The Himmler Brothers

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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. In 2005, Katrin wrote and published the book “Die Brüder Himmler" (“The Himmler Brothers"). While working on the book, she had to reread many letters from the family archive. And only then, by her own admission, she realized the full depth of the tragedy that had occurred to her family. She thought long and hard about the path that her great-uncle, Heinrich Himmler, had taken.

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.”The person in the film who seems to have made the most sustained effort to grapple with his Nazi heritage is, unsurprisingly, one with a very direct connection to that past. Niklas Frank, son of the Nazi Governor-General of Poland, Hans Frank, has spent much of his life researching and denouncing his father's crimes. The film shows him speaking to a number of student groups, often reading from his books about his parents. He clearly finds these readings--which include, for example, his imagined reconstruction of his father's death by hanging--upsetting and stressful. But he is spurned on by his loathing of his parents and of what they did--a loathing that, as he says himself, is rooted in thwarted love. His mother never once held him or expressed any affection for him. As for his father, he says, through all his research, he kept hoping to find something, anything, good that he had ever done; some evidence that he tried to save at least one person, one time. But there was no such evidence. Those in the film have needed to take moral responsibility for their part in atrocity. As a result, their lives are more honest and honorable than those of some peers and family members, who continue to deny the Holocaust ever happened. Like father, like son: Jean-Claude Duvalier, otherwise known as ‘Baby Doc’ took over from his father as President of Haiti. Any hopes that the change at the top would lead to better conditions for the country’s people were severely misplaced. In fact, Baby Doc was even crueler and more authoritarian than his father, Francois ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier. For 16 years, he ruled Haiti with an iron fist, hoovering up its wealth and mercilessly suppressing his opponents. Martin Bormann Jr. died on March 11, 2013. Until the end of his days, he attended school lectures in Germany to explain the whole essence of the horrors of Nazism. “The only way to prevent the revival of fascist and racist tendencies is education,” he said. “This is especially true for young people who have not found out Nazism the hard way and besotted with its outward brilliance.” Enrico Fink, an Italian Jew, musician and actor, wrote on Facebook: “Dear Alessandra Mussolini, I read that you intend to sue anyone who offends the memory of your grandfather. I fully understand your feelings: your grandfather was killed at the end of the war, you did not happen to meet with him, which you regret, and you want to protect his memory. We have a lot in common, my grandfather was also killed, I also did not happen to meet with him, which I regret. But the problem is that the person who is responsible for the death of my grandfather is your grandfather.”

Niklas Frank has written extensively about his dark family connections. While some children of leading Nazis, including the most monstrous, struggled to reconcile their disgust with their happy family memories, Niklas has had no such problems. His childhood was a deeply unhappy one. Both his father and his mother were emotionally distant. Hans Frank worked as a lawyer for the Nazi regime and also their governor-general in occupied Poland. Under his watch, millions of Jews were murdered. His wife, Niklas’ mother, knew all about her husband’s crimes. Growing up, Monika Herwig was told that her father had been a good man. She was even told that he was a hero and served with honor during the Second World War. It wasn’t until she was a young woman that Monika learned the truth. Her father had indeed played a key role in the war. But he was no hero. In fact, he was a monster. Her father was Amon Goeth, the Nazi death camp commandant made infamous by the movie Schindler’s List. Marko Milosevic used his infamous father’s power and connections to launch a career in the Serbian underworld

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Much of Akihito’s reign contrasts markedly with that of his father. While Hirohito believed the Emperor needed to be aloof, his successor has made a concerted effort to bring the royal family closer to the people. For instance, he married a commoner, breaking a 1,500-year-old imperial tradition, plus he has traveled far wider and met more other leaders than any Emperor before him. What’s more, Akihito has pledged to step down in 2019. Up until now, it has been unthinkable for a Japanese Emperor to abdicate, and his decision has split opinion in the country. Communist China famously enforced a ‘one child’ policy for many years, encouraging its citizens to have just one baby for the good of the nation. The regime’s founding father, Mao Zedong, however, did not practice what he preached. The revolutionary-turned-dictator had three children. Or at least he had three official children. Mao was a renowned womanizer who used and abused his power, so it’s likely he had many more children he simply never recognized. He certainly did recognize Li Na, however. The only child of his marriage to his fourth wife Jiang Qing, she was born in August 1940 and continues to live in Beijing. It is a well-known fact that many Nazi leaders, such as M. Bormann, G. Himmler, G. Goering, were wonderful fathers, caring uncles. This is evidenced by their children and loved ones. And not only them. However, it is impossible to picture how the same person, who had given lots of affection to one (his) child, could shoot or send another into the gas chamber. How could a person be a loving, gentle father and at the same time a sadist and a murderer? How did he think, how did he feel? Moreover, did he feel anything at all? While Himmler’s daughter never renounced her father, his grandniece Katrin Himmler, granddaughter of the Reichsfuhrer-SS’younger brother, spent her life trying to distance herself from her family’s Nazi legacy. That struggle found expression in her 2005 book, The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History, tracing the lives of Heinrich Himmler and his two brothers. She credits researching the book, which won acclaim, with helping her to finally come to terms with her family’s Nazi past.

