“Do you know how many people your father cremated at Dachau?” a British officer asked young Gudrun Himmler during a postwar interrogation in 1945. “Or how many he gassed at Oranienburg? Of course you ...
The daughter of the man seen as second only to Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany has died at age 88. Gudrun Burwitz, the oldest child of Heinrich Himmler, was famous in her own right, however. When she was ...
She could be anyone’s lovable granny, waving goodbye on a sunny ­afternoon to her children who have been visiting to brighten up her day. But her arm raised high in farewell could also be seen in a ...
But one young girl did cry at his loss: his daughter Gudrun. Now aged 85, Gudrun will light a candle for him today, as she has done on every anniversary of his death, to honour the man she called Papi ...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has declassified documents regarding its employment of the daughter of top Nazi Heinrich Himmler as a secretary in the early 1960s, the country’s ...
Gudrun Burwitz belonged to a secretive group called Stille Hilfe (Silent Help), which was formed after the war to help former Nazis escape prosecution and provide them with financial aid.