Göring. A Biography

 Plus high-speed bombers. We’ve got to have that air umbrella over our home base and infantry, even if this means doing with- ...

 shan’t be able to send him to Germany for another three weeks to assemble the parts. This sculptor can then also retouch the ...

 away.” The call came from Hitler’s adjutant. Colonel von Below’s voice sounded odd and shaken. He shouted that a bomb had go ...

 ever suffered.” Ignoring for the moment every other conse- quence, just let me mention one, gentlemen: In what light has the ...

 Reichsmarschall’s misfit “half-brother,” Herbert Göring had actually attended plotting sessions with Carl Goerdeler, the con ...

 completely corrupt Göring  the ‘Reichsmarschall’ who can’t grovel deep enough to his so-called ‘Führer’  has the imperti- ...

 hands. And if fate should be against us, if the Russians should come into this province, then that must only be possible whe ...

 his name,” but he would be loath to let him go. Powerful bonds of party history still linked their destinies. After Korten’s ...

 the best they could hope for was to stave off defeat until Decem- ber, and that Germany could never regain air supremacy eve ...

 prepared to torch Göring’s beloved hunting lodge. The head- stone of Jeschonnek’s grave was removed and buried. On August , ...

   Witch Hunt By the late summer of  Hermann Göring’s air force was in worsening disarray. In August , Briti ...

 private estate near Belgrade and for smuggling foreign currency into Hungary and gold into Switzerland; Göring managed to se ...

 worked up if our units took over the finest châteaux in France or caroused or womanized. But now the times are rougher, eve- ...

 craft figures, our technical blunders, our non-completion of the replenishment squadrons in the Reich, the Me , and so on ...

 was still not ready for combat. “Boundless reproaches against the air force,” wrote Kreipe after Hitler’s conference on Augu ...

 figures. Total failure in France, the ground organiza- tion and signals troops just took to their heels... in- stead of join ...

 madas of troop transports and gliders both that day and the next, shooting down hundreds of them. “New reports about fresh l ...

 dissolving the general staff had been one of the original dictates of Versailles. Back at Rosengarten that night Kreipe was ...

 Stricken with jaundice and bedridden for two weeks, he blamed it on his anger at the Reichsmarschall, and began to press for ...

 would arrive in time to restore supremacy. Swift and invulner- able, the Ar  jet was effortlessly photographing the Allie ...