Her maternal grandfather was Austrian SS Nazi concentration camp commander and war criminal Amon Göth.
Her 2015 book My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past was a New York Times bestseller.
[4] At the age of 38, Teege unexpectedly found out about her family history, by picking up a book in a Hamburg library that happened to be her mother Monika Hertwig's biography and where she discovered that Amon Göth was her grandfather, which caused her to plunge into a severe depression.
Translations of the book, which was originally published in Teege's native language, German, have been made into Danish, English, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
In Holy Holocaust, Berman-Herzberg narrates how her friendship with Teege was affected by the latter being Göth's granddaughter and the publication of My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me.