Jennifer Teege, "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me"

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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  • @josephalvarez805
    @josephalvarez8054 жыл бұрын

    "You can inherit responsibility, but you can't inherit guilt." Very insightful.

  • @ronny-lb1cr

    @ronny-lb1cr

    8 ай бұрын

    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

  • @MaciusSzwed

    @MaciusSzwed

    5 ай бұрын

    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

  • @MWGScorp

    @MWGScorp

    2 ай бұрын

    karma is nonsense like all religions@@MaciusSzwed

  • @Cninalights
    @Cninalights3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @directdelilah1159

    @directdelilah1159

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Robert Freisler Why, does hate and evil make a person strong?

  • @rainerblaesius9386
    @rainerblaesius93867 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @josephblack7307

    @josephblack7307

    3 жыл бұрын

    As it should!!

  • @the2ndcoming135

    @the2ndcoming135

    Жыл бұрын

    Ikr? Jennifer and I could literally be siblings we look so much alike😎

  • @mildrediawphniaw1697
    @mildrediawphniaw16974 жыл бұрын

    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 .

  • @the2ndcoming135

    @the2ndcoming135

    Жыл бұрын

    Plus, she identifies as biracial while it’s convenient to pander or cower to one side of her genetic makeup.

  • @Amethyst_Dragon_
    @Amethyst_Dragon_4 жыл бұрын

    Wow what a amazing woman! They should make a movie on this

  • @stevesebaoun6555

    @stevesebaoun6555

    3 жыл бұрын

    I agree

  • @jenniferlarson6426

    @jenniferlarson6426

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@stevesebaoun6555 A movie about what...how she was a victim of someone she didn't even know?

  • @Ariel23445

    @Ariel23445

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @vickielewallen3799
    @vickielewallen37996 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @rogerlephoque3704

    @rogerlephoque3704

    3 жыл бұрын

    She's also fluent in French and Hebrew.

  • @patriciaarps3335

    @patriciaarps3335

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just learning about this remarkable story!

  • @jenniferlarson6426

    @jenniferlarson6426

    3 жыл бұрын

    Raise awareness to what? Being a victim of a person she never knew and wasn't alive to even meet?

  • @vickielewallen3799

    @vickielewallen3799

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jenniferlarson6426 Awareness of Anti Semitism, now that she knows who her Nazi grandfather was.

  • @malcolmtyler1673

    @malcolmtyler1673

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@vickielewallen3799 Anti semitism can be a result of certain behaviour.

  • @rogerlephoque3704
    @rogerlephoque37043 жыл бұрын

    One of the most remarkable interviews I ever watched.

  • @HighFrequencyArt
    @HighFrequencyArt6 жыл бұрын

    Powerful and revealing!

  • @mildrediawphniaw1697
    @mildrediawphniaw16974 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Jennifer for sharing your story .It's so touching . God bless you and everyone who suffered ....

  • @dylanhill6736
    @dylanhill67362 жыл бұрын

    Jennifer is a true gem. She's extremely brilliant and true.

  • @oranjelicht
    @oranjelicht3 жыл бұрын

    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)

  • @lilianarodrigues2010
    @lilianarodrigues20104 жыл бұрын

    Her book is really really good A MUST READ

  • @saintclaire4897
    @saintclaire48972 ай бұрын

    Politics and Prose seldom disappoints...👏👏👏👏

  • @matthewvaden3909
    @matthewvaden39095 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @douglasgaunt537

    @douglasgaunt537

    4 жыл бұрын

    You are gorgeous

  • @mjs6157

    @mjs6157

    4 жыл бұрын

    DNA testing will help with find relatives. The female DNA stays stronger,

  • @DE-xt7jv

    @DE-xt7jv

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @abode409

    @abode409

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @michael.5360

    @michael.5360

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@DE-xt7jv She was In a German interview. Her father is Nigerian

  • @mildrediawphniaw1697
    @mildrediawphniaw16974 жыл бұрын

    Building up relationship with the survivors of the Holocaust , is a very positive process for a holistic healing . Thank you Jennifer .

  • @rogerlephoque3704

    @rogerlephoque3704

    3 жыл бұрын

    She also attended university in Israel and is fluent in Hebrew. She has a special and positive relationship with the Jewish people.

