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28 Friday, January 31, 2014 ROW ERUPTS AT HOME..NEAR DACHAU Children of Shot ...Alistair Bell the damned MANY of the bloodline of the Nazi Gunman mass murderers are haunted by the crimes of their relatives –but not all. Some remain sympathetic cop’s kill of their despicable deeds. Here we look at the offspring of the men behind the Holocaust. EVIL ... ‘justified’ Himmler with EDDA GOERING – Gudrun in Only child of Gestapo By PAUL SIMS 1938. Above, secret police founder letters find Hermann Goering, AGANG enforcer who Edda, 76, has “loving” shot and wounded an memories of her dad. unarmed cop was law- fully killed by police, an BETTINA GOERING – inquest ruled yesterday. Goering’s great niece, Ex-con Alistair Bell, 54, had herself 42, “fired aconsiderable sterilised aged 30 so number of shots” from she would not “create an illegal handgun dur- another monster”. ing asix-hour stand-off. KATRIN HIMMLER – Armed police told him Heinrich Himmler’s to surrender but he said great niece, 46, wed an he wanted to go down in a“blaze of glory”. Israeli Jew. She said Officer D20 fired three Himmler was the shots as Bell came down “worst” mass murderer. stairs at his home point- MARTIN ADOLF ing apistol at cops. BORMANN – Bell, of Kirkheaton, Namesake dad was a West Yorks, was fatally senior Nazi. Eldest son, injured and died later. apriest, met Holocaust Officer D20 told the survivors. Died aged 82. Bradford Crown Court inquestBell had said: RICARDO EICHMANN “This is going to be a – Adolf Eichmann firefighttothe death, I’m deported Jews to death not going back to jail.” camps. His son, 58, After amajority jury says Israel was right to decision the coroner gave execute him in 1962. anarrative verdict say- ing: “The shots fired by NIKLAS FRANK – Hans the police were justified.” Frank was brutal governor of Poland. His son, 74, has said: “My Hospital’s country will never be rid of that history.” bad taste HOSPITAL patients were served cold food cooked 80 MILES away —with some not getting ameal at all. Bridlington Hospital in East Yorks shut its kitch- ens to cut costs then shipped in food from Darlington, Co Durham — atwo-hour drive away. York NHS Foundation Trust admitted “teething problems” but said they are now resolved. Terry Cunliffe, of union Unite, said: “The people running this organisation know the cost of every- thing and the value of nothing, but it is patients FROM the outside, it is an first hand. According to the Asenior intelligence figure said: status among neo-Nazis because who pay the price.” By source, she spat: “Israeli “She is over 80 but pin-sharp. of her father, Gudrun is looked ordinary home on an unre- ALLAN criminals! They sold them on, She has agenuine love for these up to by many younger women these private letters.” men and women who served the in the movement. markable suburban street. HALL Gudrun, known as Puppi or Nazi regime from 1933 until Many of them only wear But huddled inside, away in Munich Doll to her father, is incensed 1945. She is atrue believer and, traditional Bavarian “dirndl” from the bitter German winter, their messages have been authen- like all zealots, that makes her dresses and refuse to use English is 84-year-old Gudrun Burwitz, his family of his travels to aconcen- ticated and published. dangerous.” words such as “T-shirt” which now agreying grandmother but tration camp, saying: “I’m going to She said: “Some criminals in Although legal, Stille Hilfe have found their way into the Auschwitz. Kisses.” Israel have my letters. They operates in amoral grey zone. German language. once known as Gudrun were plundered by the Ameri- It was formed on November Gudrun’s activities would no Himmler —the daughter of In another Gudrun, then aged 11, informs her dad: “It’s terrible we are cans from the family home near 15, 1951, with the intention of doubt be agreat source of pride notorious Nazi mass murderer going to war with Russia. They were Tegernsee. Idonot know how providing “quiet but active to her father, one of Hitler’s clos- Heinrich Himmler. our allies after all. they got to Israel but Iknow assistance to those who lost their est henchmen. Rather than turn her back on the “Russia is sooo big. The struggle they are mine and not theirs. freedom during or after the war Despite rising to the top of the SS Reichsfuhrer, who ran the by capture, internment or similar Nazi tree, Himmler died a will be very difficult if we want to circumstance and who need help coward’s death —swallowing a Gestapo, SS and extermination conquer all of Russia.” She’s pin-sharp and programme that murdered six ‘ to this day”. cyanide pill to commit suicide million Jews, Gudrun has spent her The Sun approached Gudrun at very dangerous With just 40 members, it and avoid justice in May 1945. life DEFENDING her father. home in Fuerstenried, Munich, to ’ receives funding from rich Apicture from the time shows She is also involved with a comment on the 700 letters, kept in “There is no doubt they belong industrialists known to be his corpse partially covered by a shadowy Nazi support group, Stille Israel by acollector who bought to me, to the family. sympathetic to the Nazi scene, a blanket. Gudrun refuses to Hilfe —orSilent Help. them from aUSsoldier who looted “They have nothing to do with few even from the UK. believe her father would have The pair’s close relationship is the Himmler family home in Bavaria any inquiries of what did, or did Sometimes the group gathers died in such acowardly way. made clear in arecently found following the Second World War. not, happen in Auschwitz. at Gudrun’s home. She has said: “I don’t believe cache of Himmler’s correspondence, After knocking on the door of the “They have no historical value Andrea Roepke is an expert on he swallowed that capsule. hidden for 40 years, which has made modest maisonette, 15 miles from and do not belong in apaper.” Burwitz and published abook “My mother and Inever had headlines all over the world. the Dachau concentration camp While cherishing the memory about Stille Hilfe in Germany. official notification of his death. Written by Himmler to Gudrun where 36,000 people died, Gudrun’s of Himmler and his evil, Gudrun She says: “Besides former “To me, the photo of him dead and her mother Marga, they repre- husband Wolf Dieter responded: “Go also works helping surviving Nazis, the group collects money is aretouched photo of when he sent the largest archive of personal away, you are not welcome.” Nazis evade justice. to help the neo-Nazi movement, was alive.” papers belonging to asenior Nazi But afamily friend, who visited As aleading figure in the operating with the new In factitisasreal as the ever discovered. Gudrun on Monday as the story of dwindling but sinister support generation. It is unconsidered by newfound letters, which shed In one letter, the monster remains the letters broke around the world, group Stille Hilfe, she is moni- the public and undisturbed by light on the start of Himmler’s CELL YOUR HOME disturbingly cheery as he informs heard of her fury at their release tored by the German authorities. the authorities.” Thanks to cult monstrous family legacy. Tough Peterhead Prison in Aberdeenshire, dubbed the “Hate Factory”, could be turned into homes after closing last month..