Göring. A Biography

 now a field marshal  from Luftflotte  on Manstein’s front in Russia to Luftflotte  in Italy until the invasion crisis the ...

 set eyes on Milch for the first time since May. The field marshal had had the thankless duty of touring the cratered Ruhr ci ...

 Jeschonnek flew out to Luftflotte  to get the feel of Citadel, Richthofen sat around Rominten. “They’re at the trough all d ...

 July , Göring’s factories produced one thousand fighter planes for the first time. The post-Udet era was beginning. Cita ...

 by agonies of apprehension, aboard his Focke-Wulf  for the long flight to Italy. Hitler’s porcine physician, Morell, told ...

 shouted, still fuming, at his staff two days later, “only when it’s their cities that are being wrecked. I won’t have a monk ...

 : Hello, Göring... Did you get the news? Well, there’s still no direct confirmation but hardly any doubt about it  th ...

 At the evening war conference thirty-five men crowded around the map table. Göring was silent, and it was Rommel who urged c ...

 nothing could prevent them from dropping thousands of tons of fire bombs. They uncaged in this ancient Hanseatic port an awf ...

 go on like this,” an SS Obergruppenführer wrote to Himmler on July . “Someone’s got to speak to the German people. They wo ...

 Reichsmarschall had used “distinctly pejorative” language about him and had warned his staff, “We’ve got to make damn sure t ...

 about four paintings on offer, “The Four Seasons.” Peiner told him with regret that Speer had laid hands on one of them al- ...

 flak to lower its ceiling of fire to eighteen thousand feet. At : .. Metz ordered, “All night fighters to Bear [Berlin ...

 addressed to von Below. The major scanned their content briefly, said simply that they were private, and made no effort to h ...

 alarmed. “Pull yourself together!” Göring skidded to a halt, and slumped into a chair. “How many of you,” he roared eventual ...

   Schweinfurt For the rest of  the tide of the war in the air would ebb and flow dramatically. Aided by new tac ...

 formations (and bail out if they could at the last moment). Gen- eral Günther Korten, Jeschonnek’s successor, put the idea t ...

 suming that you still have bombers able to fly that far!” Luft- waffe liaison officer Karl Bodenschatz, no more eager than G ...

 neers had moored reflectors on thousands of lakes and erected jamming transmitters code-named Roderich up and down the count ...

 During the meal [Backe wrote in a letter] I sat on the Reichsmarschall’s right, with an Oak Leaves holder, the dive-bomber p ...