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Originally Posted by rubenandthejets
Wow, lots of anti Goering stuff here!
Yeah, OK, he was pretty useless, but back before his testicles were shot off he was a great WWI ace with machine gun smoke smeared on his face and a Blue Max around his neck. His fatty fatness really was a glandular problem.
Let's not forget he was the only one at Nuremberg who stood up and took responsibilty for his actions-"Yes, I ordered those POWs shot" etc and then gave everyone the finger by killing himself.
He pretty much knew the war was lost once the Russian front started up and from then on pretty much kept his head down and enjoyed his loot.
No, I'm not a Nazi, just a Devil's Advocate.
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I dont care what he did in WWI or after the war, he had very little knowledge on how to deal with the Luftwaffe. Lot of his decisions were based on his experiences in WWI, WWII was very different war.
Also, he cared little of what happened to his pilots, one occasion I can remember was that Goering came to visit some airfield with reporters. Reports came in that there was allied raid forming, despite the clouds and fog that covered the whole german airfield, Goering ordered the squadron there to take off, just show the reporters would have something to write. The squadron commander refused, because it would've been too dangerous to take off in that weather. What did Goering do? Put the guy against the wall. Thanks to Gunther Lutzow, the man was spared as he called directly to Goering and convinced him to spare the guy.
And of course, then there's the billion cases where he called all the LW a bunch of cowards, hence the guncameras were installed so ppl on the ground could watch the later on and see if the pilot attacked the enemy in air. No matter if it was one LW plane against 2000 allied planes, he had to attack.
A real tosser of his time.
