Göring. A Biography

 Göring had armed and enlarged the SA far beyond the boundaries of Munich. Four years younger than Hitler, he was still more o ...

 the Beloved One paraded his army of true young Germans before his Führer, and I saw his face light u p as he watched them pas ...

 to him his first Vollmacht, or supreme authority to act in his behalf. The work was hard, but Göring thrived on it. “Often,” ...

 Bavaria to act and offered his “troops” in support. Göring, however, had other preoccupations now. Carin had contracted a lun ...

 At a Nuremberg rally early in September  Hitler had pro- nounced, “In a few weeks the dice will roll!” At this rally he a ...

 declared. “We’re not separatists. What we say is, ‘Let’s March on Berlin!’ For two months Berlin has spouted one lie after an ...

 officers of these private armies, assembled at his headquarters, that they were not going to follow a narrow, Bavarian line, ...

 referring to the puny, post-Versailles German Army. “There’s not one German soldier who will open fire on Ludendorff.” Two da ...

 our red-white-and-black swastika banner is fluttering over the [presidential] palace in Berlin.” The next day he learned that ...

 won’t do it until my little notebook tells me we’ve got at least a fifty-one percent chance of pulling it off.” One week befo ...

 mous  they had tried to book an even bigger hall, they said, but only the Bürgerbräu was available. So really I had no alter ...

   Putsch November , , was to be a painful turning point in the lives of both Hitler and Göring. Icy cold and bit ...

 two SA “battalions” to the Bürgerbräu that evening to await further orders; others would muster at the Arzberger and Hof- brä ...

 Hitler arrived in the foyer. Rather oddly, he was wearing a black frock coat with his Iron Cross. He and Scheubner-Richter of ...

 Seisser  leaving consternation behind them. They saw no sign of six hundred men surrounding the building, just a handful of ...

 an officer, an aviator, an air-force captain. Blue eyes blazing, jaw thrust forward, he glared at the five thousand faces and ...

 gument, Hitler pushed through to the front of the hall again, mounted the rostrum, and delivered a speech that was described ...

 burst forth into the national anthem. As Hitler stood at atten- tion, ramrod stiff, his face illuminated by a childlike ecsta ...

 bulletin to all German radio stations under the heading “Gen- eral Staatskommissar von Kahr, General von Lossow and Colonel v ...

 it. “Now is the time to show what we’re made of,” he stoutly de- clared. “Let’s show we’re worthy of leading the nationalist ...