Göring. A Biography

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ter of HG to Imhausen, June , , reproduced in Emesen, op. cit. HG
talking, May ,  (SAIC/X/). Re Albert Forster: Burckhardt, p. f.
HG’s ordinances on the exclusion of Jews from German economic life:
Bormann letter in BDC file /II.
Petschek: H. Wohlthat, final report on the “de-Jewing” of the Ignaz Petschek
Group, May ,  (BA, R./); and files of the Czecho-Slovak Finan-
cial Claims Office, British Treasury (PRO file T./).
Outraged at Goebbels: Likus report, Nov. ,  (NA film T//).
Wiedemann interrogs., Sept.  and Oct. , ; HG, quoted by Bross, p.
ff, and diaries of Hassell, Nov. , and Groscurth, Dec. , . Manu-
script memoirs of Luftwaffe judge advocate general Christian Baron von
Hammerstein, Mein Leben, in IfZ. Darré talking, May ,  (SAIC/X-
P).
Crystal Night: The crimes are catalogued in a report of the Supreme Party
Court, Feb. ,  (ND, -PS), and in the transcript of a conference i n
the Reich Air Ministry building on the Jewish problem, Nov. ,  (ND,
-PS); letter of Heydrich to HG, Nov. ,  (ND, -PS).
Two laws: Published in Reichsgesetzblatt (Reich Law Gazette), , I,  and
; cf. the interrogs. of HG, Funk, Schwerin von Krosigk by SHAEF
officers on June ,  (USAISC). Further HG ordinances of Dec.  and
, , are in BDC file /II and BA file K.Erw., and of Jan. , 
(ND, MG-); and cf. the memo by M. Luther, Aug. ,  (ND, NG-
), and HG’s directive that all Jewish war veterans be released from
custody, Dec. ,  (BDC file /II).
Ilse: Cited in Hassell’s diary, Apr. , .
Guidelines: HG circular letter, Dec. , , in BA, K.Erw., and ND, -
PS.
Central Reich office: HG order of Jan. ,  (BDC file /II; ND, NG-).
Hitler’s speech: Völkischer Beobachter, Jan. , . (Its headline read,
“One of Hitler’s greatest speeches: prophetic warning to Jewry.”)


Chapter : Losing Weight
Hitler speeches: Transcripts in BA file NS./ (DJ film ).
Göring diary: In an A-sized notebook (now held in the Library of Congress),
on which HG had entered his Berlin address as No. , Badensche Strasse,
he listed twenty-two different diaries that he intended to keep simultane-
ously. This was probably written new year, –. The total contents of
one of HG’s diaries, Besprechungen (“Conferences”), Oct. , , through
Aug. , , were published in the London Daily Herald, July –, and
the New York Herald Tribune, July –, ; the original diary has van-
ished since then.
Increasing the Air Force: Thomas, conference with HG, Oct. ,  (ND, -
PS). Eberhard diary, Oct.  and ,  (DJ film ); cf. Milch diary, Oct.
 (“Mid-day to see Göring on Schorf Heath”), Oct.  (“Basic conference
on decimetric [radar] wavelengths”), Oct.  (“Reich Air Ministry, conf.
with Udet and Stumpff on Britain”), and Oct.  (“Carinhall for major
conf. on Luftwaffe expansion”). Cf. Karl-Heinz Völker’s official history,
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