Göring. A Biography

 Kreipe suggested the name of General Meister. “Meister,” growled Göring, “is the same type as you. I don’t intend getting an ...

 for the first time that he now intends to stay on here perma- nently  he has to keep an eye on what Himmler and Bormann are ...

 bluster: “If you don’t shoot down five hundred B-s the next time,” he said, “you’re all transferring to the infantry!” At ...

 After a long silence Göring responded, “That I cannot do, because then the Führer would lose faith in himself.” “Since , ...

 with them in the front line but the Führer won’t let him go, has told him that only he can rebuild the air force yet again. ...

 hall with him. On November , he asked Pelz to take the chair at a “Luftwaffe Parliament” held at Berlin’s Gatow Air Staff ...

 sand fighter planes would operate, and five hundred would take off for a second sortie to grapple with any surviving bombers ...

   Zero Hour for Hermann Reichsmarschall Göring now again commanded a fighter force to be reckoned with. Occasionall ...

 conferences. He was his Führer’s enfant gâté. For six days the record even shows Göring invited to tea with the Führer. But ...

 record in World War , he spoke of generals who had “lied for each other’s medals.” By this time Galland’s following among t ...

 bombers neatly parked at Saint Trond in Belgium, begging to be attacked. Göring brought in every available pilot, including ...

 that at least it had given his fighter crews a chance to take off. But Hitler forbade any repetition  he wanted the air bat ...

 Pelz and Herrmann, the misuse of the Me , the Reichsmar- schall’s slurs on his fighter pilots, and his humiliation of Gal ...

 returned to Berlin. Göring showed his face only briefly in the Chancellery, then hurried back to Carinhall. As the Russian t ...

 was plain from the cold language of his Reichsmarschall Order of January , commending the new man to the Luftwaffe. “What ...

 blamed Himmler for his lack of foresight and pointed out, “They’ll be getting ten thousand aviators.” He suggested loading t ...

 The jokes about Göring now had a more vinegary flavor. As one ancient German city after another paid the price of Göring’s d ...

 “that I actually went red and squirmed. I preferred to go to the front to avoid these scenes.”) Once, or so he would later c ...

 belong in the high command,” he wrote. “They must be elimi- nated.” Hitler agreed. “I am glad,” he remarked, “that his wife ...

 every first air raid always gives the impression that the town has been completely destroyed. Take all necessary steps at on ...