Göring. A Biography

 playfully, on February , “that Ribbentrop has now gathered all the threads of foreign policy into his own hands.” Göring r ...

 few days he lazed around, soaking up sunshine and sea air. Photographers snapped the Görings buying violets like a happy hon ...

 In the early-hours conference, at which Hitler demanded abso- lute Czech submission to his will, it was Göring who threatene ...

 That done, he left Berlin as suddenly as he had arrived, at mid- day on March . He took the train back to San Remo on the ...

   Out of Favor After Prague, Göring was left in the dark, and he felt the hu- miliation deeply. Arriving back at Sa ...

 Libya to hang out the one and paste up the other. Göring had a genuine weakness for Italo Balbo, the bearded governor-genera ...

 discussing with the Italian dictator Germany’s preparedness for war, Göring explained that his air force’s re-equipping with ...

 .. on the morning of his fiftieth birthday, April , Hitler called his commanders in chief into his study and sobered the ...

 Göring and the now-victorious General Franco, but had forbid- den him to notify the German ambassador about it, citing its “ ...

 mies. He writes me smart-ass letters expressing his ‘profound concern.’ I’ve a good mind to show them to the Führer.” (In fa ...

 the Air Defense Academy at Wannsee on the morning of May , but sent his deputy General Milch to attend an important secret ...

 was among the invited guests, that Göring no longer had the special responsibility for Yugoslavia (and Poland) about which h ...

 them Axel Wenner-Gren, the fifty-eight-year-old millionaire boss of the Swedish Electrolux corporation. Eric von Rosen had i ...

 party officials like David Margesson and with the prime minister himself on June . Chamberlain pointed out that Göring’s pl ...

 I confirm with thanks the receipt of your highly in- teresting letter. Will study the matter. Sincerely, . He read Wen ...

 first jet-propelled fighter. “Field marshal,” test pilot Erich War- sitz declared, “in a few years you won’t see many propel ...

 if he showed a willingness to disarm; Hudson breezily added that he thought Germany could have her old colonies back on trus ...

   Hoping for Another Munich Far into the war a soft-spoken Swedish machine-tool manufac- turer, Birger Dahlerus, wo ...

 impatience of the average Englishman with Nazi Germany; some of the businessmen had urged him to get Göring to start nego- t ...

 permission for the meeting. Carin  conveyed him onward through choppy seas to the island of Sylt. At Westerland he conferr ...