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    Hedwig Potthast

    Private secretary and mistress of Heinrich Himmler

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  1. 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.

  2. Learn about the life and relationship of Hedwig Potthast, the secretary and lover of SS leader Heinrich Himmler. Find out how she met him, had his children, and survived after the war.

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  3. Aug 5, 2016 · The journals, found in Russia in 2013, show how the SS chief managed his personal and professional affairs, even as he ordered mass killings of Jews. Hedwig Potthast, one of his secretaries, noted down his visits to concentration camps and extermination sites.

  4. Hedwig Staeck (Potthast) Interview with Hedwig (Potthast) Staeck, personal secretary to Heinrich Himmler, Baden, 1988. Thank you for allowing us to visit with you, as discussed I would like to ask you what it was like to live during the Third Reich?

  5. Hedwig (Häschen) Potthast, the daughter of a sergeant-major in the German Army, was born in Cologne on 5th February, 1912. After high school she left home and trained in Mannheim as a bilingual secretary. Potthast worked for Kurt von Schröder before being employed by the Schutzstaffel (SS) in Berlin. In 1934 she met Heinrich Himmler and two ...

  6. Hedwig Potthast (* 5. Februar 1912 in Köln; † 22. September [1] 1994 in Baden-Baden) war die Privatsekretärin und Geliebte des Reichsführers SS Heinrich Himmler .

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  8. Hedwig Potthast, Himmler's young secretary starting in 1936, became his mistress by 1939. She left her job in 1941. He arranged accommodation for her, first in Mecklenburg and later at Berchtesgaden. He fathered two children with her: a son, Helge (born 15 February 1942, Mecklenburg) and a daughter, Nanette Dorothea (born 20 July 1944, ...

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