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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“Unrepentant about the aid and comfort she provided for these former Nazis and SS types. “
She was 10 when the war started.
Read the article.
Goring’s daughter Edda is unrepentant as well
She survived to lead a long and comfortable life, which is more than one can say about her father’s victims, many more than six million of whom did not die during the war but whose lives were shortened and crippled by the obscenity that was Nazi Germany. No sympathy here, none.
Heydrich, Himmler, Eichmann.... there is plenty of guilt to go around.
Ahh...it took about one exchange before you stand on the box in the middle of the courtyard and scream, “Nazi.”
You are pathetic.
This country embraced the guy who invented the V2 for God’s sake. He was responsible for tens of thousands of casualties.
You gobble up your Bayer aspirin. You drive a Volkswagen.
What a bunch of hypocrites.
I guess as long as the Nazis are “Our” Nazis, it’s ok to forgive them.
Instead, you feel it’s okay to judge someone who did nothing. She was a stupid girl. And you expected her to say what? And you hold THAT grudge 70 odd years.
You guys need a better argument than she should have known her dad was an a-hole (which we all have stipulated.).
It’s fine to hate the Germans and the Japs. They killed people in my family too. But your outrage her is as manufactured as the lefts recent outrages.
You and your ilk should have shot the kids when they were little. That way none of them would have been around to aggravate you 75 years later.
“Prayers for a disordered soul.”
Meh, there are about 11 million on my prayer list ahead of her.
Heydrich reported to Himmler and Eichmann reported to Heydrich.
Heydrich and Eichmann were present at the Wannsee conference (Heydrich was the chairman of the proceedings).
By the way, about 11 million died in the holocaust. The 6 million Jews were the most prominent group singled out, but there were millions of others ranging from some Catholic priests, to gays, to mentally ill or physically handicapped, to Jehovah’s Witnesses, to political risky types.
After the Jews the biggest group of victims was Soviet prisoners of war. They truly are the forgotten ones.
Whatever dude. It’s “pathetic” to defend a dead Nazi loving wench.
Huge numbers of them were simply penned up outdoors like cattle and starved and frozen. There were instances of US prisoners nearby who were utterly appalled at how the German army treated them and helped where they could. This despite threat of death for throwing food over the fence.
And how bad did it have to be for a US prisoner to part with some hard to come by food?
Lord have mercy.
you don’t see a difference between rehabilitating nazis and people that still espouse nazi ideology?
Plenty of Slavic types, considered untermenchen, as well.
Hitler really screwed up on that one. He could have had most of the ethnic Ukrainians on his side, if he’d played it right politically. They knew about the Holodomor, hated Stalin and the Russians. It could have made a material difference on the Eastern Front if Hitler had treated them like liberated allies.
> all she was required to do was keep her mouth shut on that topic <
Excellent post..
well the important thing is that the family has now been reunited.
Joseph Mengele had a son. I wonder what ever became of him?
I feel sorry for a lot of the Soviet prisoners of war. Many were abused by the Nazis in those war camps, and upon return to Soviet Russia, got sent to the Gulags because:
* you’re a bad soldier/traitor if caught
* you might have been unduly influenced by foreigners while in a POW camp
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