What Actually Happened to History's Most Nefarious Offspring 

Nefarious Offspring could be a metal band name.

Herman Goering's brother, Albert, was basically the opposite. Albert Goering was a businessman who rescued Jews and other minorities from the gas chambers and even helped clean the streets with Jews as a middle finger to the Nazis. Any time he got into trouble, he used his brother's name to clear himself. Once he was put in charge of the Skoda Works factory in Czechoslovakia, he intentionally had the products sabotaged and constantly contacted the resistance. He used his influence to ensure many Jews escaped to safety by forging documents with his brother's name on them. He was caught and put to trial in 1945 because of his name, but people vouched for his good deeds. He was vehemently anti-Nazi till death, and he died after giving his pension and money to his maid. I still feel sad about reading his story, and it just sucks he was part of such a disgusting family, and not many people knew of his excellent work until recently.

i don't expect these sons/daughters to feel guilt or shame, they themselves didn't do anything wrong, they were mere children. however, i can't help but cringe at how Edda Göring talks about her psychopathic father. plus the fact that she expected compensation for items he plundered.

I read a biography on Mao that said that he and his wife produced at least two children (on two seperate occasions) that they had to give away to some peasants since Mao and his spouse were living with his army, who were currently fighting the Nationalists (the latter child being born during the Long March). To think, there might be at least two families in China who have absolutely no idea that their the direct descendants of Mao.

Forgot to mention that Mussolini's grandchildren are current Italian government officials.

This needs a part two. There's got to be more of them.

my grandfather was in Hitlers army as a Nazi, he was proud of his service and I couldn't stand to be around him. I chose to do volunteer work for a few Jewish charity orgs in Los Angeles and most of my friends have been jewish throughout my life. Im still totally baffled at how we as humans can be convinced to see others as needing to be exterminated. It's sickening.

I can’t believe you talked about the family line of Mussolini without mentioning that his granddaughter got into a fight over twitter with Jim Carey because she was upset that he painted her grandfather’s body hanging from the gas station.

Same with sons and daughters of serial killers, they tend to be forgotten and even get blamed for some reason.

It's sometimes difficult to reconcile the fact that even monsters have their glimpses of humanity, actually makes them worse imo, and that there were/are people who genuinely loved and cared for them.

My favourite one is Kim Jom Nam, who was due to inherit the dictatorship of North Korea but got disinherited because he was too nice, and because he wanted to go on a trip to Disneyland.

Should have a second video about the Grandchildren. Gets quite interesting with Stalins Granddaughter in Portland, OR and Mussolini's grandchildren being involved in Italian politics and a music career in Japan.

It’s crazy how many people can trace their ancestry back to Genghis Khan

That's why I changed my last name. I did NOT want to be connected to my Dad, and his reign of terror as President of the Hillard Heights Community Council. The world will never forgive him for his 'no petunias in road facing window boxes' dictate. Never.

Pol Pot didn’t go on the run with his daughter and ultimately end his life, that story’s not true and I think a lot of Cambodians would be offended by that claim. He was placed under house arrest and lived the rest of his life in comfort surrounded by his family after nearly the entire nation suffered terribly for years under his brutal regime. He died of natural causes at his home. I don’t know where you got your information from because this fact is well known and caused uproar and controversy at the time

My dad was the town alcoholic ( I did not grow up with him) and had a hot temper and anytime somebody figures out I am his daughter they give me the side eye and walk away. Only the people around me know how opposite I am of him.

Even monsters can love their children. You can't expect them to condemn their parents for something they never witnessed, and couldn't imagine. For some of them all they knew was someone that loved, and cared for them deeply. They don't deserve to be judged by the crimes of their parents, and they don't deserve to be judged for loving someone that loved and raised them.

Dude, you can go far with this category of "kids of _____ leaders" for future videos. Telling you now, I'll watch them all.

None of these people are responsible for the actions of their parents. Blaming them is insane -- will the family of Dennis Rader (the BTK killer) be blamed for the terrible crimes he committed against his victims? Living with the horror of a parent's actions is more punishment than anyone deserves.

Stalin’s daughter was my parents neighbor here in Wisconsin. She was a very sweet and quiet lady.

