World War II: Heinrich Himmler's Wife Margarete Himmler Interrogation Report and Diary

World War II: Heinrich Himmler's Wife Margarete Himmler Interrogation Report and Diary

Margarete (née Boden) Himmler (1893–1967), also known as Marga Himmler, was the wife of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. They married in 1928.

Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was appointed Reichsführer-SS of the Nazi party by Adolf Hitler Iin 1929.  Himmler’s role was to marshal the Third Reich’s vast ideological and bureaucratic realm.

Himmler, the second most powerful man after Adolf Hitler in Germany during World War II, was the most senior Nazi official responsible for imagining, overseeing, and executing the "Final Solution," the Nazi plan to murder the Jews of Europe. He was in charge of the Nazi concentration camps and the Einsatzgruppen death squads.

By April 1945, he realized Germany would lose the war and attempted to negotiate a peace settlement with the Allies without the consent of Hitler. When Hitler learned of this in April 1945, he removed Himmler from all his positions of power and ordered his arrest. Himmler attempted to flee and was captured by Russian soldiers on May 20, 1945 in Lower Saxony. He was turned over to the British to whom he confessed his identity. While undergoing a body search on May 23, 1945, Himmler killed himself by biting down on a cyanide capsule hidden in his mouth.

This collection includes:

Margarete Himmler Interrogation 9-26-1946 - Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality 

An English-language pretrial interrogation transcript from her September 26, 1945 questioning in Nuremburg by the Interrogation Division of the U.S. Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality (OCCPAC). She was questioned about her husband’s practice of carrying suicide pills and of her knowledge of her husband's role in the concentration camp system.

Margarete Himmler Diary 1937 – 1945 (Original German & English Translation) 

169 pages of handwritten diary entries in German and English translation.