The Wilmington morning star., 1945-07-13
HIMMLER'S WIFE
HARD AS HE WAS
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fhe table before her and her chin
In her hands. Still she showed no
feeling. The interview was over.
Frau Hinnler was captured IN
the Austrian Tyrol and brought
here nv the American Fifth Army.
Frau Hinnler is completely I'M
attractive. She has g+aying dirty
blone hair, twisted into a huge
knot at the back of he head. The
only time I saw her smile, her
wide, large mouth showed glisten-
ing gold-filled teeth.
I have seen many things In this
war. This was the coolest exhibit
ion of lack of human feeling l have
Witnessed.
Frau Himmler said she married
J1.lv 3. 1928. Himmler was already
veteran Nazi. She admitted she
was too.
She said that they lived in or
near Munich until last year when
they moved to Berlin. When she last
saw Hinmler, she said, he was in
high spirits. She said she believed
that even then Himmler thought
Germany would lose the present
war.
But he knew the war would not
be at an end," Frau Himmler
said. THE war will 60 on, Ameri-
ca and England will never be able
to work with Russia and that war
will go on
She spoke coldly, almost mali
cio,:sly, carefully watching her ef-
feet.
Did you know your husband
was the No. | war criminal?" ]
asked Frau Himnler.
"My husband?" she asked. How
could he be when Hitler was
Fuehrer,"
"Are you proud of him?''
''Of course I am proud OF him.
In Germany wives are not even
asked such a question:
Were you proud when he
sentenced millions of people to
death by torture, casing or star
vation?"
perhaps. Perhaps not. 1t all de-
pends.'
Through all t h Frau Himmler
was completely composed n &
coldly correct.
Asked if Himmler hoped to sue
coed Adolf Hitler Frau Himmler
said:
mo, he did not But Goering did,
did you ever v i t the Dachau
concentration camp while you
were in Munich?''
IT never visited the camp itself.
! did 60 out nearly every day to
get vegetables and fruit from the
garden the SIS ran at Dachau, and
to gather fresh FOOD
do you feel the Nazis were re-
sponsible for the WARP"
NO." Frau Himmler said bold
Iy. Hitler tried to end the war after
Eae Polish conflict. He made the
announcement in the Reichstag say
ing he wanted to end the war. But
England would not let him.
eff Hitler wanted SO much to
end the war why did he invade Hol-
land and the lowlands later?"
Frau Hirnmler shrugged:
GAS a woman I know nothing of
politics..
Frau Himmler said she had
heard nothing of her husband
rince the last time he telephon-
ed her from Berlin at Easter. She
was at their home near Munich.
She had not seen him since Novem-
Der when he visited her.
Before Christmas Hin1nler used
to telephone her nearly every day,
she said, but after that connections
were bad and lines were down SO
theytalked only about once in four
days.
Himmler always told her not to
worry and never discussed the
war, she said.
Did he give you any instruc-
tons what to do when the Ameri.
cans Gamer" she was asked.
mo, none," she said.
She said that when the Ameri-
cans approa ched Munich at the end
of April she decided there would be
n big battle there. So she and
her daughter, sister and aunt left
by automobile for the Tyrol. There
they were taken prisoner. Frau
Himmler said she did not know
what happened to her sister and her
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