Hermann Göring's Nuremberg Testimony

[Hornbein]

I read Hermann Göring's testimony at his trial in Nuremberg. On the night that the Jewish shops were vandalized and ransacked, so much glass was broken that replacing it would consume the entire Belgian glass output for six months. Germany had no glass industry so there was concern about replacements. The Nazis forbade having the Jews paid any insurance money, but foreign money was needed to replace the glass. Göring figured that the cost was so great that the German companies would not have enough funds so they must resort to the re-insurance they held for widespread catastrophes. The re-insurance was from foreign companies so foreigners would pay for the damage. This had to be in foreign currency as the replacement glass had to be of foreign origin and other countries didn't want Reichsmarks.

It was suggested that the money be paid to the Jews and then surreptitiously expropriated but Göring instead passed a law that all insurance payments must go to the German government.

Wiretaps were strictly regulated. Göring had to personally approve all wiretaps.

Göring denied any party involvement in the Reichstag fire and declared that "I almost perished in the flames." At the time Göring was president of the Reichstag. He was residing in the palace of the Reichstag president, which is across the street from the Reichstag itself. There was a big tunnel between the two structures for transporting coke for heating, so the fire menaced his residence. Since Göring freely confessed to worse things than this arson I am quite inclined to believe him. He makes no futile attempt to wiggle out of any of the charges, involvement in the Reichstag fire is the only act denied. It appears that his aim is to set the historical record straight.

 

[Klystron]

I read Hermann Göring's testimony at his trial in Nuremberg. On the night that the Jewish shops were vandalized and ransacked, so much glass was broken that replacing it would consume the entire Belgian glass output for six months. Germany had no glass industry so there was concern about replacements. The Nazis forbade having the Jews paid any insurance money, but foreign money was needed to replace the glass. Göring figured that the cost was so great that the German companies would not have enough funds so they must resort to the re-insurance they held for widespread catastrophes. The re-insurance was from foreign companies so foreigners would pay for the damage. This had to be in foreign currency as the replacement glass had to be of foreign origin and other countries didn't want Reichsmarks.

It was suggested that the money be paid to the Jews and then surreptitiously expropriated but Göring instead passed a law that all insurance payments must go to the German government.

Wiretaps were strictly regulated. Göring had to personally approve all wiretaps.

Göring denied any party involvement in the Reichstag fire and declared that "I almost perished in the flames." At the time Göring was president of the Reichstag. He was residing in the palace of the Reichstag president, which is across the street from the Reichstag itself. There was a big tunnel between the two structures for transporting coke for heating, so the fire menaced his residence. Since Göring freely confessed to worse things than this arson I am quite inclined to believe him. He makes no futile attempt to wiggle out of any of the charges, involvement in the Reichstag fire is the only act denied. It appears that his aim is to set the historical record straight.

Difficult to believe Fat Hermann flew fighters during WWI alongside Manfred 'Red Baron' von Richthofen. I would not credit any public statement from Göring although he did unwittingly assist Allied war effort by incompetently mismanaging WWII Luftwaffe.

 

[berkeman]

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