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    Hermann Göring

    German Nazi politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal

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  1. Hermann Wilhelm Göring (or Goering; German: [ˈhɛʁman ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈɡøːʁɪŋ] ⓘ; 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946) was a German politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal. He was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party , which governed Germany from 1933 to 1945.

    • Who Was Hermann Göring?
    • Early Life, Nazi Party and World War I
    • World War II
    • Trial and Death

    Hermann Göring was a leader of the Nazi Party. He played a prominent role in organizing the Nazi police state in Germany and established concentration camps for the "corrective treatment" of individuals. Indicted by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1946, Göring was condemned to hang as a war criminal, but he took cyanide the nigh...

    Hermann Göring was born in Rosenheim, Germany, on January 12, 1893. He was trained for a career in the military and received his commission in 1912, serving Germany as a pilot during World War I. After the war, Göring worked as a commercial pilot in Denmark and Sweden, where he met Swedish baroness Carin von Kantzow, who promptly divorced her husba...

    In 1934, Göring's Gestapo and the Nazis' parliamentary regiments, also known as "Schutzstaffel" or the "SS," carried out what has become known as the "Night of the Long Knives," in which 85 members of the political opposition were assassinated, thus consolidating Nazi power and quieting any further dissent. Göring's association with Hitler helped h...

    While awaiting trial as a war criminal, Göring finally was able to break his morphine addiction, and he defended himself before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg. Göring denied any involvement in the regime's more monstrous activities but was condemned to death nonetheless. He pleaded to be shot instead of hanged, but the tribunal re...

  2. Hermann Göring (1893–1946) was the highest-ranking Nazi official tried during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. A decorated fighter pilot during World War I, Göring joined the Nazi party in 1922 after hearing a speech by Adolf Hitler. He eventually found his way into the inner circles of Nazi power.

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  4. Sep 11, 2009 · End of the trial: Guardian report on the executions, 16 October 1946. Hermann Göring last night died by his own hand. Two and a quarter hours before he was to be executed he took poison under...

  5. Aug 30, 2012 · After Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Hermann Göring took on many positions of power and leadership within the Nazi state. He was ultimately sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

  6. Hermann Göring, or Hermann Goering, (born Jan. 12, 1893, Rosenheim, Ger.—died Oct. 15, 1946, Nürnberg), German Nazi leader. He fought in World War I with the German air force. In 1922 he joined the Nazi Party and was given command of the SA.

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