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A German priest discovered that he was grandson of heinrich himmler After recognizing a photograph of the Holocaust architect’s mistress as his grandmother.
Henrik Lenkett, 49, was horrified to learn on the Internet that Hedwig Potthast, who fed him chocolate as a child, was having an affair. Nazi politician Before his mother gave birth during World War II.
Mr Lenkeit, a couples counselor in southern Spain, recently revealed that his mother, who died in 2019, had never mentioned the affair, and he had grown up believing that Mrs Potthast’s husband, Hans Steck, was his biological grandfather.
he told the German outlet mirror He was “completely shocked” after learning of the family connection. “On Wikipedia, I suddenly found myself looking at my grandmother’s face,” he said. He asked his wife: “Am I really this man’s grandson?”
Mr Lenkeit said he was impressed after reading about Himmler watching a biographical documentaryOnly then did she discover that her maternal grandmother already had her own page, which contained details of her suspected extramarital affair with Himmler from 1938.
“How could my grandmother love such a monster?” He was amazed. Himmler was the second most powerful man in the Third Reich and organized the ‘Final Solution’ of Nazi Germany.
“If you could bring people back to life, I’d grab my grandpa and give him a good beating,” Lenkite reflected. mirror,
The Wikipedia entry on Mrs. Potthast describes how Himmler and his personal secretary “professed their love for each other at Christmas time” that year. Most relationships remain unclear. Other sources say that their love affair began in 1940.
Mr. Lenkeit said he contacted political scientist Katrin Himmler, Himmler’s niece, who was able to share more detailed research and confirmation of the connection. Some members of his own family, he said, were less forthcoming.
Letters between the couple are said to have included their pet names for each other: he called her ‘Bunny’, and she called him ‘King Heinrich’.
Mr. Lenkeite learned that Mrs. Potthast had given birth to a son, Helge, in 1942, followed by Mr. Lenkeite’s mother, Nanette-Dorothea, in 1944. Himmler died by suicide in British custody in 1945. Mrs. Potthast married Mr. Stake in 1955.
“My whole life has been a lie – 47 years it wasn’t true,” Mr Lenkite told. Wire“So yes, I am in mourning with all the feelings of anger, sadness, depression and fear.”
Since learning of the affair, Mr Lenkeit has told his children. His uncle Helge Steck died childless.
He said that it took him a year to be able to disclose his relationship with Himmler.
He also talked about his difficulty adjusting his attitudes towards his parents, even though he believes both of them did not believe in Nazi ideology.
Mr. Lenkeit said Wire He remembered that it was strange that “there were so few people mourning” at his grandmother’s funeral after her death in 1994.