Nazi Princesses - The Fates of Top Nazis' Wives & Mistresses

They were the women who had had it all - the

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and lovers of the leaders of Nazi Germany - they had lived luxurious, gilded lives at the expense of the state, being used as symbols of perfect German womanhood and often wielding considerable influence and power behind the scenes. so what happened? For them and their children when their husbands and boyfriends fell so dramatically from power in May 1945, how did the Allies treat the

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of top Nazis? Many of the children of Hitler's inner circle are alive today in a history that spans more than 75 years from the defeat of Nazi Germany to the present day so let's start with something interesting Hitler's sister-in-law well she is sister-in-law of course, I I mean gretel brown eva brown hitler's sister married ava the day before she died a reward for her many years of loyalty, gretel brown had been an important member of the court's inner circle around hitler in 1944, gretel was She had married Hitler's SS Liaison Gruppenführer Hermann Feigerline, a marriage ceremony had taken place in Bactus Garden in which Himmler and Martin Borman were witnesses.

The happy couple had visited Hitler in Berkoff, his private home in Obersalzberg. before hosting a wedding breakfast at the eagle's nest hitler's famous reception house on the highest peak of kellstein mountain this wedding took place just three days before the d day landings in normandy gretel had accompanied her sister to to the Reich Chancellery and to bomb-hit Berlin on January 19, 1945 to see her husband, but returned to the Oberzatzberg on February 9. Ava returned alone to Berlin to join Hitler in the bunker from which she would never emerge alive. But Gretel stayed in the Auburn Salzburg because she was pregnant.

Things had become complicated for Gretel and Hermann when Feigline left the bunker during the final stages of the Battle of Berlin and was apprehended by Hitler's bodyguards following Heinrich Himmler's betrayal of the Reichsführer. . The SS had been secretly negotiating a surrender with the Western Allies behind Hitler's back, Hitler, incited by Bormann, sentenced Feigline to death and he was shot in the garden of the Reich Chancellery despite Ava Brown's pleas earlier. On April 29, 1945, Hitler married Ava Brown and was widowed. Gretel Her sister-in-law Gretel gave birth to a baby girl in the resort town of Zelemsei on May 5, 1945, a week after the suicides of Hitler and Ava, she named the baby Ava after her sister, all of her albums photos, jewelry, amateur films, images, letters. including many letters written between hitler and ava brown and many ments have been hidden at fishhorn castle, the headquarters of her husband hermann's former ss cavalry division, florian gaia, and where her brother was chief of staff, but little After the war, Gretel befriended a German refugee. who convinced her to show him the hiding place of this valuable and historically significant material.

The refugee was actually an agent of the US counterintelligence force. All of the material was confiscated and sent to Washington DC, although some has disappeared and some It was never shown to the public in 1954 Gretel Fegaline married businessman Kurt Berlinghoff in Munich The marriage produced no children as her daughter Ava Fegaline committed suicide in June 1971 at the age of 26 after the death of her fiancé in an accident Automobile in later life Gretel suffered from Alzheimer's disease and died in October 1987 in the city of Steingarten, Bavaria, at the age of 72. The two witnesses at Gretel's wedding in June 1944, Himmler and Borman had interesting family arrangements.

Himmler had been a late, timid and annoying man she knew. His future wife was Margreta in 1927. She was a nurse and they shared an interest in homeopathy and herbal medicine. They married in July 1928. Margreta was seven years older than Himmler. The marriage produced only one child, a daughter named Gudrun, born in 1929. Himmler later adopted a child named Gerhard de Aha, the son of an SS officer who died before the war. Himmler was a very busy man who saw little of his wife. The couple maintained two residences, a large villa in the Darem district of Berlin and a house in Gamund in Teganze in Bavaria.

