Göring. A Biography

 waved grandly to the chauffeur to drive off. A short while later, escorted by an SS platoon in trucks, the cavalcade rattled ...

 Humiliated, Göring sent his doctor to plead with General Koller. Koller passed the buck to Kesselring, and Kesselring passed ...

 Grand Admiral! Are you fully aware of the deadly intrigue hatched by Reichsleiter Bormann to eliminate me?... Bor- mann waged ...

 air-force troops to regain my liberty... Despite everything that has happened during my arrest, I request you, Excellency, to ...

 that rendezvous,” said Koller. “Now keep it.” Grumbling and hesitant, Göring climbed into the twelve-cylinder Maybach and set ...

   A Triangular Affair Hermann Göring  the Führer’s chosen successor; last com- mander of the legendary Richthofen Sq ...

 ler (commissarius loci) to His Majesty, Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, and to Andreas Gering, who had been a pastor ne ...

 many to retire. Hermann told one psychiatrist some months before his death that this was his earliest memory  as the lady in ...

 But it was Epenstein’s castle in Franconia  the countryside around Nuremberg  that left its most powerful mark on Göring’s ...

 Hermann would look down from the battlements and have vi- sions of Roman chariots and of plumed warriors galloping in the val ...

 one of Germany’s best officer-cadet schools, at Karlsruhe. He flourished like a failing plant newly placed in a window. He wo ...

 and the highest in the history of the academy. The surviving record shows that he gained a “quite good” in Latin, French, and ...

 A train journey that was first class only in name, across the low- lands of Lombardy (“interesting,” he commented, “only for ...

  , . At exactly four .. the alarm clock rattled me out of my splendid dreams of soaring mountains, glaciers and c ...

 After eight hours Hermann Göring had reached the Watz- mann’s summit. As his little party descended, he rejoiced in the view ...

 good and relatively wide, but very long. Finally we found ourselves in a fissure.... The first bit of chimney was all right b ...

 The twin summit conquered by an as-yet-untried route, noth- ing remained but to return. “I had a frantic thirst,” he wrote in ...

 planes, jousting with (almost) equally brave airborne enemies. Sadly, his personal papers were looted from his private train ...

 “for posting as an airborne observer.” Authorized biographer Erich Gritzbach wrote that having been rejected for observer tra ...

 young man with the penetrating blue eyes and square jaw. He was good at his job, as the excellent reconnaissance photographs ...