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40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII

Khalid Elhassan March 14, 2019 24 min

32. Hermann Goering’s Daughter

Edda Goering at her christening, with her parents and Hitler. FPP

Edda Goering was born in 1938 to Hitler’s chief deputy and second in command, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering. She grew up as a veritable Nazi princess, and when she was baptized in her father’s opulent estate, Carinhall, Adolf Hitler was her godfather. Things came crashing down for her when the Third Reich came crashing down in 1945. She and her mother were interred by the Allies after Germany’s surrender but were allowed brief visits to her father, who was being tried as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Tribunal. Hermann Goering was convicted and sentenced to death but cheated the hangman by swallowing cyanide the night before his scheduled execution.

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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.