Biracial author discovered her grandfather was a Nazi commander

The author of "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me" talks about the challenges she faced after discovering her grandfather was a proud Nazi commander. Jennifer Teege spoke to CBSN's Vladimir Duthiers and Elaine Quijano about her experience.

[@marymary68ify]

I cannot imagine the heavy burden she carried with her before coming to terms with the reality. She is not a victim. She is a very pretty woman who deals with her situation rationally.

[@TonyBi]

"i'm part of the perpetrator's side, which doesn't mean i'm guilty. but i carry a responsibility." *this* *is* *very* *important* and *powerful*.

[@HkFinn83]

Very strange comment tbh. Is she admitting she has some vestigial genocidal feelings?

[@miekelei2761]

@@HkFinn83 She has a responsibility not to ignore the past and let people like her grandfather go by unchallenged. It is important to educate others so that people like Amon Goth don’t get into positions of power. And that is what she’s doing. Educating people about history, since her family history is part of human history.

[@HkFinn83]

@@miekelei2761 that’s a very strange take. If you want to learn about history, you’re better reading history books written by actual historians. This woman’s personal story might be interesting to you, but there is no guarantee it’s ‘educational’.

[@miekelei2761]

@@HkFinn83 You are missing the point. You can learn history through books, but that’s just knowing facts and getting good grades. You have to think beyond the books, since history doesn’t exist in books only. History has repercussions on the present. History affects and shapes the present. The present today is history tomorrow. History is reflected in our daily lives. Her life was impacted in this way. By sharing her story, the takeaway messages anyone with two braincells should put together are: 1) don’t be a terrible human being to the level where your grandchildren think your existence was a horrible mistake, and 2) don’t let people who have potential to be terrible human beings to the level where their grandchildren think their existence was a horrible mistake reach positions of power because they will abuse it and hurt other people.

[@breakfastline]

@@HkFinn83 what are you on about.

[@stroke_of_luck]

I lile how she puts the reporter in his place. No, she is not a victim. She has her head screwed on coreorrectly

[@ragamuffinhooligan4019]

@@ToeNailBreaker Bang on!

[@gdl3467]

@@ToeNailBreaker African Americans today are definitely victims of the systemic institutional racism and social injustice, and that's why the protest. If you think they're crying over slavery or any issue they don't endure currently you're clearly blind and missing the point. And you're wrong again if you think blacks or minorities in general don't have that protesting attitude in Europe or other Western countries. The BLM protests were followed in many countries, with a lot of intensity in several European ones. Because sadly blacks and minorities still have to endure racism today and not only in the US, but almost everywhere.

[@gdl3467]

@@ToeNailBreaker Good for you, but your personal experience does not define a global situation, so I don't see the point of sharing your life with someone who has no interest on it. Sadly not everybody has been as lucky as you. I'm also a minority and I know for a fact what is to endure racism, xenophobia and discrimination, both on personal and proffesional level. But I've also been lucky, despite all of that I can say I've achieved my goals in life. There are many other people out there who had it even worse. Completely different experiences than yours. I'd never be so arrogant to think my personal and unique experiencie is more real or relevant than others and make this about me. You should really try to empathize more and put yourself in others shoes. And what statistics are you talking about? Because I see lots that support the claims of people who are talking about systemic racism and social injustice. I personally think it's quite ignorant to generalize and categorize people like that, like if all African Americans had the same culture, and they all thought the same way, acted the same way, talked the same way or even voted the same way. It's one of the reasons why stereotypes carry on today.

[@gdl3467]

