Jennifer Teege, "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me"
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- Put up for adoption when she was a month old, Teege is the daughter of a Nigerian father and a German mother, whose own father was Amon Goeth, the Nazi commandant responsible for clearing the Krakow ghetto and whose brutality was a focus of Schindler’s List. A stunning collision of history and identity, Teege’s memoir asks profound questions about both.
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"You can inherit responsibility, but you can't inherit guilt." Very insightful.
Indeed. Maybe it's better to put the responsibility part at the end to keep an open conversation about the past. Whether Holocaust, Stalinism, Apartheid, slavery plus Jim Crow or any major oppression that is still relevant to people. Each nation having a conversation by themselves without pointing at other nations
Thats not true, most people inherit both, its called karma, and its a fundamental rule in the Universe created by the creator himself! Not even he can brake it without punishment
karma is nonsense like all religions@@MaciusSzwed
This is a healing process of the family tree . The perpetrators are like dead wood , but young shoots like Jennifer are taking up the steps to heal and regenerate a broken world .
Plus, she identifies as biracial while it’s convenient to pander or cower to one side of her genetic makeup.
Amazing story and amazing young woman. She is very articulate and well spoken, and has a unique opportunity to raise awareness that most people don't have. She is doing a great thing.
She's also fluent in French and Hebrew.
Just learning about this remarkable story!
Raise awareness to what? Being a victim of a person she never knew and wasn't alive to even meet?
@@jenniferlarson6426 Awareness of Anti Semitism, now that she knows who her Nazi grandfather was.
@@vickielewallen3799 Anti semitism can be a result of certain behaviour.
The fact that you find a number of nazi troll comments here is just further proof that Ms Teege's book touches a nerve. Unless you're one of them you might find it worth reading.
As it should!!
Ikr? Jennifer and I could literally be siblings we look so much alike😎
When I met my best friend in Berlin Germany many years ago, there was that awkward moment when I asked him about the
Nazi Holocaust. He cried. I shall never forget that moment, and I shall always love him because of it.
@Robert Freisler
Why, does hate and evil make a person strong?
Wow what a amazing woman! They should make a movie on this
I agree
@@stevesebaoun6555 A movie about what...how she was a victim of someone she didn't even know?
Ah your nasty comment makes me see how jealous and envious of a person you are, do you really have nothing better to do? That’s what happens when people have really low self esteem, they spend all of their time attacking and picking out the flaws and errors of other people who they are secretly jealous and envious of.
My mother is from Germany - born in Heidelberg and orphaned shortly there after in 1950. The context behind her adoption is largely unknown. Only knowledge is that her mother was ethnically German and protestant (according to adoption records), and her father was probably a Black man because she herself appears biracial. She died when I was a teenager; her adoptive mother (my grandmother) first revealed this history to me not long after she passed. One could surmise that such rates of orphaning and adopting of children in Germany within the first few years and decades after WWII (or the start of the Cold War) correlate to the country being totally fractured and adrift - culturally, economically, socially. Lord knows that it wasn't safe in many places at the time for a number of reasons, and to be a Black person in Germany at a time of when any remaining traces of Nazism went into underground was quite chancy for sure. I'm currently on a mission to investigate my mother's past for this reason, because I want to understand all of the parts about her origins and how that informs me as a human. Reading and listing to Mrs. Teege's story and seeing some similarity there is extremely encouraging; there are conscious people in the world who don't want to be prisoners of the past and choose to be a force of positive progress. I appreciate P&P for sharing this lecture for all to see!
You are gorgeous
DNA testing will help with find relatives. The female DNA stays stronger,
You might want to start with the US veterans agency and your father was probably a GI. Black Germans did not exist in the Nazi era.
DE actually they did. German women had children with Black French soldiers after WWI in the Rhineland. There is also a very famous black German that survived Nazi Germany named Hans Massaquoi.
@@DE-xt7jv She was In a German interview. Her father is Nigerian
My great grandfather was an officer in the red army and died at the front line. My grandfather survived and hated it. Sleeping in the mud and eating crap food for 4 years was not good for your body. Also lack of bullets was also not great to experience he told me. Most of time he was fighting with rocks sticks and knives against Nazis with frikkin guns. Horrible he told me. Also when the war ended Stalin send him to a gulag for being an intellectual (he was a mathematics student at University and distant relative of a rich land owner)
Jennifer is a true gem. She's extremely brilliant and true.
