Göring. A Biography

 Aware that his air force was meeting its match in the skies over southern England, Göring was mentally and physically draine ...

 Georg Thomas that day, Göring mentioned that they would not have to keep up their war supplies to Russia in perpetuity. “Fro ...

 languidly around the airfields of Normandy, between fields and orchards where the peasants were already harvesting the apple ...

   The Art Dealer Göring returned to his sybaritic lifestyle at Carinhall. Occasion- ally he undertook fresh forays ...

  dearly loved paintings of the nude. “I am the first to agree that Göring was a ruffian,” Sutton lectured U.S. intellige ...

 called disarmingly in . “[I] always took enough money along on the train  I had a private train  I would give an order ...

 tion of Göring’s adjutant Erich Gritzbach, however, the pur- chase price had somehow risen to . million. None of them coul ...

 cupied Western Europe primarily for Göring’s benefit. Walter Hofer, whose visiting card proclaimed him to be “curator of the ...

 ing counter for future peace negotiations. Göring merely wanted them, and he could come up with hard currency faster than an ...

 non-Jewish art collections in France untouched. To provide a spurious aura of legality, a timid French professor, Jacques Be ...

 It was a rare spectacle  the highest-ranking soldier in Europe trafficking with “the shadiest collaborationist art dealers, ...

 francs. They tell the lady the purchaser wants to see the tapestry ... So she has to come too, and finds out she’s coming to ...

 to the possible liberation of my wife, said simply in English, “I will see what I can do.” Unsurprisingly, Wilkinson’s wife ...

 their way from the Jeu de Paume into Göring’s possession. Italy rivaled France and Holland as the sources of Göring’s fabulo ...

 wife to safety in Switzerland, Miedl had asked Göring for funds: Göring allowed Miedl to transfer the Van Gogh and Cézanne p ...

 comparison). “They told me,” recalled the pained Hermann Göring, “that there was a second painting that the Rijksmuseum in A ...

 good wine with those things there.” “Where he buried the stuff,” he added, smiling sardonically, “the Russians now are.... I ...

   The Big Decision Reichsmarschall Göring called his deputy, Milch, out to Carin- hall on November , , handed ...

 Göring fought that one tooth and nail. But he was just a loyal henchman and ultimately there was noth- ing else he could do. ...

 assured the Reichsmarschall, “that there could be no talk of that.” By the next day, November , Hitler’s decision had hard ...