Jennifer Teege, granddaughter of a Nazi war criminal | DW English

At the age of 38, Jennifer Teege discovered by chance that she is the granddaughter of Amon Göth, the notorious Nazi concentration camp commander depicted in the movie 'Schindler's List.' On Talking Germany, she looks back at the day her life changed, recalling her childhood in a home and growing up in a foster family.
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[@Judah7Victor]

She's getting on with life the best she can. She didn't choose the family she was born into. She is just dealing with these events. God Bless her.

[@janathomas5759]

Apparently, some are having trouble following her line. Amon Goth and his mistress Ruth Kalder had a daughter, her name was Monika and Monika had Jennifer with a Nigerian man. Jennifer doesn't HAVE to look like her mother to be her daughter ffs. But her features do resemble Goth.

[@danamoore3051]

Amon Goeth would roll over in his grave if he knew he had a black half German Jewish granddaughter.

[@mariobreznmoasta5921]

She looks like a model. Her Grandfather was one of the most horrible persons ever lived, but she is elegant, intelligent & beautiful.

[@Strongholdex]

caveman Versace No that is not true. Blacks were serving in the German army and at no time blacks were put in a camp just because their race! de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_Freies_Arabien#/media/Datei%3ABundesarchiv_Bild_101I-177-1465-16%2C_Griechenland%2C_Soldaten_der_%22Legion_Freies_Arabien%22.jpg Germany is being portrayed as evil, because, well, they lost the war!

[@Strongholdex]

Mario Breznmoasta Let us stay fair. You never provided any source to me so far, so if you tell me the book's Name I could read it. I am the only one that provided a source so far, also, it is a good one, because it is from the German federal archive. You are right that Blacks were disctiminated but not KILLED. And that was also the case in USA and in SA until 1994, so nothing outstanding Bad. But so far you didn't provide ANY source except some book in a library. Well, ok. Which one? So either you deliver a source or you stop complaining about my own one, which is even true, because all the photos of Wehrmacht that were official were detained in this "Bundesarchiv"/federal archive of Germany.

[@Strongholdex]

caveman Versace Don't change the topic! You said Ammon Göth would kill her! We were not talking about state organized extinction, but about the personality of Ammon Göth! So citing the Auschwitz or holocaust site would not be enough, because that refers to the german state but not to Ammon Göth's personality. I would not have any Problem with the term "In my opinion Ammon Göth would have killed her". But you said he would kill her, as if that could ever be proven! In my opinion we can't tell and in your opinion he would have killed her. It is totally fine to disagree there, but you act as if we know with 100% certanity that he would have killed her. But do we? Some SS guards had affairs with jewish girls for example, some even married after WW2. All I am saying that there is no absolute certanity about that and just because it sounds truthful, we still cannot tell with 100% what would have happened if... , because people do not always act rational. The only reason why I responded to You is that you said he would kill her, but in fact it is just your opinion, not necessarily the absolute truth, if that exists. Behaviour does not always make sense....

[@rosemimi973]

I feel like she is representing the „victory of life“.....if you can use this description. Her grandfather was a disgusting piece of work and surely would not have wanted a granddaughter like her. But here she is, beautiful, smart and friendly... everything her grandfather never was. She kind of proves his ideas wrong and I think this is pretty amazing.

[@philipnestor5034]

The interviewer was very good, asking good questions.24 members of my mothers family were murdered by the Germans and my father was in the Polish Army in Warsaw and saw and experienced terrible thing done by the Germans. This woman is smart and shouldn't be blamed at all for her murderous grandfather. None of us can every pick our parents or grandparents. Like the old saying goes..."you can pick your friends but you can't pick your relatives"

[@dan03843]

+Philip Nestor AMEN, I have some ancestors I'd just as soon get rid of.

[@Frznwhrlpll]

Probably the person who named you butts

[@pederman15]

+Philip Nestor Have you looked into what was done to the Germans living in Poland prior to WW2?

