Göring. A Biography

   Doctor Ready to Become Boss During the coming war Göring’s popularity with the German public remained largely int ...

 me,” opined the minister, “that Göring is succumbing more and more to a luxury-loving Caesar complex and is losing contact w ...

 orders, in the first days of the war Göring issued orders that sharply limited the operations of his crews  forbidding them ...

 While Hitler toured the front, Göring remained in Berlin. When Hitler returned, Göring transferred his own “headquar- ters” ...

 code, Lammers indicated that Hitler would now be resuming regular Cabinet meetings. Probably it was a maneuver by Lam- mers ...

 Göring claimed that the Polish clergy were directing a pro- tracted guerrilla warfare against the Nazi invaders. After this ...

 two-thirds of the Polish Army was now surrounded. He re- peated that his Luftwaffe would refrain from bombing Britain first ...

 Equally circumspectly, though with even less success, Göring pursued his other contacts with London throughout September  ...

 out. On September , Hitler revealed to him and the other commanders in chief his intention of invading France as soon as p ...

 ter on the last day of  that he handed it to the State De- partment. (On August , , he died of a heart attack, alle ...

 Hague to travel on to London. The Reich government, he said, would not be replying to Chamberlain’s broadcast. “It was a dec ...

 marshal’s request, which was repeated several times”  to en- deavor to resolve the impasse. Göring now promised that if Lon ...

 victor is always right! Thus, in this war I have only the dictates of my own conscience to follow.... Ice-cool, I shall reso ...

 the Soviet “shopping list” staggered Göring more than the last: Negotiations in Berlin. Russian requests: . Industrial item ...

 remained almost idle apart from anti-shipping operations against the British. Drugged by its easy triumphs in Poland, the Lu ...

 fixed Yellow to begin one week later. But on the day of their consultation an air-force courier plane of Luftflotte  crash- ...

   Yellow and the Traitors Years later, awaiting the end in his cell at Nuremberg, Hermann Göring would philosophize ...

 grams passing between Rome, the Vatican, and Brussels. The intercepts showed that an unidentified traitor in Berlin had re- ...

 Airmen guilty of drunken crimes of violence were inevitably court-martialed, and rapists could expect short shrift. Ham- mer ...

 shal Göring, angered by the whole episode, sent for both gener- als and issued a humiliating reprimand. “The right to confir ...