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Goe·ring

(gĕr′ĭng, gûr′-, gœ′rĭng), Hermann Wilhelm

See Hermann Wilhelm Göring.

Gö·ring

also Goe·ring (gĕr′ĭng, gûr′-, gœ′rĭng), Hermann Wilhelm 1893-1946.

German Nazi politician and military leader who was responsible for the buildup of German air forces, directed the German wartime economy, and was named Hitler's successor (1939). Severely criticized for Germany's military decline, he lost favor with Hitler and was stripped of his command (1943). After he was convicted and sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials (1946), he committed suicide.

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Goering

(German ˈɡøːrɪŋ)

(Biography) See Göring

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Goe•ring

(ˈgɛər ɪŋ, ˈgɜr-)

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Hermann Wilhelm, Göring, Hermann Wilhelm.

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Goering - German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946)

Goring, Hermann Goering, Hermann Goring, Hermann Wilhelm Goring

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ASABE Fellow Carroll Goering, P.E., Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, cgoering@illinois.edu.

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1945: The Nuremberg War Crimes trial of Nazis, including Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, and Joachim von Ribbentrop, began.

On this day..

A SILVER-bound copy of Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf which he gave to Hermann Goering is expected to sell for PS4,000.

PS4k for Hitler book present to henchman

Thanks to Leroy Gmazel, Frank Imhoff, Tim Goering, Dennis Cruchon and Carl Mattson.

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Another security guard George Lambating and passersby Manuel Goering and Pauline Basbach, both German citizens, were wounded.

School principal, 3 others shot dead

Susan Goering knew she wanted to be a civil rights attorney when she heard Martin Luther King Jr.s I Have a Dream speech from her porch as a sixth grader in Kansas.

Susan Goering to retire after 32 years with ACLU of Maryland

Precisely 72 years ago today, on January 30, 1946, Charles Dubost, the Deputy Chief Prosecutor for the French Republic before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, read into the record a document dated February 14, 1944, from Hermann Goering to Heinrich Himmler that read in relevant part:

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AFAMOUS painting given as a bribe to Nazi Hermann Goering to secure an art dealer's freedom is to go on show in Birmingham.

Master taken by Goering returns; