"Dress badly and they will remember the clothes, dress impeccably and they will remember the man." - Hermann Göring

Apart from his contextual place in history Goring would fit into today's image obsessed, social media marketing world very well.

One anecdote about how flamboyant Göring was once told to me by my neighbour, who died a few years ago, aged 106. She was in Soviet captivity for a few years after WW2, since she had been working as a secretary in J. Göbbels' propaganda ministry. Göbbels was a workaholic and quite the opposite of Göring. He wore down one personal assistant per months who was asked to live in JG's appartment and had to bring his own foodstamps to pay for his provisions. My neighbour was locked up together with a woman who had a similar job in one of H. Göring's departments (HG held several offices, all of which he got handsomely paid for), and HG would treat them with extra money from his own pockets, theater tickets and even fur coats, when he liked their work.

Herman Groing looks more like a James Bond Villain, than most James Bond Villains.

I think the goring depicted in the Battle of Britain is the most accurate , it should be worth mentioning that the German actor who played him , Hein Rees I believe actually met him

Calling him flamboyant is a huge understatement

As a drug addict in recovery from opiate painkillers, I can personally attest to Herman’s pomposity and grandiosity. He was a fellow “junkie “.Being in active addiction to opiates lends itself to a feeling of superiority , grandness and overall idiocy. Thank God I’m clean today. It’s a miserable way to live.

Goring would've been the perfect social media star in todays world, flamboyant, showy, always seeking the opportunity to garner attention and never letting an ounce of his slip away.

He was wounded in the hip in WW1, and to keep him flying his planes were fitted with a fold down flap on the port side of the cockpit to make it easier for him to get in and out. This injury is to a large extent the cause of his massive weight gain. He took over Richthoffen’s squadron (Jasta) after his death and was not popular with the remaining pilots. He inherited the commanders authority baton (known as a Geshwader stock) when taking command of the Jasta.

The most flamboyant thing I can think of that Herman did was make a Fallschimjaeger Panzer division and Fallschimjeager Panzergrenadier division. Basically making units that were specialized in paradrops and use them as just another Panzer or Panzergrenadier division. I know near the end of the war Fallschimjeager basically became normal infantry due to no paradrops but still redundant to waste resources to make a new Panzer and Panzergrenadier division then give it to one of the already existing divisions.

worth mentioning that in 1936 Hitler made him a Reichsbevollmächtigter, which gave him immense power among civilian institutions and effective control over Germany's economy and industry during the buildup to war. On paper he was certainly the 2nd most powerful man, but eventually people like Himmler & Bormann started to eclipse him.

I read that Goring opposed the war. He didn't want to risk losing the easy life of wealth, status, and power he had by 1939.

For a while I thought Goring might have successfully escaped to Antarctica or even to Spain, but then I remember one thing. There was no Luftwaffe left to lift his sorry ass up there .

More of these historical documentaries on figures, please! I especially appreciate the backdrop with historical films. Perhaps you can use your "in the movies" format for certain historical figures to see how they're often portrayed?

I remember reading about the making of Battle of Britain (1969) that Goring often wore pink leather boots but the writers decided that this might not be well received if included in the film so they eschewed this detail.

I like the change from your usual subject, and you did it well, sir. Your summary was excellently done.

The guards at Nuremberg were not Americans (though nominally under the Command of Allied Officers) but in fact Germans mostly former SS men. Not too much of a stretch to figure out who gave him the cyanide. Point of fact when he surrendered he was not wearing the Walther PPK but rather a very large Colt New Service revolver in .45 Colt. The American Officer who took his surrender kept it for many years and I believe it now resides in the WWII Museum in New Orleans.

Also known as Herr Meier in Germany. "If as much as a single enemy aircraft flies over German soil, my name is Meier!"

"His refusal to accept any accountability at the trial only solidified him as an evil manipulative man" Nope, that just makes him a Politician.

Made a road trip to the West Point Museum years ago. We did see Goerings baton... and it IS impressive!!

The blue baton he received when becoming Generalfeldmarschall. It was blue, was for all later Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschalls. The Heer had red. When Göring became Reichsmarschall, he received the unique white baton.

