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5. Jennifer Teege’s Shocking Discovery

Amon Goeth and his granddaughter, Jennifer Teege. The Telegraph

Jennifer Teege was born in 1970 to a German mother who’d had a brief affair with a Nigerian man. When she was 4 weeks old, she was sent to an orphanage and grew up with limited contact with her biological mother and grandmother. 38 years later, the mixed-race Teege discovered that her biological grandmother had been Amon Goeth’s live-in mistress, her mother Monika was Goethe’s biological daughter, and Jennifer Teege was thus Goethe’s granddaughter. The shock leveled her for weeks, and she spent much of her life since trying to come to terms with the fact that a monster’s blood flowed through her veins – a monster who would probably have cheerfully killed her on racial grounds.

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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.

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