Gudrun Burwitz, Ever-Loyal Daughter of Himmler, Is Dead at 88
“Do you know how many people your father cremated at Dachau?” a British officer asked young Gudrun Himmler during a postwar interrogation in 1945. “Or how many he gassed at Oranienburg? Of course you do. You’re Herr Himmler’s daughter, after all.” She sat silently, according to an account in the 2000 book “My Father’s Keeper,” by Norbert and Stephan Lebert, giving no indication of whether she believed that her father — Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the final solution to exterminate the Jews of Europe — was capable of the genocidal horrors of which he was being accused in 1945. Indeed, whatever she might have known as a youngster, or as an adult, about her father’s actions, she did not say publicly. She long contended that the family had not discussed German politics or the “Jewish question.” Even more, when she died on May 24 in Germany at 88, she had become known not only for defending her father but also for being a prominent member of an organization that gave aid to old Nazis. “She was sure her father had done nothing wrong,” Tania Crasnianski, author of “The Children of Nazis” (2016), said in a telephone interview. “From her early 20s she said that she would write a book to explain what a great man he was, but there is no evidence that she did.” 。。。。。 She was a “dazzling Nazi princess, a deity among these believers in the old times,” Oliver Schrom, the author, with Andrea Ropke, of the book “Silent Help for Brown Comrades”(2001), once said in an interview. Ms. Crasnianski said of Ms. Burwitz: “She wasn’t a leader at Stille Hilfe, but she was the big name. She was keen on having former SS men come to her and tell her their names.” Through the organization, Ms. Burwitz is reported to have helped Nazis like Klaus Barbie, the so-called Butcher of Lyon, and Anton Malloth, an SS guard at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, who was given lodging at a retirement home. She is said to have visited him regularly and told him, “You need building up,” according to an article in the British newspaper The Daily Mirror in 2015.
这是一位律师/法学教授的推特thread, 介绍了一本尘封相册。更多介绍可以在大屠杀纪念馆网站上找到。
1946年，战争结束后，一位美国军官在法兰克福住进一个废弃公寓。收拾公寓的时候，他在壁柜里发现了一本相册。
相册共31页， 116 帧黑白照片。照片里大部分是德国军官：野餐，练习射击，郊游，晚餐，圣诞树，甚至还有一个葬礼，棺木上盖着纳粹旗帜。
后来，美国军官回国，在政府机构工作，与妻子住在Virginia.他们没有儿女，多年后妻子也过世了。2006年底，在教会一个朋友帮助下，他给美国大屠杀纪念馆写了一封信，请纪念馆来看看这个相册。
从相册的一些图标看，他相信这些照片是在奥斯维辛拍摄的。
相册没有封面，第一页的照片是两位德国军官。脚注写着：withthe commandant S.S. Stubaf. Baer, Auschwitz 21.6.1944. 这张照片左边的就是 Richard Baer 上校，当时32岁，从1944年5月到1945年1月担任奥斯维辛指挥官。
Richard Baer 战后逃脱，在汉堡用化名做工人，直到1960年他被认出并逮捕，在等待审判期间病死。
军官里可以被辨认出的还有Josef Mengele. 他是医生，在奥斯维辛用囚犯做人体实验，包括儿童，尤其是孪生。Josef Mengele在相册里出现了八次。这些照片Mengele是世上仅存的在奥斯维辛的照片。被运来关押的人们 称Mengele为死亡天使，因为被他的实验挑中，意味着不会立刻被杀掉。战后 Mengele 一直没有被抓到，在家人与朋友的帮助下他逃到南美，1978年，在海里游泳时溺水而亡。
另外一位被辨认出的军官是 Rudolf Hoess. Hoess 负责监督了奥斯维辛的建造，也是1940年5月到1943年12月的指挥官。1947年，被判处死刑，于集中营当地执行绞刑。
相册也是仅存的留下纳粹军官在奥斯维辛的休闲镜头。奥斯维辛甚至有度假村。他们去附近的Solahuette 度假。这些度假照片一共29张，分为两个场景，一个场景只有军官们，另外一个场景则有不少年轻女性。
