Florentine Rost van Tonningen

Florentine Rost van Tonningen was the wife of Meinoud Rost van Tonningen, the second leader of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands and President of the National Bank during the German occupation . Because she continued to support and propagate the ideals of National Socialism after World War II and the death of her husband, she became known in the Netherlands as the Black Widow.

OnDecember 1940, the day of the Winter Solstice, Heubel married Meinoud Rost van Tonningen. Upon request, Heinrich Himmler, the German SSReichsfhrer, had approved their genealogy, following which their wedding became the first SS marriage. The Rost van Tonningen family would have three sons with the unusual names of Grimbert , Ebbe , and Herre . Her children would openly distance themselves from their mothers political views in the 1980s. The youngest son was born onApril 1945 in Terschelling on the day her brother Wim Heubel fell in battle fighting with SS forces near Elst. She soon fled via Cuxhaven to Goslar in Germany, where her parents, who owned local property, were also staying. Her husband Meinoud was captured and imprisoned onMay by Canadian invasion forces.

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