Göring. A Biography

 Anschluss. Before he left, he received a letter from Sir Nevile Henderson, acting on Queen Mary’s behalf, asking him to inte ...

 in Vienna will scream bloody murder at me again.” On Hitler’s suggestion Göring would also appoint Guido Schmidt as an ex- p ...

 tament dated April , as the next Führer. And when Hitler de- parted for his great state visit to Rome on May , he again l ...

 jutant just before Hitler’s conference of May  began. “Wiede- mann,” he pleaded, “does the Führer really imagine the Frenc ...

 money than was proper to buy it. Tax declarations found in his files show that in fiscal  he had paid only , marks t ...

 pastries into cardboard boxes and carry them in a shuttle service out to the cars.” His reducing efforts had evidently been ...

 At : .. his valet, Robert, often found him up on deck, swathed in blankets and contemplating the rising sun. Göring wou ...

 Don’t any of you gentlemen imagine that if Germany yet again fights and loses a war, you’ll be able to crawl away and say, “ ...

 adventure books, and leafed through the newspapers. They car- ried photographs of him accepting yet another sword, hand- mad ...

 to General Franco. (“Caution,” Göring noted, “because of Non- intervention.”) The Luftwaffe’s plans for Green were now compl ...

 counted the brand-new Me  fighter planes lined up on Döberitz Airfield  twenty-seven  a four-engine Focke-Wulf Condor t ...

 weather for his air force. On August , he summoned his com- manding generals to Carinhall, and two days later his air staf ...

 berg rally arena to the peace and quiet of Castle Veldenstein, and here he again raised the possibility of a Czech “incident ...

 of Luftflotte , the air-force command that would confront Britain in time of war. But word had reached the field marshal th ...

 was almost over and he would wait no longer. By special train he set out with Körner, Udet, and Loerzer for the Alt Sternber ...

 waiting for hours, the stag cantilevered himself to his feet, a smaller animal trotted right into the line of fire. Göring l ...

 report dated September , written by General Felmy, who chaired the air force’s “Special Staff Britain.” Felmy warned that ...

 Fortunately for Göring a “thaw” suddenly set in. From Göring’s vantage point as he scanned the Brown Pages of the Forschungs ...

 conference had been arranged for the next day in Munich. Hit- ler told Göring he had realized that the German people were no ...

   Sunshine Girl and Crystal Night A princess might have envied the infant Edda Göring her beauty as a child. Her pa ...