The Himmler Brothers

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When the Nazis captured Stalin’s son during their invasion of Russia, it was a huge propaganda coup. Wikipedia. Despite her family being told her grandfather Ernst had had no interest in politics, Katrin discovered that he was an enthusiastic Nazi who had joined the party in 1931, and was also an officer in the Schutzstaffel (SS). Ernst was killed in the fighting in Berlin in May 1945.

Robert Hawks, however, wrote in The Independent: "Katrin does try to turn some equivocal evidence into revelations of her family's complicity, but her prosecutorial stance gets in the way of empathy. In the end, The Himmler Brothers raises more questions about its subject than it is capable of answering, but that doesn't lessen in the slightest my admiration of Katrin Himmler for having written it." [3] With her threats, Alessandra Mussolini went too far to ignore them,” said Riccardo Pacifici, the former head of the Jewish community of Rome. “A. Mussolini’s threats are all more outrageous because she is a member of the European Parliament. Six million Jews killed and 75 years were not enough for her to understand what the fascist regime led to.” Her book traces the lives of the three Himmler brothers (the eldest was Gebhard Himmler), the sons of a respected secondary school headmaster in Munich. Gebhard served in the German Army in World War I, but Heinrich, who at 18 was still an officer cadet when the war ended, was too young to see frontline service. Katrin Himmler speculates that it was frustration at this and envy of his brother that led Heinrich to join the extreme right-wing Freikorps in 1919. In the Freikorps he served under Ernst Röhm and was thus led into the Nazi Party. Monika was born at the very end of the war. Her mother was Ruth Kadler, Goeth’s mistress. She had been fully aware of what her lover had been responsible for. But still, she maintained that he was no war criminal. Indeed, she even brought her daughter up believing that Goeth had been carrying out important work. If Monika questioned this, she would be severely beaten. But then, in 1983, Ruth agreed to speak with the BBC. Her defense of Goeth crumbled as she was shown evidence of his crimes. She killed herself one day later. From then on, Monika was determined to learn the truth.Not long ago, the name of Alessandra Mussolini was involved in the scandal when she said that she would sue anyone who somehow offended Mussolini’s memory and threatened to bring to court anyone who dared to say something disrespectful about her grandfather on the Internet, which caused the protest of Italian Jews and anti-fascists. Ironically, Katrinmarried an Israeli citizen, a descendant of a former Warsaw ghetto prisoner. She deliberately did not change her last name and believes that one must have the courage to face the truth, because her family is not something out of the ordinary, as it may seem at first sight. Many German families still maintain a policy of silence or make up some myths about the role of their grandparents in the horrors of the past war.

On May 9, we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Victory. The Nazi crimes were horrific. Yet, we have now to face attempts to justify and revive fascism. Independent, July 5th, 2018 – Gudrun Burwitz: Heinrich Himmler’s Daughter Who Supported Nazi War Criminals For Decades

Heinrich Himmler's Remarkable Admiration For Islam: "It Promises Beautiful Women In Heaven" - Militant Islam Monitor - Militant Islam Monitor But didn’t the authorities in post-war Germany know anything about the Nazi sympathies of Himmler’s daughter? It turns out that they just turned a blind eye to that. On June 29, 2018, a month after Gudrun’s death, a small message appeared in the world press that Himmler’s daughter, as it turned out, had worked for the German intelligence services. Horrified by her own mother, Bettina ran away from home. From the age of 13, she traveled the world. She joined a cult before moving to the United States. Even though she was many miles from Germany and even though she changed her name, she still felt the shame of her heritage. So, at the age of 30, she traveled to Mexico to be sterilized. “It’s my bloodline and I didn’t want to continue it,” she explained. “ I didn’t want any more Goerings.”