Herman Goering the Air Czar

Herman Goering was the most popular figure in Naziin 1940.
Germany. He was second only to Hitler in his
importance. He was Hitler's Deputy and official
successor, erector of the Nazi air force, and the superGoering was against any wastefulness. Therefore he
economy minister.opposed the liquidation of the adept work force in the
occupied countries. His orders were always combined
It is amazing that there isn't any book dedicated to hiswith the warning slogan: 'You will not waste anything
part in the annihilation of the European Jewish People.from what is good for use'. He thought about loot as
As chairman of the Reichstag he signed thethe normal management of war. Already after 'the
'Nuremberg Lows'. As 'general inspector on thecrystal night' he created eagerly the legal system for
matters of Jews in the Reich', he was the person whorobbing the Jewish assets, by the advice of Heidrich
wrote the order of the final solution and the chain ofEichman. It became the economic model for the final
orders that lead to it. He transformed the Gestapo tosolution.
a major dictatorship enforcment tool; He was the
leader in exploiting forced labor, assets robbery and
more.The order from July 31, 1941 for the final solution of
the Jewish problem was an individual calculated
decision which was initiated only by Goering. The order
The chapter about him in the book 'Holocaust anditself is very short, and surely it did not take him more
Aviation' focuses on his motives from the point ofthan few minutes to formulate it. Therefore it is very
View of the airy soul. The most important date is: Julyinteresting to try to understand what engaged him in
31, 1941, a day before the Jewish annual mourning daythe same days.
for the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70
CE.
Within one year, from the summer of 1940 to the
summer of 1941, He lost a big part of his prestige and
Herman Goering's father was a German diplomat. Instatus:
1885 he became the first governor of Namibia. The
first genocide that was executed by the Germans, the
first in the 20'Th century and which heralded directlyFirstly, he lost approximately 3,000 airplanes,
the Jewish genocide, was the annihilation of thecompared with his original planning, according to the
Namibian People in 1905, few years after Goering'sfollowing calculation:
father was promoted to be the ambassador in Haiti.- 1500 as a result from untruthful reports that he
received on the amount of manufactured airplanes
- 1,200 in the battle on Britain
The mother of Herman Goering returned from Haiti to- 300 in the battle on Crete
Germany for a safe birth to him. Her rich JewishHe had approximately only 2,000 airplanes before the
doctor became her lover, and father to one of hercampaign in Russia.
sons. These facts developed in Goering a strong
father complex, which caused in him a desire to be
better then his father in all aspects. Jealous to theSecondly, he lost the control on the aircraft industry,
family honor, he became also anti-Semitic.which passed to Speer, the armament minister, who
planned production modernization in assembly lines.
Herman Goering was an excellent pilot, with 22
airplanes 'killings' in the First World War. He wasThirdly, the strengthening of air bombardments from
promoted to the command of the 'Flying Circus'the Allied caused a shock in the top of the Nazi party.
squadron; after its famed commander, 'The Red
Baron', was killed in battle.
Both were embodiment of the NietzscheanLastly, there was the never ending story with Hess,
Superman, who hovers proudly in the sky and enforcehis friend from the squadron who deserted to England.
his authority by means of his appearance and his
desire, not less than by means of his actual strength.
Among the pilots who joined the squadron in the lastNo wander that he was tense, angry, frustrated, and
stages of the war were two who became withfearful. He searched for an expression of retaliation
Goering leaders of the Nazi movement: The weirdand relief. An urgent need was also created to lift his
Rudolph Hess who was Hitler's second deputy, andprestige.
the hoggish Arthur Griezer who was the demonic
governor in occupied Poland that was annexed to the
Reich.He had to solve the complication immediately. He was
man of action, iron will. He thought that he is beginning
to lose control and he must elucidate his condition. Why
After the war Goering became one of the millions ofif so, he thought, not against the Jews.
unemployed. He met Hitler in 1922. Hitler recognized
immediately Goering's value for him as a famous pilot
and officer. Goering was impressed by Hitler's politicalGoering sensed that on this way he will produce a
skills.new dynamic, in which the total measure of up and
A fruitful cooperation and friendship started betweendown will be balanced. He will compensate on the loss
them; which continued until the defeat of the Nazis. Itof airplanes by the annihilation of Jews, just according
was based on their shared belief in mysticism andto the vertical dialectic of Nietzsche, which is absent of
nationalism.morality. He thought that in this way he will continue to
seize all that he had. It was an attempt to gain time
and to erase his failures.
