Göring. A Biography

 umphant, sarcastic speech to the Reichstag on the Balkan cam- paign. His train pulled in at : .. on May . He spoke wit ...

 but it was : .. by the time it reached Munich, and it took two more hours to drive on to the Berghof. There he saw Mar- ...

 of pulling off the difficult flight to Glasgow.... But the Führer thinks Hess has the skill. We make announcement at eight  ...

 Göring, and directed Bormann to read out the letters that Hess had left behind. The sixty or seventy Nazi leaders clustered ...

 admired him. “Hermann,” said one officer in June , “is definitely the man who rakes in the most money in Germany. But th ...

 strategic deception plan prior to Barbarossa. On June , Göring phoned Milch to order him to tour Field Marshal Hugo Sper- r ...

 nouncing his intention of invading Western Europe sooner or later. Göring had to admit that once again Hitler was proving to ...

 why Germany had no option but to strike at Russia. Deputy Chief of Staff von Waldau recorded a summary in his diary: Hitler’ ...

 The Pole had revealed that Göring had now told a close Swedish friend that “he might expect Germany to launch an attack agai ...

   Signing His Own Death Warrant “At last a proper war!” exclaimed General Jeschonnek as the German armies uncoiled ...

 cessor in the event of his own death, and as his “deputy in all offices.” This by no means eliminated the rivals. Himmler al ...

 Edda daily, arranged occasional flying visits to them; but not once that summer did he visit a front-line Luftwaffe unit. He ...

 hundred years to prevent it.” There remained only to apportion responsibility for these conquered eastern territories betwee ...

 mas reported to Göring on July , then recorded, “Reichsmar- schall wants rapid investigation of ways of increasing German ...

 Judge-Advocate General von Hammerstein briefed him on August  on court-martial cases in Crete, and described the sprawling ...

 of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Dutch and French paintings. Göring grasped these treasures too, and returned contented ...

 arrived with his commander, Kurt Student, one afternoon to receive the Knight’s Cross at Göring’s hands. “They had built thi ...

 ingly cobbled together each week for the newsreels. No wonder, as [Göring] never visits the front! The weather worsened, as ...

 narcotics, there was a constant ringing in his ears, his brain blared with all the symptoms of persecution mania. While Milc ...

 The offensive made colossal strides. The German armies, aided by their allies, trapped seventy-five Soviet divisions at Vyaz ...