32. Hermann Goering’s Daughter
Edda Goering was born in 1938 to Hitler’s chief deputy and second in command, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering. She grew up as a veritable Nazi princess, and when she was baptized in her father’s opulent estate, Carinhall, Adolf Hitler was her godfather. Things came crashing down for her when the Third Reich came crashing down in 1945. She and her mother were interred by the Allies after Germany’s surrender but were allowed brief visits to her father, who was being tried as a war criminal at the Nuremberg Tribunal. Hermann Goering was convicted and sentenced to death but cheated the hangman by swallowing cyanide the night before his scheduled execution.