​@@ToeNailBreaker Again, the experiencies of a short group of people do not represent majority. You can tell me the history about your whole family and I can answer with others that resemblence nothing. I didn't mean to say your case is just about luck like you had no influence on it, not trying to take anything away from you. But you've definitely been lucky, same as I've been and I didn't always had a fair treatment. If you can't see there are people out there who are born into social and economic disadvantadge, and sadly things like race and background have a strong influence in that disadvantadge in Western countries, then I don't know what else to tell you. Of course some people have overcame that, and that's great and leaves room for hope, but that shouldn't be used as an argument against others who endure the same. I didn't generalize and put all African Americans or blacks into one category, talking about them like they're this uniform and homogeneous group. You did that. I only pointed out a reality they commonly have to face, and that goes hand to hand with their race/skin color/whatever you want to call it, because white people simply don't have to endure it. That is the white privilege. It's not about white people being the enemy (that's ridiculous, I've met a lot of African Americans in my life and I've yet have to see one who talks like that, not saying they don't exist, I'm sure the internet is full of videos from all kinds of idiots, but this narrative that tries to make them all look like this crying babies blaming whites for everything is just false), it's about white people not having to endure some of the social disadvantadges blacks do. I see nothing that proves your point or convinces me. Black inmigrants earning more than black US natives. Well I guess if many of them go to the US to attend college in the first place, they'll naturally be in a better position to earn more than African Americans that struggle to get into college. Black people living in Asia because they feel safer. That's not shocking at all, wealthy African Americans used to migrate to Europe a few decades ago to scape from racism and violence towards them. The history repeats itself. None of that is incompatible with my claims about systemic racism and social injustice. When I said global experience I meant the West countries because that's what we're talking about, the situation of minorities in the West. I know nothing about the situation of minorities in places like Japan or China. But I'd dare to assume that no country in the world is 100% free of some kind of racism, sexism and homophobia. You can keep denying the existence of systemic instituional racism and social injustice, as you could say and make strong arguments about the earth being flat. But reality is stubborn and won't change no matter how much you deny it. I see no point of continuing with this conversation as is it appears to be clear that we will not agree or convince each other on anything regarding this topic. But it's nice for once in a while to have a conversation in the internet with somebody you disagree without insulting or name calling. Have a nice day.

[@dlababy]

me too

[@marktirabassi7873]

Your story is a truly amazing one. People need to know more about your life in order to understand this?. You turned out to be a amazing beautiful woman

[@brownwithacrown3894]

I remember the role of her grandfather in Schindler's list. Horrifying

[@PoochZie]

Still the acting is great, one of my fave movies, it actually still makes me sick even though I have seen in many times.

[@Katwoman4318]

Hi Jennifer, You have a very interesting story. The truth can be painful; but it can also be so freeing. I like how you said that you had to move forward. Thank you for being brave & empowering yourself. ♥️.

[@johngrace199]

Excellent interview...she's quite strong mentally. It would have been easy to take the role of the victim and it would be harsh to argue with it if she had.

[@artaAKAweeklygirl]

i didn't liked it when he tried/caled her a victim, and loved how clear and loud she could sei NO its not like that!! Also the explenation why not. A lot of ppl can learn from her side of view!!

[@mireillebvaval7280]

Smart, educated, knows the difference.

[@hlog3902]

Yeah. Victim of what?

[@applesandgrapesfordinner4626]

Exactly! She is the victor of her family!

[@DolleHengst]

I love her. She's strong and bright.

[@wadimwadimow5439]

I think she is the sanest and normal person of the whole Goeth family

[@KillerDoc42]

Smart woman! Life can be very complicated!

[@pacoaguilar1185]

Very intelligent, strong and beautiful woman. God bless her heart

[@amonke5276]

Why strong? She didnt even knew her grandfather

[@TheMatrixxandRhodesShow]

Wow. She looks just like her grandfather.

[@emekaagbo6697]

Yeah

[@DekeTheFreak]

This is the definition of IRONY!!! Karma gets you even when you're dead. 😂😂😂

[@gailrupprecht9481]

This is god's Providence. Only god could direct such happenings.

[@wiwlarue4097]

​@@gailrupprecht9481 The movie authentically pictures the psyche of those who perpetrated those actions in the movie playscript.

[@arky429]

amen for her not playing the victim

[@MarkHoward660]

she has nothing to feel bad about like blacks do in America strong woman , see Germans are strong mixinbg material and schindler's list is hollywood lies

[@muddyhotdog4103]

david nichols Why do some girls pretend their hair is curly and get it curled? Haha jk

[@shimmjaxxs1210]

david nichols shes clearly mixed

[@mireillebvaval7280]

Like a tan?

[@jerryboucher5622]

Hey micro penis we definitely know what YOUR obsessed with.Your secret is out.Thank you for exposing yourself.

[@gbadesakin]

She does have the facial features of Goeth

[@captiveexile2670]

Deuteronomy 24:16

[@gucciysl]

IRichard Adegbola Adesakin obviously

[@kholocoy7432]

Absolutely

[@lilybond6485]

Nah. Can’t see a resemblance.