A gunstore near me also has the owners personal museum showcased throughout. Many cool gun related things, but one display was particularly random. The top of the case was "37mm flare launcher, used on screen by al Pacino in scarface on "my little friend". Bottom of case "ornate belt buckle belonging to Hermann Goring".

Late war Göring reminds me of that kid from School of Rock who was more interested in designing crazy outfits for the band, instead of playing the actual music.

Your relaxed cadence is really easy to listen to and helps me retain and remember information better. Thank you!

If I remember my history correctly, after he got injured in the leg in the Munich putsch, he became morbidly obese and addicted to pain relieving medicine (like morphine, right?). Kinda like Henry 8th, don't you think? Once fit and very athletic, after a leg injury becomes a fat slob. Cheers, great informative video!

How Liberace ever got to run an Air Force into the ground is beyond me.

Thanks for keeping his history family-friendly. Catch ya next time Johnny.

I’d read the soldier in charge of Goring’s continued living wasn’t punished for his suicide, but that he never rose from rank from that day on.

The list of Goering's broken promises is a subject worth studying in its own right. It says it all when he stated on the radio if an Allied aircraft gets through, 'you may call me Mayer!' I wonder how many Allied interrogators would reminded him of this at war's end! Excellently portrayed by Hein Reiss in the classic 1969 film the Battle of Britain. Adolf Galland who was a technical advisor to the film company paid him the greatest compliment, saying he was impressed with his performance and his voice actually sounded like him! Today he will probably best remembered from a quote from the film when he asked a fighter ace what do you want? to which the reply was *A squadron of Spitfires* Ironically a captured British Spitfire Mk 5 EN 380 that landed on the island of Guernsey, after running out of fuel, after shooting up a targets of opportunity in France. Was almost intact & was flown back to Germany renumbered CJ ZY, after evaluation a Daimler Benz engine was fitted becoming a 'Messerspit'. Surprisingly the Frankenstein aeroplane outperformed both the BF109 and Spitfires of the day and reached an altitude record of 41,000 feet. The aircraft was destroyed when the USAF bombed the Daimler Benz factory!

So weird, I just found out about your channel a few hours ago and I've been binging it, now there's a new episode.

Goering in the first world war as kite ace we also see in the 1971 film "Von Richthofen and brow" , played by Barry Primus. And in the German TV movie titled "Der Gute Goring" (2016) in this movie you can see the relationship between Albert & Hermann Goering. Nice video John...

I remember seeing his Luftwaffe baton on my first day of Infantry training years ago. As my buddy and I were looking at it some DS we’ve never seen before came up to us and asked “What do you guys think about Hitler?”. I’ll never forget that day haha

Nicely done, this is a very good video and it would be good to see other videos of other leaders like Eisenhower, Montgomery, Haig, Pershing.

A video like this would be really cool for all the major personalities of WW2, especially the German leadership since there were a lot of quite eccentric people within it. Videos on Himmler, Tojo or McArthur in particular would be really interesting.

he is a man of fashion and passion

I wish someone would do a video just on Gorings model railroad he had. People have touched on it but have not fully explored just this topic

If Goring had been a Bond villain in the 1960s people would say he was too over the top. Also, it’s hilarious that the US Army ganked both of his stupid batons and put them in museums Stateside.

I held that baton in the thumbnail at Ft. Benning, GA in 2000.

A top tier collector friend of mine has Goering’s traveling suitcase that he took to Nuremberg. You can still smell the cologne.

Had a lot in common with Patton. Both Egomaniacs, and both liked dressing flamboyantly while expecting subordinates to adhere to the rules. I remember in the Patton movie where he fined a cook for not having leggings on in the kitchen, all the while he was carrying nonissue chrome or nickel colt single action cowboy guns, and putting Lt General stars on his jeep while he was still a major general.

