Jennifer Teege, "My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me"

"You can inherit responsibility, but you can't inherit guilt." Very insightful.

Amazing story and amazing young woman. She is very articulate and well spoken, and has a unique opportunity to raise awareness that most people don't have. She is doing a great thing.

Wow what a amazing woman! They should make a movie on this

When I met my best friend in Berlin Germany many years ago, there was that awkward moment when I asked him about the Nazi Holocaust. He cried. I shall never forget that moment, and I shall always love him because of it.

This is a healing process of the family tree . The perpetrators are like dead wood , but young shoots like Jennifer are taking up the steps to heal and regenerate a broken world .

The fact that you find a number of nazi troll comments here is just further proof that Ms Teege's book touches a nerve. Unless you're one of them you might find it worth reading.

One of the most remarkable interviews I ever watched.

Jennifer is a true gem. She's extremely brilliant and true.

Building up relationship with the survivors of the Holocaust , is a very positive process for a holistic healing . Thank you Jennifer .

My mother is from Germany - born in Heidelberg and orphaned shortly there after in 1950. The context behind her adoption is largely unknown. Only knowledge is that her mother was ethnically German and protestant (according to adoption records), and her father was probably a Black man because she herself appears biracial. She died when I was a teenager; her adoptive mother (my grandmother) first revealed this history to me not long after she passed. One could surmise that such rates of orphaning and adopting of children in Germany within the first few years and decades after WWII (or the start of the Cold War) correlate to the country being totally fractured and adrift - culturally, economically, socially. Lord knows that it wasn't safe in many places at the time for a number of reasons, and to be a Black person in Germany at a time of when any remaining traces of Nazism went into underground was quite chancy for sure. I'm currently on a mission to investigate my mother's past for this reason, because I want to understand all of the parts about her origins and how that informs me as a human. Reading and listing to Mrs. Teege's story and seeing some similarity there is extremely encouraging; there are conscious people in the world who don't want to be prisoners of the past and choose to be a force of positive progress. I appreciate P&P for sharing this lecture for all to see!

Thank you Jennifer for sharing your story .It's so touching . God bless you and everyone who suffered ....

God has prepared you for such a path. Your graciousness and integrity shines through. God's bless you

Her book is really really good A MUST READ

Powerful and revealing!

She is lovely and so intelligent!

Jennifer Teege, you have helped me to closely identify with you in so many facets of my life. Thank you.

My great grandfather was an officer in the red army and died at the front line. My grandfather survived and hated it. Sleeping in the mud and eating crap food for 4 years was not good for your body. Also lack of bullets was also not great to experience he told me. Most of time he was fighting with rocks sticks and knives against Nazis with frikkin guns. Horrible he told me. Also when the war ended Stalin send him to a gulag for being an intellectual (he was a mathematics student at University and distant relative of a rich land owner)

Such a gentle and meaningful delivery, as her quiet poise conveyed; yet, retelling what-many would have rather forever-buried.💖

I am quite amazed how stupid and asinine most of the comments here are. To anyone who is not twisted and sick in their mind yet: I highly recommend this woman's book which is courageous, thoughtful and has a lot to offer at a time when racism seems on the rise - as some comments here seem to suggest as well!

She looks so like him as well