The Göring Brothers: Albert and Hermann

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In 1945, the Allied powers prepared to hold the Nazi leaders accountable for the crimes committed during world war II. Richard Sonnenfeldt sat down with a man whose name was as synonymous with Nazism as Hitler or Himmler. The subject of the interview, Göring, denied any culpability for the holocaust or the war. Sonnenfeldt dismissed him as a hand wringing witness who was trying to whitewash his past. But Göring continued with his denials even producing a list of Jews he had helped escape the Nazis. The story seemed ridiculous to captors until a new interrogator arrived: Victor Paschkes. His aunt had been smuggled out of Germany and he had little trouble remembering the famous name of the man who assisted her. It was Goring. But this wasn’t Hermann, Hitler’s number two, Paschkes and Sonnenfeldt were sitting with his younger brother Albert. A man wrongly accused of being a Nazi when in fact – despite his brother’s role in the regime had spent years battling against the Nazis. In this episode, I explore the story of The Göring brothers, Albert and Hermann.

Sound: Pixabay
Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg Public domain

Music:
Mahler Symphony No. 5, IV. Adagietto The Peabody orchestra through Creative Commons
Gustav Malher, interprété par Bruno Walter et le Vienna Philhamornic Orchestra. Public Domain