My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me Quotes

“Schindler crossed limits that he didn’t need to cross.” Still, in the end she finds for Schindler: “Amon Goeth and Oskar Schindler, they both had power. One used it to kill, the other to save lives. Their example shows that everyone has a choice.”
― Jennifer Teege, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

“It's easy to hate Amon Goeth. If the Germans and their allies can turn into murderers, then we, too, can become murderers. I hope that my sons will always remember that. I hope that they will always see the Palestinians as human beings, not as enemies.”
― Nikola Sellmair, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

“Przepracowanie czasu nazistowskiego zawsze stanowi rodzinny dramat. Wiele dzieci wysoko postawionych nazistów balansuje pomiędzy gloryfikacją ojców a bezgraniczną nienawiścią wobec nich, która często przechodzi również w nienawiść do samych siebie. Jedno z pewnością mają wspólne : przeszłość nigdy nie daje im spokoju.”
― Jennifer Teege, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

“In 1996, the artist Gunter Demnig started laying stolpersteine, or "stumbling blocks" -- cobblestone-sized, brass memorials -- in front of houses where victims of the Nazis used to live. Now in over 800 German towns and villages, they make the number of victims palpable: In some streets there are stolpersteine in front of every other house, sometimes with a single name, sometimes with the names of an entire family. On these streets it would have been glaringly obvious that some neighbors were missing: the Jewish family, the girl with Down syndrome, the homosexual, the communist.”
― Jennifer Teege, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

“He in his black uniform with its death-heads, me the black grandchild. What would he have said to a dark-skinned granddaughter, who speaks Hebrew on top of that? I would have been a disgrace, a bastard who brought dishonor to the family. I am sure my grandfather would have shot me.”
― Jennifer Teege, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

“It’s too easy to hate Amon Goeth. If the Germans and their allies can turn into murderers, then we, too, can become murderers. If the Germans could turn a blind eye, it can happen to us. I hope that my sons will always remember that.”
― Jennifer Teege, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

“There is no such thing as inherited guilt. Everybody has the right to their own life story.”
― Jennifer Teege, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

“Nazi gene. I could not finish Niklas Frank’s books about his parents, In the Shadow of the Reich and My German Mother.”
― Jennifer Teege, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

“The documentary filmmaker Matthias Kessler submitted her to a long, torturous interview, confronting her with her father’s crimes. He would later turn it into a book with the title I Have to Love My Father, Don’t I?”
― Jennifer Teege, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

“In the early 1980s, London filmmaker Jon Blair was working on a documentary about Oskar Schindler”
― Jennifer Teege, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

“In 2011, Freidrich Kellner's diaries from the years 1939 to 1945 were published for the first time. During the war, Friedrich Kellner was a simple judicial officer. He came from a modest background and lived in the Hessian backcountry until his death in 1970. He had no access to secret files, but simply wrote down the bits of information he overheard, gleaned from conversation with other locals and, above all, read in newspapers available to the general public. HIs diaries are evidence of what those who "had no idea" could have known about the dictatorial regime, the war and the Holocaust.”
― Jennifer Teege, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

“of Theodor W. Adorno’s famous phrase, There is no right life in the wrong one.”
― Jennifer Teege, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past

“In his research study Grandpa Wasn’t a Nazi, social psychologist Harald Welzer came to the following conclusion: The generation of grandchildren, today’s 30- to 50-year olds, tend to know the facts about the Holocaust and often reject the Nazi ideology even more strongly than the previous generation. Their critical eye, however, is only directed at political issues—not at private affairs. The grandchildren in particular sugarcoat the role their ancestors played: Two-thirds of those questioned even stylized their forebears into heroes of the Resistance or victims of the Nazi regime themselves.”
― Jennifer Teege, My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past