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40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII

Khalid Elhassan March 14, 2019 24 min

30. Goering’s Great Niece and Nephew Sterilized Themselves To End the Family Bloodline

Goering’s great-niece, Bettina Goering, moved to the US and settled in New Mexico, where she practiced herbal medicine. She revealed in an interview that both she and her brother Adi had voluntarily sterilized themselves “so that there won’t be any more Goerings“. As she put it: “I look like him, for a start – the eyes, the cheekbones, the profile. I look more like him than his own daughter. … I had my tubes tied at the age of 30 because I feared I would create another monster“. Adi Goering put it more succinctly: “I cut the line“.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.