What he disagreed with was the Judeo influence on the Church; Germany had some sects who worshiped the Jew as the only people close to God. The revelation about Gudrun Burwitz was first. Heinrich Himmler (front right, beside prisoner) inspecting Dachau Concentration Camp on 8 May 1936.Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 152-11-12 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Katrin Himmler only thought of changing her surname when she was a girl . Gudrun: I have to laugh at that, that book is pure fiction. Through her adulthood, Gudrun stayed faithful to her father. We truly live in a world upside down. Many innocent SS men were murdered at war's end and their families tracked down and sent away to camps; we tried to protect them and fought to get them money. To me he was like a family member. Gudrun: Be clear in what you are stating. I still remember going for walks and smelling all the gourmet food from the mom and pop stores that lined the streets, under National Socialism everyone was encouraged to start a small business or to have a good career, so we had many shops to choose from. Burwitz-Himmler's father led the paramilitary SS, which oversaw the Nazis' system of concentration camps and death camps. Germany s foreign intelligence agency is confirming that the daughter of top Nazi Heinrich Himmler, who led the SS, worked for it as a secretary in the early 1960s. I was around my father often, even during the war, if there was a state plan to kill Jews I would have heard it, even if by accident. Gudrun: They are traitors plain and simple. They were afraid of fate where SS men were fearless and stared fate in the eyes. One official said: She is over 80 but pin sharp. She believes the British murdered him and pledged her life to helping his comrades whenever she could. It was not only Jewish people but other nationalities. Gudrun: I met the Fhrer many times. National Socialism was born due to a nation being plundered and taken advantage of, with the people lacking the proper will to live and fight for their future. These were homes for wives of SS men where they could go have a child in a resort-like setting. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. There are those who disagree, saying that National Socialism was hateful, racist, divisive, and pure evil, you do not believe this to be factual? No conversation about National Socialism is complete without talking about the Jews, and the crimes they claim to be victims of. It is 70 years since her beloved Papi killed himself with a cyanide tablet hidden in his mouth, after being captured by British troops. BERLIN Germany's foreign intelligence agency has confirmed that the daughter of top Nazi Heinrich Himmler, who led the SS, worked for it as a secretary in the early 1960s. This was in 1941, when we were supposed to be killing them all. Himmler talks with an American journalist by Lothrop Stoddard (1940) "THE PARTY." That is the commonest phrase in Germany today. Burwitz-Himmler's father led the paramilitary SS, which oversaw the Nazis' system of concentration camps and death camps. My father's concern was that in just the last 200 years Jews have wormed their way into our religion, even to the point of working on translating parts of the Bible to suit their needs. [Above: Heinrich Himmler (front right, beside prisoner) visiting the Dachau Concentration Camp in 1936.]. The book The Odessa File claims it was a spy-like network protecting war criminals and killers. He did not believe Field Marshal Rommel had anything to do with the traitors but sadly, a few in the officer corps had been infiltrated. They withheld food and water, hygiene items, groped my mother and me, threatened us with rape and said I would be sent to Russia. You are, I am sure, referring to the Jews. Those in charge fell for that claim, and came down harshly on people even if just by rumor, something Heydrich would have been against as he would have wanted hard evidence. We wished no ill will on any other people, but we demanded they leave us alone. [Above: Heinrich Himmler speaking to a Russian P.O.W. She was reported to be a prominent member of Stille Hilfe (Silent Help), a secretive group known to provide legal and financial support to former SS members. Even after the trials were over, Gudrun and her mother were forced to live in a protestant nursing home at Bethel under an alias, because they did not have any money or valuables. Gudrun: My father was a man of incredible honor, love, and loyalty. Germany had some of the most advanced anthropologists, genetic scientists, historians, and supporting staff to help find the answers to why we exist and how it all came to be. Gudrun: They are traitors plain and simple. There were people in the occupied countries who actually killed the mother and child, just because there was a German father. In an interview, Gudrun Himmler, whose photois in the article, told how after visiting the concentration camp she . The Fhrer and those around him saw the problems, identified what was causing the problems, and showed the solution to solve the problems. Gudrun: Not in a million years. Heydrich brought National Socialist ideas to the people and vastly started to improve their lives during a war in which everyone had to sacrifice. She was also known to attend other neo-Nazi events and rallies before her death. