2. Gudrun Himmler Went to Her Grave Believing Her Father Was a Good and Misunderstood Man
Gudrun Himmler never turned her back on her father. After the war, she married a far-right extremist and official of a neo-Nazi party, and became Gudrun Burwitz. She became an active participant in Stille Hilfe (“Silent Assistance”), an organization dedicated to helping fugitive former SS members. Among those helped by Gudrun were Martin Sommer, AKA “The Hangman of Buchenwald”, Klaus Barbie, AKA “The Butcher of Lyon”, and Anton Malloth, a concentration camp guard convicted in 2001 of beating over 100 prisoners to death. She died at age 88 in 2018, an unrepentant apologist for her father and the regime he served.
Related: The Nazi Klaus Barbie Is Arrested.