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Hedwig Potthast (5 February 1912 – 22 September 1994) was the private secretary and mistress of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, with whom she had two children. Born in 1912, Potthast began as Himmler's secretary in 1936 and by 1938 she had become his lover.
After the death of Heinrich Himmler on 22nd May 1945, Himmler’s mistress Hedwig Potthast lived in Rosenheim with Elonore Pohl , the wife of SS Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl. Eleonore von Brüning, early widowed with a daughter and a convinced member of the NSDAP.
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Hedwig: He hated it; he despised the loss of life and culture the war brought. I remember he was very disappointed in 1939, largely because war was not prevented with Britain. He had many contacts there who wanted an alliance with us in order to stop Bolshevism.
Hedwig Potthast (* 5. Februar 1912 in Köln ; † 22. September [1] 1994 in Baden-Baden ) war die Privatsekretärin und Geliebte des Reichsführers SS Heinrich Himmler .
Aug 5, 2016 · Himmler’s secretaries, one of whom, Hedwig Potthast, bore him two children, noted down regular inspection tours to the concentration camps including Sachsenhausen, with Nazi propaganda chief ...
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Hedwig (Häschen) Potthast, was the was the private secretary and mistress of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler with whom she had two children. She was the daughter of a sergeant-major in the German Army, was born in Cologne on 5th February 1912.