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.

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

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.

Göring stated that the Gestapo had attempted to arrest Schleicher, but that he had been " shot while attempting to escape ".

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

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

Göring and some other Nazi leaders were furious at Goebbels ’ actions, about which they had not been consulted.

The alliance was shaky at best, mainly because during this period Himmler was still cooperating with Bormann to gain more power at the expense of Göring and most of the traditional Reich administration ; Göring's loss of power had resulted in an overindulgence in the trappings of power and his strained relations with Goebbels made it difficult for a unified coalition to be formed, despite the attempts of Speer and Göring's Luftwaffe deputy Field Marshal Erhard Milch, to reconcile the two Party comrades.

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.

But Hitler, supported by Göring, resisted these demands, which he feared would weaken civilian morale and lead to a repetition of the debacle of 1918, when the German army had been undermined ( in Hitler's view ) by a collapse of the home front.

Goebbels promised Hitler that he could raise a million new soldiers by means of a reorganisation of the Army, transferring personnel from the Navy and Luftwaffe, and purging the bloated Reich Ministries, which satraps like Göring had hitherto protected.

Adenauer was imprisoned for two days after the Night of the Long Knives on the 30th June 1934, but already on the 10th of August 1934, maneuvering for his pension, he wrote a 10-page letter to Hermann Göring ( the Prussian interior minister ) stating among other things that as a mayor he had even violated Prussian laws in order to allow NSDAP events in public buildings and Nazi flags to be flown from city flagpoles, and added that in 1932 he had declared publicly that the Nazis should join the Reich government in a leading role.

Göring had little knowledge of current aviation, had last flown in 1922, and had not kept himself informed of latest events.

Kesselring also had to contend with Göring appointing " yes men " to positions of importance.

From 1943, the Luftwaffe also had an armoured paratroop division called Fallschirm-Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring, which was expanded to a Panzerkorps in 1944.

* 1938 – Hermann Göring proposes plans to make Madagascar the " Jewish homeland ", an idea that had first been considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.

This ultimately placed responsibility for Sea Lion's success squarely on the shoulders of Raeder and Göring, neither of whom had the slightest enthusiasm for the venture and, in fact, did little to hide their opposition to it.

The " Northern-SS " was under the command of Kurt Daluege who had close ties to Hermann Göring and enjoyed his position in Berlin where most of the Nazi government offices were located.

All the characters and groups in the play had direct counterparts in real life, with Ui representing Hitler, his henchman Ernesto Roma representing Ernst Röhm, Dogsborough representing Paul von Hindenburg ( a pun on the German Hund and Burg ), Emanuele Giri representing Hermann Göring, Giuseppe Givola representing Joseph Goebbels, the Cauliflower Trust representing the Prussian Junkers, the fate of the town of Cicero standing for the Anschluss in Austria and so on.

** Dutch painter Han van Meegeren is arrested for collaboration with the Nazis, but the paintings he had sold to Hermann Göring ( Koch ) are later found to be his fakes.

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.

Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler played on this fear by constantly feeding him with new information on Röhm's proposed coup.

He played a role in the so-called Fighter Pilots Conspiracy when several senior air force officers confronted Hermann Göring late in the war.

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 ".

* 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.

* Hermann Göring, a leading German Nazi official

Göring described Funk as " an insignificant subordinate ," but documentary evidence and his wartime biography Walther Funk, A Life for Economy were used against him during the trial, leading to his conviction on counts 2, 3 and 4 of the indictment and his sentence of life imprisonment.

At 05: 00 he ordered the Kampfgruppe of 4th Parachute Division and the Hermann Göring Panzer Division to defend the roads leading from Anzio to the Alban Hills via Campoleone and Cisterna whilst his plans expected some 20, 000 defending troops to have arrived by the end of the first day.

Nevertheless, only the ties that Messerschmitt had formed with leading Nazis Rudolf Hess and Hermann Göring ( through Theo Croneiss ) saved him from sharing the fate of Milch's other great enemy, Hugo Junkers.

Hermann Göring was a leading member of the Nazi Party.

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.

During their discussions for a post-Hitler future, it was agreed that various Nazi leaders like Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, provided that they were willing to break with Hitler could have a leading role in a post-Nazi government.

The Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda confiscated the work in 1937 as part of its campaign to rid Germany of so-called degenerate art, leading to Hermann Göring hurriedly selling it to a dealer in Amsterdam.

Additionally, in the German version of the game, pictures of leading Nazi leaders, such as Hitler, Göring, and Himmler were removed and their names subsequently altered, though this is not required under German censorship laws, and is not the case in non-German versions of the game.

His older brother, Hermann Göring, was the head of the German Luftwaffe, and a leading member of the Nazi Party.

Unlike his elder brother Hermann, who was a leading party member, Albert Göring despised Nazism and the brutality that it involved.

Another fraction, who Hildebrand refers to as the Wilhelmine Imperialists and whose leading personality was Hermann Göring, advocated at minimum the restoration of the borders of 1914 and the overseas empire, a zone of influence for Germany in Eastern Europe, and greater emphasis on traditional Machtpolitik as opposed to Hitler's racist vision of an endless and merciless Social Darwinist struggle between different " races " for lebensraum.

Additionally, Eva Braun, and a number of leading Nazis, such as Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring are known to have committed suicide using lethal pills containing a solution of cyanide salts.

Many such guns continued to use the smaller 0. 318 diameter bullet until this practice was outlawed by Hermann Göring in the early 1940s in his role as chief huntsman of the Third Reich.

They convinced Hermann Göring initially in emphasizing instead the need for tactical bombers to act in an army support role.

Schmeisser had a direct role in military production decisions, often influencing the decisions of Adolf Hitler and Göring.