  • @debrafirestone861

    @debrafirestone861

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @the2ndcoming135

    @the2ndcoming135

    Жыл бұрын

    🥇

  • @ronny-lb1cr

    @ronny-lb1cr

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@debrafirestone861quite disturbing what you commented. So much anger. MAGA- esque anger shown over the last 6 years I might add.

  • @joanhenschel3511
    @joanhenschel35112 жыл бұрын

    What a perfect and poised lady. Bless you, Jennifer!

  • @upendasana7857
    @upendasana78575 жыл бұрын

    This is just such a fascinating story about identity and what makes us who we are.

  • @vfranco22
    @vfranco222 жыл бұрын

    Such a gentle and meaningful delivery, as her quiet poise conveyed; yet, retelling what-many would have rather forever-buried.💖

  • @rainerblaesius9386
    @rainerblaesius93867 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @christinefougere1444

    @christinefougere1444

    7 жыл бұрын

    I read it last summer and I agree, courageous and thoughtful and amazing.

  • @GROZNAYA

    @GROZNAYA

    7 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @SuperAnimelover100

    @SuperAnimelover100

    6 жыл бұрын

    Walter Butler I second it .

  • @blackmore4

    @blackmore4

    6 жыл бұрын

    _"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?

  • @sirwulf25

    @sirwulf25

    6 жыл бұрын

    It's a playground for imbeciles

  • @tanyanike
    @tanyanike4 жыл бұрын

    She is lovely and so intelligent!

  • @hickhunter2303

    @hickhunter2303

    3 жыл бұрын

    Agree.. She could be a model

  • @d.h.fremont3027
    @d.h.fremont30274 жыл бұрын

    Jennifer Teege, you have helped me to closely identify with you in so many facets of my life. Thank you.

  • @ommsterlitz1805

    @ommsterlitz1805

    3 жыл бұрын

    don't think your grand pa killed Jews like her's did it's really weird you say that

  • @natv55

    @natv55

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@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...

  • @jackb6925

    @jackb6925

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ommsterlitz1805 how do you know that? And why is it weird?

  • @simonehooper4998
    @simonehooper49984 жыл бұрын

    God has prepared you for such a path. Your graciousness and integrity shines through. God's bless you

  • @thecommentary21

    @thecommentary21

    3 жыл бұрын

    G-d prepares deadbeat parents? Since when?

  • @wiwlarue4097

    @wiwlarue4097

    2 жыл бұрын

    someone had prepared her for the gullible to be a psy-op through israeli intelligence for sure

  • @rkgrant
    @rkgrant4 жыл бұрын

    Such a thoughtful, articulate person.

  • @catherinebrau3523
    @catherinebrau35233 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @jcwt_pdx
    @jcwt_pdx3 жыл бұрын

    God Bless you, Jennifer Teege. 💜🌹 I’m sorry about your grandfather having been a monster. 😔💔

  • @lulyusufsamantar1227
    @lulyusufsamantar12274 жыл бұрын

    This the best.we need this.

  • @elletd5967
    @elletd59674 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing your life story. I appreciate you stating, “It doesn’t define me. “ I believe it touched my spirit. 🙏🏽

  • @patricknester435
    @patricknester4353 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @haraiclark
    @haraiclark11 ай бұрын

    I have been so inspired by this story that i just bought the book..

  • @kevinhenderson5520
    @kevinhenderson55204 жыл бұрын

    Had to Google a picture of Goth.. She has alot of his features. There is no denying that they are related

  • @crowbar9566
    @crowbar95663 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @williamsunltd6921
    @williamsunltd692111 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @chriswilson8062
    @chriswilson80624 жыл бұрын

    She looks so like him as well

  • @commonsenseamerica1685
    @commonsenseamerica16854 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @EuanWhitehead
    @EuanWhitehead2 жыл бұрын

    Its frightening that she resembles him in facial structure too.

  • @the2ndcoming135

    @the2ndcoming135

    Жыл бұрын

    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😎

  • @daniby9894
    @daniby98943 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @maryswann7623
    @maryswann76239 ай бұрын

    She speaks 5 languages! Amazing her English is very good

  • @ivofodor6248
    @ivofodor62484 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunately the audio is poor

  • @vespermartini2556
    @vespermartini25568 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @charismalyn
    @charismalyn3 жыл бұрын

    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".

  • @marty7978
    @marty79783 жыл бұрын

    Such an amazing woman with an extraordinary story,

  • @AGC828
    @AGC8284 жыл бұрын

    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 KZread.

