At age 30, she was sterilized so she would never have children. He wanted to prevent his great-uncle’s genes from passing on to a new generation and “another monster” being born. She was the great-niece of Hermann Goering, Hitler’s right-hand man, creator of the Gestapo and promoter of the extermination camps and the Holocaust. The truth is that her relationship meant that she carried only around 12% of Hermann’s DNA, “a percentage so low that it could be insignificant.”