Katrin Himmler (born 1967) is a German author. She is the granddaughter of Ernst Himmler (1905–1945), who was the younger brother of Heinrich Himmler, one of the leading figures of Nazi Germany. Therefore, she is the great-niece of Heinrich Himmler. She is the author of Die Brüder Himmler: Eine deutsche Familiengeschichte, published in English as The Himmler Brothers: A German Family History. 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. Li Na was born just before the start of the Chinese Civil War. Still a revolutionary, her father assumed the alias of Li Desheng during the 1940s, which is why his daughter took the name Li rather than the more famous Mao. From the very start of the Communist regime in China, Li Na was indoctrinated and brought up as the ideal citizen. She attended a state school and then Peking University, from where she graduated with a degree in history in 1965. After that, she went to work for the newspaper of the People’s Liberation Army, furthering the cause of her father. As part of the peace process, Hirohito was forced to denounce the claim that the Japanese Emperor was divinely appointed. Thus, when Akihito, his eldest son, came to the throne in 1990, he began a new era. Unlike all of his predecessors, Akihito, who was born in Tokyo Imperial Palace in 1933, did not receive any military training. Instead, he moved away from warfare and instead studies politics at the renowned Gakushwin University. Despite his poor performance in high school, Nicu took advantage of his connections to earn a place at Bucharest University. There, he studied physics and also became a prominent member of the student Communist Party. But again, studying wasn’t his thing. Instead, Nicu embraced the playboy lifestyle. He was a notorious heavy drinker and gambler. He would visit Monaco to get drunk and hit the casinos with Uday Hussain, son of Iraqi dictator Saddam. Even worse, he had a habit of stealing ordinary people’s cars for fun, plus it’s alleged that he has a serial rapist.The President’s favorite son, Teodorin enjoyed the best education money can buy. After private school in France, he went to college in California before returning to his native country to begin his meteoric rise through the political system. However, it’s his lavish spending habits and playboy lifestyle rather than his political abilities which have ensued Toedorin regularly makes headlines around the world. On one occasion, it was reported that he blew several million in one weekend, splashing out on a new Bentley and a new Lamborghini while on holiday in South Africa. As well as these, he also owns some of the world’s rarest – and most expensive – supercars, plus he owns a global hip-hop music label and properties around the world. At 56 years old, Katrin Himmler height not available right now. We will update Katrin Himmler's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible. Chairman Mao’s daughter could have made full use of her status, but opted for a quiet life instead. Wikipedia. Daily Mirror, May 22nd, 2015 – ‘My Father Heinrich Himmler Was Not a Monster’, Insists Daughter of Nazi Chief on 70th Anniversary of His Death Recalling his trip, Rolf noted that his father had shown no remorse for his evil actions in Auschwitz. He even tried to justify them. He stated: “I didn’t even bother to listen to him or think of his ideas. I simply rejected everything he presented. I will never understand how human beings could do those things. That my father was one of them doesn’t change my opinion.”

Akihito inherited the Japanese throne from his father, but ditched the militarism and divine rule bits In his childhood and youth, faith was very important to him. Although the ideology of the German race as the highest value gradually destroyed a Christian in him, he finally broke with the Catholic Church only in 1936. By that time, most SS members were already complete opponents of Christianity. I think by nature he was by a man who had to truly believe in some big idea. Look at how much time and energy he devoted to developing rituals for all kinds of secret SS ceremonies, and you will understand that this is a sublimation of religion.” Martin Bormann junior renounced his Nazi father’s politics and became a Catholic priest. Daily Mail.

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In 1954, on the initiative of Gudrun Burwitz, a Neo-Nazi youth organization, the “Wiking-Jugend”, was created. Modelled after the “Hitlerjugend”, it lasted as long as 40 years. Only in 1994, its activities were recognized as unconstitutional and banned. With regard to “Silent Help”, the German authorities only managed to abolish the status of a charity. After a series of scandals and journalistic investigations, “Silent Help” no longer emerge in the information space, although it is still listed in the German Association Register and is believed to finance illegal neo-Nazi organizations in Germany and other European countries. Gudrun Himmler, by marriage Burwitz, never renounced Nazi ideology and devoted her entire adult life to “protecting the good name and memory of her father”. In the only interview she agreed to, she said that “the father is portrayed the most terrible monster of genocide in the world, and I want to prove that this is not so, and I will devote it all my life if necessary”. 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.” In 1959, Fidel Castro appeared on American television to talk about the aims of the Cuban Revolution, which had begun six years previously. Sitting beside the communist revolutionary was a nine-year-old boy, Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart. Known more commonly as Fidelito (or ‘Little Fidel’), he was Castro’s first son, born from his short-lived marriage to Mirta Diaz-Balart.