Hermann Göring: Hitler’i İktidara Taşıyan Adam | Nazilerin En Güçlü 2. Adamı

Hermann Göring…
Hitler’in iktidar yolculuğunda en kritik rolü oynayan, Nazi rejiminin perde arkasındaki en güçlü ve en etkili isimlerden biri.
Bu belgeselde, Göring’in siyasi stratejilerini, güç mekanizmasını, propaganda etkisini ve Hitler’i zirveye taşımadaki rolünü tüm yönleriyle inceliyoruz.

“Gece Gelen Tarih”, dünyanın en tartışmalı liderlik hikâyelerini, güç mücadelelerini ve tarih boyunca arka planda kalan isimleri belgesel anlatımıyla sunar.

0:00 – Giriş: İktidara Giden Yol
1:05 – Hitler’in Yükselişinde Kilit İsim: Hermann Göring
2:10 – I. Dünya Savaşı ve Göring’in Askerî Kariyeri
3:45 – Kahraman Pilotluktan Politik Ambisyona
5:20 – Hitler ile İlk Karşılaşma
6:30 – Göring’in Hitler’i İlk Kez Etkilemesi
7:55 – Nazi Partisi’ne Katılış ve Hızlı Yükseliş
9:40 – Propagandanın Gücü: Göring’in Kitle Yönetimi
11:05 – SA ve SS İçindeki Güç Dengesi
12:30 – Göring’in Politik Zekası ve İttifak Stratejileri
13:55 – Hitler’in Güvenini Kazanma Süreci
15:10 – 1933: İktidarın Kuruluş Aşaması
16:30 – Göring’in İçişleri Üzerindeki Etkisi
17:50 – Gestapo’nun Oluşumu ve İlk Güç Yapılanması
19:20 – Ekonomik Kontrol: Dört Yıllık Planın Başlangıcı
20:40 – Devlet Mekanizmasında Göring’in Yükselişi
21:55 – Rejimin “Gölgedeki Lideri” Olarak Göring
23:20 – Savaş Hazırlıkları ve Endüstriyel Yönetim
24:50 – Almanya’nın Savaş Makinesi: Göring’in Rolü
26:05 – Hava Kuvvetleri (Luftwaffe) ve Göring’in Komutası
27:30 – Başarı Mı? Başarısızlık Mı? Çatlakların Başlangıcı
28:55 – Göring ve Hitler Arasındaki İlk Büyük Gerilim
30:10 – Güç Kaybının İlk Sinyalleri
31:35 – İç Çemberdeki İhanet Korkuları
33:00 – Göring’in Politik Etkisinin Azalması
34:20 – Savaşın Sonuna Doğru Çöküş
35:50 – Hitler ile Kopuş: Son Büyük Tartışma
37:10 – Göring’in Yakalanışı
38:40 – Nürnberg Duruşmalarında Göring
40:05 – Göring’in Ölümü ve Ardında Kalan Tartışmalar
41:10 – Tarihsel Değerlendirme: Bir Liderliği Var Eden Adam
41:55 – Kapanış

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Göring, who went down in history as Hermann Göring, was born on January 12, 1893, in the Marinbad sanatorium. His birth was a turbulent period in which Germany was redefining its identity both domestically and internationally. Göring was born in Rosenheim, in the Kingdom of Werner, to Heinrich Ernst Göring and Franciska Tenbrun. His father, Heinrich, was a typical 19th-century officer. He was disciplined, proud, and raised with the colonial ideal. He was once a cavalry officer in the Bavarian army. Later, at the behest of Ottofon Bismarck, he was sent to England to study British colonial administration. Later, fate took him to Africa. He served as an ambassador to Germany’s new colonies in southwest Africa. His years there were brief but decisive. He witnessed the harsh realities of colonialism, but the harshness would shape not him but the family he left behind. His mother, Franciska Tenbrun, was a cultured but emotionally fragile woman. Her marriage to Heinlich left her alone, amidst diplomatic missions. When Herman was born, Franciska, instead of taking her newborn son to Haiti, left him with a family friend in Bavaria— the Gaof family. Little Herman grew up motherless for three years. That brief but decisive separation sowed the seeds of a lifelong anger and lack of trust in him. When mother and son were reunited in 1896, that three-year gap was not bridged by words. His mother opened her arms. But instead of running to hug him, Herman raised his small fists. A child’s most primal reaction to abandonment. The family later moved to Berlin. In their home in Friedeno Barnios, young Herman dreamed of becoming a soldier. His father’s uniform was a symbol of heroism in his eyes, but inside the house, a different figure rose: Dr. Herman Epenstein. Epenstein was the godfather of the Göring family. A wealthy, impressive, and elegant man. Upon returning to Germany, he purchased the castle of Moendorf near the Austrian border and the castle of Wenstein near Nuremberg . These mansions became the Göring family’s new nobility. But this luxury came at a price. Epenstein wasn’t just a friend; he was Franciska’s mistress. When he visited , he was given the castle’s finest room. He stayed next to Franciska’s room, while Heinrich lived as a virtual exile on the ground floor. The balance of power within the family had clearly shifted. The real father remained in the shadows, while the Godfather dominated everything. Epenstein showered the children with gifts, instilling in them a sense of privilege that would last throughout his life . But he also unknowingly planted a poisonous seed of jealousy in Little Herman’s personality. He grew up a pampered child who