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What happened to the children of the Nazi's?
Hitler encouraged reproduction of his "Master Race" and there were large families in the Reich. He was godfather to many.
Magda, wife of Joseph Goebbels had six children (the family died by suicide at the fall of the Reich) in what was her second marriage - she was married once before to the industrialist Gunther Quandt and had a son, Harald who survived the war and was an Allied prisoner. He focused on rebuilding the family businesses on his release, at the time of his death in a plane crash at 45, the Quants were major shareholders in BMW and remain one the richest clans in Germany.
Martin Bormann Jr., son of Hitler's personal secretary Martin Bormann, was one of ten siblings and Hitler's godson and has spent his life repenting his father's choices by becoming a priest, a missionary in the Congo and joined with Jewish groups to visit Auschwitz and Holocaust survivors in Israel.
Gudrun Burwitz, daughter of Heinrich Himmler who over saw the "Final Solution" as head of the sinister SS that exterminated millions of persecuted people - continues to be devoted to her father's memory and heads the Stille Hilfe charity for support of exNazis.
Adolf Eichmann oversaw the logistics of transporting the Jews to concentration camps, known as the "architect of the Holocaust" he escaped to Argentina but was captured by Mossad and hung in Israel in 1962. His youngest, Ricardo was five at his father's capture and condemns his acts and has sanctioned the execution. His oldest brother Horst is an unrepentant Nazi and listed his father as "Lieutenant Colonel retired" on his marriage license.
Wolf Rudiger Hess, only child of Rudolf Hess a Hitler deputy, third in succession, was incarcerated in 1941 when he flew to Scotland to negotiate a peace treaty, he spent the rest of his life in prison. His son was a committed Nazi who wrote two books in praise of his father's life, My Father Rudolf Hess and Who Killed My Father Rudolf Ness?
The very private Edda Goering is the sole progeny of Herman Goering - Hitler's successor and head of the Armed Forces until the demise of the Reich and his burgeoning morphine habit led ot his undoing - and lives a quiet existence in South Africa. She had Hitler for a godfather.
Goering's great-niece Bettina, unlike Edda, spoke publicly declaring her obvious resemblance to Goering was greater than that of his own daughter and she had sterilized herself to prevent the continuation of a monster's bloodline.
Hans Frank was a minister of the Reich and Governor General of occupied Poland, he had five children, Niklas the youngest is exceptionally anti-Nazi and especially disgusted by the actions of his father.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2011/02/110222_outlook_nazi_niklasfrank.shtml
Another great collection from Lifetime.com ... pictures at the link.
The Lebensborn program http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Europe/2009/jan/Nazi-Victims-as-Children-Lebensborn-Adults-Piece-Together-Their-Pasts.html
Nazi children want reconciliation http://nazichildren.org/debatereconciliation.html
Nazi children - a short (version) of history http://www.nazichildren.org/history.html
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