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General Hermann Göring
Germany Reborn
„Neues Europa“ Verlag © 2009
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t the time Third Reich German Nazi leader Hermann Göring wrote the following
manuscript, he was still a general. Later, Hermann Göring became a
Reichsmarschall (Reich Marshal).
In World One War, Hermann Göring took over command of von Richthofen's squadron
after the Red Baron was shot down. Soon after the war Hermann Göring became a follower of
Adolf Hitler. After the failed "Putsch", he fled to Sweden and got married. For a while he
stayed in Italy, but the ruling fascists had little to gain from helping the then banned NSDAP.
But when Hitler was released from Spandau prison, Hermann Göring was soon at his side
again.
Hermann Göring was intensely involved in the political fraction negotiations. Late in
the Weimar Republik Hermann Göring even become President of the Reichstag.
After the NSDAP took power, Hermann Göring became Minister President of Prussia.
Hermann Göring's re-organization of the Prussian police is described in the manuscript on this
page. Already a top Nazi leader, Hermann Göring became a top level Third Reich leader well,
both in politics and as head of the new and rapidly expanding Luftwaffe - which eventually
even had its own tank formation, the Hermann Göring Panzer Division!
When Hermann Göring re-married (his first wife had died), the wedding was one of the
biggest social events in the Third Reich.
When the Second War World broke out, Germany had the best - but not the largest - air
force in the world. It lost this lead during the war, but near the end regained it with the ME262
jet. Many experts believe Germany might have won the war, if it could have held out another
six months, ie enough time to build ENOUGH jets to turn the tide in the air.
Hermann Göring had received a very painful wound in the groin. This medication
eventually led to a drug addiction, which in turn had a negative effect on his work. Hermann
Göring liked to be generous to his friends, for which he has been criticized.
Despite Hermann Göring's shortcomings, Hitler remained loyal to his friend and
comrade until very late in the war when Hermann Göring attempted to negotiate peace with
the west without Hitler's permission.
At Nuremberg Field Marshal Hermann Göring put up a spirited fight. In the end,
Hermann Göring defied the enemy's desire to hang him by claiming suicide.
General Hermann Göring, Berlin, February 1934:
I welcome this opportunity of presenting to the English-speaking peoples a few of my
ideas about the struggle of the German people for freedom and honour. I hope that these
words will also be accepted by our opponents as a frank expression of my boundless love for
my country, to whose service alone 1 have pledged my whole life.
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T
he lack of understanding and sympathy which many foreign peoples show for
Germany is very largely due to ignorance of the special and peculiar character of
German history.
'Human history is the history of war,' and the history of the German people is also a
long tale of cruel wars: 'From the battle against Ariovistus to the struggle of the unarmed on
the Ruhr an iron chain stretches' (Stegemann). Since the idea of Germany and a German
people has been known in history, we see that the bond which it implies has been only the
bond of blood and of common culture and a common language. Now and then the loose
conglomerate has seemed to take on a firmer form, but right down to modern times it has
never coalesced to form a German Nation . This is one of the reasons why the German people
as a whole has never taken part in great wars of conquest. Usually the different parts of
Germany have fought against each other, very often to the advantage of other peoples. But for
centuries the Germans were compelled to defend their own homes and their own land - the
land first of their tribe and finally of the people. Germany possesses no natural boundaries. It
was never a castle whose fortifications were sea and mountains, but lay like an open camp in
the midst of Europe, protected only by the bodies of its men. And that is also the reason why
the Germans never fought their wars for foreign crowns, but always for their own honour; not
to conquer foreign countries, but to defend their own freedom; not to subdue others, but to
ensure their own security.
The arduous path of the German people through their history begins with the partition of
the German Empire by the Treaty of Verdun in the year 843 and leads past the 'Testament of
Richelieu' and the Peace of Westphalia, which claimed to have assured for ever the 'Libertés
germaniques,' to the Dictate of Versailles in the year 1919. These 'German Freedoms' meant
nothing less than the perpetual partition of the Reich into countless little kingdoms and
principalities, which were played off against one another by the neighbouring countries,
according to Louis XI's principle ' Divide et impera .'
And then at last Prussia took over its great mission in world history. That was - to fight
for the unity of the German Reich. That was a task formidable enough for that incomparable
genius, Frederick II. Even his enemies called him 'the Great.' He was at once 'the most kingly
of men and the most human of kings.' In a life of unexampled austerity he made of little
Prussia the foundation of the coming Reich. As he lay on the simple camp-bed that had seen
so many campaigns, and alone in the arms of his hussar breathed his last breath, his last words
remained as a Testament to his successors, 'I see the promised land from afar, but I shall not
set foot in it.'
After Frederick the Great came the Reichsfreiherr vom Stein who fought passionately
for his great ideal: 'I know only one Fatherland - and that is called Germany!' But he, too,
after a valiant life of work, battles and defeats, the victim of slander and treachery, could only
win a partial victory. He, too, knew of the coming unity, but was not to experience it.
After Stein - Bismarck. Born on an estate in the Mark Brandenburg, he continued and
almost completed the gigantic task begun by Frederick and Stein. But Bismarck at the
moment of death, as if death itself had torn a veil from his eyes, cried, full of sorrow and
misgiving, these last words - 'Germany - Germany'.
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Under the flags in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, in which Bismarck's Reich was
born, stood Lieutenant von Hindenburg. He had fought on the battlefield of Königgrätz and in
the war against France. In the greatest of all wars his imperial master called him to the head of
the mighty army which for four years withstood a hostile world.
Somewhere in this vast bulwark of German men, there stood one who, unknown like the
countless others, and brave as so many others were brave, was destined to write his name in
the eternal book of History as the saviour of the German people, the man who was to
consummate her solidarity and unity. That man was Adolf Hitler .
In the three great wars won by Prussia in the last century, Germany was born: on the
battlefields of Leipzig and Waterloo, of Königgrätz and Sedan, men of German blood found
each other again. Before the guns of Paris and in the palace of Louis XIV the age-old German
dream of a German Empire was fulfilled. Through the concentration of all national forces an
unprecedented advance took place. A peace of nearly 50 years under the protection of a strong
army and a good fleet enabled the young Reich brilliantly to build up its industry and ensure
prosperity.
Whereas the population of Germany in 1871 was 41 millions, in 1914 it had risen to
nearly 70 millions. A vast host of human beings was pressing onward, was working in fields
and factories, in laboratories and mines, behind counters and desks or in harbours and
wharves all over the world. This great success is known to the world and can be statistically
demonstrated.
Germany was first in the markets of the world as regards electrical apparatus, the glass
and toy industry, and smelting and mining. The German chemical industry alone supplied
four-fifths of the world market. German trade with harbours outside Europe had increased 500
per cent up to the beginning of the century. Thus Germany, in peaceful competition, by hard
work, efficiency and organization, had grown to be a mighty factor in the economic life of the
world. This position, won through peaceful work, led finally to the most terrible of all
conflicts, the World War. The encirclement of Germany was complete, and the peoples of
Europe plunged into a sea of blood and misery, and the whole world into a catastrophe of
incalculable extent.
On the 28th June, 1914, a 19-year-old student in Sarajevo shot the Austrian heir
apparent. This shot suddenly and pitilessly let loose the thunderstorm which had been
brooding over Europe for years. The first rumblings were produced by the never ending
railway trains which brought the already mobilized Russian army corps to the German
frontier. The gigantic engine of war began its deadly pounding. Europe was mobilizing! The
die had been cast. Threatened from all sides, Germany had the sword thrust into her hand. The
German people, guiltless of the outbreak of this greatest of wars, had to fight in order to
defend their life and honour.
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