Due to his position, Speer was able to describe the personalities of many Nazi officials, including Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Martin Bormann and, of course, Adolf Hitler himself.

" During the course of his defence, Dimitrov claimed that the organizers of the fire were senior members of the Nazi Party and frequently verbally clashed with Göring at the trial.

Despite his disagreements with Göring over the best economic course to follow, on August 6, 1936, Göring commissioned a report from Goerdeler as a leading economic expert about whether Germany should devalue the Reichmark or not.

His proposal had a certain logic, as Göring – despite the failures of the Luftwaffe and his own corruption – was still very popular among the German people, whose morale was waning since Hitler barely appeared in public since the defeat at Stalingrad.

) As Ribbentrop alienated more and more people in Britain, Göring warned Hitler that Ribbentrop was a " stupid ass ".

Hitler dismissed Göring's concerns: " ut after all, he knows quite a lot of important people in England ", leading Göring to reply " Mein Führer, that may be right, but the bad thing is, they know him ".

The Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels wanted Raeder and the other high officials of the " grocery ring " like Wilhelm Keitel, Hermann Göring and Hans Lammers who used their positions to ignore rationing when grocery shopping to be punished in order to let the German people know that the elite were suffering like everyone else, but Hitler claimed if the German people learned of the luxurious lifestyles of the elite in the middle of a war that the effect would be fatal to morale.

In an act of civil disobedience, after Hermann Göring prompted him to decline the prize, Ossietzky issued a note from the hospital saying that he disagreed with the authorities who had stated that by accepting the prize he would cast himself outside the deutsche Volksgemeinschaft ( community of German people ):

Meanwhile Göring, Himmler, Heydrich and Victor Lutze ( at Hitler's direction ) drew up lists of people in and outside the SA to be killed.

A strong physical resemblance between von Epenstein and Albert Göring led many people to believe that the two were father and son.

: Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.

Even so, Göring was reported to have disliked Himmler to the last days of the war and even turned down honorary SS rank since he did not want to be subordinate to Himmler in any way.

Göring did not want von Fritsch to become the successor to Blomberg and thus his superior.

Hermann Göring had consistently stated the task of the Four Year Plan was to rearm Germany for total war.

Their pre-war economic policies, resembling Keynesianism, were in the beginning the brainchildren of their non-Nazi Minister of Economics, Hjalmar Schacht, who was later made to focus more on war production ( cf: Military Keynesianism ), and was eventually replaced by a Nazi, Hermann Göring.

With Hitler preoccupied with the war, Himmler focusing on the " final solution to the Jewish question " in eastern Europe, and with Hermann Göring ’ s position declining with the failure of the German Air Force ( Luftwaffe ), Goebbels sensed a power vacuum in domestic policy and moved to fill it.

The air war on the Western Front received the most attention in the annals of military aviation, since it produced aces such as Manfred von Richthofen, popularly known as the Red Baron, Ernst Udet, Hermann Göring, Oswald Boelcke, Werner Voss, and Max Immelmann ( the first airman to win the Pour le Mérite, Imperial Germany's highest decoration for gallantry, as a result of which the decoration became popularly known as the Blue Max ).

At the end of the war, with Berlin surrounded by the Red Army, Göring sent a telegram to Hitler suggesting he take over leadership of the Reich.

Göring was prosecuted at the Nuremberg Trials after the war.

Hitler ignored German economic naysayers, and told Hermann Göring that " everyone on all sides was always raising economic misgivings against a threatening war with Russia.

He was one of the main architects of the Holocaust during the early war years, answering only to, and taking orders from, Hitler, Göring, and Himmler in all matters that pertained to the deportation, imprisonment, and extermination of Jews.

* October 15 – Nuremberg Trials: Hermann Göring, founder of the Gestapo and recently convicted Nazi war criminal, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution.

* June 29 – WWII: Hitler, s second-in-command Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring appointed as Hitler, s successor in a written decree. The decree will come into effect should Hitler die in the middle of the war. The decree later became void after Göring tried to assume power while Hitler was very much alive leading to Göring being expelled from the party.

* January 4 – WWII: Axis powers: Luftwaffe General Hermann Göring assumes control of most war industries in Germany.

" At a conference on the day after the pogrom, Hermann Göring said: " The Jewish problem will reach its solution if, in any time soon, we will be drawn into war beyond our border — then it is obvious that we will have to manage a final account with the Jews.

