Adolf Hitler’s goddaughter has failed in her bid to access artwork stolen by her infamous Nazi father, Hermann Goering, during WWII.

Goering’s daughter Edda, 76, had petitioned the state of Bavaria to access to her family’s possession, the Telegraph reports.

Her father, one of the most senior Nazi figures, had amassed a vast collection of property and artworks stolen during the latter stages of the war.

His assets, estimated at more than A$250m, were confiscated after the fall of the Third Reich.

Edda Goering in 1986. (Supplied)

Ms Goering, who lives in Munich, had asked for only a small amount of the assets to be returned, enough for a “subsistence livelihood”.

The hearing before the Bavarian parliament’s Legal Affairs Committe lasted just a matter of minutes before being dismissed.

It followed a failed petition in the 1960s to have another painting returned to her family’s care.

Adolf Hitler in 1937. Herman Goerring was a senior member of the Third Reich before falling out with the Fuhrer late in the war. (AAP)

Commander of the German air force or Luftwaffe, Goering was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials in 1946.