The anti-Semitic race doctrine and the conception that
aviation is the key to the future development of
Germany became one-piece in Nazi Germany. ThereIt is Possible that Goering thought of a 'response' to
is a contact which cannot be cut of, between thoughtSpeer's program for airplanes production in assembly
and reality, between dream and will. They have to findlines. The final solution was an 'original idea' for
a united expression. The connection between Hitler'assembly line'. Goering could have been able to boast
and Goering was an example of that. They were 'Thein it, together with Heidrich. In the annihilation camps the
Fat and the Skinny'.concept for the line of action was: factory of death.
From below, from within the bewilderment, in whichTo the rehabilitation of his professional and political
Germany was after the defeat in the First World War,status the order did not contribute much. Hitler
came the need for pragmatic settlement. Every ordercontrolled increasingly his tasks. Goering's health
like this is built from different components at first, anddeteriorated gradually physically and mentally.
goes and unites to a central political single subject. In
the case before us, all the German political arc, after all
was said and done, united under Goering's image. InIn the Nuremberg trails Goering was judged on crimes
Germany 'order is order' and the Nazis provided it.of war and involvement in crimes against the mankind.
He was convicted and was sentenced to death, but
comitted suicide before the execution.
Goering symbolized the hope that Germany will
capitalized on the air success in the First World War.
Goering was the most intelligent, influential and theThe Failure of Goering is a failure of the preference
most popular figure in the Reich. This thing did notof the will of power and the subconscious, over the
disappear of course from the eyes of Hitler. It isrational thinking and the harmonic humanism. This failure
possible that the Second World War started becauseis expressed more fully in the figure of Hitler's second
of the competition between them.deputy, Rudolph Hess, who was stricken with
schizophrenia and Amnesia because of his extreme
airy character.
The most important contribution of Goering to the
construction of the new Nazi state was the
replacement of the Conservatives control in the armyThe eccentric image of Goering became a negative
and the economy, in a mechanism under his control.model in the world media. All the negative aspects of
the aerial soul were embodied in him: The
exaggeration, arrogance, coquetry, avarice and
His direct involvement in the economy began when heatrocity.
wanted to manufacture many more airplanes. He
received under his control the governmental office for
the supply of raw materials. Quickly the office becameGoering embodied naturally the Nitchean superman.
a monster that controlled the economy of Germany.Therefore his image is ignored in the decipherment
attempt for the causes of the holocaust. If we will
remember that he was a second generation of
Goering became the czar of the German economy,generators of holocaust, who improved and perfected
after receiving the responsibility on 'the four yearshis father's crimes, it will be easier to understand him.
economic plan' in 1936. His original intention was to
nationalize the industry. Lacking enough economic skills,
Germany slipped away quickly to the hands of a littleThe airy reality, in which the Nazism acted in
group of industrialists with huge factories.substance and spirit, took from its victims the right to
use the aerial soul for their recuperation. To the
holocaust survivors, who were in the lowest form of
In the heart of the system that he controlled was 'Thehuman existense and wish to climb upward within their
Reich's Steel Factories conglomerate'. By means ofpersonal experience, the image of Goering is a barrier
legal theft it was converted in the course of the warthat has to be smashed completely. This is a therapy
to a cluster of almost all the heavy industry in occupiedprocess. The interconnection between the dream of
Europe. Not even one private German economicflight and Nietzschean superman is insignificant. In order
initiative was allowed in the occupied territories. Theto heighten to the heights there is a need for a moral
main product of the new order was airplanes. The airsystem of values. There is a need for the strong
force received twenty percent of the national budgetsupport from all humankind.