Thank you Jennifer for sharing your story .It's so touching . God bless you and everyone who suffered ....
Building up relationship with the survivors of the Holocaust , is a very positive process for a holistic healing . Thank you Jennifer .
She also attended university in Israel and is fluent in Hebrew. She has a special and positive relationship with the Jewish people.
I feel bad for her she has to carry this around with her. I feel so bad she was not alive when this happened. But I would be ashamed that he was my Grandfather. But she needs to tell her boys so they can learn from the past
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@@debrafirestone861quite disturbing what you commented. So much anger. MAGA- esque anger shown over the last 6 years I might add.
One of the most remarkable interviews I ever watched.
Her book is really really good A MUST READ
I am quite amazed how stupid and asinine most of the comments here are. To anyone who is not twisted and sick in their mind yet: I highly recommend this woman's book which is courageous, thoughtful and has a lot to offer at a time when racism seems on the rise - as some comments here seem to suggest as well!
I read it last summer and I agree, courageous and thoughtful and amazing.
Rainer Blaesius
I wonder if this book could substitute as toilet paper because that should be it's rightful application and afterwards it could be used to muffle your SJW bleating.
Walter Butler I second it .
_"immigrants out"_
How does she fit in with your 4th Reich? She was born in Germany and her German grandfather is one of your heroes. And where d'you propose she go?
It's a playground for imbeciles
She is lovely and so intelligent!
Agree.. She could be a model
God has prepared you for such a path. Your graciousness and integrity shines through. God's bless you
G-d prepares deadbeat parents? Since when?
someone had prepared her for the gullible to be a psy-op through israeli intelligence for sure
Powerful and revealing!
Had to Google a picture of Goth.. She has alot of his features. There is no denying that they are related
Such a gentle and meaningful delivery, as her quiet poise conveyed; yet, retelling what-many would have rather forever-buried.💖
Hello dear Jennifer Teege. Tonight, I stumbled on the interview you granted DW, about nine years ago.
T hen, found this very one again.
In the interviews, you look rather sober or sad, you smiled maybe only once.
You didn't say anything about your Nigerian father.
We love you, precious Jennifer Teege.
Love from Nigeria.
Some of the comments down below just shows we have an long way to go towards completely getting rid of hate in the west and around the world.
This is just such a fascinating story about identity and what makes us who we are.
Jennifer Teege, you have helped me to closely identify with you in so many facets of my life. Thank you.
don't think your grand pa killed Jews like her's did it's really weird you say that
@@ommsterlitz1805 she said 'so many' not all! You don't know anything about D.H. Fremont to be commenting in such a way.. In the book Jennifer talks about identity, self esteem, depression, belonging as well as having evil in her biological family...
@@ommsterlitz1805 how do you know that? And why is it weird?
I saw an interview with her mother in a documentary about Amon Goeth. She was speaking about her mother, the wife of Amon Goeth, who she didn't seem to have a good relationship with. It seemed to be a bg shock to her when she found out and it's clearly affected her own relationship with her daughter, Jennifer Teege.
Jennifer I too am a German ancestry that goes back to 1709 but that's not what I want to say you are a very special human being and you are very intelligent and very beautiful may God bless you too your life as you bless other people in facing these tough cenacle questions as to who we are is the German people. God bless you and your two boys and your husband and your family and peace always be in your heart
She looks so like him as well
she is beautiful and so humble and intelligent,, thank you. Jennifer Teege is a miracle of love, grace and beauty. And she is mixed race. She is neither her grand father nor her mother she should not carry history and her grand father's evil in herself
I’ve been through the war during the ‘90s, been a refugee, lost all contact with many family members for over a year, fortunately out of our whole family only one person was wounded by a shrapnel, not even in the line of duty, but in a civilian area and everybody survived. We’ve lost friends, neighbors,colleagues. No criminals in my family and no slaughtered, yet everybody not just in my family, but everybody around me would avoid totaly the subject of war or would just tell the funny anecdotes in some rare occasions. I don’t think that who hadn’t been trough it can understand how traumatizing the war experience really is for any human being, and there are more or less dramatic moments for everybody, even those we could define “lucky”. I know people who still have Occasional nightmares almost 30 years later and they didn’t kill anybody, nor had they ever been locked up in a camp or tortured. The trauma of the WW II is of far bigger proportions and even more so leaves you speechless and silent, aspecially right after the war and it’s not always an act of denial or a guilty conscience that attempts to hide everything under the rug, but also the fact that the war is over, you’re alive and have to move on and focus on everyday life and living and looking back all the time is hurtful, emotionally destabilizing and distracting, so you just keep the focus on what’s in front of you and avoid looking back as much as you can. In many cases it’s just about plain necessity on one hand and the desire on the other to simply move on. On the other hand we see it as the living witnesses of the holocaust almost got extinct or got too old and in the recent years with the international rise of neo-nazi or neo-fascist movements and some other negationist declarations, other witnesses stood up, that never ever spoke of their experience before and at the time being were children. They had it totaly conceiled for their whole existance and never told it even to their spouse or children.