[@Nightbird22465]

What a terrible tragedy for your family, I think of the stories my mom shared with me of my great grands and so forth, full of love and hard times etc, but never failing to remind me of the Holocaust, (we are not Jewish) in an effort to say, yes it was hard but never fail to be grateful, because in comparison to that , and actually losing life, we were actually fortunate. I cannot imagine your stories to your children, but it must be told

[@Strongholdex]

Philip Nestor It is true that Poles lived in the German empire, but it is wrong to say that Jews were generally poor. Moreover, you will find in present day Germany many people whose names End with: "ski", like the Name Kowalski, which isn't too uncommon in Germany. At my school in Germany we had a pupil, that resembled Very strongly an Aryan, in the national socialist sense, but.he told me that his ancestors were actually part of the polish minority in the German empire and that they already moved in 1880 from Posen to Bavaria and in both world wars they fought for Germany, also for the national socialist one, because the national socialists considered non jewish Poles as " artverwandt", which means closely related basically.

[@jochildress5003]

I am reading her memoirs, "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me." Well worth reading!

[@evattko7738]

by the way she did not write a book to get money, she wrote a book to cure herself... look at the tears in her eyes if you dont understand

[@toxicperson8936]

Man give the woman a break, you can tell that she isn’t fluent in English & that she’s struggling. But I do not think she should be held responsible for her grandfathers actions. It is beautiful however that she has come forward to tell her story. Her book, “My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me” is a very good read, I definitely recommend it.

[@johnballs729]

What a marvellous Lady.!!! She has obviously the kindness of an Angel. The weight of your family history is not on your shoulders,,you are part of it by default .... What an incredible story. Speechless.....

[@kewgardensstation]

I can't imagine what it must be like to discover your grandfather was a Nazi war criminal and concentration camp commandant. Ms. Teege is a brave woman to go public with her story and should be commended. She's also charming, intelligent, and beautiful. Proof that having dignity and being a decent human being isn't genetic.

[@MsVamPireChic]

Wow, she's so tall. She looks like a model. Beautiful.

[@1066smudge]

MsVamPireChic iii

[@poganka45]

shave her hair and she also can be a very handsome man

[@HesseJamez]

Grandpa & mother were very tall, too. It's in her genes.

[@barryolaith]

Courage, integrity, intelligence, beauty. No self pity, no judging, no hatred.

[@kp14year1]

I was adopted... turned out okay. I was raised on a cattle farm. How lucky. For this lady to carry this weight could not be a pleasing experience. My respects in all ways.

[@rboudville]

The resemblance of Jennifer Teege to her biological grandfather Amon Goeth is remarkable.

[@gobanito]

+Richard Boudville Ralph Fiennes?

[@daleksupreme2913]

He was a black chick?!?

[@Y0utubeIsFuckingHomo]

It's unsettling though, she looks like a man.

[@guilherminhu]

She looks like a mix of Barack Obama and Amon Goeth

[@anadreltub4806]

do have a picture of Amon Goeth? Amon Goeth was a lunatic who was arrested by the SS for crimes committed against prisoners under his command. He was so insane he was committed and had been for 2 years or more before the Poles liberating sanatoriums found him You can call up his hanging film. It took 3 attempts to kill him. FACTS NOT PROPAGANDA

[@sunshinelizard1]

She's a beautiful person and brave and I'm glad she has shared her very interesting story. Those who say she is simply making money are naive and young and have much to learn. Thank you Teege for sharing your special story, and I don't care how much money you make from the book, I love that you told your story.

[@gumdokim]

You can't judge her for what her grandfather did...She's beautiful.

[@hellhoundactual8201]

bruh she looks like Obama. Lmao

[@Krystian10]

HellHound Actual glad the internet provides an outlet for ignorant people such as yourself to come out

[@hellhoundactual8201]

Krystian Tatara youre welcome.

[@michaelkabrud4873]

HellHound she is so beautiful more than you

[@jonathandowns4525]

gumdokim neither can you judge someone for the accident of their appearance

[@tribblebooth1224]

I quite agree with you. Elderly at about 40! I'm over 60, so does that mean I'm now a museum piece?!!!!!!!!

