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Hermann Göring was a German politician, aviator, military commander, and convicted war criminal who became the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany. He served as Supreme Commander of the Luftwaffe and as Plenipotentiary of the Four Year Plan, and Hitler named him his successor.
Hermann Göring died by suicide on the night before his scheduled hanging in October 1946, swallowing a potassium cyanide capsule at Nuremberg. He had asked to be shot by firing squad as a soldier rather than hanged as a common criminal, but the court refused.
Hermann Göring was found guilty on all four charges at Nuremberg: conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The judges said there was nothing to be said in mitigation and called his guilt unique in its enormity.
Hermann Göring was shot in the groin during the failed Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923 and was given morphine for the pain while recovering in Innsbruck. The addiction lasted until his imprisonment at Nuremberg, and in 1925 he was confined to Långbro Asylum as a dangerous drug addict.
Hermann Göring issued a memo to Reinhard Heydrich in July 1941 ordering him to organise the practical details of the Final Solution. He required the registration of all Jewish property, proposed fining the Jews one billion marks after Kristallnacht, and directed operations that murdered thousands of Jews and Polish civilians in the Białowieża Forest.
Hermann Göring was a World War I fighter ace who finished the war with 22 victories and received the Pour le Mérite in May 1918. He became the last commander of Jagdgeschwader 1, the Flying Circus once led by Manfred von Richthofen.
Hermann Göring amassed a collection of some 1,500 pieces valued at $200 million, much of it stolen from Jewish victims. His name appears 135 times on the OSS Art Looting Investigation Unit Red Flag Names List, and some 26,000 railroad cars of art and furniture were sent to Germany from France alone.