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1893–1946 Germany
Hermann Wilhelm Göring, also rendered as Goering (12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946), was a German politician, military leader and leading member of the Nazi Party. After Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Göring was named as minister without portfolio in the new government.
Also known as: Goering, Hermann, Goring, Hermann, Göring, Hermann, Herman Göring, Hermann Goering, Hermann Goring
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Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.
Radio broadcast (1936)
My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate, nothing more.
Why, of course, the people don't want war.
Nuremberg Diary (1947)
After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime. It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on.
Nuremberg Diary (1947)
The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.
Nuremberg Diary (1947)
Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.
Nuremberg Diary (1947)
Now you see. You are even turning the Fuehrer against me. Ah, the Jews, the Jews, they'll be the death of me yet!
Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.
Instruction to the Prussian police (1933)
The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!
The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!
Speech in Vienna after the Austrian Anschluss (1938)
In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.
Damn it, I just wish we could all have the courage to confine our defense to three simple words: "Lick my ass."
Remark to spectators at the Nuremberg tribunal; quoted in The Nazi and the Psychiatrist (2013)
I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.
If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?
Why has this silly engine suddenly turned up, which is so idiotically welded together? They told me then, there would be two engines connected behind each other, and suddenly there appears this misbegotten monster of welded-together engines one cannot get at!
Hitler decided that. I thought it was stupid because I believed that first we had to defeat England. Also we had to take Gibraltar.
What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy — why should I be afraid?
I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand ... I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!
No. It was the last hours and he (Hitler) was under pressure. If I could have seen him personally it would have been different.
The German people trusted the Führer. Given his authoritarian direction of the state, they had no influence on events. Ignorant of the crimes of which we know today, the people have fought with loyalty, self-sacrifice, and courage, and they have suffered too in this life-and-death struggle into which they were arbitrarily thrust. The German people are free from blame.
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