Hermann Göring

German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)

  • Fame70.0
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  • Germany rank#224
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  • Fame70.0
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Lived 1893–1946, aged 53Germany
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  • Rank in Germany
    #224
    Politicians
  • Era
    1893–1946
    Aged 53
  • Known for
    Triumph of the Will
    1935
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Updated 2026-09-06

Hitler's designated successor and the architect of the Luftwaffe, whose power collapsed as Allied bombers reduced German cities to rubble and his attention turned to looting art from Holocaust victims.

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Hermann Göring was a World War I fighter ace who received the Pour le Mérite and commanded the squadron once led by the Red Baron. Wounded in Hitler's failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, he developed a morphine addiction during treatment that lasted decades. After Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, Göring created the Gestapo and rose to become the second most powerful man in the regime. Named Plenipotentiary of the Four Year Plan in 1936, he mobilized Germany's economy for war; by 1939 Hitler designated him as successor, and in 1940 he received the unique rank of Reichsmarschall. His influence cru…

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Hermann Göring
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I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand ... I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!
Göring's closing statement to the Nuremberg tribunal (31 August 1946); as quoted in Witness to Nuremberg (2006) by Richard Sonnenfeldt, p.
Hermann Göring
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The people were merely to acknowledge the authority of the Führer, or, let us say, to declare themselves in agreement with the Führer.
Statement (18 March 1946) Cross Examination of Hermann Goering "Eighty-Fourth Day, Monday, 3/18/1946, Part 16" in Trial of the Major War
Hermann Göring
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The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!
Statement at a luncheon on 20 April 1942, as recounted by General Franz Halder, about the Reichstag fire, which the Nazis had blamed on
Hermann Göring
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Excellency, please sign. I hate to say it, but my job is not the easiest one. Prague, your capital–I should be terribly sorry if I were compelled to destroy this beautiful city.
Said by Goering to the President of Czechoslovakia Emile Hácha on March 15, 1939, when Hácha, tired and under heavy pressure from Hitler to
Hermann Göring
said
Now you see. You are even turning the Fuehrer against me. Ah, the Jews, the Jews, they'll be the death of me yet!
Exclamation made by Göring in November 1938 soon after Kristallnacht. He returned from a day of dealing with the aftermath of the vandalism
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