Hermann Wilhelm Göring

Was an attempt by the Nazi party to start a revolution lead by Hitler and Erich Ludendorff. The Nazi party and the Hermann Göring’s Brown Shirts. They marched to the Odeonsplatz square in central Munich where the mob was fired upon and dispersed. When the police opened fire Hitler ran into a “yellow Opel parked nearby with its motor running”. Sixteen of the rioters, and three police men died.

When the fighting broke out Hermann Göring was shot in the thigh. He was taken in by two Jewish women that cleaned his wounds during the day. That night he left their care to sneak over the boarder into Austria to avoid high treason charges.

While trying to escape into Austria after the Beer Hall Putsch he is stopped at the board and his passport taken. He was arrested and taken to a hospital in Garmisch to tend to his leg wound. Due to the seriousness of his wounded leg the police allowed him to stay in the hospital instead of being moved to jail - They allowed him to do this on his word that he would not try to escape. Nevertheless he puts on a fur coat on over his hospital gown and with the aid of a fake passport enters into Austria.

Once Herman Göring was in Austria he was admitted to a Catholic hospital where the preformed an operation on his leg wound. After the operation his leg became infected and the doctors started him on morphine shots to deal with the pain. During this time all of his assets were taken over by the German police so when he was released from the hospital he had nothing except money that his in-laws sent him.

Once Hitler was sentenced for 5 year for his high treason involvement in the Beer Hall Putsch Göring voiced discontentment against the German government. Austria did not approve of this so Göring quickly left for Italy where was offered him asylum. Göring travelled to Rome where he had a personal audience with Mussolini, and asked for a loan to him on behalf of the Nazi party which Mussolini declined.

Hermann Göring with no financial support in Italy leaves for Sweden to live with his wife Karin’s parents.

By now Hermann Göring's addiction to morphine was apparent in his appearance. While admitted to a hospital for treatment he attacked a nurse for not giving him more drugs. At this point he was placed in a straight jacked, declared mentally insane, and placed into Langbro Asylum for six months.

Since the Reichstag had voted to allow political exiles amnesty in 1925 Göring was free to enter back into Germany where he quickly entered back into the workings of the Nazi party.

The afternoon after the Night of the Long Knives murders had began Göring held a press conference where he stated that the uprising against the German government led by SA leader Ernst Rohm was put down.

He also announced that Kurt von Schleicher was part of the coup and was shot when he resisted arrest which was a lie (they also shot von Schleicher’s wife who was a witness).

Göring and Himmler sent a message to all SS and Gestapo involved in the Night of the Long Knives murdering spree stating “All documents concerning the action of the last two days are to be burned, on orders from above”.

After being called a traitor by Hitler Göring decides to surrender himself to the American forces in the hopes of gaining an audience with president Eisenhower.

After Eisenhower discovered that Göring was being treated better than the average prisoner of war he demanded it to be stopped. They then moved Göring to Mondorf where top Nazis where kept for interrogation.

Göring lived out the remainder of his life in a prison cell at a Nuremberg prison. His stay ended after he was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to death by hanging. He objected to the hanging requesting to be executed by firing squad - a request that was denied. Just a couple of hours before he was to be hanged he somehow managed to get a cyanide capsule which he bit into and died.

Göring summoned the top three German-Jewish leaders after seeing the impact of the Jewish led boycott. The boycott was launched in protest against treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany.

-Julius Brodnitz of the Central Verein
-Max Naumann of the Union of National German Jews
-Heinrich Stahl of the Berlin Jewish Community.

Göring had summoned the top three Jewish leaders (Julius Brodnitz, Max Naumann, and Heinrich Stahl) to a meeting about the Jewish led boycott against Germany. A couple of the Zionist groups had caught wind of the meeting - wanting their their Zionist views to be represented too they went uninvited. The only Zionist allowed in the meeting was Zionist Kurt Blumenfeld of the German Zionist Federation. After being formally introduced to Göring the Jewish leaders were then yelled at by Göring. He claims that they were spreading lies about Jews being attacked by Nazi forces, and they needed to stop the foreign Jews boycotting Germany. In response to Göring saying there were no crimes being committed against the Jews Naumann gives Göring a laundry list of what the Nazis had been doing to the Jews, and he even produced a newspaper clipping showing Nazis forcing Jews to scrub streets with a brushes. While the other three Jewish leaders said there was nothing that they could really do to stop the protest in foreign countries Blumenfeld cut into the conversation and stated that he could easy communicate with the foreign Jewish groups which pleased Göring.

Through meetings together von Papen agreed to push for Hitler to become Chancellor, but only if von Papen was put in the the Vice-Chancellor position.

Also Hitler agreed that he could only have two other Nazis in his cabinet. Göring as Minister, and Frick as Reich Minister of the Interior.

These meetings took place at the house of German banker Kurt von Schröder.

Cyrus Adler and Alfred Cohen receive a cable stating that the Nazi Göring was forcing top Jewish officials to lie about Nazis atrocities. The cable warned Jewish officials would be sending out cables to Jews abroad telling them to stop the anti-Nazi boycott because the anti-Nazi hysteria had been overly hyped.

Instead of releasing the cable to the public which would empower the anti-Nazi boycott the two men kept it hush, and sent the cable to the Secretary of State Cordel Hull who had already been oppressing this kind of information. Hull’s response was to setup a meeting time to discuss the contents of the cable.

After Hitler invaded Poland he went into talks with James Mooney of GM to convert the GM Russelsheim plant from making automobiles to war planes. GM teamed up with the Junker company to begin making engines for the Junker German war plane the Wunderbomber. Once the conversion was completed Mooney personally meets with Goering to inspect plant.