Himmler was able to spend more time with Goodrem and accompanied his father on many occasions. official occasions and official visits, including at least once during a visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp, but Himmler found love with a younger woman in 1938. Himmler fell in love with one. of his secretaries a 12 year old woman his youngest Hedwig Pottast Pottas and Himmler became romantically involved in 1939 after Himmler declared his love for her he wanted to divorce his wife and marry Potast but such a move would have been hypocritical since Himmler demanded the highest moral behavior and standards of his SS subordinates and officially disapproved of the same behavior he was secretly practicing, so Pothouse became Himmler's mistress for a long time, they lived together off and on in Mecklenburg and Pottas gave him children Helga, born in 1942, and a daughter, Nanette Doritea, born on July 20, 1944.

On the same day a conspiracy of army officers blew up Hitler with a bomb in the wolf's den at the end of the war. Himmler's lover lived in Rosenheim with his children and the wife of SS Obergruppenfuhrer Oswald Pole, one of Himmler's main commanders and a major war criminal. Himmler's wife had been working as a nurse during the war for the German Red Cross in a very high position. Her adopted son, Gerhardvan Aha, saw combat against the Soviets as part of Hitler's youth unit and was captured, but later released. Surviving the war, Himmler's wife and mistress remained loyal to him until the end.

Margretta and Gudrun fled Gamund just before the advancing American troops and arrived in Bolzano in Italy, where they were arrested. The Americans held them in a series of internment camps in Italy, France and Germany before taking them to Nuremberg to testify at the famous trials. This experience deeply affected Goodren, making her a devoted defender of her father for the rest of her life, released in November. From 1946 Margaret was also bitter and legally challenged her denatification classification largely based on a high rank in the German Red Cross. In 1951, her category was changed to the lowest, meaning she was not held responsible for the crimes of her husband, but in 1953 she was reclassified again as category 2, a beneficiary of the Nazi regime, she received 30 days of punishment.

She lost her pension rights and the right to vote. She lived with her sister and her adopted son in a small apartment in Haepen and her last years were spent with her daughter Goodren in Munich, where she died in 1967 at age 73. Goodrun became a vocal and visible figure. Neo-Nazi supporter in West Germany The right-wing Nazi princess married author and journalist Wolf Dieter Berwitz had two children with him Berwitz was heavily involved with Germany's right-wing party the NPD and Goodrun was also involved with Stila Hilfer or an organization of silent aid who provided aid to former Nazi and SS officers helping war criminals such as Klaus Barbie alias the Butcher of Lyon and Martin Zomer the Executioner of Buchenwald because she was Himmler's daughter she was highly respected in the neo-Nazi community Gudrun Berwitz died in May 2018 at his home in Munich, at the age of 88.

As for Himmler's mistress, she was arrested by the US military in July 1945 and interrogated. Hedwig Potthust lived in Taisendorf and remained in contact with the family of Himmler's older brother Gephard and the former SS obergruppenführer Karl Wolff. Pottas, a member of Himmler's personal staff, later married and changed her surname. Her son Helga battled ill health all his life and lived with her mother while her daughter became a doctor and is believed to be alive today. She lives in the north of Germany. Hedwig Potters died in Baden Baden. in September 1994, at the age of 82. Martin Bormann was like his archrival Himmler, a hypocrite regarding the family values ​​officially adopted by Nazi leaders in 1929, Bormann had married 19-year-old Gerda Buch, her father was a high-ranking Nazi figure and she knew Hitler well , hitler and rudolph.

Hess were the witnesses at his wedding. The Nazi state officially encouraged large families and Borman's family was enormous. Ten children were born between 1930 and 1943. This large brood was often filmed with Hitler in his home as Boarman's villa was located next to hitler the berkoff house in obersalzberg one child died as a baby many of the children were named after their godparents the elder martin adolph bormann was named after his godfather adolf hitler rudolph bormann after rudolf hess although his name was later changed to helmut after Hesse's flight to Scotland in 1941. Heinrich Bourman for Heinrich Himmler and Eva Bourman for Hitler's girlfriend Gerda Bormann was a fanatical anti-Semite but her marriage to Borman was not easy the Eminence Brown as Bourman was nicknamed was constantly unfaithful gerder a tall woman who dominated her husband was often humiliated by him in front of guests while in private, Bourmont behaved in a loving and sentimental manner.