  • @tingdzinkochu
    @tingdzinkochu2 жыл бұрын

    How extraordinary!

  • @isaacjoseph8317
    @isaacjoseph83174 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @semperfitdeliis
    @semperfitdeliis3 жыл бұрын

    i wanna know more about her mom.. monika and her relationship with the Nigerian and etc

  • @eshim3961

    @eshim3961

    2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @chrissybrown9205

    @chrissybrown9205

    Жыл бұрын

    @@eshim3961 yeah, Jennifer Teege’s half sister Yvette has a son named David Amon who was living with his grandmother Monika in inheritance.

  • @ouatedephoque2961
    @ouatedephoque29612 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @krzysztofbak8192
    @krzysztofbak81923 жыл бұрын

    you have to take some audio guy to Your videofilming...

  • @d.h.fremont3027
    @d.h.fremont30274 жыл бұрын

    At 27 minutes the question was overbroad.

  • @TheGymnast71
    @TheGymnast713 жыл бұрын

    wow. Incredible. Im getting this book.

  • @jenniferlarson6426

    @jenniferlarson6426

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Ozefan2580

    @Ozefan2580

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's a great read.

  • @mthomas3547
    @mthomas35473 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jocelynorrego1579
    @jocelynorrego15792 жыл бұрын

    Las ironías de la vida! Felicito a esta joven por conciliar

  • @lauracello5866
    @lauracello5866 Жыл бұрын

    What a beautiful soul!

  • @freddesmet259
    @freddesmet2593 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @omogollonfajardo
    @omogollonfajardo2 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @the2ndcoming135

    @the2ndcoming135

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jamasp1951
    @jamasp19513 жыл бұрын

    I think you have a very healthy approach to the ethnic color question, I wish more people would look at it from your perspective!!

  • @josephalvarez805
    @josephalvarez8054 жыл бұрын

    It so resonated with me that Jennifer did not see herself a 'black woman.' I think this really shines a light month

  • @josephblack7307

    @josephblack7307

    3 жыл бұрын

    She knows she is a black woman!

  • @Cat-ik1wo

    @Cat-ik1wo

    2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @victoriankambe3070

    @victoriankambe3070

    2 жыл бұрын

    We cannot escape blackness. We love it. Much of the world hates it.

  • @arieswoman824

    @arieswoman824

    2 жыл бұрын

    She is biracial

  • @the2ndcoming135

    @the2ndcoming135

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @inspectoramojarrita384
    @inspectoramojarrita3843 жыл бұрын

    How sad that her mother cut ties again.

  • @nwadi6408
    @nwadi64084 ай бұрын

    How ironic this life is.

  • @MySerpentine
    @MySerpentine2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Cat-ik1wo
    @Cat-ik1wo2 жыл бұрын

    She is the representative of that hope. It is love, forgiveness, empathy and understanding. That is the hope manifested. Thats why all lives matter.

  • @davideatwell6577
    @davideatwell65774 жыл бұрын

    It's difficult to know what to make of this, unfortunately for the Germans they have to live with their history.

  • @KemeticBlog
    @KemeticBlog3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @georgebrown8312

    @georgebrown8312

    2 жыл бұрын

    Very good point. Some people who make the rash comments you described do not know what they are talking about.

  • @PillCozbee
    @PillCozbee3 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @michael.5360
    @michael.53604 жыл бұрын

    45? She's aging well.I liked the interview she did in the German language.

  • @PHlophe

    @PHlophe

    3 жыл бұрын

    she sounded more authentic and accurate in german to me.

  • @arieswoman824

    @arieswoman824

    2 жыл бұрын

    Black don't crack

  • @wolfeyes9357
    @wolfeyes93573 жыл бұрын

    I Love this woman!!!!

  • @pxtokarev
    @pxtokarev3 жыл бұрын

    At least Brutus had not Ceaser's blood in his veins.

  • @mjs6157
    @mjs61574 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Celisar1

    @Celisar1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mjs You are absolutely right. Good observation!

  • @monaoconnell5650
    @monaoconnell56502 жыл бұрын

    Can't hear it

  • @jesuisravi
    @jesuisravi4 жыл бұрын

    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 . .

  • @patriciaarps3335

    @patriciaarps3335

    3 жыл бұрын

    So True

  • @ronnie_5150

    @ronnie_5150

    2 жыл бұрын

    @gigi v Exactly. Ridiculous statement. Ralph Fiennes looked like him too. So what?