[@wiwlarue4097]

@@lilybond6485 The momentum she went to israel, lived there for years, learned hebrew, came back and by chance / by randomly picking a book in a 300 thousand+ library; she found out who his grandfather was is very suspicious. Intelligence like to manufacture personas in a way that no one would be able to trace them. Well, her grndma allegedly committed sucide, she grew up at foster parrents, then she was adopted. Do I have to say more?

[@mystery1745]

She's extraordinarily elegant

[@makemarker]

It sucks to find out your grandfather was Lord Voldemort.

[@isabelle8836]

I read her book, her book is so good!

[@richardhinman3046]

She is very tall. Her mother Monika is very tall and her grandfather, Amon Goth, was very tall.

[@ineffablemars]

yep, that's genetics baby

[@alias4181]

So the end of the story is.....they all was tall. What is the point of it?

[@richardhinman3046]

@@alias4181 The points are: 1) It's evidence that Goth really is her grandfather. 2) With Ralph Fiennes portraying Goth, people might not know Amon was a tall man. 3) I think it's more unusual for daughters, (vs. sons), of tall men to be tall.

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

Amon Göth was 6' 3" tall. I don't know Monika's height, but Jennifer is or close to 6'0" herself.

[@hlog3902]

She could be wearing heels.

[@Streetboy57]

wtf. bro, she really is related to Amon. damn...imagine having Amon as ur grandfather

[@monica8399]

She looks like Amon Goeth...

[@rebeccagalabis6973]

I think so too.

[@abnerhayes6915]

She does

[@superchitownhustler]

Not at all. She looks like her mother.

[@captiveexile2670]

Deuteronomy 24:16*

[@hlog3902]

superchitownhustler her mother looks like him

[@cats172]

She looks like her mother

[@michaelrobinson1945]

And her mother looks like Amon Goeth

[@superchitownhustler]

Not at all. Mom is a hottie. Amon a nottie.@@michaelrobinson1945

[@johannsebastianbach9003]

Bruh... She even has Amon's Voice, Looking at 1:38 u can perfectly compare the voice to Monika hertwig, Very same

[@alhajimssamura8320]

Unbelievable!

[@ecuadorexpat8558]

Such a sad story.. poor Jennifer.. how awful to find out that this Mass Murderer is her Grandfather..Jennifer would have been killed him for being biracial.. terrifying

[@iamgermane]

What a messed up title. Does she know who her black Father was?

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

He was a Nigerian exchange student.

[@roddymcape7697]

And just my luck, for the longest time I thought my grandpa was Charlie Chaplin. Imagine my surprise to find Chaplin wasn't the only one with a tiny mustache...

[@wasimalam305]

Hey ' Hitler Jr

[@rudyardmagpie]

She said she is not a Prisoner of the PAST. Very strong words which contradict most of victimhood mentality of group of people I know in USA.

[@donaenoble7835]

Perhaps that is because people like your mindset are either passively or actively contributing or continuing to traumatise those people you have idiotically and disrespectfully refused to acknowledge or dignify with a name? But then again, only those with a pathological Inferiority complex would be so blind they think they are so superior to another that they cannot even see others as human beings, and worth nothing enough to name! Those who seek to make others invisible end up as invisible. That is what the lesson we are learning here but then again some peoples heart are so callous, ears so deaf they cannot learn the lessons of life even if it is staring them in the face. You cannot give what you do not have, respect.

[@missedmebich2963]

@@donaenoble7835 Maybe we just don't believe that guilt is inherited from our ancestors. I am responsible for my actions and only my actions.

[@donaenoble7835]

@@missedmebich2963it depends as society is a living being with a past present and future and a healthy society is one that us just. Such blanket and almost cold distancing from the actions of our forebears can create a cruel society with no empathy and hiding of who decides someone or people deserve a form of apology, empathy reparations etc for wrongs done by forebears. Indeed the threat of justice be it immediate or in the far future is pRt of societal systems to assist deterrence. every form of gymnastic and ingenious disingenuous excuse, arguments and cop outs are used to avoid giving a justice. Empathy is essential as a human being and for a healthy society and it demands that even if we feel or believe that we are not accountable for the actions of our forbears, that we empathise and ensure that we do something to right a wrong be it acknowledgement, a gesture, ensuring we are not contributing to any current system of injustice or continuation of the injustices that our ancestors did. I believe something in the healthy human mi d soul or spirit is affected one way or another by acts done by those in our lineage. What the author did is bravery beyond description. Yes she is not guilty for the actions of her grandfather but I am certain thousands of Jews or descendants of those affected by his crimes must have te received some firm of healing, closure by her actions. We are all connected to one another, one family, one human race. When you do heinious acts to one, you do it to all, and the soul hurts when one part of a family is hurting and it fractures the whole. Carrying one as if it has nothing to do with one I think does not add anything positive. Often, all the hurting person needs is just an embrace, an acknowledgement of the wrong etc. Thank you for your reply

