Hermann Goring and the Third Reich; A Biography Based on Family and Official Records Quotes

“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

“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

“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