A spokesman for the municipal administrative authority for the city of Munich confirmed the death this week but provided no other details. German news reports said that only a few close associates had been informed of her death.
Children of Nazi officials can have complicated relationships with their parents. The things that happened to the Jews were horrible, but quite separate from my father. They were living in a cottage without electricity and running water in the Bavarian countryside when her father killed himself; they eventually moved to Munich, where Edda Goering worked as a law clerk and later worked for a surgeon.
Hermann Goering, who was known for his lavish lifestyle, accumulated a vast collection of looted jewelry, furniture and artwork during the war. The German government seized most of his collection — property that Edda Goering said rightfully belonged to her and her mother. She spent most of her childhood at their family home, Carinhall, an estate north-east of Berlin.
Carinhall was the pinnacle of luxury, with priceless works of art on the walls, a child-size playhouse, and a cinema. In an interview with Swedish television in , Ms. Goering stated that she had enjoyed a wonderful childhood because of the love and care given to her by her parents.
He was earmarked to succeed Hitler as leader of the party. At the end of the war, Goering was captured by the Allies and convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg trials.
Emmy had been with Goering for four years before their marriage, so she had access to the inner circle and introduced her daughter to these people after the war to ensure that she followed the things that her mother and father believed in. Up until the s, Edda lived in Munich. She moved to South Africa at some point, but today her whereabouts are unknown. The thing that a lot of people don't realize is that the Nazis do, and did, have children.
There are children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and other family members out there whose ancestors were part of Hitler's army of leaders focused on the extermination of Jews from Germany. A lot of them weren't around at the time of the war, and those that were, typically were too young to remember anything. Many of the children never married, while some did.
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