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Philipp and Helene Bouhler
Philipp Bouhler was a senior Nazi Party official who was both a Reichsleiter and Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP. He was also an SS General, and was in charge of the Aktion T4 euthanasia program that killed more than 70,000 handicapped adults and children in Nazi Germany. His wife, Helene "Helli" (Majer) Bouhler, was born in Lauingen on the 20th April 1912 and she was known as "schönste Frau der Reichskanzlei" (prettiest woman of the chancellory). She married Bouhler on the 18th August 1934 and they had no children. She was also a friend of Herman Göring and the Bouhlers were with him at Fischhorn Castle in May 1945. She committed suicide soon after her arrest, possibly by jumping from a high window of the castle. Ten days later Phillipp committed suicide while in Allied custody, by swallowing a cyanide capsule. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Bouhler http://ww2gravestone.com/general/bouhler-philipp Front row, left-right - Heinrich Hoffmann, Gretl Braun, Dr. Theo Morell, Frau Bouhler, Phillip Bouhler, Gerda Bormann, Hitler, Eva Braun, Martin Bormann, Anni Brandt; 2nd row - Christa Schroeder, Freda Kannenberg, Albert Speer, Margarete Speer, Hanni Morell, Frau Schmundt, Ilse Braun, Heinz Lorenz; 3rd row - Ludwig Bahls (SS Aide), Gerda Daranowski, Albert Bormann, Jacob Werlin (managing director of Daimler-Benz), Sofie Stork, Fritz Schönmann, Gen. Rudolf Schmundt (Hitler's Wehrmacht adjutant), Marianne Schönmann, Dr. Karl Brandt, Arthur ("Willi") Kannenberg. |