Goering Edda – goddaughter of Hitler himself, daughter of Hermann Goering, one of the most famous leaders of Nazi Germany. What this woman remembers about her father, and how her fate developed after his death, read in this article.
Birth of an heiress
Göring Edda was the first and only child in the Goering family. Her mother, Emma Johanna Annie Sonneman? before marriage, she built a career as an actress, but, having married, she became the first woman in Germany. After all, Hitler, at the time of the wedding of the Goerings, was not yet married, and Hermann Goering was the second person in the country after him.
Witnesses noted that Emma was indeed charming and graceful, she conquered with her naturalness. At the time of the birth of her daughter, the woman was over 40 years old. Since she had not given birth before, the pregnancy proceeded with complications, taking all the strength from the woman in labor.
Emma was constantly under the supervision of both her sister and her husband's sisters. The woman was also supported by her closest friend, Ebba Johannsen, a famous actress.
The whole family was determined to have a boy, but when a girl was born on June 2, 1938, according to eyewitnesses, Hermann Goering was so happy that evenburst into tears.
The daughter of Hermann Goering, having been born, stirred up the entire public, it was a resonant event for the whole country. Congratulatory telegrams began to arrive from all over the world, more than 628 thousand of them came. A huge number of gifts for the child and new parents came every day. And the happy father threw a feast at home, gathering about 200 guests.
However, the happy event was a bit overshadowed by rumors surrounding alleged paternity.
Who is Edda's real father?
Immediately after the appearance of the baby, rumors began to circulate that Goering could not be her father, because he was considered impotent. History recorded a case when this man was wounded in the groin, and he himself admitted more than once that in connection with this he had problems in his sexual life.
Hermann Goering took such talk very painfully. There are cases when people were sent to concentration camps for spreading this kind of gossip. Gauleiter of Franconia Julius Streicher, one of the members of the party, after the statement that Edda was a test tube baby, immediately lost his rank.
All doubts were dispelled by Willy Frischauer, who was working on writing a biography of the Nazi leader. He was well acquainted with all members of the family and noted that Goering's daughter Edda was so similar to her father that all rumors about her birth, looking at this similarity, become groundless.
In honor of whom the girl was named
Edda is an unusual name, how did it appearin the Goering family? At first there was a version that the girl was named after Mussolini's daughter, who had the same name. After marrying and becoming Countess Ciano, Mussolini's daughter and her husband very often visited the Goerings. However, after Count Ciano betrayed his famous father-in-law and was shot, his wife became an enemy to the Goering family.
Then there was a version that the child was named after the mother's friend - Ebba Johannsen. Only the father did not like this name a little, and he changed it to Edda. This is how Edda Goering appeared.
The collapse of the Great Family
Edda grew up in Berlin. The father was considered the successor of Hitler himself, it would seem that Edda Goering had a happy future in his pocket. However, fate turned in a completely different direction.
The Göring family was arrested on April 23, 1945 by the SS for the fact that the head of the family made an attempt to remove Hitler from power. By order of the Fuhrer, Goering was expelled from the party and stripped of all posts and titles. The events took place shortly before the end of the Second World War, and Hitler himself did not have long to live, so just a few days later the family was released from custody.
Goering decided to surrender to the Americans. This served to ensure that the Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced him, where he was recognized as one of the most important criminals of the Second World War. Göring was sentenced to death by hanging.
Hard times
Göring Edda at first had the opportunity to visit her father in prison. After September 13, 1946, thesedating was banned.
Goering himself died on October 16, 1946 from potassium cyanide. He committed suicide on the eve of his execution, leaving a note: "Marshals are not hanged." His daughter was only 8 at the time.
When the trial ended, Edda spent about 4 years with her mother in the prison of the Western allies of the anti-Hitler coalition.
A few years after these events, the girl's mother noted that this period in their lives was the most difficult.
Life after release
When the women were released, which happened in the early 60s, they continued to live in Munich. The girl graduated with honors from school, and after graduation she became a law student. However, she did not like the chosen profession, and after studying for only 2 semesters, she abandoned her studies.
Edda's mother wrote a book called "Life with my husband", but this work was of no value, neither in terms of history, nor in terms of art and literature. Emmy Goering died in 1973.
Edda, having matured, got a job, she worked as a laboratory assistant in a hospital in Munich. Edda Goering (photo in the article) never got married.
The woman never wrote any memoirs, avoided journalists, limited communication with people who were interested in her father's personality. Throughout her life, she has eschewed politics and never had a close relationship with anyone.
Edda and her father
Edda Goering is still alive, in recent years she has been living in South Africa. All her life, the woman blamed the United States for her father being found guilty and for committing suicide. When she was presented with irrefutable evidence that he was involved in many war crimes, she rejected this information, considering him an ideal person and a very good father. She never criticized him for being involved in the mass extermination of Jews.
Hermann Goering "became famous" not only as a war criminal, but also as a robber of public and private collections. During the Nazi regime in Europe, he appropriated a lot of works of art. His daughter believed that the we alth taken from her father did not belong to him, but to her mother. She tried to prove that the order of inheritance was violated, and she should be compensated for the loss.
Göring Edda often said that if her father had not been a politician, they would have been together.
In a petition to the legal commission of Bavaria, it was said that Mrs. Goering asks to return at least part of her things for personal needs, because now she is in poverty.
In 2010, to improve her financial situation, Edda sold at auction a dress embroidered with swastikas that Hitler gave her on her christening day.
Despite this wording of the petition, the legal committee considered the case for only a few minutes and denied Edda Göring's petition.