  • @billkohrman107
    @billkohrman1074 жыл бұрын

    It would have been much better if her mic was working instead of relying on his mic.

  • @Ozefan2580

    @Ozefan2580

    3 жыл бұрын

    It gets better.

  • @twinkletoes22221
    @twinkletoes222214 жыл бұрын

    I saw she was adopted at 7 years old. Which is it?

  • @melissa-jadewilliams8136

    @melissa-jadewilliams8136

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nancy Nash fostered at age 3 which eventually led to adoption by that same family when she was 7.

  • @janedvinsson

    @janedvinsson

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @josephblack7307

    @josephblack7307

    3 жыл бұрын

    Seems to bother you, read the book fool !

  • @cinnamongirl5410
    @cinnamongirl54104 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @AGC828
    @AGC8284 жыл бұрын

    The power of KZread. I would never have found out about Jennifer Teage and her horrific history or that one aspect...(no fault of her own OFC). Without KZread 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.

  • @eshim3961

    @eshim3961

    2 жыл бұрын

    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".

  • @haraiclark
    @haraiclark11 ай бұрын

    I am a Maori from New Zealand. I have cousins who were tormented by their german history way back in the 70s

  • @williamodipo49
    @williamodipo492 жыл бұрын

    A wonderful topic but the discussion is inaudible

  • @lionessprincessbear2174
    @lionessprincessbear21743 жыл бұрын

    What is the Grandfather’s Full name???!!!

  • @michaeljose8122

    @michaeljose8122

    3 жыл бұрын

    `Amon Goete

  • @overlordvelvet7301

    @overlordvelvet7301

    2 жыл бұрын

    Amon Leopold Göth

  • @lovelight4388
    @lovelight43884 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @Celisar1

    @Celisar1

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @janedvinsson

    @janedvinsson

    4 жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @arieswoman824

    @arieswoman824

    2 жыл бұрын

    What does her Nigerian lineage have to do with judean?

  • @lovelight4388

    @lovelight4388

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@arieswoman824 Nigeria is where Judeans, settled after fleeing Israel and before they were enslaved and shipped throughout the western world.

  • @lovelight4388

    @lovelight4388

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@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".

  • @reaganation6000
    @reaganation60004 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if she has ever watched Schindler's List

  • @DE-xt7jv

    @DE-xt7jv

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yes she has. She stated this on Deutsche Welle. She had watched before she found the book in the library.

  • @the2ndcoming135
    @the2ndcoming135 Жыл бұрын

    Got the book as a Christmas present. Gonna save it for my Black History Month reading assignment❌⭕️❌⭕️❌

  • @fraudebs8786

    @fraudebs8786

    Жыл бұрын

    Incredible story. Such a beautiful eloquent woman, and so humble too.

  • @the2ndcoming135

    @the2ndcoming135

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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!

  • @markjamison9677
    @markjamison96774 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @jimmixed777

    @jimmixed777

    4 жыл бұрын

    so what! Americans do not care about the Slave Trade. At least Germany pays Reperations, black Americans get nothing. 0,00$

  • @KM-ul3pf

    @KM-ul3pf

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@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?

  • @eviken1982

    @eviken1982

    4 жыл бұрын

    The guilt is denying it.

  • @Celisar1

    @Celisar1

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @erikajasinski4633

    @erikajasinski4633

    4 жыл бұрын

    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 .

  • @v8cool168
    @v8cool168 Жыл бұрын

    Blimey, Can anyone else see the family resemblance ? Especially the face shape.

  • @chrissybrown9205

    @chrissybrown9205

    Жыл бұрын

    The ears too! Amon had real dumbo ears.

  • @the2ndcoming135

    @the2ndcoming135

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @cupidstuntts
    @cupidstuntts9 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Fioneenacockeen

    @Fioneenacockeen

    8 жыл бұрын

    +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.

  • @haraiclark
    @haraiclark11 ай бұрын

    me personally i loved germany and only met wonderful people in Germany.

  • @hannahrosa5485
    @hannahrosa54853 жыл бұрын

    So is her mother Monica?

