Posted on 07/01/2018 10:09:18 AM PDT by BBell
Gudrun Burwitz, the true-believing daughter of Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany’s highest-ranking official after Adolf Hitler, died May 24 in or near Munich. She was 88.
Her death was first reported by the German newspaper Bild, which also confirmed that Mrs. Burwitz had worked for two years in West Germany’s foreign intelligence agency. The agency’s chief historian, Bodo Hechelhammer, told the newspaper that Mrs. Burwitz worked as a secretary under an assumed name in the early 1960s. The agency does not comment on current or past employees until they have died.
Mrs. Burwitz, who was sometimes called a “Nazi princess” by supporters and detractors alike, remained unrepentant and loyal to her father to the end. Although she had visited a concentration camp, she denied the existence of the Holocaust and, in later years, helped provide money and comfort to former Nazis convicted or suspected of war crimes.
At the time of her birth in 1929, her father was consolidating power as leader of the elite Nazi paramilitary corps known as the SS. Himmler also commanded the German secret police, the Gestapo, and established the system of prison and concentration camps in which more than 6 million people — primarily Jews but also Roma (or Gypsies), homosexuals and others — would perish.
The only person who outranked Himmler in the Nazi hierarchy was Hitler himself.
Gudrun, who was Himmler’s oldest child and only legitimate daughter, was exceptionally devoted to her father. Himmler and his wife later adopted a son, and had two other children with his mistress.
Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, the bespectacled, undistinguished-looking Himmler enjoyed having Gudrun at his side, as a blond, blue-eyed symbol of Aryan youth.
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One of the scariest movies I ever saw was the Branagh one about the Wannsee conference. Creeped me out how so much evil was brewed amidst such gentility.
Makes me wonder about today - how much evil is concocted in comfy boardrooms.
Yes I saw it too & you get a surreal sense watching it.
Good film!
Another that will do that is “The Chekist” - Russian film, you can find it with English subtitles on YouTube.
Then came back died in Wisconsin in 2011, her daughter lives in Portland , Oregon.
Spooky movie. Disturbing
Yes!
The original German movie was much better.
Never saw that! Is it on YouTube with English subtitles?
Even sadder was that the most Soviet prisoners of war who survived the Nazis, were killed by Stalin after the war.
Send to the gulags, which often ended up being the same thing.
Al Stewart’s song Roads to Moscow tells that sort of a story in song.
https://youtu.be/N_ZG6tRGMYk
No, I never saw the Branagh movie.
I’ll have to look it up and try to see it.
Most of the evil in history has been devised and blueprinted in boardrooms and conference centers.
The old picture of the evil cabal in their underground lair is pure Hollywood.
Nothing flourishes without the industrialists and bankers.
The rough draft may be put forth in a beer hall but the plan is finalised in the boardroom.
“When blood runs in the streets, follow the money.”
George Soros learned well from his SS mentors.
Who's a nazi apologist?
everyone I don’t agree with
Not a Nazi apologist.
Sorry then. I should not make such a blanket remark really. A Momentary Lapse of Reason on my part.
Thank you. I knew that bastard was one of the most involved. Good movie about his killing..
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