Hermann Göring Quotes

“Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, Hermann Göring about the Reichstag fire? Why don’t Sophocles, Democritus, and Aristarchus dictate their lost books?”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“I sin bok Göring – Tysklands farligaste man skriver Kurt Singer om ett samtal han hade 1937 med Carl Lindhagen, som ledde de Göring–Kantzowska förhandlingarna. ”De viktigaste fällande vittnena var Carin Görings systrar. Vi undersökte saken noga. (…) Det var ingen angenäm process.” Han mindes också mycket väl makarna Göring. ”Fru Göring kom insvävande i salen som en grande dame. Hon var övermåttan elegant klädd och sökte på det sättet göra intryck på domstolen. (…) Ja, Göring, hur kan han vara annorlunda, en typisk tysk kapten, kantig, energisk, skrytsam; han spelade ju bara roll som vittne.”
― Björn Fontander, Görings Sverige

“Only in the hearts of those who knew him with all his qualities and all his faults and recognized that willingness to sacrifice himself for his country which no human weakness could entirely conceal, in the hearts of the soldiers and workers and peasants who still speak of “our Hermann” with a sense of personal loss, no order of the International Military Tribunal can cancel the belief that Hermann Göring has received from his Creator another justice and another mercy than those which he received at the hands of his fellow men.”
― Charles Bewley, Hermann Goring and the Third Reich; A Biography Based on Family and Official Records

“The opinion of those who knew him cannot be completely ignored, though it obviously is not infallible. The Tribunal preferred the theory of the prosecution that Göring's professed desire for peace was merely a mask to disguise his share in the conspiracy to wage aggressive war. If so, it is worthy of remark that he not only set out to deceive the non-German world, but also to delude his own countrymen. Not only was his anti-war attitude known to Hassell and the group of conspirators against Hitler, but he went out of his way to proclaim it in public.”
― Charles Bewley, Hermann Goring and the Third Reich; A Biography Based on Family and Official Records