Göring. A Biography

 random out of a trainload of grimy evacuees being shipped eastward from the blazing Ruhr. The war’s privations would pass he ...

 bels was shamelessly coercing young actresses for sexual favors. The latest was the elegant Czech actress Lida Baarova. Göri ...

 use different language when even the British ambassador was warning of “Jewish troublemaking” and lobbying in favor of a pre ...

 tions, but these just prove the rule.” In this economic battle he would be quite ruthless. A few days after the November  ...

 Göring’s little-publicized campaign to hound the Jews out of German business life was as carefully planned as any battle tha ...

 American) stockholders were paid off in full. Then he blew the whistle for the major offensive against the heirs of Ignaz Pe ...

 paid off in full when the lignite deposits were sold in December ; as a bonus for Göring, the Reichswerke Hermann Göring ...

 and pumped bullets into the ambassador’s deputy, an impulsive action that was the beginning of the Jews’ long journey into d ...

 ures must be in one central hand.” Lest he be misunderstood, he instructed Bormann to send Göring a letter emphasizing that ...

 While Göring had some expectation of picking up foreign cur- rency if the German insurers had reinsured abroad, his hope tha ...

 had jointly hit on this cynical idea as one way of bridging Ger- many’s growing currency deficit. As Göring frankly explaine ...

 tion before being issued.” Irritated by the continuing arbitrary actions by officials against Jews, he secured clear guideli ...

 tober , : , Jews had left Germany, , Austria, and , Bohemia and Moravia; , of these had found th ...

   Losing Weight When he turned forty-six on January , , the gift that would please him the most was a scale m ...

 From the field marshal’s diary it is evident, however, that he continued to have “his pudgy fingers in every pie,” as his la ...

 Later that day, at Henderson’s request, Göring received the cringing, frightened Czech minister, Vojtech Mastny, in Berlin: ...

 while he tried to exploit the post-Munich turmoil in southeast- ern Europe. Göring’s diary shows him in furtive conferences ...

 diary shows: The Slovaks warned him that their Jewish citizens were hoping that Hungary would annex parts of their country. ...

 in Italy,” he writes. “Political considerations there, as Italian film industry would otherwise collapse. It’s costing us fo ...

 As the new year, , began, Göring was noticeably unwell. By January his normally cherubic features were gaunt and drawn, ...