Hitler, during the last days of the war after dismissing Hermann Göring as head of the Luftwaffe for what he saw as an act of treason ( sending the Göring Telegramme and allegedly attempting a coup d ' état ), appointed Generaloberst Robert Ritter von Greim as head of the Luftwaffe.

Following their executions on October 16, 1946, the ashes of the Nazi war criminals Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Jodl, Alfred Rosenberg, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Frick, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Fritz Sauckel and Julius Streicher were scattered in the Isar, as were those of Hermann Göring who had committed suicide the previous night.

Galland's position as General der Jagdflieger brought him into gradual conflict with Göring as the war continued.

Thyssen sent Hermann Göring a telegram saying he was opposed to the war, shortly before leaving for Switzerland with his family.

During the war, Kraśnik was the site of the Budzyn labor camp, where the prisoners worked for the Hermann Göring Werke on aircraft production.

But in March 1944 Kammler had Göring appoint him as his delegate for " special buildings " under the fighter aircraft programme, which made him one of the war economy's most important managers, and robbed Speer of much of his influence.

* October 15 – Hermann Göring commits suicide by poisoning himself in his jail cell at Nuremberg, Germany, the day before his scheduled hanging for war crimes.

Along the way he is enslaved and then, after being partnered with Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring, discovers the existence of a mysterious organization responsible for the resurrection of humanity, and is recruited by a rogue member of this group to take down their carefully laid plans.

* 1945 – Adolf Hitler's designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.

Hermann Göring had promised the Luftwaffe would complete the destruction of the encircled armies, but aerial operations did not prevent the evacuation of the majority of Allied troops ( which the British named Operation Dynamo ); some 330, 000 French and British were saved.

Allied fighters, by gaining air superiority over the European battlefield, played a crucial role in the eventual defeat of the Axis, which Reichmarshal Hermann Göring, commander of the German Luftwaffe summed up when he said: " When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up.

For Prussia, which constituted the bulk of Germany in any event, Hitler reserved these rights for himself and delegated them to Prussian minister-president Hermann Göring.

As part of the deal in which Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Hermann Göring — future commander of the Luftwaffe and an influential Nazi Party official — was named Interior Minister of Prussia.

Soon afterward, Göring detached the political and intelligence sections from the police and filled their ranks with Nazis.

On 26 April 1933, Göring merged the two units as the Gestapo.

Its first commander was Rudolf Diels, a protégé of Göring.

Göring outflanked him by removing the Prussian political and intelligence departments from the state interior ministry.

Göring himself took over the Gestapo in 1934 and urged Hitler to extend the agency's authority throughout Germany.

Frick did not have the muscle to take on Göring by himself so he allied with Himmler.

Göring, concerned that Diels was not ruthless enough to use the Gestapo effectively to counteract the power of the Sturmabteilung ( SA ), handed over its control to Himmler on 20 April 1934.

Nineteen of the 22 were convicted, and twelve of them ( Bormann absentia, Frank, Frick, Göring, Jodl, Kaltenbrunner, Keitel, Ribbentrop, Rosenberg, Sauckel, Seyss-Inquart, Streicher ), were given the death penalty ; the other three ( Funk, Hess, Raeder ) got a life term.

Gestapo members Hermann Göring and Arthur Seyss-Inquart were individually convicted.

On January 1933, Hermann Göring, Hitler's minister without portfolio, was appointed the head of the Prussian Police and began filling the political and intelligence units of the Prussian Secret Police with Nazi Party members.

At a press conference held later the same day, Hermann Göring was asked by foreign correspondents to respond to a hot rumour that General von Schleicher had been murdered in his home.

Hindenburg appointed Hermann Göring appointed as minister without portfolio, Minister of the Interior for Prussia, and Reich Commissioner of Aviation, and named Wilhelm Frick as Reich Interior Minister.

Thereafter, Himmler and Heydrich took over the political police of state after state ; soon only Prussia was controlled by Göring.

On 30 November 1933, Göring had established a Prussian police force, called the Geheime Staatspolizei or Gestapo, and appointed Rudolf Diels as its head.

Göring, concerned that Diels was not ruthless enough to use the Gestapo effectively to counteract the power of the SA, handed over its control to Himmler on 20 April 1934.

He sent Göring to Berlin on 29 June, to meet with Himmler and Heydrich to plan the action.

Himmler and Heydrich had greater bargaining power, as they were allied with Frick's old enemy, Göring.

Along with Göring, Himmler quickly left the city after the briefing.