Review: Helpful History
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2013
Once again this brief history gave me a helpful interlude catching up on a few things I didn't know about Hermann Goering. My mental picture was of an overweight playboy who headed the Luftwaffe and had huge homes and wealth from confiscated artwork. This was his image at the end of the war when he lost influence with Hitler.He was very different earlier on, a WWI squadron leader with 20 kills, an aristocratic background (unusual for a Nazi), masterminded some of Hitler's most infamous acts that brought him to dictatorial power and led the all powerful Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. For most of the war Goering was Hitler's chosen second in command and successor and was as central to the decisions on the Holocaust as Himmler.Thanks again to Mark Black for giving me a better understanding about a key element in fairly recent history.