Göring. A Biography

 more men under arms than the constitutional forces of law and order, made no secret of his ambitions. He wanted to become de ...

 Göring, appeared no more lethal than a provincial schoolmaster. Ten years earlier, as a young agriculture student, he had ca ...

 “The chief of your Gestapo,” replied the oily civil servant, “has his finger in many pies!” Göring smiled and said nothing. ...

 sworn enemy within the SA, promptly repeated to Hitler. On March , Göring was among party leaders who heard Hitler vow nev ...

 suade one bison to mate with another, but the bull took one glance at the cow, had reservations of his own, and fled the for ...

 vors, as when a Ukrainian nationalist killed the Polish minister of the interior and fled to Germany in mid-June. Göring arb ...

 Aegean Sea that Nazi Germany (highly visibly personified by Hermann Göring) would not abandon them to Mussolini’s It- aly. I ...

 still waters of the lake, the ranks of soldiers standing in motion- less array, while Richard Wagner’s rich funeral music th ...

 In a secret meeting in the great hall of Carinhall, sur- rounded by the hunting trophies and Gothic furniture that he had al ...

 Schleicher were under Göring’s surveillance. The naïve von Bülow immediately telephoned to warn them  and thus von Bülow’s ...

 that the evidence consisted of Brown Pages (Forschungsamt wiretaps); and from surviving members of the FA staff we know that ...

 undergoing secret air-force training at Jüterbog Airfield, and brought them into Berlin to guard the three airports and the ...

 Papen “on a matter of extreme state urgency.” Failing to grasp the very real danger he was in, Papen dawdled at his office, ...

 I went to that SA captain and said, “Do you have any weapons?” “Why no, Herr Polizeichef,” the swine says. “None except the ...

 Unabashed, Göring instructed his staff to describe the killing as a suicide. Down the tube into his private office, however, ...

 all-male company jested that they should nominate Baroness Viktoria von Dirksen while they could. At the mention of this, on ...

 on the tarmac, wearing their still-secret Luftwaffe uniform. “The men are a good racial selection,” he commented. At the Cha ...

 of the victims’ names. With his accumulated enemies thus largely neutralized, Göring recommended that the killings should st ...

 By way of reward, Göring invited the Gestapo to celebrate at his expense at the Hubertusstock, the old imperial hunting lodg ...

   Open Door to a Treasure- House ‘There was no point in thrashing the whole thing out in court,” said Göring, blith ...