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Outlook: My Nazi Grandfather Would Have Killed Me

Jennifer Teege and Amon Goeth

09/04/2015

My Nazi Grandfather Would Have Killed Me

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Jennifer Teege, the woman who discovered her grandfather was a Nazi war criminal

Jennifer Teege, the black German woman who discovered her grandfather was the Nazi villain of Schindler's List

Jennifer Teege never knew her real family background. Her father was a Nigerian student in Germany and her mother was a German, but she was given up for adoption. Then, just seven years ago, she discovered by chance a memoir about her biological family. It revealed that her white grandfather - who she never knew - was Amon Goeth, a notorious Nazi commander who was executed for his war crimes and portrayed in the film Schindler's List by Ralph Fiennes.

Khaled Al Saai, the Syrian calligrapher who fled into exile - his graphic art now reflects the destruction of his homeland

Brian Robson, the man who nearly died trying to travel from Australia to Britain in a crate. 

(Photo: Jennifer Teege (left). Credit: Getty Images; Amon Goeth as a prisoner in 1945 (right)

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