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What happened to Nazi wives after World War II?

What happened to Nazi wives after World War II? Not all wives of high-ranking Nazis were treated the same way—but one of them met a truly horrifying end. Margarete Himmler, wife of SS leader Heinrich Himmler, had one of the lightest outcomes. Though she was arrested, she was ultimately not held responsible for her husband’s crimes—partly because he had left her for another woman. She was released and lived in hiding until her death in 1967. Lina Heydrich, wife of one of the principal architects of the Holocaust, faced a harsher fate at first. She was sentenced to life in prison by Czechoslovakia. However, back in West Germany, she passed the denazification process and avoided punishment, living freely until her death in 1985. But Ilse Koch, known as “The Witch of Buchenwald,” had the most disturbing legacy—not only for her punishment, but for the monstrous crimes she committed. She personally selected prisoners to be murdered so their tattooed skin could be turned into lampshades and other macabre items. She was sentenced to life imprisonment twice—first by the U.S., then again by a German court. In 1967, she took her own life in prison.