When high-energy electrons penetrate crystalline matter, the successive processes of photon emission and pair production form an electromagnetic shower. If the incident electrons are directed along the crystal axis, the cross section for photon emission is drastically enhanced because electrons in ‘channeling’ states feel a strong electric field continuously. Experiments designed to detect this effect were performed at CERN. The results showed an anomalous peak in the energy loss spectrum of the emerging electrons. In this paper, we report results of a Monte-Carlo simulation of shower formation in a Germanium crystal. Our results agree with the experimental data more quantitatively than previous simulations. We simulated a shower formation by incident photons as well.