Göring. A Biography

 vakia; then the loose ends like Danzig, Memel, and the Polish Corridor. On the morning of the fourth, Göring noted, “Thick f ...

 huntsman, like himself. With proper panoply and flourish, with shouts of Heil and the roll of drums, with the rattle and sla ...

 ference that was to go down in history. He had returned to the capital a few days before, brimming with dangerous ideas. Sin ...

 back to the grand reception that he had organized for the visit- ing huntsmen of Europe at the Aviators’ Building (the Haus ...

 Sweetening these inhospitable remarks, Göring flattered Revertera by saying that Austria had the better leader types and wou ...

 picking up the mansion’s pervasive, unmistakable atmosphere of aristocratic pretensions; it was like an alcoholic getting a ...

   The Blomberg–Fritsch Affair In December  Göring issued instructions  in line with Hit- ler’s command at the ...

 minister, however  of aviation  Göring was Blomberg’s equal. And as the Führer’s chosen successor and adviser, he regarded ...

 Himmler’s Gestapo was later found to have concealed a micro- phone in Blomberg’s office. Göring could find no way to fault B ...

 Most of what has been written hitherto about what now became the Blomberg-Fritsch affair has been based on the narratives le ...

 days later, on January , at which the Führer “spoke in great agitation of his concern about the spreading of anarchist pro ...

 riage,” Fritsch recorded at the time. “The ink was hardly dry on the marriage papers when mountains of documents began to tu ...

 Göring told the white-faced field marshal that the Führer in- sisted he resign. Göring must already have been certain that F ...

 investigations continued nonetheless, because early in July  Schmidt was turned over to the Gestapo for higher interroga ...

 dark-haired, sallow-featured man with penetrating dark eyes had the physiognomy of a criminal. He passed some photo- graphs ...

 to read. Fritsch did as bidden, gaped at one particularly perverse allegation, and his monocle fell out. “While I ran my eye ...

 man again said that he “could not swear” that the army general had been his client. Himmler’s discomfiture was only beginnin ...

 literally from their morning Völkischer Beobachter that they had been axed. Over at the Foreign Ministry Neurath was replace ...

 Blomberg’s or Fritsch’s posts, he had no personal interest in the outcome other than a very urgent concern to protect his ow ...

 opened, at : .. on March  in the Prussia Ministry building, Göring seemed strangely unconcerned. He swaggered in, to ...