Gudrun Burwitz

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Gudrun Burwitz , born Himmler (* 8 August 1929 in Munich) is the only legitimate daughter of the Reichsführer-SS and head of of the German police Heinrich Himmler and his wife Margarete (née Boden). Gudrun Burwitz was called Püppi by her father and the Nazi princess in Nazi Germany both unofficially and ironically . After World War II and the suicide of her father, which she repeatedly denied, she was held with her mother for four years in detention by the British occupying powers. According to a later statement these years were the hardest of her life. After her captivity she married the journalist and author Wulf Dieter Burwitz, who is likewise active in Neo-Nazism. She has never denied the ideology of her father and has tried to repeatedly justify his actions. She has remained active in the Nazi community, and since 1951 has been a member of Stille Hiilfe, an organisation supporting arrested, condemned or fugitive former SS-members in states of distress. In 1952 she helped to found Wiking-Jugend which was organized after the Hitler Youth model. She was friendly with Florentine rost van Tonningen, known in the Netherlands as "the black widow" and was active in Nazi circles after the war.

For decades Gudrun Burwitz has been a prominent symbol in and idol of Stille Hilfe. At relevant meetings as Ulrichsbergtreffen in Austria she appeared at the same time as star and authority. Gudrun Burwitz has intensively acted in later years for Nazi war criminals. This showed up particularly clearly in the case of Anton Malloth.

[edit] literature

• Oliver Schröm, Andrea Röpke: Stille Hilfe für braune Kameraden. Christoph Links Verlag 2002, ISBN 386153231X
• Norbert und Stephan Lebert: Denn Du trägst meinen Namen. Goldmann Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-442-15188-0