My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me - Paperback

from bogopea

Adopted woman finds out at mid-life that her grandfather was a commandant of concentration camp in WWII. The woman, Jennifer, is a black German whose maternal grandmother was the paramour of the commandant. Challenging - sad - tense - hopeful

from EllenH

This book really brings to light the denial, guilt, pain and suffering that the perpetrators children and grandchildren have gone through. An eye opening book that also brings to mind the connections that the research into these families can bring to other kinds of perpetrators and victims. Jenni...

from dara85

Jennifer, who is adopted, goes to the library and randomly picks a book off the shelf entitled "Do I Have to Love My Father?". She flips through the book and runs across her biological mother's name. As she reads further she realizes her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the Commandant in Poland, who k...

from Wassilissa

Als ich vor einigen Jahren Jennifer Teege im Radio hörte, war ich überrascht über diese unglaubliche Geschichte: Eine 38-jährige dunkelhäutige Frau erfährt durch Zufall, dass sie die Enkelin von Amon Göth ist. Ich hatte aber auch ein paar Bedenken. Wird sie denn noch was zu erzählen haben, außer ...

from MHanover10

I found this a very interesting story. What a thing to find out about your grandfather and how do you deal with it. I remember Ralph Fiennes portrayal of Amon Goeth in Schindler's List. He was an evil man. Interesting to hear another story from World War II that I have never heard before. Well wo...