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Related: About this forumNazi Princesses, The Fates of Top Nazis' Wives & Mistresses: Mark Felton Prod.
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- Nazi Princesses- The Fates of Top Nazis' Wives & Mistresses, Feb 22, 2021. Mark Felton Productions.
What happened to the wives and girlfriends of Hitler's inner circle when the war ended? Find out about Emmy Goering, Gretl Braun, Gerda Bormann, Margarete Himmler and several others.
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- "Nazi Wives" book review. Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann--names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margarete, Lina, Ilse and Gerda...These are the women behind the infamous men--complex individuals with distinctive personalities who were captivated by Hitler and whose everyday lives were governed by Nazi ideology. Throughout the rise and fall of Nazism these women loved and lost, raised families and quarreled with their husbands and each other, all the while jostling for position with the Fuhrer himself.
Until now, they have been treated as minor characters, their significance ignored, as if they were unaware of their husbands' murderous acts, despite the evidence that was all around them: the stolen art on their walls, the slave labor in their homes, and the produce grown in concentration camps on their tables. James Wyllie's Nazi Wives explores these women in detail for the first time, skillfully interweaving their stories through years of struggle, power, decline and destruction into the post-war twilight of denial and delusion. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49127450-nazi-wives
- Eva Braun and Adolph Hitler.
- Eva Braun, longtime companion and briefly wife of Adolph Hitler,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Braun
- Gretl Braun with her 2nd husband Kurt Berlinghoff.
- Gretl Braun, sister of Eva Braun,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretl_Braun
- Emmy Sonnemann with Hermann Goering at a concert, Feb. 1935.
- Emmy Goering, 'First Lady of The Third Reich,'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_G%C3%B6ring
- Magda Goebbels, 1933.
- Magda Goebbels, wife of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magda_Goebbels
- Joseph & Magda Goebbels family, 1942.
- Margarete Himmler, wife of Heinrich Himmler, SS Chief.
- Gerda Bormann, the ideal German wife of Martin Bormann. The couple had 10 children.
- Unity Mitford, in the Inner Circle of Nazi Leadership. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Mitford
- Unity Mitford, English confidante of Adolph Hitler,
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-39304317
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(Producer Dr. Mark Felton is a well-known British historian, the author of 22 non-fiction books, including bestsellers 'Zero Night' & 'Castle of the Eagles', both currently being developed into movies in Hollywood. In addition to writing, Mark also appears regularly in television documentaries around the world).
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Feb 2021
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PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,840 posts)1. Fascinating video.
Thank you for posting.
captain queeg
(11,780 posts)2. He puts out a lot of short youtube videos about WWII
I've seen quite a few, usually about some unknown aspect of the war. Very good.
rurallib
(63,291 posts)3. that was really interesting
I am always curious as to what happens to those connected to the names in the news.