[@missedmebich2963]

@@donaenoble7835 I think telling a child that they carry the guilt of their ancestors is cruel and does nothing to heal society. It's just another wound inflicted on the innocent. I ask that I be judged by the content of my character and only my character.

[@donaenoble7835]

@@missedmebich2963 of course, you are right. Clearly I did not say otherwise, so that is not the issue here . And it is very odd that you use the analogy of a child here as if you are seeking the benefit for your self by flipping it onto a child? This seems like underhand tactics here seeking to pit the rights of the victims of horrendous cruelty of someone's ancestors against telling a child their ancestors was responsible!! That is cruel deflection and Distraction and veering away from the real issue. How does what you tell a child change any fact anyway? And in any case is it a child that runs society. Quite frankly I hope you are not being a smart narcissist because of all the things you have said, this is pretty nasty deflection and it is bizarre that you have gone to the extent of even thinking about it to throw it in!!! As we are all connected somehow, appearing to stand apart and untouched by the gross inhuman acts of one's ancestors and the current sufferings of the victims of those acts seems to me to at least akin to being cold and unfeeling don't you think? Put yourself in their shoes . It is a human trait to sympathise and help anyone even a stranger who is hurt, in pain, etc. Surely if we can do that for a stranger, how much more those connected to us somehow by the acts of one's ancestors? So the answer is grieve with those who grieve, mourn with those who mourn and rejoice with those that do. That way we catch all that matter more than most. It does not have to be because you are guilty or not. Surely what is wrong with charity beginning at home? If one comes upon someone who has suffered as a result of what one's ancestors cruelly did, what on earth can be wrong with giving them a helping hand up, whether you feel guilty or not? There is nothing wrong with helping anyone, and certainly not those who have been victims of one's ancestors. A society survives and is healthy and kept so by instinctive humane acts. Deep within us lies the need for fairness justice recognition of wrongs and some kind of healing. Any victim is helped on the way to recovery by one form of acknowledgement reparation, a comforting hand on the shoulder or suchlike and such an act closer to the source of the wrong has immense power to heal and grant closure. A cold shoulder from someone descended from the cause of even the ongoing trauma will certainly be unhelpful. It is better for such a one to keep away than to brandish out their chest thumping I am not guilty. It is not about you. It is about the victims

[@GidionApex]

My family did the same

[@chrissybrown9205]

Jennifer looks just like her mom Monika and grandpa Amon I think.

[@hdv2886]

that title is so wrong. But I guess Americans don't even understand why...

[@dm-gq5uj]

@PaganHammer7 LOL! You're not a mixed society? All those Syrians and Turks are now good little Germans? Sure, I guess so. After all they hate Jews as much as you do.

[@exex9378]

What an awful thing for this lady to have in her history

[@iam1remnant]

Many black americans are related to racists in the past history of their geneology. She's so amazing.

[@lmupzz6864]

Yup because they would promise enslaved black women freedom if they had children by them

[@yaminhaniyah2979]

The grandmother didn't say anything about the victims, that's because she had no remorse and was unmoved about all thoses lives destroyed. She wanted it just as much as the grandfather. Maybe.

[@TheRealGnolti]

Is karma always this ironic? Also, I am surprised that with one exception (Branan's "The Family Tree") there are no living descendants of people who perpetrated spectacle lynchings in the American South willing to step forward as Teege has done. After all, many of the people involved were happily photographed at the time.

