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4 days ago · Like Sefton Delmer’s story, Winthrop Bell’s has not heretofore been told: Because spies don’t tell. Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler at Luitpold Arena, Nuremberg, Germany, September 11, 1938. Resistance to the Nazis came in many forms. Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images. Enter your email to read this article.
3 days ago · After Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Hermann Göring—future commander of the Luftwaffe and the number-two man in the Nazi Party—was named Interior Minister of Prussia. [6] This gave Göring command of the largest police force in Germany.
2 days ago · JACKSON himself crossexamined Hermann Göring, and it did not go well: Göring ran rings around him with his ‘sarcastic, unrepentant posturing and calculated nit-picking’. The American journalist Janet Flanner saw this pairing as a ‘showdown between good and evil, between the civilised world and a brilliant demon.’
1 day ago · Adolph Hitler and Hermann Goering stand with other Nazi officials at a Luftwaffe demonstration in Zinst, Germany. Photograph: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images .
4 days ago · This biographical account is from Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide and is available via Modern World History database. Hermann Wilhelm Göring, commander in chief of the Luftwaffe and president of the Reichstag (or parliament), was second only to Adolf Hitler in the Nazi hierarchy.
2 days ago · The Nazi Party gained three posts: Hitler was named chancellor, Wilhelm Frick Minister of the Interior, and Hermann Göring Minister of the Interior for Prussia. [157] Hitler had insisted on the ministerial positions as a way to gain control over the police in much of Germany.
3 days ago · After the Invasion of Poland and the start of the war on 1 September 1939, Hitler made Hess second in line to succeed him, after Hermann Göring. [70] [71] Around the same time, Hitler appointed Hess's chief of staff, Martin Bormann, as his personal secretary, a post formerly held by Hess. [72]