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exotix
03-05-2014, 08:02 PM
Today

As you remember, Amon Goeth was the real-life SS commandant of the Plaszow-Krakow concentration camp in Poland depicted in Shindlers List


Jennifer Teege, a 44-year-old black woman from Hamburg, Germany was horrified to learn that her grandfather was a Nazi mass murderer.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/my-nazi-grandfather-would-have-shot-me-n45366

As an adult, Teege happened to learn that she is the granddaughter of Amon Goeth, the former SS commandant of the Plaszow-Krakow concentration camp in Poland, where more than 8,000 people were murdered.

Goeth was portrayed as a sadistic killer by Ralph Fiennes in “Schindler’s list.”



Teege was born from an affair her mother, Monika Hartwig, had with a Nigerian student.

Her mother placed her in an orphanage when she was just four weeks old.

A foster family took her in when she was 3 years old and then adopted her when she was 7.

As a child, Teege saw her biological mother and her grandmother occasionally, but they never breathed a word about who her infamous grandfather was.

Teege describes her horrifying discover (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24347798)y in a new book (http://www.new-books-in-german.com/english/1470/394/394/129002/design1.html) she co-authored: “Amon: My Grandfather Would Have Killed Me.”

She’s told German journalists: “He would have regarded me as a sub-species.”



Jennifer Teege, author of the book "Amon. My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me" attends the presentation of her book at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland, on Feb. 25, 2014.

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Peter1469
03-05-2014, 08:06 PM
You can't pick your biological parents (or grandparents).

Captain Obvious
02-13-2015, 11:52 AM
The resemblance is striking...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/02/11/385217013/whats-it-like-to-be-black-and-have-a-famous-nazi-grandfather


Jennifer Teege is a German-born black woman who — during her quest to learn more about her birth family — uncovered a surprising connection to the Holocaust and Amon Goeth, the Nazi commander famously portrayed in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. The following article appeared on the website of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/1.640997), which has made the story available to NPR readers as a courtesy.
In the mid-1990s, near the end of the period during which she lived in Israel, Jennifer Teege watched Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List. She hadn't seen the film in a movie theater, and watched it in her rented room in Tel Aviv when it was broadcast on television.

"It was a moving experience for me, but I didn't learn much about the Holocaust from it," she tells me by phone from her home in Hamburg, mostly in English with a sprinkling of Hebrew. "I'd learned and read a great deal about the Holocaust before that. At the time I thought the film was important mainly because it heightened international awareness of the Holocaust, but I didn't think I had a personal connection to it."

Indeed, it was not until years later that Teege, a German-born black woman who was given up for adoption as a child, discovered that one of the central characters in the film, Amon Goeth, was her grandfather. Many viewers recall the figure of Goeth, the brutal commander of the Plaszow concentration camp in Poland — played in the film by Ralph Fiennes — from the scenes in which he shoots Jewish inmates from the porch of his home. But Teege, who had not been in touch with either her biological mother or biological grandmother for years, had no idea about the identity of her grandfather.



http://www.haaretz.com/polopoly_fs/1.641237.1423265060%21/image/2349077637.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_640/2349077637.jpg

Cigar
02-13-2015, 12:15 PM
Never heard of any one of them ... :laugh:

del
02-13-2015, 12:27 PM
Never heard of any one of them ... :laugh:

shocker

Captain Obvious
02-13-2015, 12:32 PM
She's kind of attractive actually.

The Nazi looks more like a Hatfield.

Private Pickle
02-13-2015, 02:13 PM
The resemblance is striking...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/02/11/385217013/whats-it-like-to-be-black-and-have-a-famous-nazi-grandfather



http://www.haaretz.com/polopoly_fs/1.641237.1423265060!/image/2349077637.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_640/2349077637.jpg

I saw a documentary on this on YouTube. She went back to Germany and talked to relatives of some Nazis. Some of them staunch racists. At the end she tells them her heritage. It's classic.

Safety
02-13-2015, 02:39 PM
Karma.

Mister D
02-13-2015, 02:42 PM
Never heard of the Plaszow camp. It doesn't appear to have been a death camp.

PolWatch
02-13-2015, 03:00 PM
duplicate threads merged

gamewell45
02-13-2015, 03:07 PM
I've read several books about Amon Goeth and he was a real monster. He had no qualms about murdering or ordering the murder of concentration inmates on the slightest pretext. He was executed after being convicted at the war crimes trials in 1946.