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

The perpetrator of the 1904 lynching of Luther Holbert and wife in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Woods Eastland (d. 1936), was the brother of the murdered plantation owner, James Eastland. It was his death that was supposedly avenged by this sado-masochistic lynching. The wife of the plantation owner was pregnant at the time and gave birth later in the year to a son whom she named after his father. That child born in 1904 became James O. Eastland, the racist, pro-segregation U.S. senator from Mississippi who died in 1986. Senator Eastland himself had four children, who're probably still alive or have children of their own. One of the children is named for the uncle, Woods, who perpetrated the lynching. The question is if they know anything about that incident, and if they do, how have they dealt with that knowledge and the effect that it would have had amongst the surviving plantation workers, or is it something that's kept as a dark family secret never to be discussed. You should read about the lynching itself which is enough to make you sick. There was a scholarly book published more than a decade or so ago about Sunflower County in which the details of what led to the lynching, the living conditions, and the incident itself were included in the foreword. I'm sorry that I cannot recall the title.

[@dolphineachonga555]

I wouldn't.

[@coppermouse30]

I must say that she a very impressive and intelligent woman who understands the heavy responsibility that she carries. Her mission in life is to spread love and to show that we as a society should be aware of people who aim to harm others in the sake of some fanatic belief.

[@tanyaglover4129]

Omg i so love that his granddaughter is not just black but studied in Israel ❤

[@vannugejiiko1067]

Nigerian father and Germany mother there you go.

[@kudraabdulaziz3096]

She eats fufu and sausages for breakfast

[@letimoore]

The boy in the striped pajamas showed her grandmothers true stance

[@jemsmom97]

She never mentioned who her mother and father are/were. Guess I’ll have to get the book.

[@jfournerat1274]

Her mother was the daughter of Amon Goeth and her father was from Nigeria.

[@ravern8510]

You fools concentrate too much on skin color.

[@donalddorsey6271]

You're right , what if she was white ?

[@AALavdas]

It makes sense, because nazis were all about "racial purity", so for him to have a mixed-race granddaughter is an extra level of posthumous punishment! What a great lady.

[@hlog3902]

A AL well his daughter cast her aside

[@hlog3902]

Donald Dorsey his daughter didn’t want her it could have been because she didn’t want to have a black baby

[@imthinkingaboutagooduserna8531]

The whole point is because of who her grandfather was and her skin colour.

[@lamboman68]

There’s many people I’ve seen claiming to be daughters and grandchildren of amon

[@roses6821]

She is the one

[@georginamannor4373]

Guess he got around.

[@AnyoneCanSee]

He had two wives and a mistress, so he has a few kids and grandchildren. This woman's mother is Monika Hertwig so there is no doubt. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amon_G%C3%B6th#Family

[@dulceniapagan1975]

Who is her mother?

[@PoochZie]

Monika Hertwig, daughter of Göth.

[@AnyoneCanSee]

Monika Hertwig, she has suffered terribly and is not strong like this woman. I'm pleased she has rid herself of the curse.

[@starkiller7711]

I would have too

[@biggwillnyc4047]

You know she's biracial, yet you call her black. ????

[@gratefuldead3750]

They are nazis

[@jbob2331]

There was many blacks that lives in Germany throughout 30s and 40s, blacks was not the enemy....

[@DJ-zt2ml]

Well, if Beethoven was a black german, I am pretty sure blacks lived in Germany way before the 30's and 40's.

[@williamwallace4080]

@@DJ-zt2ml He wasn't so your comment makes no sense.

[@DJ-zt2ml]

@@williamwallace4080 I beg to differ. Limelight.com, June 9, 2015 article by Maxim Boon states, " Beethoven being nick-named, Spaniard or Moor because of his dark, swarthy complexion .... show him to be with very dark skin." Some people would probably call Beethoven a mulatto. Who knows, he may have done what J Edgar Hoover did, passed to be accepted by the larger society.

[@williamwallace4080]

@@DJ-zt2ml You can beg whatever you want, it doesn't change the fact that you are wrong. Stop trying to steal our culture and our heritage. You clearly didn't read the whole article: "While it provides an interesting twist on these well-known classics, the general consensus among musicologists and historians is that Beethoven was not a North African descendent, and that any conspiracy to conceal the truth is in fact baseless. There are no historical accounts during his lifetime that refer to the composer as black or a “moor”, and the Viennese of the 18th and 19th Centuries were well aware of persons of African descent, referred to at the time as moors and mulattos, such as George Bridgetower, who was a famous violinist and creative collaborator of Beethoven’s."

