By Roger Manvell
A revealing portrait of a infamous Nazi henchman, the top of Germany’s Luftwaffe.
In Goering, Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel use first-hand stories and numerous old files to inform the tale of a monster lurking in Hitler’s shadows. After emerging throughout the ranks of the German military, Hermann Goering turned Hitler’s correct hand guy and was once hand-picked to move the Luftwaffe, one among history’s such a lot feared combating forces. As he rose in strength, even though, Goering turned disappointed and was once finally avoided from Hitler’s internal circle. on my own on the finish, he confronted justice on the Nuremberg trials and was once convicted of conflict crimes and crime opposed to humanity. He devoted suicide in felony earlier than he can be hanged. inside of those pages, Manvell and Fraenkel carry to existence one in all history’s most intricate and hated characters. sixteen black-and-white illustrations
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His chance came through the German aircraft industry, which was unaccountably still in business. Goering knew the aircraft manufacturers, since he had often, as an air ace, visited their works and tested their machines. He undertook now to demonstrate the Fokker F7 at an aeronautical display in Copenhagen, and in return for doing this he was presented with the aircraft to keep as his personal property. He flew the machine to Kastrop airport and there gave flying demonstrations to the crowds. He performed aerobatics and gave people brief flights for fifty crowns a trip.
Nominally Epenstein was a Christian, having been baptized in childhood. But he was of Jewish family and appearance, and his name appeared in the “Semi-Gotha” of the time, a volume in which all titled families of Jewish descent were listed. He was a man who liked to be regarded as the benefactor of numerous children, who were all encouraged to address him as Pate or Godfather. Not only the five children of the Goering family enjoyed this privilege, but the two sons of Dr. Thirring as well. He would write long letters to his friends on how to educate their sons, how to marry off their daughters and how to invest their money.
And we risked our bodies for the Fatherland. Now we come home—and how do they treat us? They spit on us and deprive us of what we gloried in wearing. And this I can tell you, that the people are not to blame for such conduct. The people were our comrades—the comrades of each of us, irrespective of social conditions, for four weary years of war . . Those alone are to blame who have goaded on the people-those men who stabbed our glorious Army in the back and who thought of nothing but of attaining power and of enriching themselves at the expense of the people.