Göring. A Biography

 fighters raked the landing craft and troops. Richthofen’s bomb- ers and torpedo planes damaged an Allied battleship and thre ...

 keep their entire navy operational for a year! The swine tucked it away, barrel upon barrel, and then came whining to me for ...

 have arrived,” the people took to saying. “So the raid must be over!” The Luftwaffe sent a mere twenty-two long-range night ...

 the He  would have no rear gun turret at all. Göring sud- denly snapped. Face glistening, he ordered the arrest of Udet’s ...

 “Right,” said Göring, and did the calculation for him. “That means you can make three sorties to engage the enemy during eac ...

 thirty more. At midday on the fourteenth, Göring called a con- ference of aircraft-industry bosses at Berchtesgaden. They we ...

 factories. The foreman told him that the whole town was devas- tated. Speer hurried back to report this to Hitler in his own ...

 the hard hit KG on an air base in Holland. “How he cursed the Dutch,” recalled one listener, radio operator Corporal Schürg ...

 home of the Fieseler Aircraft Works, where the Luftwaffe flying bomb was being mass-produced, was ablaze. Six thousand citi- ...

 dred miles closer to us or not  that is not vital. What is vital is to be able... to prevent any sec- ond front emerging in ...

 got to be able to bomb them. For two years they haven’t been bombed. But,” he exclaimed, “the moment the British try to land ...

   The Blind Leading the Blind Göring would admit to the gauleiters in November  that the Luftwaffe could never ...

 spurred him now, the Reichsmarschall toured the jet-aircraft plants in November . At Regensburg, on November , Pro- fes ...

 underground floor space as soon as possible for production. “What has been damaged by fire,” he told them, “is beyond re- pa ...

 inflicted serious damage on the ministries and factories, and to- tally wrecked Göring’s “pet,” his Forschungsamt. On the fo ...

 Führer can see it!” As a public-relations exercise, the display was a disaster for Göring. Plucking the program out of Milch ...

 London. The Reichsmarschall called Koller and Pelz aboard his train and directed them to scrape together every available Ju ...

 altar anyway, he knelt artlessly down to scrutinize the pedestal’s workmanship. The museum directors chuckled silently at th ...

 Vatican  but only  crates would eventually arrive there (on January ). The contents of the other sixteen now lay spread ...

 underground, in a cavernous factory beneath the Harz Moun- tains. There was no time to be lost: On the seventh, British news ...