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How Was Albert Goering A Hero To The Holocaust?
Life before WW2: Albert Goering was a hero to the Holocaust, freeing several Jews using his wealth but was left unknown for decades. Albert Goering (brother to infamous Nazi S.S Officer Hermann Goering) was born on March 9th, 1895 in the Berlin suburb of Friedenau. Albert was the fifth child of the German South-West African Reichskommissar, Heinrich Ernst Göring and his wife Franziska Tiefenbrunn. Goring and his Family lived in their aristocratic godfather, Von Epenstein’s (Who was of Jewish Heritage) Mauterndorf Castle. Not long after Albert’s birth his mother, Franziska and Epenstein had an affair. Due to the affair a rumor spread that Albert was actually the son to Epenstein, which made him half-Jewish. Thought that may have been unlikely due to the fact that Franziska left with her husband to his post in Port-au-Prince in Haiti. …show more content…
How hurt I was when I was forbidden to enter the study in our house, where you sat grim faced, clutching a telephone with reams of papers, pens, and inkwells surrounding you. Through the mists of cigarette smoke that encircled your being I saw you, haggard and tired, yet with a determination to fulfill some dreadful task. Little did I know that you, at risk of your own life, gave orders in the name of your half-brother, a high ranking Herman official, to release prisoners, to issue exit papers to thousands of Jewish and other ethnic peoples, thus saving their lives. How you forged your half-brother’s name on the documents, how you changed your voice and bearing to sound like he. Neither did I know that, after saving the life of the composer of the “Merry Widow” Franz Lehar and his family, he composed an important musical piece in your

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