German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal (1893–1946)
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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.
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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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!
The people were merely to acknowledge the authority of the Führer, or, let us say, to declare themselves in agreement with the Führer.
The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!
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.
Now you see. You are even turning the Fuehrer against me. Ah, the Jews, the Jews, they'll be the death of me yet!
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