[@jonnym4670]

@@DJ-zt2ml there were thouands of them but not tens of thouands so it really was a small amount

[@hlog3902]

I reject my grandfather - he would have rejected you and his daughter got rid of you.

[@donaenoble7835]

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[@32446]

Goeth must be spinning in his grave!!

[@camelcamel6495]

why not talk about your father.

[@sayitloudblcknproud]

What about him? He left.

[@emekaagbo6697]

She got his tall gens🤔

[@yaminhaniyah2979]

The grandmother lived at the concentration camps with Amon.

[@wiwlarue4097]

yeah and her grandma worked for his family and children as a maid while they were racially hating on her. do you really believe this manure?

[@donaenoble7835]

@@wiwlarue4097 racially hating? Why please?

[@wiwlarue4097]

@@donaenoble7835 if they were persecuting the tribe would they have employed tribal women as maids? Maids are close and political leaders are worried about who serve their food so that they wouldn't get poisoned by an employee and maids get access to the intimate areas of their lives, rooms, and documents easily. I find this story rather strange not to mention she lived in israel for years.

[@donaenoble7835]

@@wiwlarue4097 perhaps you are not aware of it but I think your comments may have racial undertones? There is an offensive implied dignity being imputed into an African being a servant and a presumption that this is a privileged position. It suggests a deluded world view is at play; moreover, Ms Teege's African ancestor was not Mr Goethe's family servant. As I understand it, it was her Jewish grandmother, who worked for the family (?) or was it a relationship (?)

[@wiwlarue4097]

@@hovawartfreunde4599 Her alleged grandmother couldn't have been the wife of Goeth since he was married and had 3 children with a woman. That would have made her a mistress only. According to the story Irene Kalder and his father were deeply involved with the nsdap and the wehrmacht; both worked for them while the nazis were allegedly hunting down and persecuting her kind? Not a contraditction you say?

[@ironhorse6688]

Lol she should thank her grandfather for the story , it's probably making her millions dollars selling the book

[@paulkellerman2603]

Maybe she should give this money to his victims.

[@AnyoneCanSee]

@@paulkellerman2603 - The victims are all dead. The camp was liberated in 1945. Also, why does she owe them anything? She wasn't raised by her grandfather or even her mother.

[@donaenoble7835]

@@paulkellerman2603 how also good it would be if you suggested compensation for African Americans, and South Africa? People appear to think of monetary compensation but for them! So now you want her money away from her as if she doesn't need compensation too.

[@vincenthewlett4329]

@@paulkellerman2603 pathetic comment

[@norms3913]

has she ever actually met the monica goets hertwig duaghter of amon goets her na

[@ananse77]

Did you not watch the video. She said she knew her well before she was given up for adoption, and that she kept in touch with her even after her adoption.

[@miriamsackler5002]

Did you watch the entire interview? Or your English is very poor?

[@wenstrends4852]

She did reconnect with her mother after her discovery of who her grandfather was. Unfortunately, her mother cut off the relationship without a word to Ms. Teege.

[@chrissybrown9205]

@@wenstrends4852 I hope Monika and Jennifer can get in touch again one day. It would be very healing for Monika I think.

[@kanchipallava5]

She is not a biological grand daughter of Amon goth. Why she bothers.

[@donsettie344]

Why does she think gpop would have killed her?

[@AnyoneCanSee]

It's a snappy title for a book.

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

Don Settie: The Nazis would not have approved of SS Obersturmführer Göth having a mixed-race child. She would have been shot or perhaps sterilized...without anesthesia.

[@TheWatchher]

She’s a African foreigner that’s why he would of most likely

[@leilazarmie6184]

Everybody in this section feel sorry for her,, just because she biracial... If I was talking about slavery,, everybody in this section would've be saying nasty chauvinist remarks....

[@generalturner9628]

One topic is about ancestry and the other is about a brutal social institution. Secondly, I see very few people in this comments section feeling sorry for her. The majority of people's attention is on deciding how she should identify.

[@gratefuldead3750]

@@generalturner9628 Either as nigerian or german? She lives in germany and doesnt speak yoruba or haussa. So she only can identify as german

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

@@gratefuldead3750 She was raised and socialized in Germany. Even though she has a Nigerian father, there's nothing culturally Nigerian about her. She's German.