defied authority and hated discipline. His life was soon filled with problems. He dropped out of primary school. In 1904, he ran away from the Anzah Boarding School, to which he was sent. He spent his time back home. On leaving school, he cut up and destroyed all the stringed instruments. His defiance of authority was, in his eyes, an act of heroism. His father would say, “Greatness is in our veins .” These words echoed in young Herman’s mind. He no longer saw himself as an ordinary child, but as a figure chosen by fate. In 1905, his father and Epenstein decided to send him to the Czruye Military School. Ironically, both thought Herman would resist. But he was captivated by the idea, for he felt he had finally found a stage that would make him a hero . That day marked the beginning of one of the darkest figures in Nazi Germany . He was still a child, but the desire for power, the resentment, and the need for it had already taken shape within him. By 1909, Herman Göring had emerged from the shadows of his childhood and had a clearer vision of his purpose. He enrolled at the Liter Felde Military College near Berlin. The strict regime there, the drills that began at dawn, and the quiet nights in cold dormitories fostered the discipline in his character and his passion for authority. He graduated from the military school with the highest honors. In March 1912, he joined Prince Wilhelm’s regiment, the 112th Infantry Regiment. He was stationed in Münho. The border between Germany and France was just around the corner. He was only in his early 20s, but he had already committed himself to military service. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1913. That same year, he A turning point occurred. Relations with his godfather, Dr. Epenstein, who had provided financial support for the family for years, suddenly broke off. The Görings were evicted from Epenstein’s estate, Wenstein Castle. Shortly thereafter, his father, Heinle, died. This loss, while shocking , did not break him. On the contrary, it intensified his ambition. Upon returning to his post in Wouse, Göring formed a lifelong friendship with his lieutenant, Bruno Lurzer. Both were disciplined, courageous, and reckless. Just across the border lay a French village, and Europe was unknowingly counting down to the bloodiest war in history . The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914 triggered a continent-wide storm. The July crisis erupted. Diplomacy collapsed. Germany was soon in the war. When the war began, Göring’s Corps was ordered to withdraw behind the Rhine River. The French quickly occupied Mulus. Young Teymen took a risk on his first mission. He disregarded his orders and launched a counterattack. He surprised the French troops and drove them from the town. He captured four French cavalry horses as booty and returned to headquarters as a hero. The next day, he returned on bicycles. He attacked the French again with a small detachment, sending them into a panic. But his plan to capture General Paul Pao failed when a soldier accidentally fired his weapon. This missed opportunity left a deep wound in his heart. He was consumed by a sense of lost heroism. Yöring quickly became known as a trusted officer. But rheumatic attacks suddenly broke out. He was removed from the front and sent to the Fréburg hospital. There, he reconnected with his friend Lörzer. Lörzer had now transferred to the air training school. The sky was calling. Göring also applied but was rejected. Still, he did not give up. Defying orders, he arranged his own transfer and secretly began pilot training. He was ordered to stand trial, but was not punished because his talent had been recognized. He was soon assigned to the 25th Field Air Detachment of Prince Friedrich Wilhelm’s 5th Army. He flew reconnaissance missions alongside Lörzer. He photographed enemy positions. He mapped artillery targets. He charted the forts around Verdun. Lörzer flew low and fired pistols at French trenches. This brazen act of bravery earned them the Iron Cross, first class. Göring’s sense of humor was also unique. When he learned about the Morscout and sent a message to headquarters from the plane, his first message was: “Cease fire, you can’t hit that damn target anyway.” One day, the French attacked the headquarters where Crown Princess Césilye was located. Göring and Lörzer shot down a French plane with their pistols and dropped a small bomb on a French airfield in retaliation . This incident sparked a new idea in Göring’s mind : to mount a machine gun on an aircraft. He would be the first German Air Force pilot to implement this idea, thus becoming known as the first German pilot in history to use a machine gun in aerial combat . No longer content to be a mere observer , he wanted to fly his own aircraft and shape his own destiny. His experience and ambition soon caught the attention of his commanders. In October 1915, he completed his pilot training in Freburg and earned the title of Yagd Fliger fighter pilot . The skies were now his stage. Below, war raged, nations burned. But for Herman Göring, war was much more than a mission. This was a demonstration in which he finally felt he could become a hero. With his new fighter pilot designation, Herman Göring became a true warrior of the skies. Along with his close friend Bruno Lurzer, he joined the new fighter group Yaktel 5, established to fight on the Western Front. It was only the end of 1915. War was taking a new shape in the skies. The frontier was now drawn not only on the ground but also in the clouds. In November, Göring encountered the true face of air warfare for the first time. He encountered a massive British aircraft , a Handley Page bomber. It had a crew of two: one pilot, the other observer and gunner. Göring’s avionics were much lighter and more agile. He approached fearlessly and executed skillful maneuvers, eliminating the enemy’s artillery. But he was soon attacked by Sofit fighters. His aircraft’s engine and fuel tank were shot. He was also seriously injured. As he drifted into unconsciousness, a machine-gun fire jolted him out of shock. A final reflex took control. He broke his nosedive and made an emergency landing in a field near a church cemetery. The wound in his hip was fatal. He was bleeding to death by the time he was transported to a field hospital. Miraculously, doctors saved him. 60 bullet holes were counted in his plane’s fuselage. That battle left lasting scars on both his body and his soul. Göring was sidelined for over a year, but air warfare was evolving. Pilots were no longer seen as soldiers but as aces, transformed into heroes flirting with death . The sky was a romanticized arena of death. When he recovered in 1916, his friend Lurzer was now commander of Field Squadron 26. Göring joined him. His courage and daring were quickly recognized again . He was awarded the Order of the Carl Friedrich, the Lion of Ceringen, and the Ohen Zolen medal. In May 1917, he was appointed commander of the 27th Air Squadron near Flanders. Fate soon united him with one of history’s most famous pilots: Manfred von Richtofen, also known as the Red Baron. The squadrons of Göring and Loerzer were combined into a new air unit under Rhtof’s command: the Yaktader. This unit would become known as the legendary knights of the sky. In the spring of 1918, Germany launched its last major offensive on the Western Front. But in April, the Red Baron was shot down and killed. His death sent a sudden tumble through Göring’s career . As he was preparing for takeoff in May, an officer rushed to inform him that he had been awarded the Purlöerit Medal, the highest decoration for bravery on the battlefield . Following the Baron , Captain Reinard briefly took command. But he too was killed in a newly flown experimental aircraft. Thus, on July 7, 1918, Herman Göring became the new commander of the Yaktader. Rhtofen’s baton was handed to him at the ceremony . Göring would carry that baton with him throughout his life. It was a symbol of power, but also the weight of responsibility. In the final months of the war, as Germany collapsed, orders became mixed. On November 10th, an order came for the planes to be handed over to the Americans. But immediately afterward, all equipment was ordered to be evacuated to Damstadt. When the armistice was declared on November 11th, Göring didn’t waver. He refused the order. He told his pilots to fly their planes to Darmstadt. Some units surrendered in Strasbourg. Others misunderstood and landed in Mannheim. There, the soldiers’ and workers’ councils had revolted and confiscated their weapons. When the news reached Göring, he unhesitatingly took off with his squadron. Arriving in Mannheim, he challenged the revolutionaries, threatening to bomb the airfield if they didn’t return the weapons. Göring’s determination paid off. The weapons were returned, and the revolt was crushed. Shortly thereafter, he moved on to Damstadt and ordered a crash landing to prevent the planes from falling into enemy hands . The war was over. Herman Göring was honorably discharged in Asha, Bavaria, with the rank of captain. But for him, war was merely military service. Peace meant a new war within him . He discovered a new talent within himself. When he spoke before a large crowd, his voice resonated. People listened to him with anger and admiration. His loyalty to the army turned to anger after Germany’s defeat. After leaving the