What a perfect and poised lady. Bless you, Jennifer!
Thank you for sharing your life story. I appreciate you stating, “It doesn’t define me. “ I believe it touched my spirit. 🙏🏽
Its frightening that she resembles him in facial structure too.
Yeah, it’s one of those things she has to address because otherwise she can be taken advantage of. Like, hey do you know who your grandfather is? Well, we do. Come over here with us😎
Such a thoughtful, articulate person.
So she's the daughter of Monika Hertwig and a Nigerian student? In addition to his two marriages, Goeth had a two-year relationship with Ruth Irene Kalder (his mistress and Teege's grand-mother). Kalder first met Goeth in 1942 or early 1943, when she worked as a secretary at Oskar Schindler's enamelware factory in Kraków. She soon moved in with Goeth and the two had an affair. She took Goeth's name shortly after his death. Goeth's last child was a daughter, Monika Hertwig, whom he had by Kalder. Monika was born in November 1945 in Bad Tölz.
God Bless you, Jennifer Teege. 💜🌹
I’m sorry about your grandfather having been a monster. 😔💔
Good mindsets for the whole world: "We all have a responsibility, just as humans, it's something we all need to do to look after the other one", "We need transparency", and "Hope".
I actually wondered....if people knew about her background....would they fear her assuming erroneously that evil could be passed from one generation to the next in DNA. Oddly many people DO think it happens. But clearly she explained how this couldn't be. Why she thought it can't be. A good important question from the interviewer that was worth asking. Which helps educate us. Hearing her side of her story. Again. The power of RUclips.
Jennifer have been very brave to research her true identity despite the bad, good and indifferent, to put it in book, prose and entertaining to many. Hail to Jennifer, I love her personality.
Why do mothers do this to their children. "You are just like your damned father!" My mother told me this once too many times and I cut all contact with her for over 20 years now. I loved my mother but I do not like the cruel manipulative person she is.
There is a possible reason why this happens to children of parents who survived World war II. Our parents didn't talk about it, especially if they were the victims. There is a justifiable need to bury their painful past and us children can spend a lifetime trying to dig our way out.
This the best.we need this.
I think we also have to remember that people in general have many layers and each one comes into situations bringing with it their mental state, personality, environment, history and their beliefs surrounding all of that. It's this reason that our choices are not always good and why our choices can be good. There are people out in the world that have made very dangerous choices, only to find out (through education) that perhaps they were wrong about their beliefs and make every effort to change their ideas. Jennifer is correct to say that ultimately, it's not who you came from, but a choice. Her choice is to bring to light that we are living in the present, functioning with choices to do good. I like her.
I think you have a very healthy approach to the ethnic color question, I wish more people would look at it from your perspective!!
At 27 minutes the question was overbroad.
I have been so inspired by this story that i just bought the book..
I'd like to address the audience member's comment that suggests Poland promotes holocaust memorials purely for financial gain. While I've never been there, I've never seen any evidence of an overly commercial or 'touristy' holocaust memorial that's been turned into a theme park in any part of the world. That would be truly disgraceful, but everything I've seen in documentaries has been very respectful. I'm just left wondering what led this person to draw such a conclusion? It takes money to preserve history, to keep the grounds and protect the area but that doesn't mean they're out to make a million dollars from exploiting people's pain.
Very good point. Some people who make the rash comments you described do not know what they are talking about.
She is the representative of that hope. It is love, forgiveness, empathy and understanding. That is the hope manifested. Thats why all lives matter.
It so resonated with me that Jennifer did not see herself a 'black woman.' I think this really shines a light month
She knows she is a black woman!
