Richard Overy Quotes

Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook and delighted in re-telling most of them to his friends.

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.