She supported the idea of ​​something called parallel marriages so that a man could produce more offspring for Hitler and tolerated his affairs accordingly. One of Borman's lovers was the movie star Manya. Barons, although they had no children together at the end of the war, Martin Bauman remained in the Berlin bunker with Hitler until the bitter end and disappeared in early May 1945 during an escape attempt by the surviving bunker personnel. His fate will be the subject. From a future video Garda and her children sought refuge in Wolkenstein, a mountain village near Bolzano in Italy. She was arrested and interrogated by US forces and taken to Murano.

It was discovered that she had uterine cancer. She died in hospital in April 1946, aged 37. Her children were adopted by a Catholic priest. Interestingly, Borman's eldest son, Martin Adolph, later became a Roman Catholic priest, although he left the priesthood, married a former nun, and had children. He died in 2013. Six of Martin Bourman's children are still alive today. A senior Nazi who fell from grace before the end of the war was Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribentrop, a highly influential figure during the 1930s when Hitler used diplomacy to expand his influence in Europe with the advent of war. fell by the wayside and with this Ribentrop's position was sustained by continuing to play a more limited role in Hitler's court and enrichment that was not to the liking of the other leaders, he managed to disappear at the end of the war, abandoning his family to seek refuge in Hamburg, where he was finally located and arrested in a miserable apartment in the company of a young woman on June 14, 1945 by the Belgian section of the British SAS.

He was subsequently hanged after the trial in Nuremberg. This vain and ambitious man had Married to Anna Henkel in 1920 when he was a handsome cavalry officer Anna was the daughter of a wealthy Wiesbaden wine producer together they would have five children, Anneliese, as she was known, evidently married below her aristocratic social status, at least according to her mother , who hated Ribbontrop, Anneliese was considered by her contemporaries as a headstrong and headstrong woman who controlled her husband, it was she who pushed him to join the Nazi party even Hitler noticed that Annalize seemed to wear pants to her marriage at the end of the war Annalize was arrested and held in the Dachau internment camp, where the former concentration camp was located, she and her husband had become fabulously wealthy and although the allies attempted to strip her of her wealth, she fought vigorously through the courts, much of it of his fortune actually came from inheritances from his father.

She also wrote several books defending the actions of her husband and she died in 1973 unrepentant at the age of 77. her eldest son, Rudolf von Ribentrop. He was a highly decorated Waffen-SS captain during the war and earned the Knight's Cross for his bravery in combat. She was educated at Westminster School in London when her father was German ambassador. He was wounded five times in action. He died in 2019 at age 98. Longevity seems to be a fun Ribbon-trop Trait, as three of von Ribentrop's children are still alive today. Her son, Adolf von Ribentrop, is named after you, you know who is 85.

Her daughter Ursula von Ribentrop is currently 88 and her daughter Bettina von Ribentrop is 98. Perhaps the most important Nazi wife was not Himmler. baumans or even later hitler was emmy gerring the second wife of the head of the luftwaffe and since the flight of hess to scotland the name of hitler deputy and successor hermann guring was born in 1893 emmy zonoman was an actress in weimar in the first world war She had married a fellow actor although she was divorced on amicable terms in 1926. She met Herman Guring in the early 1930s. Hermann's first wife, Karen, who was Swedish, had died in October 1931 of heart failure, shortly after. before turning 43 years old,Gouring was devastated by his death and he would perpetuate his first wife's name.

