Seventy years ago today, one of the most evil men who ever lived bit into a poison capsule and ended his life.

Heinrich Himmler -  the architect of the 'Final Solution' which led to the murders of six million Jews - is a man few wish to remember.

But there is one person who will be mourning the anniversary today: his daughter Gudrun Burwitz, the so-called Princess of Nazism, still believes he was a good man.

And more than seven decades after she wrote of the 'marvelous' time she had visiting her father at notorious death camp Daschau, she is still a supporter of the Nazi ideology. 

Indeed, the intervening years have done little to quell her passion for the convictions held by her father - and that passion has led her to be worshipped as 'almost a deity' in neo-Nazi cells.

She has dedicated her life to 'helping' surviving Nazis evade justice, and even now, in her 80s, is considered the 'godmother' of far-right women's groups, intent on infiltrating nurseries and schools to help them spread their vile ideology amongst the young. 

Gudrun has been described as a 'true believer' by those in the know, and from the outside it certainly seems she has never got over her father's death.   

She was 14 when he died and, far from disowning her father as the children of Hitler's top officers have done, she remained as fiercely devoted to him as he was to Hitler, keeping a scrapbook of every newspaper picture she could find of him. 

She still holds on to her cherished memories of the years the Nazis were in power - years which, for the rest of the world, were among the most horrendous of the 20th century.

'On December 24 each year I used to drive with my father to see Hitler at the Brown House in Munich and wish him Merry Christmas,' she has said. 'When I was little he used to give me dolls. Later he always gave me a box of chocolates.' 

In her house in a leafy Munich street lies a manuscript to his memory. It 'demolishes the lies' the Allies told about her father after the war. Not surprisingly, it has never been published.

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