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...happened that ambitious Hermann Goring was looking for an easy way to eliminate Blomberg, who was a lukewarm Nazi at best and might oppose schemes of conquest. Fraulein Gruhn was just what Goring needed. Goring was most helpful to Bridegroom Blomberg, even induced Hitler to come to the wedding. But as soon as the couple had left on their honeymoon, Goring took Frau von Blom-berg's police file to the Fuhrer. Hitler promptly flew into one of his tantrums and sacked Blomberg...
George Strausser Messersmith was U.S. consul general in Berlin when Hermann Goring paid him a call one day. Hitler's No. 2 man was in his usual arrogant mood. He swept his hand over a map of South America. There was one of Germany's spheres of influence, he boasted, and began pounding the table. Messersmith stopped him. "This is my house," Messersmith said coldly. "No one pounds the table here but me. If there is any pounding done, I will...
Poker-faced and ramrod-stiff in his military grey, the first of the generals faced the court at Nürnberg last week. In Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel's defense, there was none of Hermann Göring's brilliant, bravura justification of Naziism. Like sweating, terrified Ribbentrop, who testified before him-but in a very different manner-the once proud Wehrmacht chief hid behind his Führer's back...
Grover Martin Hermann...
When Göring returned to his seat in the dock, the other defendants crowded around him to shake his hand, slap his back. Shouted one: "Hermann, halt die Ohren steif!" ("Keep your ears stiff": keep a stiff upper lip). Growled a member of the Russian prosecution staff: "The pig will long be remembered for this speech...