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Overview
- Caption
- Margaret Himmler (center), wife of former SS Chief Heinrich Himmler (who committed suicide) and her daughter Gudron (right), being held as witnesses at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg. At left is Louise Guyon-Witzschel, secretary to SS Gruppenfuhrer Odilo Globocnik of the SS Headquarters at Tolmezzo, Italy.
- Date
- 1945 November 24
- Locale
- Nuremberg, [Bavaria] Germany
- Variant Locale
- Nurnberg
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
- Event History
- The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg opened in the fall of 1945, but by the winter of 1942, the governments of the Allied powers had already announced their determination to punish Nazi war criminals. On December 17, 1942, the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union issued the first joint declaration officially noting the mass murder of European Jewry and resolving to prosecute those responsible for violence against civilian populations. Though some political leaders advocated for summary executions instead of trials, eventually the Allies decided to hold an International Military Tribunal so tha
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Margarete Himmler
Margarete Himmler, anche detta Marga (Goncarzewo, 9 settembre1893 – Monaco di Baviera, 25 agosto1967), è stata un'infermieratedesca, moglie del Reichsführer-SSHeinrich Himmler[1][2].
Biografia
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]Margarete Boden nacque a Goncarzewo, vicino a Bromberg (oggi Bydgoszcz), figlia del proprietario terriero Hans Boden e di sua moglie Elfriede Popp.[2][3] Margarete aveva tre sorelle (Elfriede, Lydia e Paula) e un fratello.[4] Nel 1909 frequentò la Höhere Töchterschule di Bromberg. Durante la prima guerra mondiale lavorò come infermiera, a guerra finita continuò in un ospedale della Croce Rossa tedesca.[2]
Il suo primo matrimonio fu breve e non ebbe figli[3]. Grazie al sostegno economico del padre, fu in grado di gestire e dirigere una clinica infermieristica privata a Berlino.[5]
Matrimonio con Heinrich Himmler
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]Heinrich Himmler conobbe la sua futura moglie Margarete nel 1927. Si incontrarono durante una delle sue conferenze.[6] In una lettera, Margarete si riferisce a Heinrich Himmler come al "Lanzichenecco[7] dal cuore duro"[8], ma rimase comunque colpita dal suo stile di scrittu
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