Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-10


This is the last Of three ortieIes on
the old Naxis in Chancellor Aden-
ouer's new Germany.
New she is herself q prisoner
in the Bavarian state women's
prison. Red-haired Use. now
fat and forty-ish, keeps busy
in prison with needlework and
sewing-and learning English.
She hopes, when released, to
emigrate to Australia.
OF all the Nazi wives. the
only one who leads anything
approximately q dream life"
is Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, the
toughest distaff Nazi of them
all.
Hitler regarded Frau Scholtz-
Klink so highly he made her
chief Of the Nazi women's
organization. The Fuehrer's
trust was well-placed.
Today. almost alone among
the ex-Nazi higherups. she
still stands up for Hitler. II
live for my conviction (that
Hitler was right" she told
a postwar denazification court.
Il am still as much a national
socialist as before"
Such candor apparently fab
bergaSted the court. Frau
Scholtz-Klink escaped major
punishment. Today. she lives
in an elegant Black Forest
villa near Babenhausen with
her third husband, ex-SS Col.
Josef HeisSmeyer. a soft drink
plant executive. and well-to-do.
Frau Heydrich Bitterest
Most Of the Nazi wives are
bitter. and the bitterest Of all
may be Frau Reinhard Hey
drich. widow Of the Gestapo
"hangman." 1t was in reprisal
for Heydrich's assassination by
the Czechs that the Gestapo
burned down the Czech village
Of Lidice.
Today. an innkeeper on a
North Sea island resort, she
is CALLED by the pensions paid
KesSelring. Raeder and Doen-
itz. and is suing German au-
thorities for a pension. too. The
"hangman." she claims, was as
much q faithful servant to the
German state as the three
convicted war criminals.
What Of the Nazi children?
Hide Speer. 10. was granted
United States State Depart
ment Exc hange scholarship,
then turned down after her
identity was belatedly discov-
cred.
Edda Goering. also 10. has
been locked in a Swear legal
battle with the. city Of Cologne.
The Rhineland city is suing
for the return Of an old mas.
ter painting. gift" from the
city to Edda allegedly forced
by her father.
Gudrun Himmler, %, works
as q seamstress in a Munich
fashion house. She was ad-
vised to change her name
but refused: you cannot be-
gin q new life with q lie, I
shall remain Gudrun Hmm
ler."
Irene Rosenberg, daughter of
the Nazi Party's anti-Semitic
philosopher Alfred Rosenberg,
did hard labor after the war
to stay alive. Now she writes
copy for a Munich advertising
firm and hopes to be an inter-
ior decorator.
Wolf Hess, 81, attends a
private school in Berchtesgad-
en-. He is noted as a skier.
Klaus Won Schirach. 10, is a
law student in Munich. Young
Schirach says his father is so
out of touch with the modern
world at Spandau that the son
was asked to explain refer
ences in letters to "nylon, I"
'ballpoint PEN" and "jitterbug. I"
Rudolph Ribbentrop has a di-
rector's job with Henkell-but
only because his strong -willed
mother took the champagne
firm to court. The mother
forced Henkell to adhere to a
prewar agreement giving Ru-
dolf a dictatorship when he
came Of age.
Adolf Martin Dormann, %,
son Of Hitler'S missing ad-
jutant. became a Jesuit monk
and is now in an Austrian
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