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Margarete Himmler: The Loyal Wife of SS Chief Heinrich Himmler
Margarete Himmler was the wife of Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. While her husband oversaw concentration camps, police terror, and the machinery of the Holocaust, Margarete remained fiercely loyal to him and embraced the ideology of the Third Reich without hesitation.
Born as Margarete Boden in the German Empire, she worked as a nurse before meeting Heinrich Himmler in the 1920s. United by antisemitism, nationalism, and devotion to Adolf Hitler, the two became part of the inner circle of Nazi Germany. As Himmler’s power expanded…
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