[@daleksupreme2913]

you're a museum exhibit of ancient fossils lol

[@michaelkushner4131]

You are not alone. We can hope for a happy and healthy remainder. All the best to you.

[@steevmac]

She obviously meant "an older woman", English is not her mother tongue. Older is "älter" in German and the first sound is similar to that in "elder". A very easy mistake for a German to make.

[@ChrisDjoo]

Yes. it does

[@godiskungen2788]

Yes

[@patrickkruse3349]

Very smart, strong and well grounded woman! No to mention easy on the eyes. I wish her well.

[@dwnews]

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[@SuperBikeRacer7]

I don't know why this is shocking, African Americans also have the dna of the very people who enslaved them!

[@mellievern1161]

It wasn't "out of the blue" that she found that book. It was divine intervention. She needed ot know her family history.

[@TawannaRucker]

I really enjoyed listening to Jennifer tell her story.

[@christinefougere1444]

I think Goeth was a sadist. Jennifer is a beautiful intelligent woman, she seems very balanced to me.

[@vangestelwijnen]

Goeth would have become an elegant, intelligent man in another time.

[@ziblot1235]

Why? Did you know him?You have to read both sides. And Hollywood which is owned and run by people of the Hebrew faith are hardly unbiased. Schindlers List is a FICTION lady. Unproven. Based on hearsay. A good sorry, but its just that. A story.

[@shadowdctr]

Oy vey ziblot..... Are you implying its all Lies? The Death Camp Docu's from Alfred Hitchcock as well? Shut it down!

[@nancydrew3078]

ziblot123 OH blow up will you and take your hate some place else. Schindler was real, his list was real, he saved over 1000 Jews. Deal with it. I've read the Schindler's Ark, long before the movie came out.

[@janeathome6643]

Christine Fougere She was blessed to be raised by a normal family.

[@desertdispatch]

to the boneheads that think this is not his granddaughter because she doesn't look like him. I completely disagree. I see a family resemblance. And I think she is beautiful

[@victorcreed9824]

The craziest thing is she looks like him alot.

[@SiggiNebel]

+Victor Creed It's hardly surprising if grandchildren resemble their grandparents, is it?

[@victorcreed9824]

SiggiNebel true. in her case its almost a curse

[@SiggiNebel]

Victor Creed Not more than for any other grandchild of a Nazi murderer who is appalled by his grandfather.

[@r3dleh107]

even a women brought up in foster care in germany is more educated than a normal raised kid in the US, first thought that came in my mind

[@jochildress5003]

Her mother is featured in the documentary by James Moll, "Inheritance," clips of which are also on KZbin.

[@lilli9822]

incredible story and she is so elegant

[@slonekettering25]

"an elderly woman . . . . about 40" wtf!

[@thevictorianbaroness7604]

same here!

[@steevmac]

She's not a native English speaker. She meant "an older woman". "Older" in German is "älter" and the first sound is pronounced similar to "elder".

[@thevictorianbaroness7604]

+Ste Ríkhardsson thanks for the info but that's not the issue. It's saying that at 40 someone's old that puzzled me.

[@steevmac]

+TheVictorian Baroness (1) She is not a native speaker. I'm sure that if you were speaking a foreign language, you'd make mistakes. When learning Japanese I confuse the words "scary" and "cute" and the words "use" and "make" because they're similar. Heck, I even make mistakes in my own language, especially when speaking extemporaneously. (2) "Older" is a relative term. If I'm 20, a 25 year old is "older". She could have been talking from a particular standpoint. (3) She is 46 herself, so she obviously doesn't mean the woman was "elderly". I see absolutely nothing to take umbrage with here.

[@thevictorianbaroness7604]

***** Dude, take it easy. It's just banter.

[@MHOification]

She looks like Monika, the daughter of Goth same long face).

[@humbleone6405]

Like her accent .she could be a model.

