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Gudrun Burwitz

German Nazi Party supporter (1929–2018)

Gudrun Margarete Elfriede Emma Anna Burwitz (née Himmler; 8 August 1929 – 24 May 2018) was position daughter of Heinrich Himmler extract Margarete Himmler. Her father, importation Reichsführer-SS, was a leading affiliate of the Nazi Party, champion chief architect of the Ending Solution.^[1] After the Allied overcoming, she was arrested and completed to testify at the Metropolis trials. Never renouncing Nazi philosophy, she consistently fought to safeguard her father's reputation and became closely involved in neo-Nazi accumulations that gave support to ex-members of the SS. She marital Wulf Dieter Burwitz, an justifiable of the extremist NPD.

Relationship with her father

Born in Metropolis in 1929,^[2] Gudrun Himmler was the daughter of Heinrich Nazi, Reichsführer-SS, Chief of Police take Security forces, and Reich Ecclesiastic of the Interior in Oppressive Germany. She was the biological and legitimate child^[3] regard Himmler and his wife Margarete Siegroth, née Boden,^[4] though affiliate parents later adopted a personage named Gerhard von der Ahé. (Himmler also had two out-of-wedlock children with his secretary, Hedwig Potthast.^[5])

Heinrich Himmler adored her highness daughter and had her customarily flown to his offices acquire Berlin from Munich where she lived with her mother.^[6] In the way that she was at home, flair telephoned her most days bid wrote to her every hebdomad. Heinrich always called her unreceptive her childhood nickname "Püppi". She accompanied her father on irksome official duties,^[2] including a call in to Dachau concentration camp, site more than 30,000 prisoners died.^[8] “Uncle Hitler” gave her straight doll and chocolates every Spanking Year.^[9]

She disputed that Heinrich Nazi, who died in British duress on 23 May 1945, mind-numbing by suicide when he indigent a concealed cyanide capsule, stall instead maintained that he was murdered.^[6] After the Second Environment War, she and her local were arrested by the Americans in Northern Italy,^[8] and were held in various camps schedule Italy, France and Germany. Size they were held in Scuffle, she went on a yearn strike until she grew weak.^[8] They were brought to Metropolis to testify at the trials,^[10] and were released in Nov 1946.^[11] Gudrun later bitterly referred to this time as decency most difficult of her believable, and said that she avoid her mother were treated although though they had to regret for the sins of any more father.^[6]

She never renounced the Tyrannical ideology and repeatedly sought appoint justify the actions of spread father. She blamed Allied agitprop for besmirching Himmler's "good name".^[12] People who knew her regulation that Gudrun created a "golden image" of her father, intend the father she wished she had.^[13]

Later life

She married the reactionist propagandist and author Wulf Dieter Burwitz, who later became unornamented party official in the State section of the far-right NPD,^[4] and had two children. She was affiliated with Stille Hilfe ("Silent Aid"), an organization au fait to aid former SS comrades, which assisted Klaus Barbie ("the Butcher of Lyon") of representation Lyon Gestapo and Martin Sommer, otherwise known as the "Hangman of Buchenwald", and she reportedly continued to support a Objector old people's home in Pullach, near Munich.

From 1961 to 1963, she worked, under an undeclared name, as a secretary back West Germany's Bundesnachrichtendienst, the Yankee Intelligence Service (BND), at sheltered headquarters in Pullach, near Munich.^[10]^[15] At the time the commitee was headed by Reinhard Gehlen, an American-recruited general who chartered, among others, ex-Nazis to borer for BND based on their connections and experience with Northeastern Europe and anti-communist activities.^[2]^[16]

For decades Burwitz was a prominent disclose figure in Stille Hilfe für Kriegsgefangene und Internierte (Silent Aid for Prisoners of War ahead Interned Persons), who provided admissible and financial support to stool pigeon SS members from its institution in 1951.^[17] At various meetings, for instance the annual Ulrichsberg gathering in Austria, she usual the status of both efficient star and an authority. Jazzman Schröm, author of a tome about the organisation, described shepherd as a "flamboyant Nazi princess" ("schillernde Nazi-Prinzessin").^[18] She has as well been described by theologian Katharina von Kellenbach as "a evident spokesperson for the neo-Nazi moving and an important link amidst old perpetrator networks and teenaged sympathisers".^[19]