Its interesting that Hilter allowed him to be so flashy and have all sorts of special uniforms and ranks. His ego wasn't threatened

I knew I was tired when I thought I was watching a Mark Felton video until the very end. Keep these vids coming J

Hermann Göring in big movie & series: -Der Gute Göring (2016). -Valkyrie (2008). -The Bunker (1981). -Hitler (1962). -Von Richthofen and Brown (1971). WW1 Goering. -Young Indiana Jones and the Attack of the Hawkmen (1995 - serie) WW1 Goering. -Hitler: The Rise of Evil is a Canadian television miniseries. (2003. -Battle of Britain (1969) British war film Goering played bye Riess. -The Ogre (1996) Goering and his Lion at Karinhall. -The Man Who Lived at the Ritz (1989 / serie) Goering in Hotel Ritz in Paris. -Inglourious Basterds (2007) Goering in Paris. -Liberation is a film series released in 1970 and 1971, Russian warmovies. Освобождение. -The Empty Mirror (1996). Goering & Hitler in 1 room. -The Winds of War (1983) miniseries WW2. -War and Remembrance (1988) miniseries WW2. -Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004) British war /comedy film. -Jackboots on Whitehall ( 2010) British adult animated/puppet satirical action comedy. -Nuremberg ( 2000) Canadian-American television docudrama. - The Fall of Berlin (Russian: Падение Берлина, romanized: Padeniye Berlina) is a 1950 Soviet war and propaganda film. -Allo Allo / ep. 'A fistfull of Francs" (1992) Von Strom as Hermann Goering. -The Great Dictator (1940 ) American anti-war political satire black comedy. Goering is Herring. -Die Kirschenkönigin (2004). DramaFamilyWar. Goering visits town. -Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (2006), is a BBC documentary film. -The Last Ten Days (German: Der letzte Akt) is a 1955 . -Downfall (German: Der Untergang) is a 2004. Goering in 1945 Berlin. -"The Death of Adolf Hitler" (1973 ) a British television play. Goering in 1945 Berlin. -Inside the Third Reich (1982) television film. -Indiana Jones And the last Crusade (1989) Goering in Berlin 1938. -Countdown to War ( 1989 ) TV-film goering. -Herr Meets (1945) anti-Nazi Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. -I'll Never Heil Again (1941) short subject . -The Magic Face (1951) American drama film. - Speer und Er (literally "Speer and He", released as Speer and Hitler: The Devil's Architect) (2005). -Plane Daffy (1944 )Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon. Cartoon Goering. -Munich - The Edge of War (2021) Hermann the Negotiator. -Der Gute Göring (2016) . Albert and Hermann Goering. -Nazi Murder Mysteries: (2018).

This was a really enjoyable video. I applaud your use of movie footage to provide the visuals, and I loved your scans of Goering's various different flags - I ended up pausing the video to study them more closely. Great information and just the sort of content about the Nazi high command I enjoy. This was a random recommendation for me tonight and I'm so glad I watched. Subscribing.

Well presented clip, good job 👏

I would quite enjoy a series of videos on the various personalities of WWII and even other wars.

Hey Johnny, today we tend to underestimate 'den Dicken'! Great episode. Best from Hamburg, Germany

Hitler once joked that Frau Goering had found her husband waving a baton over his dresser drawer and asked what he was doing. "I'm promoting my underpants to overpants!"

Oh snap, I thought I clicked on a Marc Felton video. Having watched a lot of his videos, this seems like a very good summary.

Fantastic video, JJ! Maybe the best of yours I have seen so far. Hope you do more videos of war figureheads.

Your video on Göring was very informative. I got more out of this 12 minute video than I did a lot of others that were way longer. I really got fascinated by Göring for a bit just cause his story is just so interesting. Thank you for listing those movies. I want to watch a couple and now I can.

Hermann Goering was the sun king of the Third Reich. 10 years ago, Herman's silk underpants were auctioned including the dubious stains that were still in them. I like the Goering movie part in "Churchill the Hollywood Years" (2004).

Goring was actuslly liked by many Germans. He was the only high ranking Nazi that would poke fun of himself, he also visited german cities that were bombed by the allies. Goring was also known to have a very high IQ.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the biggest bomber in the Luftwaffe… Herman Goering!