[@roxyndra]

"Apologies: This report cannot be shown due to rights issues." Wat. Seriously, what? Shock aside, what a heart-wrenching story. You want to appreciate your ancestors. You want to leave the past in the past. But finding out such a surprising thing about your past can just shock you to your core. You will desire closure, and that will take a lot of effort and time.

[@beastmasterakathabarbaric1509]

had SS in my family and my elders had no problem later with my mixed up family

[@natkingcurrieiv1318]

That is an AMAZING saga!...I've subscribed...

[@vblake530530]

Looked up a picture of her grandfather. She looks like him. Wow.

[@ReginaMcNeish]

This is so fascinating. My Grandmother was half German and I look at this lady (and many of other half germans and black )and we have similar body shape. I'm sure someone is gonna disagree but whatever.. Oh and the depression thing is weird ... no one wants to admit we are surviving in a dysfunctional society and told we are suppose be ok with it all..

[@speedyspooley]

She's really a beautiful woman.

[@blackmantis3130]

when u look up a picture of amon u can see the resemblance

[@jeaniedouglas8096]

Trouble Booth, Sue Harvey, and any one else who was slighted by her mistake on the English translation of older! Good grief! get over your thin skinned selves! you're to busy being slighted to see how trivial you're being!

[@questioneverything751]

Was hoping to hear more about her biological father.

[@Boguslaw47]

Such a beautiful person who manage her feelings with a great sagacity confronted to such a critical and complex situation. I would not to be on her place. Great respect to her for her very humanistic behaviour. Will hurry to read her book...

[@georgemason4921]

Ecclesiastes 8:9 All of this I have seen, and I applied my heart to every work that has been done under the sun, during the time that man has dominated man to his harm.

[@forkstrip1554]

She's gorgeous.....but looks disturbingly like her grandfather. Weird.

[@krisfleischer7467]

she is beautiful!

[@phillipoos]

Her book is very honest , sincere and moving ....only an imbecile would not like it or appreciate it.....

[@TheMeloman79]

Miss Teege. You’re a fluent English speaker. Thank you

[@Susan-mc2rn]

All I said was what an atractive lady and some how it developed into a racial debate.Well there u go some people just can't see past colour and race!!! Just show's how backward some people are!!!¬

[@suzieanderton4239]

The videos that were not allowed due to "rights" SERIOUSLY detracted from the story. After the 4th disallowed segment, I quit.

[@dalemcclinton3054]

Her beauty is so breathtaking!

[@BazdicSon]

no in the first gen for women men look like freaks lol

[@markrichardson1657]

she reminds me of herman the monster, from that olf 60's sitcom, the munsters.

[@markrichardson1657]

+Mark Richardson or could even possibly be learch, from addams family, been so many years.

[@marystachowiak7272]

My mother received a photograph of my Grandfather when he passed away. He was in an SS Uniform. My mom was raised in Herzogenhauerach. She was born in 1930. To very wealthy Parents. Joseph and Kunigunda Maier. I'd love meeting my family in Europe. I recognize the way it must have felt for her.

[@Lemansalter7]

She speaks good English for a German.

[@JohnyNJ]

So very good looking 46 y.o. woman...

[@helpihavenoskin8939]

He would be spinning in his grave if he knew his bloodline had black in it now

[@tribblebooth1224]

He doesn't have a grave, his remains were re-cycled by the Russians and used to decorate the walls of a urinal in the Kremlin.

[@mjtriola5638]

His ashes were spread on the Vistula River after his hanging in Poland. I imagine he considers it just another punishment in the warm corner of Hell his soul is occupying. My son is biracial and I have wondered what my Irish greatgreatgreatgrandmother would think if she saw him as a child or an adult, knowing that as she left Ireland pregnant with my greatgreatgrandfather and with her husband who would soon die, his life would become possible.

[@tribblebooth1224]

Thanks for the response. It's good to know that he wasn't afforded a decent burial.

[@migspit]

You realise we all belong to the same race?