military, he retreated to a nomadic life. He lived in Denmark for a time. In 1920, he received an invitation that would forever change the course of his life. The famous explorer K. Eric von Rosen asked him to fly him to his estate on Lake Baven in Sweden . The weather was terrible, but Göring flew. He landed on the frozen lake and couldn’t return. The Count offered him a stay at his castle, and there he met Baroness Karin von Kantzov. One evening, as the band sang, Göring’s gaze locked on Karin. She was married. She had a son, but she was unhappy. The attention he offered was a warmth he had missed for years. They quickly fell in love. Karin’s family included a baron in the Swedish army and an Irish mother. They were an aristocratic but sentimental family. The loss of a son-in-law, a German officer killed in the Great War, had made them more understanding of Germany and Göring. Yet marriage was not yet possible. Karin was married, Göring was unemployed. But both He knew. This meeting would completely change the course of their lives. The sky would no longer be the scene of war, but of passion. By 1921, Herman Göring was emerging from the shadow of war and searching for a new identity. He returned to Berlin and enrolled at university to study political science. He was 28. Still searching for direction, he harbored an unquenchable passion for purpose . Meanwhile, the turning point in his life was Karin von Kantov. Karin persuaded her husband to divorce her. Interestingly, her husband not only agreed to the divorce but even gave her money to start her new life. And on February 3, 1922, Karin and Göring were married in Munich. The new couple moved 50 miles from Munich to the Ohrout region of the Bavarian Alps. They had envisioned a quiet mountain life . But fate would bring a much more turbulent path to their doorstep . Both were consumed by nationalist sentiment. The country was still shadowed by the humiliating provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. Göring’s past, his wartime heroism, and his longing for a lost empire increasingly drew him toward radical ideas. In 1922, Göring met someone who would change his life forever : Adolf Hitler. Hitler was at the head of a small but fierce party based in Günih. The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSD), the Nazi Party, was the Bavarian government’s leading force in this radical movement. The party’s strength lay in its paramilitary group, the Sturmaptaylung SSA . It consisted of veterans, unemployed youth, and men accustomed to street fighting. Their task was to protect party meetings and, when necessary, to engage in fisticuffs . They fought communists in the streets and defended Nazi meetings out of a sense of national duty. Hitler immediately recognized Göring’s military background . He offered him the leadership of the SA. When Göring accepted, he set two clear goals: First, to transform the SA into a disciplined organization. Every member had to unconditionally obey Hitler’s or my orders . Second, I sought to recruit new members from among the workers. The movement had to originate from the people. His fame in the Great War made him an ideal leader . His military achievements and composure quickly earned him respect within the ranks of the SEA. Hatred of the communists further fueled the coalition around him. Hitler would later praise him, saying, ” The only man who truly commands the Soviets is Ging. I gave him a disorganized crowd. He quickly built a disciplined force of 11,000 men. In reality, the two came from opposite poles. Göring was a trained officer in the imperial army , while Hitler was a low-ranking soldier who had reported on the front lines . But what united them was revanchism, the desire to restore Germany’s honor. Meanwhile, Göring and Karin moved to a new house in Munich’s Obermaning district. It was modest but lively. It soon became the unofficial headquarters of the Nazi Party. Here, Ging met future key figures: Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, a self-proclaimed philosopher, and Captain Ernst Röm, who had access to arsenals. This core group became the foundation of the Nazi movement. Röhm and Göring were different, but in Hitler’s shadow, they were united by a common goal. Röhm was still in the Bavarian army, providing arms and men for the SEA. Although he sometimes despised Göring, he admired his composure. By 1923, Germany was seething. Economic crisis, unemployment, and political violence were at their peak. Göring was training the SA with secret exercises in the forests around Munich and trying to maintain a stable relationship with the state government. But on May 1, 1923, street fighting broke out between communists and