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Hermann Göring: Fighter Ace
Over the last 70 years, in countless books and essays, Hermann Goring has been defined by his crimes and excess during the Third Reich and the Second World War. But his activities as a young career military officer in World War I have invariably been glossed over – until now. 'Hermann Goring – Fighter Ace' is the first in-depth look at Goring’s role as a military flyer and air combat leader from 1914 through the end of The Great War, and how those experiences shaped the personality that came to the world’s attention in 1939
224 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 2010
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January 12, 2014
This book provided a fascintating insight into the origin, and development, of a pioneering combat pilot. The book also considers the probable mental disorder which led to destabilising fantacism and ego mania which contributed to Goring's' ascendancy during the First World War and his ultimate downfall in 1945.
The parameters of the book focus solely upon Goring's' pre-Nazi existence and covers the origins of his delusion via the opulent trappings of a parental Menage a Trois; his interface with the overt and officially-sanctioned anti-semitism propagated by the educational elite, and finally, his elevation to the status of a war time hero during his service as a soldier and latterly, as a pilot.
The precise nature of the timeline covered allows for a deeper-level of analysis of the socio-economic milieu which provided the foundation for the Third Reich. Whilst also highlighting that, despite the voluminous works devoted to the charisma of Adolf Hitler, the actual origins of the Third Reich lay in pre-existent cultural norms, and the inability to accept defeat due to a combination of national chauvinism and personal delusion in equal measure.
In this sense, the development of Goring's personality disorder can be seen to have precisely tracked the rise of the fall of the Reich's. This in turn also explains why, when the end came, it was as much due to his personal inability to accept judgement by peer groups outside of the realm of his personal World, as much as it was a recognition that the once young boy with the World at his feet, whom had once lived in an opulent life in a castle, had finally been betrayed by the ghosts that traversed it's dark corridors, as much as the socio-economic perversions which placed him there in the first place.
The parameters of the book focus solely upon Goring's' pre-Nazi existence and covers the origins of his delusion via the opulent trappings of a parental Menage a Trois; his interface with the overt and officially-sanctioned anti-semitism propagated by the educational elite, and finally, his elevation to the status of a war time hero during his service as a soldier and latterly, as a pilot.
The precise nature of the timeline covered allows for a deeper-level of analysis of the socio-economic milieu which provided the foundation for the Third Reich. Whilst also highlighting that, despite the voluminous works devoted to the charisma of Adolf Hitler, the actual origins of the Third Reich lay in pre-existent cultural norms, and the inability to accept defeat due to a combination of national chauvinism and personal delusion in equal measure.
In this sense, the development of Goring's personality disorder can be seen to have precisely tracked the rise of the fall of the Reich's. This in turn also explains why, when the end came, it was as much due to his personal inability to accept judgement by peer groups outside of the realm of his personal World, as much as it was a recognition that the once young boy with the World at his feet, whom had once lived in an opulent life in a castle, had finally been betrayed by the ghosts that traversed it's dark corridors, as much as the socio-economic perversions which placed him there in the first place.
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