There was no coherent opposition to the course being pushed by Goering and he made easy meat of Goerdeler. In formal conversation, Goering dismissed Goerdeler’s arguments as ‘completely unusable’.61 In private, he was less complimentary. Goering’s personal copy of the Goerdeler memorandum is dotted with indignant marginalia–‘Oho!’, ‘What cheek’, ‘Nonsense’. Goering forwarded Goerdeler’s report to Berchtesgaden, where the Fuehrer was himself drafting a memorandum on German economic policy, with the following comment: ‘This may be quite important, my Fuehrer, for your memorandum, since it
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