Nazis. This incident forced the Nazi party to rethink its expansion strategies. At the time, the head of Germany was Grand Duke Gustav Streseman, who was pursuing a policy of passive resistance against the French occupation of the country . This stance enraged the nationalists. Hitler and Göring tried to win General von Lsov over to their side, but the plan failed. They couldn’t find an ally until the night of November 8, 1923. That night, in the Bürger Brerler beer hall in Munich, the Baviera State Commissioner Gustav von Car, General von Losso, and the Chief of Police, Colonel von Siser, met. He was scheduled to address a crowd of 3,000. Hitler heard that Kahr was going to declare Bavaria’s independence. He couldn’t bear the idea. He wanted to be the leader of the revolution and decided to turn the night into his own. Events unfolded rapidly. Hitler drew his gun and fired into the air. “The national revolution has begun!” he shouted. The audience was stunned. Hitler took the ministers hostage and led them out of the room. The crowd was restless. Göring sensed the situation. He took the podium and declared, “There’s nothing to fear. We are friends. Don’t complain. You ‘ll still have your beers.” The crowd simmered with laughter. But the revolution had already derailed . Hitler had hoped General Ludendorf would join, but Ludendorf was furious because he hadn’t heard of the plan. When Car, Lossov, and Seyiser were released , he moved the government to Regensburg and printed leaflets against Hitler. Röchum, meanwhile, had acted independently, seizing military headquarters in Munich, but the coordination of the plan had collapsed. In the morning, Ludendorff remained hopeful. “The army won’t fire on us,” he declared, and Nazi troops marched across the Ludwig Bridge toward the city. There were about 3,000 people, but armed police officers were waiting at the end of the bridge. Göring stepped forward and spoke to them. “If you resist, we will shoot the hostages.” The police retreated briefly. The column continued its march. However, on the narrow, residential Trassia Street, the police barricade appeared again. After a moment of silence, bullets erupted. The crowd dispersed. Herman Göring was shot in the groin. His blood loss was accelerating. As he lay wounded on the ground, the entire revolution, born in the warm air of a beer hall, was dying in blood and panic. When the gunfire on the Ludwig Bridge stopped, the beer hall putsch was over. The first attempt at Nazi revolution had been bloodily suppressed. But Herman Göring was still alive. He was badly wounded but breathing. His supporters quickly removed him. Stormtroopers carried him to the home of furniture dealer Mr. Balle. The irony of fate was that his host’s wife, Ilse Balli, was Jewish . Ilse dressed the wounds of what should have been an enemy with the best of her ability . At night, Göring was taken to Professor Von A. The wound was deep. The blood loss was fatal. His wife, Karin, reached him at that moment, but brought bad news: General Von Rosso had issued a warrant for Göring’s arrest . There was no choice but to flee. Karin sought help from friends in the town of Garmish. With difficulty, Göring was secretly transported there. But his condition worsened. His wound festered again. His fever rose. His hope of recovery was dwindling. When his presence in Garmish was discovered, he was arrested and placed under guard in the hospital, under armed guard. The crowds gathered outside were surprisingly sympathetic. At Carry’s insistence and the help of some police officers, Ging was secretly smuggled back to Austria. He underwent emergency surgery at a hospital in Insbrook. The surgery was successful, but Göring emerged with another addiction: morphine. The twice-daily injections dulled the pain but enslaved his soul. From that day on, he would struggle with this addiction for the rest of his life. After his recovery, Göring could not return to Germany. Hitler refused to share responsibility for the failed coup and forbade him from participating in Göring’s trial. This betrayal left Göring deeply resentful. In February 1924, he made his first public appearance, speaking at a nationalist congress in Insbrook. Even in exile, he continued to defend Nazi ideals. He worked closely with Walter Rehell, the leader of the Nazi Party in Austria. He and Karin were staying at the Tiroler Hof Hotel, but their financial situation was dire. The Bavarian government had confiscated their property, and they could barely afford even hotel expenses. Hitler’s trial concluded at the end of April. Ludendorf was acquitted, Hitler and other leaders were convicted, and Göring was found guilty in absentia. His request for pardon was