I like her description of being fluid. I can relate. It is far more exact. The notion of melanin being the identity of a human is absurd and ignorant, hence it shows to be what debilitates perception of what should otherwise be an intelligent race , mankind. This is where it looks like the base of retardation is. Fluid defines what we all have, blood and water. As Bruce Lee explained, be like water my friend. Water becomes what vessel it is poured into. Deep, yet absolutely true. People really need to free their mind.
We cannot escape blackness. We love it. Much of the world hates it.
She is biracial
@@Cat-ik1wo well it’s a way of accepting yourself as you are and not just the parts you like. Like, no I will not deny being German just because of a few bad apples. Doesn’t mean I have to be proud of despicable family members either.
I have a strange mix. I am a grandson of Japanese and German descent who came to Colombia in the 50's. very rare no?
Yes you don’t hear of that mixture too often. I came across a Japanese and Italian woman in college many years ago. Gorgeous woman I had a legit shot with. Couldn’t really tell she was half Italian by first glance. But, by her build I knew she wasn’t like most Japanese women I’d seen before.
She's not guilty of what her grandfather did. Nor am I guilty for racism, having no connection to it in my family at all. Right?
i wanna know more about her mom.. monika and her relationship with the Nigerian and etc
She goes into a bit more about her mother in her book, and Monica herself wrote a book called "I have to love my father, don't I". Apparently, Jennifer's biological father was a student from Nigeria when they met; he returned to Nigeria alone, because she was not interested in going. Monica eventually had a kid with another man, Jennifer's half sister, and Jennifer also reconnected with her Nigerian relatives.
@@eshim3961 yeah, Jennifer Teege’s half sister Yvette has a son named David Amon who was living with his grandmother Monika in inheritance.
you have to take some audio guy to Your videofilming...
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Such an amazing woman with an extraordinary story,
It's difficult to know what to make of this, unfortunately for the Germans they have to live with their history.
My parents were military, my childhood years were on military bases. I had a friend whos mother was german. We became best friends, in those day being a pen pal was popular. When our fathers were transfered to other duty stations we wrote to each other. Years later we met again via facebook. He told me his family had hid a family secret for years his grandfather was SS and also hung for war crimes. His fear was being blamed or retaliated against by those whos familiy were victims of the Nazis. I think being biracial gives her a level of disconnect that the children of nazis who are (white) can't have because being (white) brings those painful sorrowful days into the present. I dont mean this in a mean way. I know my friend could never do what she is.
Mjs
You are absolutely right. Good observation!
Las ironías de la vida! Felicito a esta joven por conciliar
That Amon Goeth's daughter had a child with a black man is a hell of a poetic fuck you to the Nazis, I approve.
wow. Incredible. Im getting this book.
That's the whole point. She's looking to get rich off a murderous relative she didn't even know and that she accuses him that he would have murdered her. She simply cannot know that for sure....that's a victim statement. She is looking to get wealthy....nothing more.
It's a great read.
How sad that her mother cut ties again.
At least Brutus had not Ceaser's blood in his veins.
45? She's aging well.I liked the interview she did in the German language.
she sounded more authentic and accurate in german to me.
Black don't crack
It would have been much better if her mic was working instead of relying on his mic.
It gets better.
I saw she was adopted at 7 years old. Which is it?
Nancy Nash fostered at age 3 which eventually led to adoption by that same family when she was 7.
At 1:50...she was let away when she was 4 ( four ) weeks old, she was left away to a catholic orphan home by her father, her father had offered to send her to his family in Nigeria, but it did not look as if it was accepted, then at three years old she came to a foster family that later adopted her a few years later. The reason Jennifer´s mother Monika could not take care of Jennifer looks to be that she was affected with emotions and possibly guilt knowing about her father Amon and second world war and the role Amon had in it.
Seems to bother you, read the book fool !
I Love this woman!!!!
What a beautiful soul!
She speaks 5 languages! Amazing her English is very good
Unfortunately the audio is poor
How extraordinary!
I am a Maori from New Zealand. I have cousins who were tormented by their german history way back in the 70s
I was a soldier in Germany almost forty years ago most of the young was very educated but they were not educated about what happened in World War Two as far as war crimes. The older generation had no guilt as to what happened. For the most part they denied the whole thing.
so what! Americans do not care about the Slave Trade. At least Germany pays Reperations, black Americans get nothing. 0,00$
@@jimmixed777 Were you a slave? Was I a slave owner? No to both counts. Reparations for what? You can't work in today's world because of slavery in the 1800s?
The guilt is denying it.
