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...Prosecution. The stories of G&246ring's treatment angered a lot of Britons and Americans. "Once and for all," cried the London News Chronicle, "Hermann G&246ring is an evil, cruel murderer." In the U.S., the usually mild Christian Science Monitor thundered: "Here is no captive entitled to the usual military courtesies. This man has murdered and plundered on an international scale." Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman D. J. Flood: "This schweehturnie...
Reichsmarshal Hermann G&246ring surrendered in state. The 36th Infantry Division's assistant commander, Brigadier General Robert Stack, met him by appointment on a country road in Bavaria, saluted smartly, and escorted him to division headquarters. Major General John E. Dahlquist, who is proud of his German, dismissed an interpreter, led the Reichsmarshal to a command trailer, and conversed with him in dignified privacy. Afterward the biggest Nazi scoundrel so far bagged by the Allies lunched on chicken, changed into a fresh uniform with twelve medals, and put up for the night at a nearby castle with Frau...
Near a lonely castle in Bavaria, air-conditioned railroad cars were backed onto a siding, stealthily loaded with one of the richest art collections in the world. Art-lover Hermann Göring, hastily moving south, was rumored to have boarded the sealed, armored train and rolled off with his treasures. Art experts had reason to believe that the Göring loot included Raphael's Madonna of Divine Love, Botticelli's Minerva and Centaur, Titian's Portrait of Lavinia, Van Eyck's altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb...
...prestige had increased. One by one the perverse paladins of the Nazi inner circle gathered around him: ¶ Hermann Goring, the former flyer and drug addict...
...been the war's biggest battle of armor. Now they could pierce the heart of the Hitlerites' realm-the scarred, sprawling fourth city of the world, the Nazis' holy ground. Russian shells screamed over and around Hitler's Kanzlei on Wilhelmstrasse and exploded close to Hermann Göringstrasse and into Potsdamer Platz. There, in the Kriegsministerium, the conquest of Russia had once been mapped by confident Wehrmacht commanders...