Gudrun Margarete Elfriede Emma Anna Himmler was born on Aug. 8, 1929, the only biological child of her parents, who also adopted a son. Her father had two children with a mistress. After the war she ...

“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 ...

Gudrun Burwitz, the true-believing daughter of Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany’s highest-ranking official after Adolf Hitler, died May 24 in or near Munich. She was ...