There is also video of his surrender where he relinquishes a US Made Smith & Wesson Revolver (I think an M&P) and I believe it is now located in a museum at West Point along with the baton.

Good video. Just wanted to say thanks for putting the movie titles into the clip. Not all do this.

Personally, I find Goering fascinating from another angle: his involvement in the Holocaust. He held a tremendous amount of direct responsibility, but barely seemed to show any more commitment to Nazi ideology than was personally useful to him at any given time. In a way, that makes his actions all the worse; he did them not out of hate or ideological fanaticism, but because it served his personal purposes. He did it for power, money, and influence.

keeps buffering... but his flamboyance is what made him awesome. he knew how to enjoy himself.

I like the Three Stooges episode "You Natzi Spy" where Curly played the part of Goring. He had medals front and back. Even on his butt.

Excellent video. Quite a step upwards, mate. Top notch JJ 😊

Hitler has only got one ball Goering has two but very small Himler is rather simlar But poor old Goebbles has no balls at all

Hermann: "Does this outfit make me look fat?"

While I enjoy all you videos this longer one as a history video is particularity good. I can imagine it takes longer with a lot of extra research behind the scenes to make, but well worth it. Hope you do more in a similar way.

The ice & bling, the pimpin clothes, the lions & tigers, the parties, the car collection and love of opiates and brandy, he would fit in with any modern rapper. Herman "Big Pimpin" Goering.

His addiction to morphine was his undoing.

Years of morphine addiction from his ear drums being blown out during a decompression accident at high altitude, really affected his mind. Because Himmler had Waffen SS divisons fighting , he insisted on forming Herman Goering divisions. Military ground formations that drained Germany of needed resources and achieved very little on the battle field.

If you are doing a series on military leaders/characters it would be good to see one on General John Monash, the Australian General who orchestrated the battle planning which lead to breaking the stalemate in WW1.

Five days before he died, he wrote a defensive letter to Churchill. Excerpt: "Today I regret my and the National Socialist Government's greatest mistake, the fateful error to believe in your discernment as a statesman. I regret to have trusted you with justifiability recognizing the world-political necessity of a peaceful and progressive (prosperous) Germany for the existence of a flourishing England. I regret that our means did not suffice to convince you at the last moment that the liquidation of Germany would also be the beginning of the liquidation of Britain's world power."

You have forgotten an important title of Goering, namely "Reichsfischfuttermeister". Goering always got seasick easily when he was on a ship and always vomited over the railing. Therefore, the sailors gave him this "honorary" title. An adequate translation of the title would be "Supreme Fish Feeder of the Reich".

Whats especially strange is compared to the other leaders of the Nazi party, is that in photos taken throughout the war, Goring was one of the few to be seen consistently smiling. Its honestly creepy how Goring appeared so quirky and joyful, even in the thick of the Nazi's invasion. It baffles me how someone could be so outwardly comical, yet no less dangerous. Goring was truly an enigma.

Flamboyant, but also just boyant as in displaces water beneath him, making the water denser than him, alloying him to float

Nice vid, Mark Felton levels of production here, good job!

I wouldn’t have sentenced him to death, i would have sentenced him to life with out parole. So he could think long and hard for what he had done…

He was such an old queen

What everyone forgets is that most of the Nazi leadership were WW1 veterans with actual combat experience over protracted periods, these days they would be diagnosed as suffering from various stress and combat related psychosis. In respect of Goering, while he was a good/gifted pilot in WW1, he was no leader, the record of the Circus while he commanded was abysmal and “his” pilots lampooned him.

A complicated man. I doubt that he would be so evil if he didn't have chronic pain and his first wife didn't die.

"The Devils' Disciples" by Anthony Read tells the life stories of Goering , Goebells and Himmler. Goering is by far the most interesting and conflicted. he spent time in an asylum in Sweden.. where he lived briefly after ww1 and married the love of his life, Carin, a Swedish aristocrat. he had been a moderating influence on Hitler , actively trying to avoid another war,. but Hitler fell under the influence of hawks like Ribbentrop who hated Britain ( after a disastrous spell as ambassador there ) and war became inevitable. Goering would drive into Berlin in his blue sports car and when stopped at traffic lights ppl would cheer him and make jokes about him , much to his delight.

