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Gudrun Burwitz, ever-loyal daughter of Nazi mastermind Heinrich Himmler, dies at 88
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ^ | 7/1/18 | Matt Schudel

Posted on 07/01/2018 10:09:18 AM PDT by BBell

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To: BBell

“Unrepentant about the aid and comfort she provided for these former Nazis and SS types. “

She was 10 when the war started.


21 posted on 07/01/2018 10:33:49 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bonemaker

Read the article.


22 posted on 07/01/2018 10:36:43 AM PDT by BBell (Ich bin Ein Wenig Teekanne ):>()
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To: DesertRhino

Goring’s daughter Edda is unrepentant as well


23 posted on 07/01/2018 10:38:27 AM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no rule of law in the US until The PIAPS is executed.)
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To: BBell

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.


24 posted on 07/01/2018 10:42:01 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: partyrepub

Heydrich, Himmler, Eichmann.... there is plenty of guilt to go around.


25 posted on 07/01/2018 10:42:18 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: BBell

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.


26 posted on 07/01/2018 10:42:21 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: fieldmarshaldj

“Prayers for a disordered soul.”

Meh, there are about 11 million on my prayer list ahead of her.


27 posted on 07/01/2018 10:44:07 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: partyrepub

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).


28 posted on 07/01/2018 10:47:24 AM PDT by stationkeeper
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To: Billthedrill

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.


29 posted on 07/01/2018 10:48:42 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DesertRhino

After the Jews the biggest group of victims was Soviet prisoners of war. They truly are the forgotten ones.


30 posted on 07/01/2018 10:50:44 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Vermont Lt

Whatever dude. It’s “pathetic” to defend a dead Nazi loving wench.


31 posted on 07/01/2018 10:50:50 AM PDT by BBell (Ich bin Ein Wenig Teekanne ):>()
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To: Billthedrill

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?


32 posted on 07/01/2018 10:54:27 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: BBell

Lord have mercy.


33 posted on 07/01/2018 10:57:29 AM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: Vermont Lt

you don’t see a difference between rehabilitating nazis and people that still espouse nazi ideology?


34 posted on 07/01/2018 10:58:30 AM PDT by socalgop
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To: DesertRhino

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.


35 posted on 07/01/2018 10:59:09 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: DesertRhino

> all she was required to do was keep her mouth shut on that topic <

Excellent post..


36 posted on 07/01/2018 10:59:25 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Blue House Sue

well the important thing is that the family has now been reunited.


37 posted on 07/01/2018 11:03:23 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: DesertRhino
Even worse, she was employed in the 60’s by the BND German intel service with 100+ SS and Gestapo officers... including Klaus Barbie.

At some point, decisions were made by the Truman-era U.S. Army, CIA, and State Department that saving West Germany (and by extension the rest of western Europe) from communism meant allowing the most capable men to run the show in W. Germany regardless of their Nazi past. The feeling that holding the line against the Soviets was more important than punishing Nazis. We can debate the morality of it, but looking at the way things worked out 1945-89, the strategy worked.
38 posted on 07/01/2018 11:06:55 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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Joseph Mengele had a son. I wonder what ever became of him?


39 posted on 07/01/2018 11:07:29 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: Billthedrill

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


40 posted on 07/01/2018 11:08:41 AM PDT by tbw2
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