During the Battle of Britain, Hitler had considered ordering German pilots to shoot their enemies in parachutes. Hitler asked Goering how he thought the order would go over, and Goering sought out Galland’s opinion. “I should regard it as murder, Herr Reichsmarschall,” Galland told Goering, and he promised to disobey such an order if it was ever issued. Goering smiled and said, “That is just the reply I had expected from you, Galland.”2 Due to Galland’s steadfastness to his code, Hitler never issued the order.