rejected. However, the Nazi movement did not end; on the contrary, it grew. Even while Hitler was in prison, he gained seats in the Nazi Party, the Rayak Party . Propaganda was no longer underground, but in parliament. Göring and Karin left Austria and traveled to Rome, Italy. There they met with Benito Mussolini. They discussed the beer hall coup, its failures, and They discussed Germany’s future at length. Mussolini listened attentively, for Hitler, too, saw his own youth. After a brief visit to Italy, the couple settled in Sweden, in the Odengarten district of Stockholm. They decided to stay to care for Karin’s ailing mother. But it wasn’t just her mother’s illness. Karin’s health was rapidly deteriorating as well. Epileptic seizures had begun, and Göring’s morphine addiction had worsened. They tried to support each other, but the house became the center of a silent decline. In 1927, a glimmer of hope emerged. Paul von Hindenburg was elected President of Germany and declared a broad political amnesty. This amnesty paved the way for Göring’s return to his homeland. Upon his return to Germany, he sought to reclaim both his former glory and his connection to Hitler. But things had changed within the party. The leadership of the SAA was now in the hands of Franz von Feffer . He was a wealthy aristocrat, and Hitler couldn’t remove him for financial reasons . The party was broke and needed wealthy friends . Göring’s pockets were empty, but his reputation still served. He was quickly readmitted to the Nazi Party. Sent to Berlin, his task was to raise funds and gain support for the party. His old friend, Luftansa executive Erhard Milk, arranged for him to become a commercial representative for Bavarian Motors BMW. He gradually rebuilt his network. Towards winter, Göring pleaded with Hitler, ” Nominate me in the Rock elections.” The competition against the Straser brothers was tough, but Göring had a distinct advantage. He could speak freely with the elite of society and reach circles Hitler couldn’t reach. The election results weren’t a major victory for the Nazi Party, but Göring secured a seat in the parliament. Joseph Gibles was among the winners. Göring was exuberant. This victory symbolized both his political return and his financial salvation. They moved to a new apartment, a modern seven-room house in Baden-Baden. There, they attempted to rebuild their lives. Restock was appointed to the communications committee, allowing him to directly engage with the aviation industry. He leveraged his old connections to secure additional funds for Luftansa. This wasn’t just a commercial move. It seemed like a secret way to rebuild Germany’s military air power . Persuading industrial giants to finance it also meant linking them to the Nazi Party. Thus, for the first time, Germany’s big business circles began to enter the party’s doors through Göring’s intervention. But the losses in his private life continued. On September 25, 1931, Karin’s mother passed away. Illness and summer deepened Göring’s dependence. Yet, he had regained his place in the rapidly rising new Germany, and he would no longer fight in the skies, but in the most dangerous realms of politics. As Karin’s coffin closed, Göring’s inner world also closed. After Karin barely attended the funeral, he threw himself back into Berlin, into the political throes of the war. Because it was the only way to survive. And on January 30, 1933, the awaited moment arrived. Hitler became Chancellor. Newspaper headlines, celebratory crowds, and torches spread like a yellow light over the city. Göring wore three hats at once: Portfolio Minister, Prussian Minister of the Interior, and Air Minister-Commissar. While official titles, unofficial powers, a new order established in the shadows, a bitter system hidden behind the label of political criminal, Göring promised to reform the camps. But the reality was a naked power struggle among the authorities. Göring, Himmer, Röm. The new apparatus he draped over the Prussian police like a cloak would soon be known by his name. When Himmer’s Gestapo took root in Bavaria, Göring moved it from Prussia to his own headquarters . Hitler, however, cut the knot on April 20, 1934, handing the Gestapo over to Himmer. While the pieces were being moved around on the chessboard, offstage, he refused to close the doors of the Voice Dahao and was so defiant that he opened fire. Röhm went even further. He spoke of a future in which the SAA would swallow the army, lying in conferences. When the army’s patience wore thin, Göring and Himmer aligned themselves . Röhm would be stopped. The purge, which began with a raid on the Hansel Baar Hotel on the morning of June 30, 1934, extended from Munich to