punishment of death. She related that to the same feeling she received when her sister admitted her homosexuality, and the physical death a gay man in berlin she remembers in more recent times. Heinrich fear of homosexuality still exist today.
Susan Griffin uses the space between transitions to bring to life the cosmic field of human interaction with the development of the V-1 and V-2 rockets. Again, she starts with a glimpse of random information that follows you throughout the story. A demonstration in which science was used to create the development of rockets. How a rocket is propelled in action for one specific mission but dismantling everything in its path. Heinrich Himmler was the architect in concentration camps, military policies, and the world first rocket missiles. The development of this missile revolutionized warfare and destroyed millions of lives for generations. The correlation Himmler’s upbringing from lack of nurturing and a disconnected childhood,

manifested the evil and hatred for him to complete heinous crimes against humanity. Although he himself was never able to carry out any of his own orders of death.
“After the war, German scientists who developed the V-1 and V-2 rockets immigrate to the United States where they continue to work on rocketry. Using the Vengeance weapon as a prototype, they develop the first ICBM missiles.
Now it becomes “Our Secret” scientist not punished for a crime against humanity, become needed for future history. Hundreds of thousands of Himmler’s followers were given the opportunity to survive among their captures, something they were order to take from millions.
Heinrich Himmler lives whether it is positive or negative remains undetermined. Million died from his policies the men carrying out these instructions could not reject without paying with their own lives. No one ever took blame for acts of the holocaust, since that was the way it was designed. We know who, how, when, where, and why just not for sure. One thing is only purpose bring meaning. Heinrich Himmler’s purpose of meaning was to hide his inabilities, he accomplished it by gathering meaningful secrets for the world to use. Secrets of fear, betrayal, destruction, militarization, imprisonment, hate, world domination all from one frail, scared, lonely boy wanting his father approval. As Susan Griffin alludes to herself in reflection, wanting protection from an absent father.
We all seek the approval of a father whether one is there for approval are not. Which shapes if we will learn positive or negative behaviors and who can be to blame. Everyone takes part in events that they wish could be erased, whether positive or negative. Who are we but events in time, grouped as microscopic frames in a cosmic highlight reel? All effected by one single event trigged from the previous vast serious of single events.