Herman Goering the Air Czar

Herman Goering was the most popular figure in Nazithe national budget in 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 theGoering was against any wastefulness. Therefore he
super economy minister.opposed the liquidation of the adept work force in
the occupied countries. His orders were always
It is amazing that there isn't any book dedicated tocombined with the warning slogan: 'You will not waste
his part in the annihilation of the European Jewishanything from what is good for use'. He thought
People. As chairman of the Reichstag he signed theabout loot as the normal management of war.
'Nuremberg Lows'. As 'general inspector on theAlready after 'the crystal night' he created eagerly
matters of Jews in the Reich', he was the personthe legal system for robbing the Jewish assets, by
who wrote the order of the final solution and thethe advice of Heidrich Eichman. It became the
chain of orders that lead to it. He transformed theeconomic model for the final solution.
Gestapo to 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
The chapter about him in the book 'Holocaust andorder itself is very short, and surely it did not take
Aviation' focuses on his motives from the point ofhim more than few minutes to formulate it.
View of the airy soul. The most important date is:Therefore it is very interesting to try to understand
July 31, 1941, a day before the Jewish annualwhat engaged him in the same days.
mourning day 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
Herman Goering's father was a German diplomat. Inand status:
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 heraldedFirstly, he lost approximately 3,000 airplanes,
directly the Jewish genocide, was the annihilation ofcompared with his original planning, according to the
the Namibian People in 1905, few years afterfollowing calculation:
Goering's father was promoted to be the- 1500 as a result from untruthful reports that he
ambassador in Haiti.received on the amount of manufactured airplanes
- 1,200 in the battle on Britain
- 300 in the battle on Crete
The mother of Herman Goering returned from HaitiHe had approximately only 2,000 airplanes before
to Germany for a safe birth to him. Her rich Jewishthe campaign in Russia.
doctor became her lover, and father to one of her
sons. These facts developed in Goering a strong
father complex, which caused in him a desire to beSecondly, he lost the control on the aircraft industry,
better then his father in all aspects. Jealous to thewhich passed to Speer, the armament minister, who
family honor, he became also anti-Semitic.planned production modernization in assembly lines.
Herman Goering was an excellent pilot, with 22Thirdly, the strengthening of air bombardments from
airplanes 'killings' in the First World War. He wasthe Allied caused a shock in the top of the Nazi
promoted to the command of the 'Flying Circus'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 andhis friend from the squadron who deserted to
enforce his authority by means of his appearanceEngland.
and his desire, not less than by means of his actual
strength.
Among the pilots who joined the squadron in theNo wander that he was tense, angry, frustrated,
last stages of the war were two who became withand fearful. He searched for an expression of
Goering leaders of the Nazi movement: The weirdretaliation and relief. An urgent need was also created
Rudolph Hess who was Hitler's second deputy, andto lift his prestige.
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
After the war Goering became one of the millions ofcondition. Why if so, he thought, not against the
unemployed. He met Hitler in 1922. Hitler recognizedJews.
immediately Goering's value for him as a famous pilot
and officer. Goering was impressed by Hitler's political
skills.Goering sensed that on this way he will produce a
A fruitful cooperation and friendship startednew dynamic, in which the total measure of up and
between them; which continued until the defeat ofdown will be balanced. He will compensate on the loss
the Nazis. It was based on their shared belief inof airplanes by the annihilation of Jews, just according
mysticism and nationalism.to the vertical dialectic of Nietzsche, which is absent
of morality. He thought that in this way he will
continue to seize all that he had. It was an attempt
The anti-Semitic race doctrine and the conceptionto gain time and to erase his failures.
that aviation is the key to the future development of
Germany became one-piece in Nazi Germany. There
is a contact which cannot be cut of, betweenIt is Possible that Goering thought of a 'response' to
thought and reality, between dream and will. TheySpeer's program for airplanes production in assembly
have to find a united expression. The connectionlines. The final solution was an 'original idea' for
between Hitler and Goering was an example of that.'assembly line'. Goering could have been able to boast
They were 'The Fat and the Skinny'.in it, together with Heidrich. In the annihilation camps
the concept for the line of action was: factory of
death.
From below, from within the bewilderment, in which
Germany was after the defeat in the First World
War, came the need for pragmatic settlement. EveryTo the rehabilitation of his professional and political
order like this is built from different components atstatus the order did not contribute much. Hitler
first, and goes and unites to a central political singlecontrolled increasingly his tasks. Goering's health
subject. In the case before us, all the German politicaldeteriorated gradually physically and mentally.
arc, after all was said and done, united under
Goering's image. In Germany 'order is order' and the
Nazis provided it.In the Nuremberg trails Goering was judged on
crimes of war and involvement in crimes against the
mankind. He was convicted and was sentenced to
Goering symbolized the hope that Germany willdeath, but comitted suicide before the execution.
capitalized on the air success in the First World War.
Goering was the most intelligent, influential and the
most popular figure in the Reich. This thing did notThe Failure of Goering is a failure of the preference
disappear of course from the eyes of Hitler. It isof the will of power and the subconscious, over the
possible that the Second World War started becauserational thinking and the harmonic humanism. This
of the competition between them.failure is expressed more fully in the figure of Hitler's
second deputy, Rudolph Hess, who was stricken with
schizophrenia and Amnesia because of his extreme
The most important contribution of Goering to theairy character.
construction of the new Nazi state was the
replacement of the Conservatives control in the
army and the economy, in a mechanism under hisThe eccentric image of Goering became a negative
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 whenatrocity.
he wanted to manufacture many more airplanes. He
received under his control the governmental office
for the supply of raw materials. Quickly the officeGoering embodied naturally the Nitchean superman.
became a monster that controlled the economy ofTherefore his image is ignored in the decipherment
Germany.attempt for the causes of the holocaust. If we will
remember that he was a second generation of
generators of holocaust, who improved and
Goering became the czar of the German economy,perfected his father's crimes, it will be easier to
after receiving the responsibility on 'the four yearsunderstand him.
economic plan' in 1936. His original intention was to
nationalize the industry. Lacking enough economic
skills, Germany slipped away quickly to the hands ofThe airy reality, in which the Nazism acted in
a little 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 washuman existense and wish to climb upward within
'The Reich's Steel Factories conglomerate'. By meanstheir personal experience, the image of Goering is a
of legal theft it was converted in the course of thebarrier that has to be smashed completely. This is a
war to a cluster of almost all the heavy industry intherapy process. The interconnection between the
occupied Europe. Not even one private Germandream of flight and Nietzschean superman is
economic initiative was allowed in the occupiedinsignificant. In order to heighten to the heights there
territories. The main product of the new order wasis a need for a moral system of values. There is a
airplanes. The air force received twenty percent ofneed for the strong support from all humankind.