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Among those who heard the news in awe and wonderment was Hermann GÖring, nervously awaiting trial as a war criminal. Said he: "A mighty accomplishment. I don't want anything to do with it. I am leaving this world...
...Moscow radio accused the U.S. Army of showering luxuries upon Hermann Goring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Karl Doenitz and flocks of lesser lights in its custody. Actually, they were leading a rigidly simple life...
History's shabby discards and their dejected heirs were cashing in on the fact and dialectic of disaster. Diaries, articles and book excerpts by Paul Reynaud, Maurice Gamelin, Benito Mussolini, Hermann Göring and Galeazzo Ciano had already appeared in hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, and there were more to come...
...master picture-forger was one Hans van Meegeren, a little-known Dutch artist. Although he worshiped Adolf Hitler, he felt no compunction about unloading a fake on fellow Nazi Hermann Göring. Göring got Christ and the Adulteress in a trade for 173 paintings. One revealing way in which Master-Painter Van Meegeren overshot the mark was by producing so many Vermeers on religious subjects; of all the genuine Vermeers known, the only one that is religious in theme is the Edinburgh National Gallery's Christ with Mary and Martha...
...Hermann Goring's private plane was taken over by the French Health Ministry for a new service: two-hour junkets for children with whooping cough. The Ministry has a theory that high altitudes destroy pertussis germs...