MY GRAND-FATHER WOULD HAVE SHOT ME...GERMAN-NIGERIAN BORN AUTHOR

German-Nigerian born Author, Jennifer Teege, 43, recently discovered by chance the horrifying truth  about her grand-father ,Amon Goeth, when,  she picked up a book about the SS captain in her local library.

The book that was written by Goeth’s illegitimate daughter, whose picture looked like Mrs Teege’s own mother, who had given her up for adoption that her grand-father was a Nazi butcher!!! She said that when she got home she read the book cover to cover

‘It was like the carpet was ripped out beneath my feet,’ said Jennifer, who is a mother of two living in Hamburg. ‘I had to go and lie down on a bench.’’

Jennifer, was born as the result of a fling between her mother Monika and a Nigerian student, then realized that her mixed-race ancestry would have made her a potential victim for her grandfather who was known as the Butcher of Plaszow.

At just a few weeks old, Jennifer was left at a children’s home and later placed with a foster family.

Thou she enjoyed a middle-class upbringing in Munich and  occasionally saw her natural mother, the dark family secret was kept from her. Jennifer who said that she saw Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Oscar-winning film as a student when she was living in Israel, said ‘I drew no connection with my own life,’ she recalled.

Even though my birth name is Goeth, it wasn’t written out on the screen – so when I heard it in the film, it didn’t even occur to me that there could be a link.

Jennifer who is co-author, writing a book - My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me-  Said, ‘Now I know that, as I have black skin, he would have seen me as sub-human like the Jews he killed.’

Monika, who is estranged from Jennifer, is said by one commentator to waver between hatred and justification in interviews she has given about her book, which is called: I Have To Love My Father, Right?

In 2010 Monika said: ‘My Nazi father shot women with babies in their arms from his balcony.

‘I am tormented by how much of him is in me.’

Her daughter (Jennifer) said: ‘She was absolutely unable to cope with her own history. She wanted to protect me by keeping me in the dark about it.

 Jennifer Teege is starting to explore her African roots too..