00:00According to the Nuremberg Laws, Erhard Milch was a Mischling of the first grade.
00:05Mischling was a pejorative legal term used in Nazi Germany to denote persons of mixed Aryan
00:10and non-Aryan ancestry. In 1935, doubts about the ethnic origin of Erhard Milch began when
00:16rumors circulated that his father, Anton Milch, was Jewish. The Gestapo began an investigation,
00:22but it was stopped by Hermann Göring, who forced Erhard's mother to sign a document that Anton
00:27Milch was not the true father of Erhard and his four siblings, but that it was her uncle
00:32Karl Brauer. That would mean that Milch's mother, Clara, committed not only adultery, but also
00:37incest. Clara's uncle, as well as husband, were deceased at the time when this documentation
00:43was put together. When this evidence was presented to Hitler, he accepted it and declared Milch
00:49a 100% Aryan.
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