For educational purposes<br /><br />Half warmonger, half comedian Goering more than any of the Dictator's other aides, embodied the face of the Nazi regime.<br /><br />A decorated war hero with the common touch, Goering was instrumental in making Hitler and the Nazi Party socially acceptable. <br /><br />Although considered a lackey and stooge he still wielded immense power and privilege. <br /><br />After the initial triumphs of the war, Goering embarked on a downward spiral of narcotic addiction and narcissism. <br /><br />Morphine and power had destroyed his grip on reality and after a number of military disasters discredited his reputation the once poweful General was on the same path of destruction as Germany.<br /><br />Newly released secret documents from domestic and foreign archives illuminate Goering's many-faceted brutal personality.