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, there is a screening programme to try to stop them working in nurseries. You are, I am sure, referring to the Jews. Legacy Of The Third Reich: Heinrich Himmler's Loving And Devoted Daughter. I am still with this organization and was happy that your President Reagan visited Bitburg where many SS men rest to lay a wreath. It was a strange feeling, my father was very high up in the Reich government but yet I felt, and my father reinforced this, that we were part of the people, no better and no worse. He told them that the SD was uncovering so much espionage and illegal activity in even the "good Jews" that they must all be moved to where they could be better watched. Many of the opportunistic upper echelon National Socialists were not exemplary parents, like for example, Hans Frank, Amon Goeth or Rudolf Hss, each of whom were essentially estranged from their children and/or grandchildren. I heard my father give orders that life in the transit and prison camps be made comfortable and tolerable for the prisoners. You are, I am sure, referring to the Jews. He was assassinated because he was so good to the people, it is a good study of the way the Allies twist history to their liking and use the Czechs as pawns. While I remember nothing about the struggle for power as I was born in 1929, I heard many stories. They were to be the new vanguard of a genetic repopulation of Germany to make up for the losses of the first war and its aftermath. Her father had one of the most powerful roles during the Holocaust, but Gudrun refused to see it. HEINRICH HIMMLER - INTERVIEW. We were very successful in getting donations to help them support their families. I was around my father often, even during the war, if there was a state plan to kill Jews I would have heard it, even if by accident. They died fighting for a better world in which a man is judged by the way he cares for his people and their future on this earth. The paper previously confirmed the intelligence agency employed . It was also opened to any woman who became pregnant but was not married, and whose family may have disapproved. We were just helping and protecting families falsely labeled as criminals and accused of false crimes. My father was very proud of these homes; they show the National Socialist love for life and charity. Mr Hechelhammer said the organisation did not ordinarily discuss current and former employees but was making an exemption because Burwitz had died. My father had a vision of a people turning back to their creator, who gave us everything we know. Between May 3 and 11 the group moved south, sleeping in barns, fields and deserted stations. There is a book an American showed me called The War that Hitler Won and it attempted to show how effective Nazi propaganda was in brainwashing the masses to do evil things. They were then able to convince leaders that the Bible really is about the Jew and not about Europeans; we are only secondary along with all other gentiles. They had compatriots all over the world in every nation. My father asked the questions as to why, where and how. Gudrun: Yes I did, in 1941 my father asked me to come with him so I could see how prisoners were getting along in Germanys largest and oldest camp. The commander laughed that the prisoners lived better than he did. This was their way to weaken a nations gene pool and kill off the best of the best, making their conquest easier. She was 63 years old when she did this interview. It was to be a place of honor for high SS leaders, so that future generations could honor the sacrifices they made to bring us a better world through National Socialism. Then on May 21 they ran into a patrol of freed Russian PoWs checking people on the road. Every race was given a way to worship their creator, the European people found a God who worked well for us for 2 thousand years. Delicious Aryan traits, good manners and the best contacts with the dome of Nazism made the daughter of Heihrich Himmler the de facto princess of . Did you ever see a concentration camp? They were terrified of her, said Andrea Ropke, an authority on neo-Nazism who was there. Gudrun: Yes I did, in 1941 my father asked me to come with him so I could see how prisoners were getting along in Germanys largest and oldest camp. When it was taken, men and women were dying just yards away. Your father is accused of ordering the killing of millions, putting millions of others in concentration camps, and overseeing a police state whom terrorized anyone who did not comply. My father hated seeing death in wartime, but he was a policeman who knew his duty and knew what he asked of his officers was a hard duty, but when people break the laws of war, and kill innocents, they too must be held accountable and those who help them. Childhood and youthBiography Gudrun Himmler began on August 8, 1929 in. Gudrun: Not in a million years. Germans have always revered our history; you will see in our very old cathedrals' images from our Germanic past, the gods our ancestors prayed to, and it is all tied into our modern worldview of religion. We arrived and were greeted by prisoners along with the camp commander. 