Tochter des Reichs (Daughter of the Empire)

Chapter Thirty-Four Auf Wiederschauen Ludwigsburg April 1966   In this chapter, Sepp Dietrich dies and Bekka and Karl attend the funeral, where they meet Colonel Siegfried Müller, and Bekka and Kalli have a conversation about Nazism, Dresden, and their escape from Vienna. Karl has a new girlfriend, Verena Dodinsky, the child of Jewish refugees his grandparents helped get out of Germany. Karl begins his career in the aerospace industry and he and Vina marry and start a family.   Sepp's gravestone, which was removed in 2015, by Wolf-Dieter, due to excessive tributes from neo-Nazis. Karl and Vina: Funeral:   Colonel Siegfried Müller (colorised from film of him in the funeral cortége):  Bekka and Karl have a conversation: Wedding:  Adlisberg, District 7, Zurich:  Wolf Dieter at a re-enactor event, wearing Sepp's uniform:   Sepp's Funeral  -Film footage, British Pathé The Controversy over Sepp Dietrich's Funeral  - The display of Waffen-SS c...

Chapter Nineteen This Heart Is Now Dead Vienna, Bastogne, Wiesbaden January- February 1945    In this chapter we learn that Oskar was indeed killed in action, and the young women of the Women's Baracks rally round Hilda.  In Belgium, the day after the medals ceremony, the 12th Panzers continue to Bourcy and Bastogne to quell the Allied advance there. After five days, they reach Mageret, where there is hand-to-hand street fighting. Rudi's company take an important hill, but Mageret is the end of the Ardennes campaign by 10 January. In Vienna, Dr. Ebner is arrested, and the city is carpet bombed, not for the first time. At the Gestapo, a defence unit is formed, including the girls.  Rudi's company return to Germany and arrive at Wiesbaden airfield in early February. There he is charged with teaching new recruits seconded from the air force and navy, and has a disturbing encounter with Major Müller, which causes him a spiritual crisis. He writes to...