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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
James C. Reynolds

Priest horrified to learn he is Himmler’s grandson after recognising Nazi’s mistress on Wikipedia

A German priest discovered he was the grandson of Heinrich Himmler after recognising a photograph of the Holocaust architect’s mistress as his own grandmother.

Henrik Lenkeit, 49, was horrified to learn while trawling the internet that Hedwig Potthast, who had fed him with chocolates as a child, had an affair with the Nazi politician during the Second World War before giving birth to his mother.

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