“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 ...

She could be anyone’s lovable granny, waving goodbye on a sunny ­afternoon to her children who have been visiting to brighten up her day. But her arm raised high in farewell could also be seen in a ...

Gudrun Burwitz, Ever-Loyal Daughter of Himmler, Dies 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 ...

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 ...

Burwitz’s death was first reported late last month by the German newspaper Bild. It was unclear whether she died in Munich or nearby. Reichsführer Himmler was the No. 2 official in Hitler’s Third ...