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Hermann Goering in the First World War - The Personal Photograph Albums of Hermann Goering (Hardcover)
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Hermann Goering in the First World War - The Personal Photograph Albums of Hermann Goering (Hardcover)
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When modern readers think of Hermann Goring, what probably comes to
mind is the overweight drug addict and convicted war criminal who
cheated the hangman's noose at Nuremberg by committing suicide just
hours before he was due to be hanged. Next up might be the image of
his powerful German air force in the Second World War---the
Luftwaffe---bombing defenseless European cities and towns in the
early part of the war, until it was defeated by the British Royal
Air Force in the epic Battle of Britain in 1940. Next might come
Goring the debauched art collector who pirated captured collections
all over Nazi Europe during the Occupation years. All of these
images are correct, but here we see another Hermann Goring: the
slim, dashing fighter pilot and combat ace of an earlier struggle,
the Great War, or World War I of 1914-18, which he began as an
infantry officer fighting the French Army in the 1914 Battle of the
Frontiers. During a hospitalization, his friend Bruno Lorzer
convinced him to become an aerial observer-photographer,
photographing the mighty French fortress of Verdun. He did, and
began these never-before-seen personal photo albums of men and
aircraft at war: up close.
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