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n. - German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946).

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  • The brilliant German philosopher Hermann Goering is reported to have said at the Nuremburg Trials:
  • It was made privately in Goering’s cell to German-speaking U.S. Army Captain Gustave Gilbert, a psychologist.
  • “I heard a worker who was standing by his whimpering wife in an air-raid shelter called Goering ‘a damned fat liar.’”
  • Goering is a great showman.
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