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 top-selling newspaper reported Thursday. Did you ever see a concentration camp? Did you ever see a concentration camp? He commissioned studies of our history, to trace the footsteps of our ancestors, where did they originate and why were they so intelligent and advanced when other races stayed the same? We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Whenever I saw him, I always received a gift whether it was food or a book. It became lazy, drenched in liberal thought, even suggesting homosexuals should be allowed in society, and that race does not matter to the creator who created the races. Locals recognised him and sent him and the group packing. My father was proud of the French who sent many people to help us, either in the factories or the front. Then should have said to him "hurts don't it, when somebody murders someone u love". That was the essence of National Socialism; everything was done for the people, to help improve everyone's life and happiness. He always commented on my clothes and hair, he said I behaved as a German girl should, always proper and polite. Worse, while cherishing the memory of Himmler, she still works to this day, despite her advanced age, helping the survivors of Nazism try to evade justice. In 2010, Gudruns organisation paid for the defence of Samuel Kunz, an SS man charged with complicity in the murders of 437,000 Jews in Belzec extermination camp in occupied Poland. My mother and I never had official notification of his death. German journalists who write about Stille Hilfe remark on the power she now wields in the organisation. Malloth was put up in an OAP home with Stille Hilfe funds. The head of the spy agency's history department then corroborated the newspaper report about Burwitz's activities in West Germany, which reunited with communist East Germany in 1990 to form the present German state. Katrin Himmler (born 1967) is a German author. Over the years she has given help to people like Anton Malloth, a supervisor of Theresienstadt. What was your father's view regarding religion and Christianity? In a 1999 interview she talked about trying to save enough money to go to America and examine the evidence that would help her . In his last week, one of Adolf Hitlers most senior lieutenants was on the run, hiking around northern Germany disguised as a soldier, his moustache shaved off and a patch on one eye. The real reason he was killed was that he was so good; the English then spread disinformation to us saying it was Czech partisans rising up with help from the people. The commander laughed that the prisoners lived better than he did. Ever since she has refused to believe that Himmler committed suicide, claiming instead the British killed him. Gudrun retains her fathers fascist views and has been described by Oliver Schrm as a flamboyant Nazi princess. A Being is responsible for life, that is very easy to see because of what it is, nature and the beauty of the earth. You no doubt are referring to my fathers good friend Reinhard Heydrich when you speak of Czechoslovakia. The blood and soil concept was a back to the roots of our ancestors' idea; it was in this that our gene pool would be repaired. When she was at home he telephoned her most days and wrote to her every week. They had compatriots all over the world in every nation. The BND told Bild newspaper. They have no idea they were the evil ones, fighting an evil war against an innocent nation and its people. Although separated from his wife, Himmler remained close to his daughter. Wewelsburg was set up so an SS member could study all about our history, our genetic makeup that makes us whom we are, and how to preserve it. The Ahnenerbe was nothing but an archeological research institute run by the SS. It was a strange feeling, my father was very high up in the Reich government but yet I felt, and my father reinforced this, that we were part of the people, no better and no worse. They are infiltrating kindergartens, schools and other organisations. You are, I am sure, referring to the Jews. We truly live in a world upside down. The prisoners were very friendly, I asked one man who was a communist how he liked the camp; he of course said he would rather be home, but life here was not terrible. National Socialism was born a hard birth and died a fiery death, but it must happen that way to waken more of our racial brethren than what Germany had the power to do. Germans have always revered our history; you will see in our very old cathedrals' images from our Germanic past, the gods our ancestors prayed to, and it is all tied into our modern worldview of religion. One thing that seemed to pain my father was that the Allies bombed some of the camps, killing inmates. We wished no ill will on any other people, but we demanded they leave us alone. The prisoners were very friendly, I asked one man who was a communist how he liked the camp; he of course said he would rather be home, but life here was not terrible. The revelation about Gudrun Burwitz was first reported in the German newspaper Bild following her death aged 88. My father once said that SS generals should have been put in charge like Sepp Dietrich and Paul Hausser, and then the war may have had a different outcome, he felt many army officers lacked a firm belief in being able to win against such odds. Eighty years ago, an obscure, former lance corporal in the Bavarian army named Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of . Gudrun spoke in the 1950s of her intention to travel to America where the documents are that would clear her father. She was the only biological child of Himmler and his wife Margarete Siegroth, ne Boden, [3] though her parents later adopted a son. It has just 40 members but gets money from rich industrialists sympathetic to the Nazi cause and an estimated 1,000 others from Europes rag-tag far right. I would often go with my mother to buy ingredients