What is in the book
In 1918 Hermann Göring commanded the most famous fighter wing in Germany, the one Manfred von Richthofen had led. Twenty-eight years later he sat in the dock at Nuremberg as the highest-ranking Nazi to face trial, and on the night before his execution he took cyanide in his cell.
In between he helped build Hitler's dictatorship. He ran the Prussian police and set up the first concentration camps, founded the Gestapo, built the Luftwaffe and took over the economy. Hitler named him his successor, then branded him a traitor in the last days of the war.
This Turbo History short tells his story straight, from the record and his own sworn words:
- The Bavarian boy raised in a rich godfather's castles, and the war hero who could never resist improving his own legend
- The Beer Hall Putsch bullet, the morphine, and the Swedish asylum
- The Reichstag fire, and why who lit it is still argued over
- The billion-mark fine after Kristallnacht, and the order of 31 July 1941 he admitted signing
- Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the Stalingrad airlift: the promises his air force could not keep
- The trial, the verdict, and the poison capsule nobody has ever explained
He spent his last night making sure the final decision about his death was his own. The Tribunal had already made the one that mattered.
Read it in under an hour. Free on Kindle Unlimited.
These are not academic books. You will not find footnotes to chase, family trees to memorise, or ten pages on the logistics of a treaty. Every book ends with a page of proper ones to go to next if you want that depth. If you want the story and the big picture in an hour, you are home.
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