Göring. A Biography

 Friesenkurier, printed a vivid report of the scene in its afternoon edition. Wearing a stylish hat specially selected from h ...

 resolved issues with Poland. Ever since January, Hitler had been putting out feelers to Moscow. Göring probably knew of this ...

 offering to visit the Kremlin himself. Time weighed heavily as Göring waited for London’s reply, through Dahlerus, and Hit- ...

 where I want her!” After lunch he told them why Germany had no cause for apprehension: The Luftwaffe had , men, compar ...

 Even so, Göring’s heart fluttered when he thought that real war might come. Lord Halifax, the British foreign secretary, re- ...

 to attack Poland. Asked about our war preparations. ... We managed to stave off bread- and potato- rationing for the first f ...

 Dahlerus in his hotel suite. “The agreement with Russia,” he dis- closed, using guarded language, “will have far-reaching co ...

 “Do you think four or five days will make any difference?” Göring must have contemplated the fiasco with mixed feelings. He ...

 Italian raw-material demands being phoned through by Ciano from Rome. The list, Italy’s price for joining White, included mi ...

 lin, but Göring decided to rush it over to Hitler despite the lateness of the hour. Gaping midnight crowds lined the Wilhelm ...

 until the twenty-eighth. Later Göring dictated to him the route his plane must take to avoid being shot down over Germany. D ...

 they re-timetabled White to begin on September . Army liaison officer Colonel Nicolaus von Vormann found the Führer in daz- ...

 phoning the Polish ambassador Lipski to spur Warsaw into ac- tion. Later still they heard the Foreign Office warning that it ...

 getting them to sign on the dotted line. Those days are over.” Bewildered by events, the innocent Dahlerus  totally out of ...

 : .. former ambassador to Rome Ulrich von Hassell pleaded with Olga Göring to get her brother to listen to him; she ph ...

 four or forty-eight hours. [He] mentions publication of something or other [the Sixteen Points] that may just keep Britain o ...

 Göring roared with delighted laughter. Later still, the FA sent further good tidings out to Kurfürst: The British and French ...

 Sir Alexander Cadogan, the permanent undersecretary at the Foreign Office, was taking an unexpectedly hard line: Hitler, he ...

 Dahlerus put the call through to London from a phone booth next to the kitchen. Whitehall said they would think it over. Gör ...

 Göring clutched the receiver, the blood draining from his taut lips. “Jawohl, mein Führer! Jawohl, mein Führer! Jawohl, mein ...