Göring. A Biography

 handle. “The Reichsmarschall,” he shrieked, “is the uncrowned chief of the OKW as it is! He goes behind my back all the time ...

 conference on ways of injecting one million Russian prisoners into Germany’s labor-starved war industries. One evening, as h ...

 zow, Hans Hahn, and Gordon Mac Gollob. They filled the front rows in the great hall of the ministry, with the party, govern- ...

 shal Fedor von Bock had begun to bludgeon his army group’s way into Moscow, despite the sub-Napoleonic temperatures. The hig ...

 Still Göring whiled away the hours in France, visiting Emmy’s Paris couturier, raiding Cartier (with General Hanesse’s adjut ...

 his very next words revealed that he was becoming uneasy. “If the war lasts much longer,” he told the Duce, “we must assume ...

 and I,” recorded Richthofen, “were very persuasive. Führer swears loudly about the army commanders responsible for much of t ...

   The ‘Instruction’ to Heydrich That winter of – Hermann Göring heard rumors of mass killings in the east. Gi ...

 suggested by such exasperated outbursts as that of Governor- General Hans Frank at a Cracow conference on December , : ...

 I further instruct you to lay before me shortly a comprehensive draft of the organizational, logistical, and material advanc ...

 pressure and low-temperature experiments on condemned prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp. Neither Göring nor his Sta ...

 things would not happen again  it was claimed that the trains had been misrouted. Then there was some talk about Vernichtun ...

 each letter with the words, “On July , , the Reichsmarschall of the Greater German Reich instructed me ” etc., and he ...

 role is thrown into question by recently discovered documents, and verbatim conference transcripts show Göring to have been ...

 were getting, because the local Nazi official there, Reich Com- missar Hinrich Lohse, corrected him: “Only a small fraction ...

 himself, dated October , : “As her manner appeared to have become intolerable,” it coldly explained, “the instruction w ...

 write a letter in these terms to Heydrich: “The Reichsmarschall desires that the high command be required to order that  ad ...

   The Thousand-Bomber Raid As  began Hitler’s armies in Russia were in crisis. From the Crimea and Kharkov nort ...

 himself to punish Sponeck, which aroused indignation when he told his staff about it at Rominten the next day. “You can’t di ...

 took refuge in trivia and minor postwar problems. British code- breakers intercepted his instruction, passed to troops on th ...