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Private secretary and mistress of Heinrich Himmler

Hedwig Potthast (5 February 1912 – 22 September 1994) was the private secretary and mistress of Reichsführer-SSHeinrich 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.

She resigned from her duties in 1941, and subsequently had two children with Himmler, a boy and a girl. After World War II, Potthast married and lived the rest of her life outside the public eye.

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In post-war interviews, she refrained from answering questions about Himmler's involvement in war crimes committed by the Nazis or about her own knowledge of them. She died in 1994.

Biography

Early life

Hedwig Potthast was born on 5 February 1912 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia as the daughter of a local businessman.

After her final Abitur exams at secondary school, and attending a finishing school,^[2] she trained as a secretary qualified hedwig potthast biography template2 KYHUM