Interesting how the highest German medal uses "Pour le Merit" Same I guess as the the British Coat of Arms has "Dieu et Droit" or something like that

I have been reading a memoir by the son of the first president of Iceland. He was in the SS and was stationed in the Caucasus Mountains late in the war. He said in his memoir during the time he was a citizen living in Berlin after the 1933 election that the gas stations would run out of fuel when Goering took his clothing to the cleaners.

As always great job Johnny! P.s. little request: I hope to see same kind of video about Erwin Rommel, opposite to Göring's attitude.

I heard most of the guards weren't American but Germans, Hungarians etc....at least in the courtroom where hitherto the sight of US MPs was a somehow comforting sight.

Hermann could make a cool opium pipe stem from his field Marshall’s baton. I could only imagine what the bowls/dampers would look like.

I’m from the US. I visited England with one of my sons. Along our way to the biggest model store in the world we 12:09 noticed the RAF Museum. There were many Goring items. Some the heroic young man and then the WW2 ego maniac. There was a dress uniform for each era. The WW2 jacket was what my friend would call ginormous. There were winter infantry boots which were insulated with hay. You could track the decline of Germany’s wealth in The decline of Goring’s Uniforms.

I have always enjoyed your videos, and the content has always stood up to verification. You have missed one point, Herman G. was the architect of the Gestapo. Be that as it may, keep up the exceptional work.

There was a scale called a Göring. What is the amount of medals a adult man could carry on their chest

I saw this at the Infantry museum at Ft. Benning

Goering was iced out

You know, I hope the Luftwaffe put something in its regs after this: "You must be able to still fit in a fighter cockpit if you are going to be in charge." Something like that.

the most flamboyant thing he did, at least in my mind, when captured he had not one but two suitcases full of eukodol pills... *goring was the original oxy addict, and in a big **_big_** way*

9:06 in the video: Mistake because that is an SS dagger, that must be a Luftwaffe sword! You did miss the film images from "Hitler the rise of Evil" from 2003. You then see Goering during and before the 1923 Putsch.

This was an excellent video and an interesting history lesson. I really enjoyed the specific angle of the flamboyant Göring. I am glad to see that you are branching out from your usual topics (and yeah, I understand that at the rate that you are creating content, you are running out of iconic guns) Anyway, looking forward to see videos on other high profile historical characters from movies. There should be plenty to choose from. Might I suggest that you credit the actor's names as well as the title of the movies.

Thank you for all the adoration. Much appreciated. 👍

That comment from the Italian at 5:58 is a sicker burn than the bombing of Dresden

Don’t fool your self ; Gõring Wes the Teutonic version of Boris Johnson!

A crippling drug addiction mixed with emense unquestionable power will do that to you

you can see the baton at the West Point museum,outside the gates of the Academy. The museum is free.

Fact: Goering’s special armored train had cars that weighed as much as 60 tons, or 75 tons when Goering was on board

Goring became the No.2 because he played the key if not the most important role in Nazi being elected and immediately afterward, consolidation of power, you know, the most important behind scene organizer, Hitler had oratory skills that could rile up the crowd but politics ultimately couldn't function without someone being superior at organizing the actual politics, Goring's later image painted him as a fat buffoon with few people understanding why he got the No.2 role: it ain't because of his WWI laurels, nor did he have any particularly close relationship with Hitler, he got where he sat cuz he's one of the key figures, along with Hitler himself and maybe no other, in Nazi Party that could truly be considered indispensable for Nazi's rise to power

9:02 Logan Roy at his happiest. In all seriousness, great video.

I had read in Count Ciano's diary that Goring had come one day to visit with him. Ciano said that Goring was fiddling around with something in his pocket and then pulled out all these beautiful diamonds that he had apparently "aquired" while on a trip to Holland. Without a word he lined them up on a window ledge and started playing with them. My guess is he was going to use them, perhaps, in another one of his custom-made bejewelled weapons projects but Ciano never said what became of them.