On behalf of his large estate on the outskirts of Berlin, which he named Karen Hull, and two of his yachts, his body remained at Karen Hull's site after the building was blown up on Guring's orders as the Red Army approached. in April 1945 and her remains were discovered in 1991. She was subsequently reburied in Sweden and married Emmy in 1935 in a lavish wedding in Berlin. In 1938, a daughter named Edda was born in honor of Mussolini's daughter, Countess Edda. chiano emmy and the countess, being good friends, emmy was soon described as the first lady of the reich an elegant hostess who thoroughly enjoyed her husband's decadent and luxurious lifestyle, curiously emmy had no time for hitler's girlfriend, Eva Brown, treated her in a condescending and contemptuous manner, the friction became so bad that Hitler had to intervene and order the goring.

In order for his wife to treat Ava with respect later, Emmy was apparently even banned from Hitler's home, Berkoff, although the Gorings maintained a luxurious home just behind Bourmond's estate, just one of many homes. , castles and hunting lodges that were owned, all decorated with the finest things, including looted art. from Jewish collectors and Paris museumsEdda, Goring's daughter, was treated like a princess and, although she was noted for being courteous and polite, she was pampered with clothes, toys and luxurious playhouses, including a 50-meter-long replica of Frederick the Great. Son Susie's palace, paid for by the Luftwaffe. Edda was Guring's only daughter. and he adored her, unlike the other Nazi leaders, because he took no lovers from her and remained completely faithful to her wife in the latter part of the war.

She slowly fell from grace as his air force failed to stop Allied air raids that were destroying city after city. In Germany, a few days before Hitler died, Gerring recklessly attempted to succeed him as leader, believing that Hitler, trapped in his bunker, could no longer exercise control over what was left of the Reich. Bormann convinced Hitler that Goering was committing treason, and Hitler ordered that They would arrest him and hold him. Under house arrest with his family in their home in Obersalzberg, they survived the intense RAF bombing that destroyed or damaged most Nazi buildings. The SS then evacuated them to Goring Castle in Maltendorf, liberated on May 5 when the war was almost over.

Guring attempted to reach American lines because he believed he could negotiate the German surrender personally with Eisenhower's General Dwight. He, his family and his staff were detained by a US special intelligence mission in an operation. I have made a video about the link in the final screen and taken to fishhorn castle on may 7, 1945 from there goering was taken to the us headquarters and previously arrested on suspicion of war crime emmy and edda They remained at Fishhorn before being interned at Camp Ashkan in Luxembourg. They were released and moved to one of their castles in Berg Veldenstein.

A new house near Nurenberg. Herrmann Goering was the star defendant at the Nurnberg trials and Emmy and Edda were allowed to visit him. In the court prison on October 15, 1946, the night before his execution, Guring committed suicide with a hidden cyanide capsule that had amassed truly staggering amounts of wealth during the war, much of it illicit, but determining what they were Guring's property and those of his wife and daughter was very difficult. Emmy Guring was punished as part of the denarcification process. She was convicted of being a Nazi and sentenced to prison. One year in prison she also suffered the confiscation of 30 percent of her remaining property.

She and her daughter lived in various places after the war while Edda completed her studies and Emmy eventually bought a small apartment in a modern block in Munich and published her autobiography in 1967. The daughter grew up to be an attractive young woman who studied law at the University of Munich. She worked as a paralegal and in a hospital laboratory, but never married, caring for her mother until Emmy's death in 1973. Edda had a romantic relationship with German journalist Gerd Heidemann, who apparently discovered Hitler's infamous diaries in the 1970s and bought and renovated herman gering's yacht karen ii edda was his girlfriend for five years and introduced him to his

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friends, including former ss generals karl wolff and wilhelm monk, the officer responsible for defending the chancellery of the reich and the bunker rage during the final battle in berlin edda petitioned the bavarian government for compensation for the expropriation of her father's enormous estate, but without success edo guring unrepentant defender of her father's memory died the same year as her daughter Himmler in 2018 and is buried in Munich she was 80 years old years thanks for watching, subscribe and share and also visit my audiobook channel War Stories with Mark Felton.

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