Göring. A Biography

 plane had managed to set down its cargo and nine agents behind Allied lines. As it returned, an Allied night fighter shot it ...

 paintings, sixty pieces of sculpture, and fifty tapestries. He also turned over the seventeen priceless paintings and eleven ...

 to go ahead with Project Mistletoe, which the air force had long been planning:  piggy-backed planes  Ju s coupled wit ...

 cellery for the last time on March , he found the Führer very upset about the Reichsmarschall “attempting to start negotia ...

 message that Göring ordered all Geschwader commodores to read out secretly to pilots who had completed fighter training: The ...

 Luftwaffe war diary confirms that  suicide crews took part, escorted into battle by their less-exalted comrades from JG ...

 we shall come through.” Göring intended to come through. He was packed and ready to go. He was leaving one thousand air-forc ...

 into the eastern outskirts of Berlin. He knelt briefly, then straightened and left the cold granite tomb where once he had p ...

 called seeing Himmler and Göring talking this day). For “two or three hours,” Göring recalled, they talked on the delicate t ...

 Darkness fell on the Reich capital. RAF Mosquito bombers had begun pummeling Berlin. On an impulse Göring decided to visit t ...

 He arrived on the Obersalzberg at : .. The villa was crowded  Edda, Emmy, her sister, nephews, and nieces. Since Herm ...

   Into the Cage Often it is only in adversity that a man rises above his superficial character. For Reichsmarschall ...

 the darkening valleys around echoed with the crackle and thunder of exploding ammunition as German troops destroyed their re ...

 submachine guns for his protection. After talking it over with the castle’s SS commander, Standartenführer [Colonel] Walde- ...

 ceptibly, not taking his eyes off the matching blue set of luggage as it was stowed into the American cars. They parted. It ...

 later). Bruce Hopper, Spaatz’s chief historian, took in the heavy silver ring on the Reichsmarschall’s third finger, the cle ...

 bombing or area bombing? It was a question of patriotic impor- tance, and Göring knew it. “Your precision bombing,” he flat- ...

 his Reichsmarschall’s epaulets. On the following day, May , , he was taken out of the back door of the two-storey subu ...

 “and despite rumors to the contrary is far from being mentally deranged. In fact he must be considered a very ‘shrewd cus- t ...

 transmitted from the bunker: “In the place of Reichsmarschall Göring, the Führer appoints you, Grand Admiral, as his succes- ...