The outside world obtruded that summer when Marga bore Himmler a daughter; she was named Gudrun, supposedly after the heroine of Werner Jansen’s Das Buch Liebe. Much as he was devoted to her, his family life continued to suffer from the fanatical demands he made on himself in the cause of the Party. To judge by her resigned letters, Marga spent most of her time alone at their small home in Waltrudering with her infant daughter and one maid.