1:16 Göring killed himself with poison he received from a guard, yes, that‘s nitpicky, but i wanted to add this. Great video as always

This was a good one! No one ever talks about this kind of topic. I love Weird History for exposing, well, weird stuff.

What's more wild is that Lana Peter's daughter (and of course Stalin's granddaughter) is an antiques dealer and part-time Tank Girl cosplayer living in Portland, Oregon.

We have to remember that evil people are everywhere. These are just the ones we infamously remember. Evil people usually are born from abuse or misparenting, or sometimes born psychopaths, but their children should never be blamed for their parents’ deeds.

This is my favorite channel on RU-vid. I learn so much while I lay in bed lol.

I never really thought about history's most evil characters having families. My thought process was "who'd be crazy enough to even consider marrying a Nazi or dictator?" But this video showed me that evil people are still people and have access to the same experiences normal people have. Very informational, so thank you.

I think it's interesting how people find it shocking that these people can be good to their family. Yes, they're good to their family but it comes from a place of selfishness or wanting to preserve their power and legacy. After all, it's easy to care exclusively for your own family because you benefit from it. But they don't care if they've killed thousands and millions of other people's children, spouses, parents, siblings. There is no empathy at all for these people, only self-preservation and lust for power.

Speaking as an American I think you should consider looking at America's Crimes and the leaders who perpetuated them. You might start with Andrew Jackson who ignored a Supreme Court decision and in the middle of winter force marched many native Americans to "New Homes" in Oklahoma. This crime was done under the Indian Removal Act. Start with Andrew Jackson but please don't stop there.

Romano Mussolini, Benito's youngest son, became a Jazz musician but his two daughters - Alessandra and Rachele both entered politics

Should've brought up the family of Hideki Tojo,would have been interesting to see what happened with them.

It's really tragic for Goerings niece. I will never understand what it's like to have a monster like that as a family member. But she does not deserve what she chose to do.

I say there should be a video digging deeper into these celebs performing for dictators and their kids

Showa Hirohito's kids turned out to be fine anime characters.

What about Idi Amin and Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, and Kim Jong-il, among others? Perhaps a part 2?

This was a fantastic piece! Never thought of the offspring of history’s worst dictators. I need more!!!!

Love history as an adult, how did my teacher's make it so boring?

Ivan the Terrible's poor son got brained by his own dad x.x

Sadaam's son was wicked from the get-go. I've heard a lot about how terrible his father was but his son was even worse!

Would love to see y'all do an episode on the Hatfields and Mccoys.

This is one of the gems of this channel, luved it.

This is the most interesting Weird History that I've seen in a while. Thank you.

Offspring you say? Don't worry, the kids are alright. 😌

This is amazing!!! We definitely need a part 2 to this please!!!

My paternal grandmother was a product of Lebensborn, it was the Nazi program to boost birth rates and population the Aryan race. She never knew her father. I don't know how she felt about her origins. She never spoke of it to anyone. My dad and his sister said their Grandmother was a wonderful woman. I find that weird considering she had a son in the SS and two daughters with Nazi soldiers to help "the cause". My father grew to loath his German heritage and the association with anything Nazi related. So much so that he married a Jewish woman, my mother, and had 3 Jewish children. Finding these things out was very surreal. My DNA contains both the Jewish blood of Those who died and the German blood of those who killed them. America is wild like that.

Why did you show pictures of Hitler when talking about how similar the great niece of Goering?

Best history channel ever.

Thank you for producing this video. A rare glimpse into post-tyranny life for family members.

A+ video! LOVE IT! Fantastic topic and video, it's a conversation topic RARELY introduced!

I always have to turn in this his entertaining yet informative narration 😁

I remember visiting the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where the guide talked about how one of Stalin's sons was imprisoned and died there. Apparently, the Nazis tried to use him as a bargaining chip. We were also shown the separate barracks where he and other noteworthy political prisoners were kept. As prisoners, they were treated relatively humanely, in contrast to the Jews, Poles and Gypsies, who were victims of far harsher treatment and even experimentation.

More!!! That was super interesting, thank you.

I haven’t watched this channel in months and I’m very pleasantly surprised that the quality has improved so much.

