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“Only in the hearts of those who knew him with all his qualities and all his faults and recognized that willingness to sacrifice himself for his country which no human weakness could entirely conceal, in the hearts of the soldiers and workers and peasants who still speak of “our Hermann” with a sense of personal loss, no order of the International Military Tribunal can cancel the belief that Hermann Göring has received from his Creator another justice and another mercy than those which he received at the hands of his fellow men.”
― Charles Bewley, Hermann Goring and the Third Reich; A Biography Based on Family and Official Records

tags: god, goering, goring, göring, hermann-goering, hermann-goring, hermann-göring, history, justice, nuremberg-trials

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“Often people who commit terrible acts are empathic and caring in other parts of their lives. One manifestation of this, often pointed out by those who want to mock vegetarians, was the concern that many Nazis had for nonhuman animals. Hitler famously loved dogs and hated hunting, but this was nothing compared to Hermann Göring, who imposed rules restricting hunting, the shoeing of horses, and the boiling of lobsters and crabs—and mandated that those who violated these rules be sent to concentration camps!”
― Paul Bloom, Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion

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“The opinion of those who knew him cannot be completely ignored, though it obviously is not infallible. The Tribunal preferred the theory of the prosecution that Göring's professed desire for peace was merely a mask to disguise his share in the conspiracy to wage aggressive war. If so, it is worthy of remark that he not only set out to deceive the non-German world, but also to delude his own countrymen. Not only was his anti-war attitude known to Hassell and the group of conspirators against Hitler, but he went out of his way to proclaim it in public.”
― Charles Bewley, Hermann Goring and the Third Reich; A Biography Based on Family and Official Records

tags: goering, goring, göring, hermann-goering, hermann-goring, hermann-göring, history, justice, nuremberg-trials, wwii

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“Great are the tasks of the National Government in the sphere of economic life.
Here all action shall be governed by one law: the Volk does not live for the economy, and the economy does not exist for capital, but capital serves the economy and the economy serves the Volk!”
― Adolf Hitler, Hitler Speeches and Proclamations 1932-1945: The Chronicle of a Dictatorship. Vol. I: 1932-1934

tags: economics, economy, national-socialism, nationalism, philosophy, socialism

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“The object of this book is not to show that Hitler and his confederates were saints or that National Socialism was an ideal or even a desirable form of government. Its aim is a less ambitious one—to demonstrate that the rise of National Socialism was due in the main to the blind and revengeful policy of the Allies; that National Socialism, whatever its defects, saved first Germany and later Spain from becoming bulwarks of Communism; that the Western Powers under Roosevelt’s guidance did everything possible in the pre-War years to drive the German leaders to extremes; that the Roosevelt-Churchill policy of annihilating Germany as a military power served the interests of Communism and of Communism alone; that the “war crimes” were the work of a small band of fanatics; and that the German people as a whole were guilty of nothing more criminal than of defending their country in time of war.”
― Charles Bewley, Hermann Goring and the Third Reich; A Biography Based on Family and Official Records