Person
Hermann Göring
Nazi leader who held a Nazi cabinet seat in 1933; the Nuremberg Tribunal found him guilty on all four counts of the indictment.
- Dates
- 1893–1946
- Also known as
- Hermann Goering, Goering, Göring
- Wikidata
- Q47906
Trial of the Major War Criminals
- Convicted by International Military Tribunal: guilty on all four counts of the indictment; sentenced to death by hanging 1
Connections 7
convicted by
- International Military Tribunal 1 Oct 1946 guilty on all four counts of the indictment; sentenced to death by hanging Primary record 1
funded by
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Fritz Thyssen
150,000 RM
According to Henry Ashby Turner
Scholarship & press
2
Turner reports the court’s estimate; his book dates the court to 1946, his notes and his 1971 article to 1948. Thyssen’s purpose, he says, was to strengthen Göring against the party’s economic radicals.
involved in
- Hitler appointed Chancellor took one of the two Nazi cabinet seats Scholarship & press 3
- Meeting of 20 February 1933 host; told the guests the party needed money Primary record 45
- Trial of the Major War Criminals convicted Primary record 1
appears in
- Report of the speeches of 20 February 1933 (D-203) the second speaker Primary record 56
- Judgment of the International Military Tribunal found guilty on all four counts Primary record 1
Timeline 2 dates
- 1893–1946 Hermann Göring
- 1 Oct 1946 Hermann Göring convicted by International Military Tribunal
Proof 6 sources
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Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, Volume 22: Tuesday, 1 October 1946 (the Judgment on the defendants, and sentences), Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 1 Oct 1946.
Primary record
The Tribunal finds the Defendant Goering guilty on all four Counts of the Indictment.
Defendant Hermann Wilhelm Goering, on the Counts of the Indictment on which you have been convicted, the International Military Tribunal sentences you to death by hanging.
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German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler (Oxford University Press, 1985; page numbers come from the running heads of a scanned copy and may be off by one), Oxford University Press, 1985.
Scholarship & press
sums of money later estimated at about 150,000 marks by the de-nazification court
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Paul von Hindenburg, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia.
Scholarship & press
These seats were filled by Hermann Göring and Wilhelm Frick.
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Telegram D-201 and report D-203 (p. 557), Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy).
Primary record
PRESIDENT OF THE REICHSTAG GOERING
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Report D-203 and Krupp memorandum D-204 (p. 562), Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy).
Primary record
He then led over very cleverly to the necessity that other circles not taking part in this political battle should at least make the financial sacrifices so necessary at this time.
Goering considered to some extent the great dangers connected with this election battle.
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Report D-203 of the speeches of 20 February 1933 (p. 561), Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy).
Primary record
GOERING — He also counted on it that with political pacification, domestic economy would also quiet down.
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