Hermann Goering

Reichsmarschall, the highest rank in the German Wehrmacht during National Socialism, Hermann Goering in 1945 after his arrest by the Americans. Besides Himmler and Goebbels, Goering was the third of Adolf Hitler's comrades, who followed him in blind obedience. After the foundation of the Gestapo in 1933/1934, Goering organised the violent oppression of the opposition and erected concentration camps with Himmler. He was one of the persons mainly responsible for the service of foreign forced labourers and measurements to enable the Holocaust. He was born in Marienbad near Rosenheim on the 12th of January in 1893 and committed suicide in Nuremberg on the 15th of October in 1946

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