Berlin. Long Knives On the night. Göring was one of the figures who descended upon the SAA headquarters, where they went room to room, placing arrest signs . This was the government’s new technique: striking from within. Meanwhile, private life was glazed with the glamour of propaganda. On April 10, 1935, Göring married actress Emmi Soneman. The streets were decorated, traffic came to a halt. The cathedral road was filled with soldiers. Hitler was best friend. The role assigned to Emmy was clear: 3. First Lady of the Crown. But during a quiet moment that night, Göring slipped away to Karin’s grave and spent an hour alone. Behind the glittering ceremonies, the shadow of first love was always there. Göring’s appetite, food, titles, and power grew at the same pace. Film sessions that lasted well past midnight, untidy tables, endless desserts, a sleepless but enthusiastic Crown Minister who woke at dawn and set about running the state . In May 1933, with the titles of Master of the Hunting Crown and Master of the German Forest, he wrote laws governing wildlife. He restricted hunters, trappers, and horseback hunting. He built a hideout in the Šorfayda forest between the Baltic and Polish borders . Karen Hall personally painted every detail, down to the doorknobs . An opulent palace, it was also a shrine to memories. In the shadows, ears were on the walls. Wiretaps brought by his advisor Robert De opened the lines of high-ranking party officials. Humor, sarcasm, secrets. Göring even listened and laughed at those who mocked him. But matters became more serious with Defense Minister von Blomberg’s concerns. Røm and Carl Ernstin’s conversations whispered that the SAA was plotting a takeover of the army. Blomberg’s fears were embodied in the tapes. On February 4, 1938, Hitler dismissed six generals, declared himself commander-in-chief of the army, and promoted Göring to the rank of Rice Marshall. A month later, Austria was annexed . As the victories mounted, Göring’s view of the Jews was filled with contradictions. A wrinkled nose that admired composers and painters. A smiling admission that they were smarter in private conversations. But an old anger that made them blame them for the war defeat. When Göbel SL Himler whispered of annihilation, Göring’s face would fall and he would walk away from the room. Unaware that what he did not want to see was rapidly approaching. The Edda was born on June 2, 1938. Hitler, his godfather. A year later, on September 1, 1939, [ __ ] exploded on the Polish border. Göring was at the peak of his career. He had been appointed to be there if anything happened to Hitler. But cracks grew at the strategy table. While Göring wanted an immediate air strike on England, Hitler set his sights on France. Then suddenly, speaking of the Nordic countries, Swedish iron. While Göring was pushing an agreement that would preserve Sweden’s neutrality and take the ore, Hitler was pounding the map with his fist. With the British army pinned to the shore at Dunkirkörk, Göring said, “If we strike now, they will fall.” Hitler expected them to surrender within weeks . The sky darkened. Port, factory, and airport targets were destroyed. The air force responded with superior radar and code-breaking capabilities. The Luftwaffe lost 1,500 aircraft. The skies were covered in the ashes of the Blitz. On August 9, 1940, a new map was laid out on the table. Hitler had set his sights on the Soviet Union. A preemptive strike. Göring recalled the pages of Minecamp. You weren’t going to fight a two-front war. He cited Napoleon as an example, the Russian winter, the Russian will. Hitler was enraged by this objection and made his decision. Thus, in the shadow of the portraits hanging in Karin’s statue-studded, silent Karinhal corridors, Göring’s life was divided into two lines. One was pomp, titles, and hunting horns; the other was listening lines, arrest lists, and cities burning. Both were running at the same speed, hitting the wall of history with the same crash. By 1941, Herman Göring had turned not to the world of war but to the world of art. This was his most controversial obsession. His dream Herman Göring Museum would open in 1953. A treasure trove filled with the elegant tones of the Renaissance and the muted lights of Dutch masters . He collected hundreds of paintings, sculptures, tapestries, and antiques to fill his four mansions. He would stand for hours in front of a painting, gazing at the brushstrokes as if touching them. The identity of the dealer, he said, was irrelevant. Art has no nationality, but Europe was ablaze. As anti-Jewish laws tightened, Göring used his power to lure some Jewish art dealers to Switzerland. He used it to smuggle. Simultaneously, he