[@dolphineachonga555]

Blacks in the US identify as African American. So,Afro-German?

[@kazimeraz6811]

I wish my grandfather was Stalin then i can write a book called "My grandfather would've executed me"!!

[@riaannel1378]

The interviewer has to study German pronunciation

[@laimaruehlich30]

She is NOT the victim as the man IS NOT hers blood grandfather .He is ONLY adopted grandfather

[@gratefuldead3750]

Her real mother is goeths daughter

[@lordberly]

*She doesn't look like Ralph Fiennes at all*

[@dodgedemonsrtx]

Da

[@Rahoorkhuitable]

She, as a person, is much more interesting than her story,really...I would like to date her....

[@rogerlephoque3704]

Your comment is insensitive and rather revealing about you as a person.

[@Rahoorkhuitable]

@@rogerlephoque3704 I think that was very sensitive...lol

[@rogerlephoque3704]

@@Rahoorkhuitable Piffle

[@Rahoorkhuitable]

@@rogerlephoque3704 Racist

[@rogerlephoque3704]

@@Rahoorkhuitable Crypto-mountebank

[@worldtraveler134]

She is really no different than the ADOS here in America, 15 to 99% European Ancestry If some would take a DNA test you maybe surprised someone in your family was able to Pass.....

[@jonnym4670]

Lol they woupd fail an ados test you say

[@shodan2002]

Whatever

[@Dangling_Carrot]

You see that black reporter try and get her on board with being a victim. Take note reporter not everyone thinks they are a victim.

[@donaenoble7835]

It is interesting that it is you who has placed the label of Black on him!

[@CapitanoGUC-gf6el]

She should be verry proud ....

[@j.r.arnolli7494]

First stop calling people biracial, this indicates that You're thinking in a racial way. There is only one human-race, ethnical en demographic differences, yes, but within the human-race, there are no other races. We are all humans, simple, behave human, act human, think human. We are all related and, yes, we are all a mix, a mix of our ancesters.

[@hlog3902]

J.R. Arnolli hello. You are spreading kindness and positivity. But the human race is divided into different ethnicities, and this is important for identification, also for tracing risks for certain diseases and for cultural identity.

[@DJ-zt2ml]

I agree with your sentiments. However, personal experience has shown me if you spread love, you will be confronted with violence. This is from personal experience. Nevertheless, like Mother Teresa says, "spread love anyway."

[@finallythere100]

However, in this case, her race is entirely relevant - as she says -her grandfather would have shot her - bc of her race.

[@povjesnik]

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha Black Panthers PzKpfw V

[@yaminhaniyah2979]

Her grandfather Amon Goeth was so cruel towards prisoners and captives that his own SS administration executed him.

[@paulkellerman2603]

Don't lie. SS sent him to santorium, because he has stolen too much of prisoners property. SS monsters didn't care about their lives. Goeth was captured by American soldiers and sent to Poland where he was sentenced to death and hunged.

[@jackweatherford5125]

Milking it for all it's worth..

[@kamemesg2083]

ew

[@apollon6870]

well, its actually nothing special, i mean there are a lot ppl whos ancestors fought eachother in wars and civil wars

[@doctormcgoveran2194]

what a credit as a human being she is..turned on a family that took her in. I wonder if she loves the family that had her and did not take care of her more than she loves the family who did?

[@melinda67]

she's speaking about her biological family. Never once does she mention her adoptive parents

[@donaenoble7835]

@@melinda67 my mind boggles the type of people shown by comments! I am new to all these media, and it is absolutely incredible what people see and say, and I ask myself, am I looking at the same video??

[@bellepierre24]

You need to follow the narrative carefully. How you determined that she turned on the family that adopted her or as you put it "took her it" when this is about her natural / biological family, the parents of the mother who gave birth to her? Just watch to video again or watch one of her many other interviews. Her name is Jennifer Teege. You welcome!

[@donalddorsey6271]

She Carrie's the sins of her father .

[@ads401-]

No... She never committed any crime.. She has nothing to feel bad about, you can not help who your family are..

[@donalddorsey6271]

@@ads401- She's punished because the SINS of her Grandfather .

[@ads401-]

@@donalddorsey6271 no.. Her and her grandfather are 2 different people.. And she should nor bear the burden.

[@nville8795]

You should watch the interviews of Monika Hertwig insted, Amon Goeth`s daughter. Thats a real story. This video is folly.

