March 05, 2006
A Jew Named Goering [posted by Allah]
Other descendants of Nazis have trodden the same path. Katrin Himmler, who published a book last year about the war crimes of her great-uncle, the SS commander Heinrich Himmler, married an Israeli. "It was as if we were predestined to meet," she says.Beate Niemann, daughter of feared SS Major Bruno Sattler, made an award-winning film, The Good Father, documenting her hopeless search for a man she could be proud of, and tried to apologise to camp survivors after discovering her father had ordered the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews.
Monika Goeth's father was Amon Goeth, the camp commandant played by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List, who shot Jewish prisoners from the balcony of his villa. She has spent years seeking rapprochement with camp survivors. "I am completely drawn to Judaism," she says. "Jews were the real heroes. I feel nothing but contempt for those who idolise the Nazis."
It's not just the descendants of Nazis, either.
Posted by Allahpundit at March 5, 2006 12:02 AM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags:
God bless Nonie Darwish and the others speaking out. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, they are not getting the publicity they deserve.
As to the Germans renouncing their evil relatives, it's about time. I can't tell you how many times I have read the children of nazis romanticizing their fathers. Most of the time, they barely knew them because pop was off invading other countries and machine gunning civilians.
A few months ago, on the Hitler Channel, a woman was talking about her father who was involved from the beginning with the planing of the final solution. She started out with this nonsense how her pappa would make her breakfast and he had such strong hands, blah blah blah. I thought, oh great, the usual b.s. But, then she launched into this tirade about how could her father have not known. She worked as a secretary in an insurance office and she knows every damn thing that happens in her office, so how could he not have known and what a despicable man and a liar he was. Yeah!
I often wonder what happened to Himmler's daughter. I saw photos of her right after the war. She was 15, had thick blond braids and terrible acne. She was the spitting image of her ugly father.
Posted by: ll at March 5, 2006 11:24 AM