I am so impressed and happy that you mentioned the Duvalier's!! 🇭🇹

Fidel Castro's son managed to become Prime Minister of Canada!

Wow! Fascinating stuff. Thank you!🦋😮🦋

Very interesting to follow these stories. Would love to see another of these.

Sadam's son was a monster.

The Weird History team is on North Korea’s hit list for leaving the Kim’s out of your list.

Thank you for this video ! 🌺

Cool stories. One of the best history channels!!

Great episode! Try this gem of a story: Esclarmonde of Foix

In a way, I can't blame the kids loving their parents. But damn, you gotta acknowledge what they did. You can still love them.

Always look forward to your videos

This was good! Part two please!!

Leopold II's descendant still sitting on the throne to this day and still no apology...

Daughter of Nazi: but my dad was so nice :) interviewer: ok but he ordered ethnic genocide her: yeah but u never tasted his hot chocolate interviewer:

Respect. Thankyou. Always

Well done, always interesting!

Seems like most of the people on this list were apples that didn't fall too far from the tree. Fascinating video!

Wonder if Rasputin had a large brood.

Thank you for this interesting video....♥️🌹

GREAT one!!

I’m not surprised JayZ and Beyoncé performed for a madman

Tubes tied at 30? Kinda a late decision. Also I don't think a child would be born evil just because an ancestor is evil. Some children are born to normal families but arent right in the head and turn out to be criminals.

I want a Part 2 as well. This was really interesting

That was absolutely fantastic.

Oh yay something to watch on the grayhound

About a year ago I saw a documentary on the children/descendants of nazi generals & politicians. I was surprised to hear that many had gone to the US and stopped their family lines. One man who's father ran a concentration camp met with the descendants of those who had been kept there during ww2 and they agreed that he was not guilty of anything that his father had done. it was very emotional, it's sad to think that some people fear that their families past may create "monsters" in the future, leading to serialisation since arguably people are not guilty of their ancestors doings.

Great video!!

Thanks for this! 🚼

You guys forgot Ferdinand Marcos' son. He is running for president of the Philippines right now.

Wow this is a interesting take.

Great video

Very interesting. Hope to know more.

Having yourself sterilized due to the sins of your ancestors is ridiculous. Every human on Earth shares ancestry with several terrible people (infamous, remembered or not). We are all individuals. Good, even great people can rise from a terrible lineage and terrible people can arise from a good lineage. To live with the guilt of the deeds of your predecessors is a terrible and unnecessary burden to bear - especially for these unfortunate people. Instead of sterilization and avoidance, I would embrace the dark past of my ancestry and work to change my family's legacy to something better. Our name would no longer suffer the burden of the sins of our fathers/mothers, but would be known for something better. A family that learned from the deeds of it's ancestry and became something completely opposite for what it had become infamous for. ...Or I would quietly remove myself from any limelight and seek to just be a normal, uninteresting family with a past that faded from general memory. Leave the past in the past - my (and future) generations had nothing to do with it, anyway But to each their own, I suppose.

It must feel "weird" to be offspring of these Evil people. Very "weird".

Great video. I would love to see Weird History's take on Rasputin....

Please make a part two!

History can be re -written again and again by the winners

You forgot about King Leopold and what he did in the Congo

Great video.

For all of us: in order to exist today it means at one point in your bloodline there was a brutal man/woman who did terrible things. We are all descendants of savages.

Castro's son offed himself? I thought he was currently Prime Minister of Canada?

The photos of Herman Goering and Edda are so eerie. He is absolutely besotted over his daughter and if you didn't know who he was or what he did you'd think it was a family photo of a father and his daughter.

loved the animations on this intro.

What about the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines? I'm Filipino, and in my country the Marcos family is currently revising our nation's history. I don't want my fellow Filipinos to forget what he did. Please make a video about him 😥

The fact that so many of them found their way to the US is insane.

Great content ❤️❤️❤️

The background music in this one was almost distractingly too loud compared to the actual information. I had to watch a few parts over again on mute to actually process all of it. That aside, this was weirdly interesting and full of things I've never evenconsidered before! Y'all cover some of the most interesting topics and I love learning new things from this channel.

A King of Belgium once ran mining camps in Guyana and his efforts / damage were mighty.