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Gudrun Burwitz
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Gudrun Himmler (right) with her mother Margarete Himmler at the Nuremberg trials, 1945
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Gudrun Margarete Elfriede Emma Anna Himmler
8 August 1929 |
| Died | 24 May 2018 (aged 88) Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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| 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 (née Himmler; 8 August 1929 – 24 May 2018) was the daughter of Heinrich Himmler and Margarete Himmler. Her father, as Reichsführer-SS, was a leading member of the Nazi Party, and chief architect of the Final Solution. 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. She never renounced the Nazi ideology and repeatedly sought to justify the actions of her father, relative to the context of his time.
She married Wulf Dieter Burwitz, an official of the extremist NPD. The couple had two children. She was affiliated with Stille Hilfe ("Silent Aid"), an organization formed to aid former SS members.
From 1961 to 1963, she worked, under an assumed name, as a secretary for West Germany's intelligence agency, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), at its headquarters in Pullach.
Gudrun Burwitz died on 24 May 2018 at her home near Munich at the age of 88.
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Gudrun with her parents
See also
In Spanish: Gudrun Burwitz para niños
