Gudrun Burwitz
| Gudrun Margarete Elfriede Emma Anna Burwitz | |
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Gudrun Himmler with her mother at the Nuremberg trials, 1945.
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Gudrun Himmler 8 August 1929 Munich, Bavaria, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Other names | Püppi |
| Known for | daughter of Nazi Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler |
| Spouse(s) | Wulf Dieter Burwitz |
| Children | 2 |
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Gudrun Margarete Elfriede Emma Anna Burwitz (born Himmler, 8 August 1929) is the daughter of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS, leading member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), and chief architect of the Final Solution. After the allied victory, she was arrested and made to testify at the Nuremberg trials. Having never renounced Nazi ideology, she has consistently fought to defend her father’s reputation, and has become closely involved in Neo-Nazi groups that give support to ex-members of the SS. She married Wulf Dieter Burwitz, an official of the far-right NPD.
Gudrun Himmler is the daughter of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS, Chief of Police and Security forces, and Reich Minister of the Interior in Nazi Germany. She was the only child of Himmler and his wife Margarete Siegroth, née Boden, though her parents later adopted a son. (Himmler also had two children with his secretary, Hedwig Potthast.) Gudrun was born in Munich and baptised a Protestant.
Heinrich Himmler adored his daughter and had her regularly flown to his offices in Berlin from Munich where she lived with her mother. When she was at home he telephoned her most days and wrote to her every week. He continued to call her by her childhood nickname "Püppi" throughout his life. She accompanied her father on some official duties.
She disputed that Heinrich Himmler, who died in British captivity on 23 May 1945, took his own life by breaking a concealed cyanide capsule, claiming that he was murdered. After the Second World War she and her mother were arrested by the Americans and held in various camps in Italy, France and Germany. They were brought to Nuremberg to testify at the trials, and were released in November 1946. Gudrun later bitterly referred to these years as the most difficult of her life, and said that she and her mother were treated as though they had to atone for the sins of her father.
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