#23 Ilse Hess: “The Eternal Nazi Widow”

#23 Ilse Hess: “The Eternal Nazi Widow”

Ilse Pröhl came from a national-conservative family. She was one of the three daughters of Friedrich Pröhl, a wealthy Hanoverian physician, and his wife Elsa, née Meineke. Her father was killed during the Kapp Putsch. In March 1920, the Freikorps unit known as the Ehrhardt Brigade with swastikas on their helmets, the uprising or coup d etat led by nationalist politician Wolfgang Kapp and General Walther von Lüttwitz, seized power in Berlin for five days. The coup failed, and during the brigade’s retreat, it carried out a massacre, firing into crowds of protesters. Ilse Hess’s father was killed in this fighting as one of the Freikorps’ “national warriors.” The brigade’s commander, Hermann Ehrhardt, lived undisturbed in Austria’s Waldviertel region only 60 km north from Vienna until his death in 1971. Whether by coincidence or not, Adolf Hitler’s family also originated from the Waldviertel.


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#27 Hitler’s Favorite Pilot: Hanna Reitsch

#27 Hitler’s Favorite Pilot: Hanna Reitsch

During the Second World War, Hanna participated in testing numerous revolutionary German weapons. She helped solve the stability problems of the V-1 rocket (“Vergeltungswaffe,” meaning “retaliation we...

17 Feb 51min

#26 Henriette Hoffmann – She Confronted Hitler with the Holocaust

#26 Henriette Hoffmann – She Confronted Hitler with the Holocaust

Henriette Hoffmann was born on February 2, 1913, in Munich. Her father, Heinrich Hoffmann, was the official photographer of the Nazi Party; her mother, Therese “Nelly” Baumann, was a singer and actres...

12 Jan 37min

#25 Fatal Admiration: Unity Mitford’s Obsession with Hitler

#25 Fatal Admiration: Unity Mitford’s Obsession with Hitler

The Mitford family had existed since the Middle Ages, long without any particular significance. It was only in the 1930s that the Mitford brothers and sisters entered the headlines, becoming notorious...

18 Dec 202529min

#24 – Hitler’s Fatal Relationship: Eva Braun

#24 – Hitler’s Fatal Relationship: Eva Braun

Hitler and Eva Braun met in 1929, when she was only 17 years old and Hitler already 40. He immediately noticed her. Hitler especially sought the company of very young women; he invited them to dinners...

27 Nov 202542min

#22 Magda Goebbels, the “First Lady” of the Third Reich

#22 Magda Goebbels, the “First Lady” of the Third Reich

Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels, mother of six children, one of Hitler’s closest confidantes — and the woman who ultimately chose death together with her children in the Führerbunker. “She was...

6 Nov 202551min

#21 Helene Bechstein: “I Raised the Führer!”

#21 Helene Bechstein: “I Raised the Führer!”

Helene Bechstein was not merely the wife of a rich industrialist in the first half of the 20th century, but one of the early and highly influential supporters of the Nazi movement, who, through her pe...

29 Okt 202531min

#20 Hermine Hoffmann - Hitler’s first “foster mother” and sponsor

#20 Hermine Hoffmann - Hitler’s first “foster mother” and sponsor

During the First World War, many women volunteered to provide clothing, hand-knitted socks, food, and cigarettes for soldiers at the front. Hoffmann volunteered and was assigned to a soldier named Ado...

22 Okt 202515min

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