[@sallysomethinginthewind]

Jane Doe Yeah… thanks for the supremacy lesson. Life partners are chosen… but we do not chose who they are because we have no idea how they are going to look like or how they are going to be. There is nothing wrong with having a preference but I find preferences ridiculously shallow. A life partner isn't just a babymaker that determines the color of your babies but that's obvious. And funny enough, especially at this time, this generation, we don't know what to expect from babies once they are grown up. People are becoming more “open-minded”, and this is just a generalization. Your babies could follow to keep their babies in their race, or they can do the complete opposite. But most people, stick with their race anyways.

[@txb4u]

Great interviewer!

[@abcdefg54321x]

She is really beautiful

[@stuzo666]

I have been to plashow it's all rubble but the house goeth stayed in was still there, it's a weird place though

[@Bronzebk]

How ironic!

[@jazzynet1]

Amazing Story

[@Priscilla11981Two]

How is someone's color a "preference"? Why is a color other than their's so disturbing for some people?

[@abcdefg54321x]

This family tree is a bit confusing to me. Is she Monica Hurtwig's daughter?

[@ador3m]

What does shoe know about her Nigerian ancestry?

[@markhart6203]

Who cares what your parents did..! It's not you..?

[@MrDanbloom]

I just saw this TV Intervie of Germany world TV news here in Taiwan. So interesting!

[@roberth.5363]

Gorgeous woman.

[@paulgummel2569]

wow this was fascinating to watch.

[@JamesBond-vq3ky]

Gorgeous lady...

[@sjcobra84]

Fuckin hell. What a mindfuck. Hope she finds peace and balance.

[@beautifulcoward]

she is gorgeous

[@beautifulcoward]

I love her she is beautiful

[@Iggytommy]

weird TV studio set

[@misio200]

What a fantastic lady ...

[@julessmith2150]

She is wonderful.

[@shood1943]

People are born with potentialities not blank but no fully form. Read up on frontal lobe and how much influence environment can have or not have.

[@NewYorkCityBoxing]

She looks very much like Amon Goth.

[@grimaldi25]

I'll take that as a joke.

[@NewYorkCityBoxing]

If you do an image search, a website has his and her photo side by side. Look at the bridge of their noses, the corner of the eyes, and look at how both their temples sink in very far.

[@Marob967]

But didn't she say she was adopted?

[@MZtestvideos]

Marob967 her mother is the daughter of the nazi commandant Amon Goeth. her mother had an affair with a nigerian man and thus she was born. she was given up for adoption when she was a child, and raised by a foster family from then on. there would be no fuss about her claims if she was not in fact blood-related, which she is.

[@Julian1607]

yes you are right ,you must also be caught in two worlds ,as you can see the black DNA makes more of a brown person than white ,or one could say white DNA is easy diminished by blackness. war makes all suffer ,some more than others .

[@boum62]

WHAT A CHARMING WELL BALANCED WOMAN

[@alanwilson8752]

Beautiful lady 😀👍😀

[@chrisedy9116]

Beautiful strong women

[@RAvery41]

Great Story and It would be nice to know that Amon Goet is rolling around his grave as it will add to the punishment and evil he perpetrated on innocent victims. I know of many stories like this of the children of Nazi War Criminals who have married into Jewish Families. Freulein Jennifer Teege is a brave young woman but I did laugh when she mentioned older women in their 40's; b eing born in 1970 makes her 45 now and I would not look at her as elderly. Bravo for her to look into her past as it cannot be denied. Her mother apparently was a loose women who lived a dreadful life as many children of Nazi's have. Even sadder are the children that were destined to be the first purebred Aryans and strange that they had to hunt outside Germany to find Blond, Blue Eyed prospects. I myself grew up speaking German and am Danish, Dutch Norwegian Anglo Saxon and the majority of my family is blond blue eyes and only a trace of German.

[@SassyMudTruckDegenerateDumbFk]

Thump, Thump, Thump, "whats that noise?" its Amon Göth rolling in his grave

[@RayMurray]

very smart and strong woman

[@dapsapsrp]

She has an uncanny resemblance to Amon Goethe.

