🔴 **Portrait of a Nazi Bigamist**

Livia Gershon

“_Heinrich Himmler’s pronatalist policies included support for children of SS officers’ extramarital relationships. He claimed that Germanic tradition included the possibility of men taking a second wife—and he did so himself, having children with his secretary as well as his official wife._”

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