这些年轻女性叫做 Helfernnen (helpers), 她们的血统经过严格调查，以保证作为可能纳粹军官配偶的纯粹。她们的职业一般是秘书/打字员/电报员。有的照片里，女孩与军官们一起坐在帆布椅上聊天，有一张女孩们穿着衬衫裙子坐成一排，一个军官拉手风琴，还有一个军官为她们递上蓝莓。
递蓝莓的军官就是Karl Hoecker. 这是 Karl Hoecker 的相册。
相册里，他平静，愉快。他是Baer的副官。
根据维基，1945年，他协助Baer 一直管理奥斯维辛，直到苏联红军开到。他设法逃跑，被英军作为战俘抓获，关入战俘营，却成功掩藏了党卫军身份。在战俘营度过1年半后，他被释放回到家乡，与妻儿团聚，并回到原来工作的银行继续工作。1960年，他被西德政府逮捕，作为战犯受审。但是他否认知情大屠杀，否认为任何屠杀负责任。他被判七年徒刑。出狱后他继续在银行工作直到退休。1989年，新的证据显示他负责购买了大批有毒气体用于毒气室。他被判入狱四年。 2000年去世。2006 年，他的相册才被公众看到。此相册现存华盛顿大屠杀纪念馆。
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/collections-highlight-auschwitz-through-the-lens-of-the-ss?series=18613
这张军官们跟着手风琴唱歌。前排的几位是奥斯维辛的高级军官群体。包括Baer, Hocker, Mengele, Otto Moll (负责毒气室）， Franz Hassler (负责集中营女性囚犯）。
就是这段时间，就在这个度假村旁边，匈牙利的大约437000 犹太人被遣送到奥斯维辛，其中大部分被送进毒气室。
摩萨德后来一直在追这帮人
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele
Gudrun Burwitz, Ever-Loyal Daughter of Himmler, Is Dead at 88
“Do you know how many people your father cremated at Dachau?” a British officer asked young Gudrun Himmler during a postwar interrogation in 1945. “Or how many he gassed at Oranienburg? Of course you do. You’re Herr Himmler’s daughter, after all.” She sat silently, according to an account in the 2000 book “My Father’s Keeper,” by Norbert and Stephan Lebert, giving no indication of whether she believed that her father — Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the final solution to exterminate the Jews of Europe — was capable of the genocidal horrors of which he was being accused in 1945. Indeed, whatever she might have known as a youngster, or as an adult, about her father’s actions, she did not say publicly. She long contended that the family had not discussed German politics or the “Jewish question.” Even more, when she died on May 24 in Germany at 88, she had become known not only for defending her father but also for being a prominent member of an organization that gave aid to old Nazis. “She was sure her father had done nothing wrong,” Tania Crasnianski, author of “The Children of Nazis” (2016), said in a telephone interview. “From her early 20s she said that she would write a book to explain what a great man he was, but there is no evidence that she did.”
。。。。。 She was a “dazzling Nazi princess, a deity among these believers in the old times,” Oliver Schrom, the author, with Andrea Ropke, of the book “Silent Help for Brown Comrades”(2001), once said in an interview. Ms. Crasnianski said of Ms. Burwitz: “She wasn’t a leader at Stille Hilfe, but she was the big name. She was keen on having former SS men come to her and tell her their names.” Through the organization, Ms. Burwitz is reported to have helped Nazis like Klaus Barbie, the so-called Butcher of Lyon, and Anton Malloth, an SS guard at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, who was given lodging at a retirement home. She is said to have visited him regularly and told him, “You need building up,” according to an article in the British newspaper The Daily Mirror in 2015.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/06/obituaries/gudrun-burwitz-ever-loyal-daughter-of-himmler-is-dead-at-88.html