Uncle Hermann

Bettina Göring, born in Wiesbaden, Germany, trained as a doctor of oriental medicine and practiced in the US for over thirty years. She has explored her family history in various internationally acclaimed documentary films, including Bloodlines, Hitler´s Children or Children of Dictators. She now lives mainly in Portugal. Uncle Hermann is her first book. Melissa Müller has made a name for herself as an author of contemporary nonfiction. Her books, including Anne Frank: The Biography and, together with Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour: Hitler’s Secretary, are international bestsellers that have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. The movie Downfall, based on Until the Final Hour, earned a nomination for the Best International Film Oscar. www.melissamueller.de

“Bettina was not seeking to forgive Göring, but to forgive herself—to finally let go of the darkness with which she had always identified. In doing so, she supported my own unlikely reconciliation with the past.”—Dr. Gabor Maté, author and speaker, sought after for his expertise on trauma, addiction, stress and childhood development, bestselling author of The Myth of Normal“A courageous and deeply authentic voice Bettina Göring confronts the truth of her family’s dark legacy with honesty and integrity.”—Chanoch Ze'evi, director and producer of Hitler's Children and Bad Nazi Good Nazi“Bettina Göring's deeply moving account of what it was like to live in the shadow of evil—and the devastating emotional costs—is the biographical equivalent to the Oscar-nominated Zone of Interest. With co-writer Melissa Müller, one of the most gifted chroniclers of a dark era in twentieth-century history, her story of a scarred adolescence and adulthood demonstrates the possibility of reaching beyond a hateful past to embrace a collective future.”—Kirk Ellis, Emmy-winning writer/producer, Anne Frank: The Whole Story, John Adams, and Franklin“An important book.”—Die Tageszeitung, Berlin“Bettina Göring, the grandniece of the Nazi criminal Hermann Göring, knows that she can only move on with her life if she forgives the unforgivable.”—DW Deutsche Welle +