  • @EVALLOYD

    @EVALLOYD

    3 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @TomGuideKrakowPoland
    @TomGuideKrakowPoland3 жыл бұрын

    871👍🏻 very appreciate, greetings from Kraków✋

  • @charlesmartella
    @charlesmartella Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ronny-lb1cr

    @ronny-lb1cr

    11 ай бұрын

    Anyone of any heritage can be proud. Heritage doesn't commit crimes

  • @montanus777

    @montanus777

    10 ай бұрын

    so, what about your iranian side?

  • @charlesmartella

    @charlesmartella

    10 ай бұрын

    @@montanus777 Sicilian not Iranian.

  • @montanus777

    @montanus777

    10 ай бұрын

    @@charlesmartella you wrote, you're half aryan (and hence iranian) in your first sentence.

  • @charlesmartella

    @charlesmartella

    10 ай бұрын

    @@montanus777 Sicilian not Iranian. Half Sicilian

  • @jbob2331
    @jbob23312 жыл бұрын

    She so much looks like her grandfather

  • @dennisnathan4321
    @dennisnathan43213 жыл бұрын

    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 !!!

  • @patmat7984

    @patmat7984

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hate to smash your delusion but Ethiopian women look just like jennifer Teague....

  • @jenniferlarson6426

    @jenniferlarson6426

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why don't you give her a call. It's obvious you find her attractive....go call her and ask her for a date.

  • @hobyoprincess

    @hobyoprincess

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@patmat7984 Exactly. She also looks rather Somali.

  • @victoriankambe3070

    @victoriankambe3070

    2 жыл бұрын

    Geez. Do you want to offer her some bleach…to remove all the African traces? So much 19th century euro nonsense.

  • @Ariel23445

    @Ariel23445

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @mullerm62
    @mullerm623 жыл бұрын

    This is why I have KZread. Amazingly poignant and yet hopeful.

  • @nwadi6408
    @nwadi64084 ай бұрын

    I have to state this: Whites almost seem surprised that this woman is intelligent and well spoken. Of course she is, she’s educated. Are you so impressed because she’s Black AND articulate?

  • @Ammy0708
    @Ammy0708 Жыл бұрын

    She looks like Amon.

  • @lisatinbliki5691
    @lisatinbliki56915 жыл бұрын

    She is so pretty. She has become extremely wealthy by traveling the world telling her story as well as selling her book.

  • @BBPalmer420
    @BBPalmer4202 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @victoriankambe3070

    @victoriankambe3070

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @darlacoleman5509
    @darlacoleman55095 жыл бұрын

    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?

  • @robinmitchell6986

    @robinmitchell6986

    5 жыл бұрын

    It was her grandchild. She had custody due to her daughter giving birth addicted to drugs.

  • @dm-gq5uj

    @dm-gq5uj

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @cornellhoward3757
    @cornellhoward375711 ай бұрын

    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..

  • @sadclown3433
    @sadclown34338 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @amonduul2154

    @amonduul2154

    6 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Miss_AnonyMoose

    @Miss_AnonyMoose

    5 жыл бұрын

    privilege? LMAO you mean the forced sterilized had to fight in their army privilege smh

  • @dm-gq5uj

    @dm-gq5uj

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @aslater5

    @aslater5

    4 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @DE-xt7jv

    @DE-xt7jv

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sure, the same a Hitler viewed Jesse Owens as a top athlete at the1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

  • @sigridbohne
    @sigridbohne3 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if she has ever watched execution of Amon Goeth, he was hanged 13 September 1946 (aged 37) Kraków, Poland

  • @sableindian
    @sableindian6 жыл бұрын

    I haven't read the book. But, I wonder if she states why she thinks her grandfather would have shot her.

  • @reemagee4828

    @reemagee4828

    5 жыл бұрын

    Really? Slow much....

  • @deemari577

    @deemari577

    5 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @petercallaghan9851

    @petercallaghan9851

    4 жыл бұрын

    You are kidding, right?

  • @dm-gq5uj

    @dm-gq5uj

    4 жыл бұрын

    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...

  • @josephblack7307

    @josephblack7307

    3 жыл бұрын

    Because the party would have shot him and he would have wanted to cover his tracks???

  • @i--hate--life
    @i--hate--life3 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful biracial woman. .why did her mother put her up for adoption

  • @lazarevaksenia5683

    @lazarevaksenia5683

    3 жыл бұрын

    To protect her from te past.

  • @donalddorsey6271
    @donalddorsey62714 жыл бұрын

    The sins of the GRANDFATHER !