Goering Cross-Examined

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When Field Marshall Hermann Goering Deputy Führer and commander of the Luftwaffe appeared before the Nuremburg Tribunal in 1946 to answer for his crimes the world was watching. Much of Europe had directly suffered through the war that he and the Nazi system had brought to the continent and now he would have to answer for his crimes.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>On the other hand Germany was full of Nazis who had been defeated but did not feel any part of the guilt for those terrible events. Would Goering be able to stand up for them and give them hope for the future? </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Goering proved to be intelligent and resourceful a natural leader who dominated the other defendants at the trial and showed no self-doubt at all. The evidence he gave on his own behalf made the unthinkable seem reasonable the normal reaction of a government and country under threat from outside forces. He denied all knowledge of war crimes and the crimes against humanity that were now being uncovered. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Only cross-examination by American and British prosecutors could force him to admit his complicity but Goering was far too clever to be pinned down easily. Here in the actual words spoken by the three adversaries is the story of the American prosecutor Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson and his British colleague Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe fighting to bring the true story of Goering's crimes into the light. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Using complete court transcripts with commentaries on each session this book allows the reader to follow the battle day by day. All three men and especially Goering jump from the pages in the words they used seventy years ago. This is Goering from a different angle seen not through his deeds but as you might see him at a town hall meeting. He is talkative and charismatic even when on trial for his life and with the ruins of the Third Reich around him. His trial is followed through to the end and the book has an Epilogue from his fellow defendant Albert Speer.</span></p>