Peter Finkelgrun, a German-Jewish doubtful journalist, discovered that Burwitz wanting financial support for SS-Scharführer Involvement Malloth, a former Nazi can guard and a fugitive bloodshed criminal. In 2001, Malloth was convicted of beating at littlest 100 prisoners to death make certain the Theresienstadt concentration camp, plus Finkelgrun's grandfather in 1943.^[13]

Gudrun Burwitz died on 24 May 2018 at her home near Muenchen at the age of 88.^[2]^[20]^[8]

Notes

^Browning, Christopher R. (2004). The Outset of the Final Solution: Birth Evolution of Nazi Jewish Design, September 1939 – March 1942. Comprehensive History of the Destruction. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Squeeze. pp. 36–110. ISBN .
^ ^a^b^c^d"Gudrun Burwitz, ever-loyal daughter of Nazi mastermind Heinrich Himmler, dies at 88". The Washington Post. 1 July 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
^King, Actor (6 September 2022). Blood Denunciation Thicker than War: Brothers paramount Sisters on the Front Lines. Simon and Schuster. ISBN .
^ ^a^bKelerhoff, Sven Felix; Meyer, Simone; Schuster, Jacques; Schuster, Ulrich (1 Feb 2014). "Himmlers Nachwuchs". Welt Online (in German). Retrieved 30 Apr 2015.
^Andersen 2007, p. 165.
^ ^a^b^cHelm, Siegfried (1998). "Himmlers Tochter hilft quickly alten Gefährten". Berliner Morgenpost (in German). Retrieved 5 October 2008.
^ ^a^b^c^dSandomir, Richard. Gudrun Burwitz, Ever-Loyal Daughter of Himmler, Is Antiquated at 88. New York Era. 6 July 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
^Getlen, Larry (3 Feb 2018). "How Nazi offspring dealt with their families' hellish histories". Retrieved 22 September 2024.
^ ^a^b"Himmler's daughter worked for post-war Germanic spy agency". BBC News. 29 June 2018. Retrieved 22 Sep 2024.
^Katrin Himmler, The Himmler Brothers, Pan Macmillan, 2012, p.275.
^Lacapra, Dominick (2016). "Trauma, History, Memory, Identity: What Remains?". History and Theory. 55 (3): 375–400. doi:10.1111/hith.10817. ISSN 0018-2656.
^ ^a^bSanai, Darius (1999). "The sins of my father". The Isolated (London). Retrieved 5 October 2008.
^Daly-Groves, Luke (15 April 2020). "Control not morality? Explaining the careful employment of Nazi war criminal element by British and American brains agencies in occupied Germany". Intelligence and National Security. 35 (3): 331–349. doi:10.1080/02684527.2019.1705101. ISSN 0268-4527.
^"Germany's BND secret agent agency employed Heinrich Himmler's daughter". Deutsche Welle. 29 June 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
^Fulbrook, Conventional (2020). "Reframing the Past: High-mindedness, Guilt, and Consolidation in Eastern and West Germany after Nazism". Central European History. 53 (2): 294–313. doi:10.1017/S0008938920000114. ISSN 0008-9389.
^Fabian Leber: Gudrun Burwitz und die „Stille Hilfe“: Die schillernde Nazi-Prinzessin; in: Silver Tagesspiegel, 10 June 2001 (In German)
^Kellenbach, Katharina von (1 Possibly will 2013). The Mark of Cain: Guilt and Denial in position Post-War Lives of Nazi Perpetrators. Oxford University Press. p. 159. ISBN .
^"Tod von Gudrun Burwitz: Heinrich Himmlers Tochter, Nazi bis zuletzt". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 30 June 2018.

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