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Following the establishment of the Nazi state, Göring amassed power and political capital to become the second most powerful man in Germany. He was appointed commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe (air force), a position he held until the final days of the regime.
It required the reduction of the German Army to 100,000 men, [79] a reduction of the German Navy, [79] and the abolition of the German Air Force. [79] As a result of the new military arrangements, there were no field marshals created during the Weimar Republic.
Erhard Milch (30 March 1892 – 25 January 1972) was a German Generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) who oversaw the development of the German air force as part of the re-armament of Nazi Germany (1933-1945) following World War I (1914-1918).
Hermann Goring, a leader of the Nazi Party and one of the primary architects of the Nazi police state in Germany. He was condemned to hang as a war criminal by the International Military Tribunal at Nurnberg in 1946 but took poison instead and died the night his execution was ordered.
Göring was an early member of the Nazi Party and was wounded in the failed Munich Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. That wound would have long-term effects, as Göring became increasingly addicted to ...
The German politician and air force commander Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946) was second in command to Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. Hermann Göring was born in Rosenheim, Bavaria, on Jan. 12, 1893, son of the consul general of the German Empire in Haiti.
History of the Battle of Britain. Commander in Chief of the Luftwaffe. 1893-1946. Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, 1935 – 1945. “The nearness of London to German airfields will lose them this war” Hermann Göring began his a military career as a Lieutenant in the 112th Infantry Regiment.
