Göring. A Biography

 Air battle with three big French warplanes, Caudrons. After fifteen minutes managed to shoot down one... It went down toward ...

 made the transfer. Here he flew mainly escort duty for bombers until his luck ran out, on November , ; he incautiously t ...

 Lieutenant Fletcher, survived with a bullet in his leg. “As I flew on to Behain at three hundred feet,” he reported that nigh ...

 This victory was credited to him, but not others. On July  he engaged a Spad, lost sight of it as hot oil sprayed into his f ...

 the top air ace was the “Red Baron,” Manfred von Richthofen, with sixty-one kills; Göring and Loerzer had scored fifteen each ...

 and four days later, flying a Fokker distinguished by white en- gine cowling and white tail, he poured two hundred rounds int ...

 quence that surprised him. “Our time,” he declared, “will come again!” He was uncertain about his future. For a while he stay ...

 illustrious performers, although she would remain in people’s memories for her wit and presence rather than for any conven- t ...

 The army granted his request two months later. It seemed therefore that Captain Hermann Göring, distin- guished German aviato ...

 Irish wife. She was bored with life in general and her officer hus- band, Nils von Kantzow, in particular: She was eager for ...

 I would like to thank you from my heart for the beautiful moment that I was allowed to spend in the Edelweiss chapel. You hav ...

 an empty wine crate in the air-raid shelter at “Carinhall” in Feb- ruary , it is clear that they included her intimate le ...

 band. To her uncomprehending sorrow, Nils declined to let her salvage Thomas from the family collapse along with the other jo ...

 On the following day she wrote more, lamenting that Nils and her own family never left her alone  “Nils always wants to talk ...

 The remainder of this letter makes plain that her disapproving sister Fanny had chaperoned them in Bavaria. Fanny was scornfu ...

 painting and handicrafts. (There exists in the village to this day a painted cupboard door signed with her initials.) He foun ...

   Storm Troop Commander Two planets pass, so close that each is fractionally deflected by the other’s course. So it i ...

 The topic was “The Versailles Peace Treaty and the Extra- dition of the German Army Commanders.” Göring was much impressed by ...

 Ruhr industrial region. Regular army officers in Berlin and Munich  men like the scar-faced army captain Ernst Röhm  itched ...

 Munich’s city hall confirms that the marriage was solemnized at Obermenzing on February , . His private papers contained ...