for dishes that we would cook together; every family was encouraged to eat together and share. Many children of Nazi monsters Rudolf Hess, Hans Frank, the brutal governor of Poland, Martin Bormann turned their backs on their fathers and their sins when adulthood made them aware of their crimes. The commander laughed that the prisoners lived better than he did. After her fathers suicide, the Allied soldiers who captured Gudrun and her mother Margarete did not know what to do with them. We loved the Europe of our ancestors, and wanted to preserve the priceless culture that has given the world every good thing it knows today. This was in 1941, when we were supposed to be killing them all. The commander laughed that the prisoners lived better than he did. The American Ernest Hemingway even brags about killing a young SS soldier who surrendered, I wonder what was told to his mother. They were then able to convince leaders that the Bible really is about the Jew and not about Europeans; we are only secondary along with all other gentiles. They were afraid of fate where SS men were fearless and stared fate in the eyes. The Allies claim the entire SS was a criminal organization, killing Jews, surrendered soldiers, civilians, and every other group. She did not weep, but went on hunger strikes. We arrived and were greeted by prisoners along with the camp commander. Nothing sinister in this either. We are leaps and bounds ahead of any other peoples, including the advanced Orientals. The lies of the Allies will someday be exposed and the world will know Germany was right and justified in the conduct of the war. What he disagreed with was the Judeo influence on the Church; Germany had some sects who worshiped the Jew as the only people close to God. We had many small conversations regarding school and my past times. The prisoners were very friendly, I asked one man who was a communist how he liked the camp; he of course said he would rather be home, but life here was not terrible. I heard my father give orders that life in the transit and prison camps be made comfortable and tolerable for the prisoners. Stille Hilfe was quite simply an organization created to help fight for pensions for former SS men who served their nation in time of war. The Fhrer was a true gift to the German people, he opened eyes to a new and better world that someday will come, like a phoenix. Vanessa Lapa, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, has made a documentary called The Decent One, based on Himmler's letters to his wife . -|- -|-Ursula H.-Interview with a BDM girl who worked with Ukrainian farmers for the 1942 harvest. I am still with this organization and was happy that your President Reagan visited Bitburg where many SS men rest to lay a wreath. Nothing sinister about looking into your past to see about improving your future. The idea of a people standing on their own two feet and taking the reins of their future are offensive to those who want to plunder and make huge profits off of a people they slowly want to destroy. The Jews promoted a genetic cesspool where everyone was encouraged to breed, no matter if you had a defect or not, but healthy women were also encouraged to abort their healthy babies. The people I saw were genuinely happy; there were smiles everyplace I would go, and my father took me with him on many trips. The Fhrer and those around him saw the problems, identified what was causing the problems, and showed the solution to solve the problems. Because we loved our people, our nation, and our leaders we are called racists and hateful? So if I may, let me ask a pointed question, if National Socialism was so good and peaceful, why were so many people opposed to German rule? That was the essence of National Socialism; everything was done for the people, to help improve everyone's life and happiness. It was the Allies who are the masters of propaganda, convincing millions that a nation and its people must die and suffer because they are a threat to freedom. What did you know about the Ahnenerbe, Wewelsburg, and the Lebensborn? We arrived and were greeted by prisoners along with the camp commander. Can you speak about this? My father was not like his friend Dr. Goebbels, he believed we could work with the Allies after the war to combat communism and had nothing to fear. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This is truly a fascinating side of Himmler, the good father. Gudrun: Not in a million years. Because we loved our people, our nation, and our leaders we are called racists and hateful? Germans have always revered our history; you will see in our very old cathedrals' images from our Germanic past, the gods our ancestors prayed to, and it is all tied into our modern worldview of religion. 70 years after Himmler's death he remains a figure of great curiosity. The Fhrer was a true gift to the German people, he opened eyes to a new and better world that someday will come, like a phoenix. Can you speak about this? I remember the throngs of people who came up to my father to thank him and the other leaders around him for saving them. Born in Munich in 1929, [2] Gudrun Himmler was the daughter of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfhrer-SS, Chief of Police and Security forces, and Reich Minister of the Interior in Nazi Germany. I was around my father often, even during the war, if there was a state plan to kill Jews I would have heard it, even if by accident. 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