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...will be a daring but interesting undertaking, never before attempted in the history of the world. Protected by the fleet and with the cooperation of the Air Force, I shall order a series of unexpected individual exploits." So spoke Adolf Hitler in 1934 to Hermann Rauschning,* then his chief Party henchman in Danzig, today one of numerous experts who believe that the Austrian Corporal, having taken final leave of his senses, is spinning insanely toward the same fate that overtook a Corsican Corporal 125 years...
Most important of all, Göring is the one Nazi leader the German people understand and like. They worship Hitler in a mystical sort of way. They love Göring and call him "wiser Hermann." "Our Hermann." To the German people Göring is the embodiment of the satiation of all their own more normal appetites. They love sport. Göring is Reich's Master of the Hunt, lives in the middle of a 100,000-acre game preserve, imports falcons from Iceland to pursue that medieval sport. He plays tennis in the garden behind...
...beer-loving Germans, Hermann is a delight. Besides putting away quantities of champagne, burgundy, hock, whiskey, brandy and assorted liqueurs, he quaffs beer by the quart out of huge stone mugs. He will paw nearby females with hearty indiscrimination when carrying a load of Pilsner...
...German people love to eat heartily. Since they cannot in wartime eat heartily, Hermann does it for them, consuming cream puffs by the dozen, wolfing huge helpings of everything, dirtying his sleeves and vest in the process. He plays Falstaff both because it is good politics and because he likes the role. "Look at me!" he roars, slapping his enormous stomach. "I have lost pounds in the service of the country. Why do you complain at cutting down your meals a little?" It makes no difference to unser Hermann or his people that the 40 pounds he lost last year...
...large segment of Western civilization. They may have discussed trying to do so, because this week the German Embassy in Washington took pains to warn that if Britain and France endangered civilians with more active warfare (see p.30) Germany would "retaliate blow for blow." It was respect for Hermann Göring's mighty machine that caused the New York Times with unconscious humor to headline...