Nazi Wife Who Wanted Polygamy: Gerda Bormann's Fanatical Beliefs
Hitler's Inner Circle
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14m
Gerda Bormann was far more than the wife of Adolf Hitler's powerful private secretary. Raised in a household where Hitler was a frequent guest, she absorbed Nazi ideology from childhood and became one of its most fanatical female supporters. As the mother of ten children, she was celebrated by the regime as the ideal German wife and received the Cross of Honour of the German Mother in gold.
Yet behind this carefully crafted image stood a woman who openly advocated state-sponsored polygamy, praised virulent antisemitic propaganda, rejected Christianity in favor of Nazi racial doctrine, and fully supported her husband's rise to the very center of Hitler's inner circle. While Martin Bormann helped administer the machinery of the Holocaust, Gerda defended the regime's ideology within her own family and private correspondence. This documentary examines her life, beliefs, marriage, and the role she played in sustaining one of history's most murderous dictatorships.
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