Mark Jamison
Pardon, but that is absolute nonsense. I cannot even count how often we had this exact topic in school in different subjects. We didn’t even get to learn about postwar history at all because we were stuck so completely on everything related to the Third Reich.
We were all more than fed up with this topic. There is still a completely unhealthy guilt cult more than 70 years and three generations later and the media and politics never tire to remind us.
Germans pay repetition think again . Where is the reparations to Poland that they killed Polish People , destroyed Poland , robbed their paintings and national treasures and gold . Where are they .
I wonder if she has ever watched Schindler's List
Yes she has. She stated this on Deutsche Welle. She had watched before she found the book in the library.
By way of her Nigerian father's lineage, she could very well be an authentic Judean and I believe she is. She speaks fluent Hebrew. Isn't that all extraordinary and significant for our time?
Love Light
Since when does speaking a language make you a countryman?? She lived for 5 years in Israel for various reasons that’s why she speaks Hebrew.
If her father is Nigerian...how can that lead to the conclusion that she could be authentic Judean? and on top of that..I believe she is ? Then she learned hebrew by living in Israel. Sherlock Holmes have sorted it out for you!
What does her Nigerian lineage have to do with judean?
@@arieswoman824 Nigeria is where Judeans, settled after fleeing Israel and before they were enslaved and shipped throughout the western world.
@@Celisar1 Nigeria is where Judeans (who were Black peopele) settled after fleeing Israel in 70AD. and before they were enslaved and shipped throghout the western world. I know...."truth is stranger than fiction".
Can't hear it
I appreciate this woman's courage and intelligence. I am not so sure of her statement,however, as to the fact that physical resemblance does not entail any psychological affinity....in my experience, people who look alike very often have similar personalities. That being said, whatever resemblance she bears to her grandfather has, in her case, not contaminated her strong moral character. She has come sanely through a great, a catastrophic awakening that could have driven her crazy .
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So True
@gigi v Exactly. Ridiculous statement. Ralph Fiennes looked like him too. So what?
What is the Grandfather’s Full name???!!!
`Amon Goete
Amon Leopold Göth
Got the book as a Christmas present. Gonna save it for my Black History Month reading assignment❌⭕️❌⭕️❌
Incredible story. Such a beautiful eloquent woman, and so humble too.
@@fraudebs8786 I mean My grandad understands how sin works. He went to war and as far as I know did not complain. I can see where she’s coming from. Beautiful person and an amazing story!
Find out something like that would turn your world upside down. It would cause havoc on identity and make how genetics play in human behavior an immediate concern, not something just to muse on. I know it happened in my family, It's important to share her story.. many people are adrift when something happens to cause a rift in identity. A lot of shame they don't know what to do with as there is fear others reaction. Not sure if people can empathize with that struggle much unless they been there... and there is no where to go with it. I am happy she speaks out on it so powerfully and eloquently. She is a treasure of a human being.
A wonderful topic but the discussion is inaudible
The power of RUclips. I would never have found out about Jennifer Teage and her horrific history or that one aspect...(no fault of her own OFC). Without RUclips we wouldn't have access to this interview and others like it. Without it...we wouldn't see what it was like for family of perpetrators. That they are people like us. That they feel guilt and shame. We only see the Hollywood movie idea of what happened..are rarely are Hollywood versions accurate. They always take liberties..for the sake of entertainment.
Jennifer Teage, could have been the opposite of what we see. Unable to speak English. Not educated. Not an advertising person. What if she couldn't express her feelings? She could have been a high school drop out....etc. Clearly she is well educated. And it's interesting this interview took place in a synagogue. To show what people are willing to listen and not there to crucify her for her past.
WE just don't know how German's like Jennifer feel and go through. Now those of us that have seen her interviews have a sort of simple understanding. Brief.
I can't even remember how I came across her story (the internet's an amazing thing, isn't it?), But after hearing about it, I immediately went out and bought her book, which I couldn't put down once I started reading. Even beyond her highly unusual life story, she is truly a remarkable woman. I highly recommend her book, which is called "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me".
Thing is why would her birth mother knowing about her father's genocidal nazi atrocities, give this mixed race child or any child this inheritance then leave her to adoption fending for herself; this is the most evil thing any parent could do only the birth mother could help guide her through this, I hope it doesn't run in the bloodline..
871👍🏻 very appreciate, greetings from Kraków✋
So is her mother Monica?
I think Monica is also a daughter. I remember seeing a documentary, well a documentary that lasts about 15 min, where she meets up with a Holocaust survivor.