[@flipkicker22]

are people in these comments seriously debating if she's black?!?! Ofcourse she's black. I myself am biracial like her but we are still just as black as people who have two black parents. we still share similar life experiences, descend from non Europeans , and have felt the effects of discrimination. If you ask almost any biracial person if they are black they will say yes

[@anna7361]

J Semp if you are mixed one parent is white! Not simular like black who have 2 black parents! (Sorry for my english Is not my language I am french). Vut do you understand what I say?

[@amonduul2154]

But some indians or malayans are also seen as black by some racists. The dutch malayan soccer player aaron winter when playing at lazio was treated as if he was black. Because he looks like a brazilian. But that does not mean he should regard himself as black, he still is a malayan. Your logic is false, teege is biracial, half german half nigerian, neither nor.

[@joycenorment4720]

J Semp but biracial is not only black! If she was Japan and black as mixed race Japan new female Tennis competitor who beat one of the Venus sister! Her mother from Japan 🇯🇵 and father black are you saying, her mother doesn’t exist ? Every human being receives 23 chromosomes from each parent! Scientific fact to claim her only as black denies her mother contributions! Everywhere except, US undesta

[@dominiquejones6758]

Respectfully no you are not as black as a black person with two black parents and you shouldn’t deny half your heritage. I understand being treated as if you’re black by the rest of society and particularly white people but you are biracial not black!!

[@bd3966]

I agree with Dominique Jones you are not fully black - I dont doubt at all you have dealt with discrimination but you need two black parents to be fully black. You are biracial - and that is ok! You shouldn't deny one parent because of an outdated and racist one drop rule.

[@maxmurphy7306]

She was adopted she's not related to Amon goeth by blood.

[@kayvan671]

Amon Goeths daughter disagrees with you. Now troll somewhere else!

[@loveafrica9268]

She's like a white German woman inside and black woman outside.

[@gratefuldead3750]

She is not white in Germany and not black in nigeria. She is multiethnic

[@gallagher6904]

she looks mixed race.

[@thegoddessdiana9185]

@@gratefuldead3750 She's Afrodeutsch.

[@dolphineachonga555]

Afro-German.

[@TheWatchher]

@@thegoddessdiana9185 No such thing as that. She will be viewed as a Foreigner African among her fully German peers.

[@antonioacevedo5200]

I do not mean to judge, but I feel that she is exploiting her position as a woman related to Amon Goeth by writing a book. There is no real story here. She never met her grandfather and didn't even know that she was related to him until later in her life.

[@youtubecommenter37]

Antonio Acevedo I’ll wait for you to find out that your grandfather was a notorious Nazi who was personally responsible for killing 12,000 Jews and he’s forever immortalized in a Spielberg movie for the entire world to know. I’m sure it would fuck up your head

[@dm-gq5uj]

It's a fascinating story. If it wasn't nobody would pay attention. I liked her book very much and it's not just about Goeth. So everyone who has a interesting family story to tell is "exploiting their position?" Well, great, I guess nobody should ever write books about their lives or experience. What a boring world that would be.

[@ssj2189]

Seems to me her grandmother never spoke about him. And she was removed from them. And to find out this information later in life would have been intriguing to me. We don't know how her home life was with either family which made this a shock.

[@dm-gq5uj]

@@ssj2189 Read her book. It seems her home life with her adopted family was pretty happy.

[@2PRO_4U_2NO]

If I wrote about book about my 9th great grandfather Louis Joseph Marchand would I be exploiting my ancestry

[@IyamSoRaya]

*ONLY REFER TO HER AS BIRACIAL!! SHE IS NOT BLACK!!* It's insulting to me as an actual black woman.

[@amonduul2154]

E 10x African Americans have their own ideology. Has nothing to do with african people in general

[@lostcase55]

Who cares you're a black woman, that's irrelevant. In America, you're defined by your skin color, but it's obvious you have a little hate in your blood.

[@scorpio1851]

Soraya she refers to herself as 1

[@Celisar1]

Soraya Bella Morena What a stupid comment. If calling a biracial person black is an insult to you as a black person you are clearly a racist who deems a mixed person to be lesser than a „pure blooded“ black one.

[@l.plantagenet2539]

Why does it matter to you? You sound like a racist yourself.