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A Triangular Affair

Hermann Göring  the Führer’s chosen successor; last com-
mander of the legendary Richthofen Squadron; commander of
the storm troopers and of the German Air Force; speaker of the
German Parliament, prime minister of Prussia, president of the
Prussian State Council; Reich master of forestry and game; the
Führer’s special commissioner for the Four-Year Plan; chairman
of the Reich Defense Council; Reichsmarschall of the Greater
German Reich; chairman of the Scientific Research Council 
Hermann Wilhelm Göring, holder of all these titles, styles and
dignities, architect of the Gestapo, the concentration camp, and
the giant industrial conglomerate bearing his name, was born in
Bavaria on January , .
His father was a haughty German colonial official, his
mother a simple peasant girl, his godfather a Jew. Dutiful re-
searchers would trace his ancestral line back to one Michael
Christian Gering, who in  was appointed economic control-