had the looted works transported to Germany by train. He built shelters to protect museums like the Louvre from bombing, while also quietly emptying their storage areas. The collection’s inventory was meticulously kept. The notebooks of Andreas Hosper and his assistant, Cisela Limberger, included photographs, purchase dates, and restoration information for each work. Proceeds from the collection went to the construction of the Göring Museum. However, an order from his pen on July 31, 1941, would become one of the darkest sentences in human history . He instructed Reinhart Heidrich to begin preparations for the final solution of the Jewish question . This line led a few months later to the Vanyi Conference, a meeting that planned the deaths of millions. Göring was not involved in the day-to-day management of this process. But his signature was etched on the blood-soaked page of history. This was the document that led to his execution at Nuremberg. The course of the war was changing. By 1942, the Russian swamp had grown. The front was swallowing soldiers and ammunition. Göring was responsible for production and resources, but on March 21st, labor management was handed over to Frit Scel. Socle filled the factories with slave labor, and death was incorporated into Germany’s invisible production line. The relationship between Hitler and Göring gradually soured. The Luftwaffe could no longer protect the skies. Planes dwindled, bombs increased. When Hitler ordered an all-out attack on England, Göring declared it suicide. He was not listened to, nor was he allowed to resign . Once, Germany’s skies were Marshaled. Now he was alone at the decision-making table. As the war drew to a close, Ging withdrew from the scene. He was absent from the D-Day landings. He devoted his sole discretion to rescuing his nephew, who had been arrested after the Valkyrie coup attempt . But no decisions were now in his hands. In 1945, as the Red Army marched on Berlin, Göring had his paintings confiscated from Karin and the rest destroyed. He then fled to Bavaria with his wife, Emy . His American aunt, Jerome N. Shapiro, noticed him in a traffic jam . He wrote in his report, “He was happy.” It was as if he had awakened from a bad dream . At the interrogation center in Augsburg, Göring spoke for hours. According to the American officers’ report, he wasn’t the clown portrayed in the newspapers. He was neither stupid nor insane. He was cold-blooded, calculating, and stubborn. But no matter what he said, his focus wasn’t on innocence, but on the architecture of the crime. He was then taken to the Mondorf Palace Hotel in Luxembourg, a prison for high-ranking Nazi prisoners. There, he was among the likes of von Ribentrop, Derits, Spare, and Shaht. The irony was profound. The prosecutor who tried him, Dr. Robert Kempner, had been fired by Göring in 1933. At the Nuremberg trials, he was tried on four counts: crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and complicity in these crimes. His defense was arrogant. This is a dry political matter. The victors are the judges. I, however, am the vanquished. I can answer for what I did, not what I didn’t do. The trial ultimately found him guilty on all four counts. He was given the death penalty. He wanted to die by firing squad . Like a soldier, but it was rejected. He was to be hanged on October 16, 1946. But before that night, an unexpected event occurred. Göring appeared calm in his cell . He took his pill and chatted with the guard. Silence fell at 2:24. When the guard arrived, Göring was dead. He left behind two letters with the cyanide: one denying the accusations, the other bidding farewell to Uncle. “I always carried a capsule with me,” he wrote. ” To die like a soldier.” His body was cremated with the others. The ashes were buried in an unmarked pit. Herman Göring remained one of the most complex faces of the Nazi regime. Under the mask of a war hero, he was a dependent, greedy, and scheming man. He once conquered the skies, but ultimately fell under the weight of his own ambitions. To remember him is to remember the anatomy of a fall. To see what power becomes in the absence of conscience. Yes, friends, today we have witnessed the rise and fall of an era, and the silence that followed. These stories, overshadowed by history, remind us of a truth. Power always comes with a price, and that price is often one’s own soul. If you’ve listened to this journey with as much interest as I have, subscribe to our channel and watch the video. Don’t forget to like it and click the bell icon to be notified of new episodes . My name is Night, Incoming History. See you again in the next story. See you in the light of the past left in the dark.