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Quotes About Goering

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
~ Adolf Galland
Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.
~ Richard Overy
Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.
~ Richard Overy
The wounded Goering was given first aid by the Jewish proprietor of a nearby bank
~ William L. Shirer
Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.
~ Richard Overy
Rather than creating a pure Reich out of a Weimar Germany almost glorifying in its hedonistic allure, the Nazi hierarchy would exhibit every symptom of decadence. When the drug-addicted Goering was arrested in 1945, his fingernails were varnished red; on being strip-searched, it was discovered his toenails were painted, too.
~ Philip Hoare