[@btho5531]

The story of Jennifer Teege is very sad.

[@jeaniedouglas8096]

Angie Hemingway, Listen again to the interview! Her Nazi grandfather was her natural, blood relative! And because she was adopted she only found out recently that her natural grandfather was a Nazi! Otherwise that information wouldn't have been shocking news!

[@user-up3sr4ty1w]

סיפור חיים שכזה שייך לקטיגוריה שהיא מאד ספציפית ...חיים שלא בחרו בהם...אבל הם מציעים התמודדות קשה ביותר שמי שזוכה לנצח בה מבחינה מוסרית...קונה את עולמו בשעה אחת...

[@DirtySaltyBug]

A very interesting story. It's just as well we are now in a different time and place. I suspect her grandfather would have been inclined to have her shot.

[@Lovelymiz]

That might not be true as the Germans view blood relations as important. Look at Hans Massaquoi, the former editor of Ebony. His uncle loved him dearly and so offered him and his sister (Hans' mother) protection; and he was a member of the ss.

[@AkashaXD]

Muy interesante...

[@a.peoples2394]

BEAUTIFUL CHOCOLATE SKIN.....OMG!!!!! ALSO INTELLIGENCE IS A PLUS!!!

[@rtunyebgvfdcyrmjhgnd]

she is stunningly beautiful!!!

[@DavidJSmith-hl6kb]

As an "African American" Man this was a very interesting Story about Jennifer Teege, a Black Woman of Mix race Heritage that had a Shocking Wake Up Call when she found out about her German Nazi Pass concerning Her Grandfather! I came across this YT video after watching another YT video about a Black Boy who was also of a Mix Race Heritage, during the Days of Hitler! Back in my Youth I had an "African American" Male Boy Scout Leader and His Wife was German and they had two Boys! He was a WW2 Veteran and I knew his family for a very long time and we all got along very well!...God Bless!

[@pipdatip]

if you look close she looks just like her grandfather !!!

[@truedonblue3949]

+Rory Jones You freaking people are all nuts.

[@PHlophe]

she did inherit some of his features and its obvious. she explained in the german clip that when she stumbled across a book and saw a photo she instantly felt something. same like we go through old family pics and even though we don'tknow someone we can tell we share a few features with them.

[@ThatGen]

It‘s true

[@N1H1L9]

I'm struggling with this; is she the daughter of Monika Hertwig or what?

[@sharonpayne9740]

the film of the execution in poland is not goeth

[@dustinpalaghe8233]

Wow!! Imagine waking up one day and finding out that Amon Goeth is your grandfather lol...

[@dustinpalaghe8233]

I know.... Shit....

[@48laveo]

+Ygor Nimoy It would be like a kick in the head, but worse.

[@inesmartins4880]

poethic justice :D

[@johnd4875]

i'm guessing she wouldn't have gotten along with her grandfather

[@americansasquatch_the_original]

My Oma on my mothers side was cousins with Bruno Gesche we found out,,, German families are often large.

[@truedonblue3949]

Yes, what a brave women, she reminds me

[@trudytriad4574]

Typical of people (men) to focus on her looks and whether she is worth being "tapped".

[@snowballcorners]

The lady takes no blame for her ancestors evil deeds,this is as it should be. Are you to blame that your Grandfather voted Republican?

[@smcd7770]

+gump If your grandfather voted Republican, he was a hero. In your grandfather's day, the democrat party was populated with segregationist halfwits. Things change of course. Today's democrats are no longer segregationists.

[@snowballcorners]

+s mcd Your losing me F.D.R. was a democrat and the greatest American president ever.

[@smcd7770]

+gump You mean the guy who put Japanese-Americans in concentration camps? That FDR?? I kinda think that disqualifies you from being "the greatest American president".

[@snowballcorners]

+s mcd Thats who I mean F.D.R. maybe add Truman also he dropped the bomb.

[@snowballcorners]

+rasfilmon Now I just know you voted Republican.

[@Christine5000]

Is she Monika's daughter? But she does look like Goeth I think anyway.