Göring. A Biography

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by Maj. Tilley, in IMT, xiii, .
Fat-Arsch: Lt. Fiedler, an FW  pilot shot down on Jan. , , overheard
relating this, in CSDIC report, SA draft .
Wedding ceremony: Ibid., Apr. ,  (/f); letter from Louis Lochner to his
daughter, Apr. ,  (FDR Library, Toland Papers, box ); William C.
Bullitt letter to Roosevelt, June ,  (FDR Library); Phipps dispatch to
F.O., Apr. ,  (PRO file FO./).
Gifts: Schacht, Revue, no. /. Gift of Reichsgruppe Handwerk is referred to
by Otto Ohlendorf in PW Paper  (PRO file WO./).
Prince of Wales: PRO file FO./.


Chapter : Getting Ready in Four Years
Vicar Schulze: Franz Gürtner diary, Feb. , .
Göring Standard: Dispatch of British embassy in Berlin to F.O., Nov. , 
(PRO file FO./).
Homespun: Letter from Himmler to SS Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl,
Sept. ,  (NA film T//).
Snide remarks: Reich Ministry of Justice circular to senior judges and D.A.s,
Sept. ,  (BA, R/); and Neumann to Gürtner, Aug. , , letter
about prosecution of utterances against the RM (/). Dr. Robert Kemp-
ner, a senior U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg, wrote on May , , to Col.
Melvin Purvis recommending interrogating HG “to soften him up”
about “the former intimate friendship of [Emmy] with a Jewish theatri-
cal man” (NA, RG, Judge Advocate General, box ).
Genealogical brochure: Prof. Otto Frhr. von Dungern, Ahnentafeln berühmter
Deutscher, Generaloberst HG (Leipzig: ).
Secret conference: Letter from HG to Neurath, May , , and minutes of
staff conference of May  in ADAP, C, iv/, no. .
War inevitable: Phipps to Vansittart, F.O., Jan. , , in DBFP (), xv, no.
. Lord Londonderry, Ourselves and Germany (London: ), p. ff.
Economists: On HG’s role in the German economy, see particularly the well-
researched accounts by Alfred Kobe, Pour le Mérite and Swastika (Munich:
), and by Stefan Martens, Hermann Göring (Paderborn: ). On the
arbitration issue, see Friedrich Gramsch’s manuscript of Aug. , 
(ND, NID-), and letter of Darré to Schacht, Jan. ,  (BA,
R/).
Currency decree: In BA files on the Four-Year Plan, R/; DNB-agency dis-
patch in The Times, Apr. ; Phipps to Eden, F.O., Apr.  (in DBFP () xvi,
no. ). Letters from Blomberg to HG, Apr.  (BA, WiIF./) and May 
(/), and Reich Finance Ministry memo of Aug. ,  (BA, R/).
HG interrogs., June ,  (USAISC), and Aug. ,  (SI).
Currency conferences: May , minutes in BA, RI/; cabinet of May , ND,
/PS; see also diaries of Milch and Darré, and Neurath’s memo of May
 (Wiehl Papers, NA film T//E.f). May : minutes i n
RI/; conference of experts on May  (among those present being
HG’s cousin, Herbert L. W. Göring, “General Counselor in the Reich
Ministry of Economics”), RI/; and June , , R/.
Economic staff: Prussian cabinet, Lists of Participants and Minutes, –,

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