This is why I have RUclips. Amazingly poignant and yet hopeful.
I don’t know, she could have changed her grandfather profoundly. I come from the Deep South in Alabama and I’ve seen it happen a million times.. Racist fathers down here have a daughter which ends up procreating with a black man and the grandchild will often more than not change the hearts of these hard men and they finally, for the first time in their life see the wrong in the way of their thinking and it changes them for the better It’s a profoundly beautiful thing
This Nazi would have killed his granddaughter in a heartbeat and gone to sleep, got his daughter to watch and killed his daughter in the morning
Well, there may not be a "Nazi" gene, but there are genes for mental illness, like psychosis, mania etc. Also, certain traits, like the ability to be easily dominated by the society around you.
How ironic this life is.
when you see people of mixed race , you normally look to see the black attributes in the person , what strikes me as interesting as a mixed race person myself is with Jennifer is her white attributes strike you immediately from her germanic profile , her classic german beauty , from her nose , cheek bones , beautiful to behold , devoid of african facial features except for perhaps her lips , which give her exotic appearance a easy sensuality , many women pay through cosmetic surgery to achieve , the kardassians come to mind . Her lithe physique oozes sexuality!! Also what becomes apparent is Jennifers intelligence, also upon examination of her background is from her father(intelligence) . Being a writer myself i found the non existance of the spiritual conection a opportunity lost in this account for Jennifer , hopefully she will recognise it in the future because it is a invaluable componant in ones identity , which she obviously desired for herself and her children , recognising the importance of identity to nourish self esteem , self worth , confidence being intrinsic in health ! I see sadness where her Maternal Mother is concerned for there would be alot of elements of shame , guilt abandonment , dishonesty , self deception and many other emotional blockages for her Mother to overcome . If there wasnt a significant emotional bond with her Father , her Mother would find the relationship almost impossible to reconcile , hence the need for spiritual identity to not only reconcile all relationships in peace but to move forward in health , happiness and love !!! now and for eternity !!!
Hate to smash your delusion but Ethiopian women look just like jennifer Teague....
Why don't you give her a call. It's obvious you find her attractive....go call her and ask her for a date.
@@patmat7984 Exactly. She also looks rather Somali.
Geez. Do you want to offer her some bleach…to remove all the African traces? So much 19th century euro nonsense.
Ah your nasty comment makes me see how jealous and envious of a person you are, do you really have nothing better to do? That’s what happens when people have really low self esteem, they spend all of their time attacking and picking out the flaws and errors of other people who they are secretly jealous and envious of. The fact that your commenting about her looks shows me that you must not find yourself physically attractive and that is why you have a million comments attacking her.
She is so pretty. She has become extremely wealthy by traveling the world telling her story as well as selling her book.
Beautiful biracial woman. .why did her mother put her up for adoption
To protect her from te past.
Blimey, Can anyone else see the family resemblance ? Especially the face shape.
The ears too! Amon had real dumbo ears.
Yeah, the cheekbones, eyes, figure. She’s also not super light skinned either. Can easily pass for just Black. But, you can instantly recognize she’s different from the typical Black person.
I'm half Aryan . My grandfather was a Scotsman who fought for Australia against Rommels forces and was captured at Tobruk and actually saw Rommel. My father's side is Sicilian. Through my Scottish grandfather my DNA is about 10 per cent German and I'm Damn proud of it. Over everyone being Anti Germanic.
Anyone of any heritage can be proud. Heritage doesn't commit crimes
so, what about your iranian side?
@@montanus777 Sicilian not Iranian.
@@charlesmartella you wrote, you're half aryan (and hence iranian) in your first sentence.
@@montanus777 Sicilian not Iranian. Half Sicilian
me personally i loved germany and only met wonderful people in Germany.
Such an inspiring person. Sadly she is one of few.
When it comes to contemporary witnesses, it is always the victims point of view - and that solely. The perpetrators side is just 1% lies and 99% silence. That mixture in blend with contemporary ignorance (let the past be the past ... draw a line under ...) is dangerous and destructive.
My point is summed up by a riposte Michel Friedman, as he told in german TV, made, as a member of Central Council of Jews in Germany he was asked by a german teacher to arrange a contact for his class with a contemporary witness of nazi germany and the holocaust: "You want to ask questions to a contemporary witness? So why don't you ask your father?"
And the Silence of the Perpetrators is, what should frighten us.
