Göring. A Biography

 oil crisis and the troublesome British base on Malta. Four days after their meeting, the British launched their triumphant o ...

 : According to our calculations the convoy will be within our air-force range in forty or fifty hours. Everything must ...

 British code-breakers heard Kesselring issue the order precisely as Göring had specified, but nothing could halt the great A ...

 this war, should satisfy you immediately that I continue to shape the crucial affairs of the Four-Year Plan despite my preoc ...

 At the time of Hitler’s phone call, the afternoon of November , Göring was presiding over an oil conference in Berlin. Ger ...

 The high command had put a General Homburg in charge of the Petroleum Brigade. Göring challenged the experts: “That’s what t ...

 Nineteen hours later the Sixth Army commander replied: His army, he announced, was now cut off by the Russians; his food and ...

 and he could not go back on that pledge. Later, Göring men- tioned operational factors that influenced him. There was, he sa ...

   Fall from Grace A quarter of a million of Hitler’s troops were encircled in Stalin- grad; they would become Stali ...

 off by abusing Hanesse loudly as they toured the little gallery. Archival documents dated that day number among them valua- ...

 continue to make “the Jewish brothers Löbl” available as inform- ers. Göring approved, but Fräulein Limberger noted the cave ...

 abandon Libya altogether, pulling back to a new line at Gabès in Tunisia, where he proposed to fight a completely new campai ...

 could not ignore Kesselring’s arguments. Hearing this, Rommel plunged into a depression. At a joint session the next morning ...

 invites civilians, [Fascist Minister of the Interior Guido] Bu- ffarini, technical ministers, and so forth.... Yesterday, wh ...

 Göring’s own diary opened in  to reveal him still at Carin- hall, seeing the New Year in. He made only occasional forays ...

 at their embassy. The Berlin theaters were closed, but he ordered one reopened and bused his staff in from Carinhall to hear ...

 (Heart).” Professor Zahler was sent for.* In part the heart problems were a consequence of his mas- sive obesity; in part th ...

 lost, and the front line retreated so far that the Heinkels could no longer make the return flight. Hitler ordered Milch to ...

 On January , , unescorted American B- bombers deliv- ered their first daring daylight raid on German territory, at- ...

 out of Stalingrad on one of the last planes, urged Hitler to pun- ish the guilty men  “Even,” he spat out, “if that means t ...