Göring. A Biography

 Göring had a posse of art dealers to haggle with. It was : .. by the time Ramcke strutted into the lavishly appointed, ...

 lampshade, and Göring evidently this robe. By night the fighter squadrons turned the war in the air Göring’s way, and decisi ...

 Castle. The next day the new fighter staff met for the first time  at Speer’s ministry. It was a further significant abdica ...

   Imminent Danger West While the new fighter staff  Milch, Saur, and their principal lieutenants  toured the rava ...

 daylight thrust into Germany yet, to targets near Berlin. On the seventh, after they bombed Berlin itself, Hitler assigned t ...

 however, while Bormann and Himmler rarely missed them. On March , Himmler reported to the Führer that eighty RAF airmen ha ...

 Reich, he would rush nineteen fighter squadrons (the entire  Air Corps) to France along with a number of bomber squadrons a ...

 At the top Luftwaffe level Hanna Reitsch found little en- thusiasm, however. Korten was lukewarm, and instructed Colo- nel H ...

 back to Britain. After this catastrophe the RAF virtually called off their night offensive for six months. A few hours later ...

 proof aircraft factories, and Göring took the civil engineer up to see Hitler that evening. The Führer told them both to go ...

 use. He thinks it’s enough to pulverize our airplanes.” He was under no illusions about the coming of the Allied invasion. A ...

 indiscriminate lynchings of crashed Allied airmen. More than one German pilot had to fight off peasants wielding pitchforks ...

 invasion, the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force flew overhead from Italy making its way into Germany, while the U.S. Eighth Air Force ...

 The Germans had none even worth manufacturing now. Gen- eral Korten warned that if Saur cut production of the remaining bomb ...

 Asked when the plane could be operational as a bomber, Petersen made a wild guess. “Around three months,” he said. Göring th ...

   Total Sacrifice “He would be awakened at nine,” testified Göring, describing Hitler’s life-style to interrogators ...

 rule during the first twenty-four hours whether this Normandy invasion was real or a feint. Not until late on the seventh wo ...

 soured even as it passed his lips. The BBC scoffed that the Ger- mans had been caught with their pants down. Göring himself ...

 Reichsmarschall also wanted “another talk with the Führer” about it. Incongruously, the supposedly life-weary glider pilots ...

 ies. In the twelve months up to the end of August , the mis- sile sites would attract , tons of Allied bombs. That ...