6. Goeth’s Daughter
Amon Goethe had an affair with an aspiring actress named Ruth Irene Kalder, that produced a daughter, Monika Hertwig. Kalder presented Monika with a rose-tinted view of her father, and it was only after confronting her mother as a teenager that Kalder admitted that Goeth “may have killed a few Jews“. When a shocked Monika demanded to know how many, her mother grew enraged and whipped her. She struggled to come to terms with her father’s legacy ever since, but it was only after watching Schindler’s List as a middle-aged woman that Monika finally grasped the true extent of her father’s crimes. In 2002, she described that struggle in her memoirs, titled I Have to Love My Father, Don’t I?