Hermann Goering, born in Germany in 1893, was one of the leaders of the Nazi party. He organized the Nazi police force and established concentration camps. He fought in World War I and distinguished himself as a pilot, and he is credited with shooting down twenty-two allied aircrafts. He was known as a war hero, and that prestige made him a prime recruit for the Nazi party. “Nazism offered Goering the promise of action, adventure, and an outlet for his unreflective, elemental hunger for power.” During Goering’s rise to popularity, he and the Nazi party attempted a coup at Munich, Bavaria, also known as Beer Hall Putsch. The coup failed and Goering and Hitler were both injured as a result. Goering escaped to Austria, while Hitler
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Goering at this point followed the four year plan which were economic measures taken by Hitler to rearm the nation. It completely disregarded the Treaty of Versailles. “Hitler promoted Goering to the rank of Reichsmarschall, the highest military rank of the Greater German Reich.” This was a special rank made for Goering; he would now be senior to all the Army and Air Force Field Marshalls. He used his position to indulge in luxury, living in a palace in Berlin and building a hunting mansion named after his first wife Karin, who died of tuberculosis in 1931. At the mansion he would organize feast, state hunts, and show off his stolen art treasures. “The "Iron Knight," a curious mixture of condottiere and sybarite, "the last Renaissance man" as he liked to style himself with characteristic egomania, increasingly confused theatrical effect with real power.” His growing power paralleled his growing corruption. Goering remained very popular with the German masses who regarded him as very manly. “Goering's transparent enjoyment of the trappings of power, his debauches and bribe-taking, gradually corrupted his judgment.” If anything he was far from being manly, he took advantage of his own
Goering at this point followed the four year plan which were economic measures taken by Hitler to rearm the nation. It completely disregarded the Treaty of Versailles. “Hitler promoted Goering to the rank of Reichsmarschall, the highest military rank of the Greater German Reich.” This was a special rank made for Goering; he would now be senior to all the Army and Air Force Field Marshalls. He used his position to indulge in luxury, living in a palace in Berlin and building a hunting mansion named after his first wife Karin, who died of tuberculosis in 1931. At the mansion he would organize feast, state hunts, and show off his stolen art treasures. “The "Iron Knight," a curious mixture of condottiere and sybarite, "the last Renaissance man" as he liked to style himself with characteristic egomania, increasingly confused theatrical effect with real power.” His growing power paralleled his growing corruption. Goering remained very popular with the German masses who regarded him as very manly. “Goering's transparent enjoyment of the trappings of power, his debauches and bribe-taking, gradually corrupted his judgment.” If anything he was far from being manly, he took advantage of his own