+cupidstuntts It would be nice if Friedman could explain, on German television, the changing numbers on the Aushwitz plaque or why the Central Council Of Jews have for 5 years at least ignored the question asked by Lady Ursula Haverbeck.
Maybe maybe not,who knows what Goeth's reaction would be as an individual to a bi-racial relative.The fact of the matter is blacks in Germany enjoyed the privilege of being accepted as germans,weather citizens or in service including the weirmacht,where black german nationals fought along side the white germans in commradery,where as in America during WW2 balck soilders were segregated into separate units.
xIpodTouchGoeroex
In some western countries some africans were equal. There was a mayor of a london district in 1900, there were some people in the netherlands, in germany there were some academics around 1900 from the colonies, so in france too.
privilege? LMAO you mean the forced sterilized had to fight in their army privilege smh
That is not true. The former editor of Ebony, Hans Massaquoi, the son of an African diplomat and a German woman was raised in Hamburg during the Nazi era. He was not permitted to join the Hitler Youth or the Wehrmacht. Look him up on You Tube.
Utter and complete bullshit. I read the book called “Destined to Witness” about a biracial child growing up in Nazi Germany and he was absolutely not considered a normal German. All laws pertaining to non-Aryans also pertained to him. Nice whitewash but nobody is buying it.
Sure, the same a Hitler viewed Jesse Owens as a top athlete at the1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
I haven't read the book. But, I wonder if she states why she thinks her grandfather would have shot her.
Really? Slow much....
As sadistic as he was to one group of people do you think he would have accepted a black child carrying his blood, his "pure" blood? It's not an impossible theory...From what I understand, Africa was next on the list to be massacred under Hitler.
You are kidding, right?
Do you normally write comments on videos you haven't even watched? Because she explains quite clearly in the talk what she means. Not that she really has to explain it, but some are idiots...
Because the party would have shot him and he would have wanted to cover his tracks???
I wonder if she has ever watched execution of Amon Goeth, he was hanged 13 September 1946 (aged 37)
Kraków, Poland
No one knows how Amon Goeth would have reacted. Tegee is biracial not black.
If she isn't black then neither is Bob Marley. His father was white ... Anyway, mixed race and black people are just various shades of brown.
@@AfricancoolChic Marley always referred to himself as a Jamaican as do most Jamaicans do. When you say mixed-race and their parents are other than black and white do they classify as "just various shades of brown"? Please clarify.
@@KDG111 Jamaican is not a race, it is a nationality. Of course he would refer to himself as Jamaican, he was Jamaican 🙄. He wanted to be even more black than he was in his documentary it showed that he even painted shoe polish on his skin for a darker tone. He was proud of being black and Jamaican and also very proud of his African roots. But strictly speaking he was a mixed race man. As is Obama etc... Nothing wrong with being mixed race and recognising it.
@@AfricancoolChic I've never understood why black people are the only ones considered black no matter which parent is white or of another race not even who would be the father or mother. As long as one is of African descent that child is black. This is very strange. Here is a question, does the child of mixed parentage lets say they're East Asian and white (you choose which one is the mother or father) are the white or East Asian or just plain mixed race? Now, by reading how you spelled the word " recognising" I'll assume your not from America. We use the letter Z btw. Anyway, I know for a fact what America would call them...they would be called Mixed that's it. Not white or Asian. That strange distinction is only relegated to black people in America. Never let it be said Americans were the most progressive society in the world.
@@KDG111 A person with one white and one Asian parent would be mixed race. Though white people refer to my mixed race Asian friends as Asian. Yep I'm not American. I'm British, so I spell the English way. The American system of categorising people is weird. US categorise Latina as a race. Whether they are black, white, mixed if they speak Spanish, they are considered a single race. Just bizarre! Also, truthfully speaking you had a mixed race president, not a black one.
She looks like him
It's just really awful that the actions of the nazis is a reason why the Palestinian people now suffer. Victims of the victims - Edward Said
So , that means monika hartwig was her mother ? But in the documentary the inheritance where the monika meets the maid , monika has a child who is around 2 years of age does she not?
It was her grandchild. She had custody due to her daughter giving birth addicted to drugs.
Monika married after she gave up Jennifer (to the abusive man Jennifer mentions) and had another daughter by him. That daughter, Charlotte had a son. (A complicated family - lots of half-siblings in the picture.) So you're thinking of her grandchild, not her child. By the time Inheritance was made, Monika was too old to have a 2 year old.