Göring. A Biography

 idea that I am not in office to dispense justice  but to destroy and exterminate!” “Shoot first and ask questions afterward ...

 We’ve got [Hitler said] to seize the instruments of power first of all if we are to floor the enemy perma- nently.... You mu ...

 “having given us such a vivid insight into the way your mind is working.” The Führer left Göring’s apartment amid the rustle ...

 Nazis were not the instigators of this blaze  fortuitous though it proved for their campaign and cause. Göring, toppling he ...

 Dutch youth had already tried unsuccessfully to burn down three other buildings, including Berlin’s City Hall, castle, and a ...

 to the quailing Cabinet ministers the next morning: Admittedly the man arrested [Van der Lubbe] was maintaining that he had ...

 Berlin a mid-March deadline to take action or forfeit their So- viet cash subsidies in consequence. Suffice it to say that n ...

 “I continue,” said Dimitrov. “Is it known to Mr. Göring that the party with what he calls this ‘criminal ideology’ is a part ...

 Beet red, Göring screamed at him, “You will be afraid if I ever come across you outside this courthouse, you scoundrel!” All ...

   Göring’s Pet Toward midnight on election night, March , , the Nazi party notables came together in Göring’s K ...

 scraped together enough votes when the Reichstag opened to see the all-important Enabling Act, which would give him dic- tat ...

 brought before him. Thälmann confirmed that he was being maltreated. Göring had the manhandling stopped and boasted that ten ...

 ponents from the minister, Göring, in person. A year later, when the Gestapo passed into the hands of Heinrich Himmler and t ...

 Göring repeated to me [the intercept continued] what he had already told Your Excellency [Mussolini] verbally, that there is ...

 (literally, Research Office). Created on April , , the For- schungsamt (FA) was perhaps the least known, but most sig- ...

 blind man must have in his guide dog. Funded initially by Göring’s Prussian state government, the harmless-sounding Forschun ...

 larly hard time. “If,” recalled one FA official, “as was usually the case with the Gestapo’s applications, the reason given ...

 was number-stamped and logged. Recipients of the Brown Pages signed oaths of secrecy subjecting them to the death penalty in ...

 can, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Czech, and the other languages of the moment. Dr. Gerhard Neuenhoff, one linguist w ...

 basement at Charlottenburg churned out “results” twenty-four hours a day. Göring’s SigInt specialists “looped into” the grea ...