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2 days agoA Woman's Three Words At My European Book Signing Left Me Forever Changed
A surprise encounter at a book launch revealed my previously unknown half-sister and confirmed shared paternity and family secrecy.
I felt like a pressure cooker, he recalls. My children had never seen me like that. I wasn't myself. Lenkeit explains that, at age 47, he had just discovered by chance and in horror that his maternal grandmother, Hedwig Potthast (1912-1994) had been the lover of Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo, and one of the architects of the murder of six million Jews during Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.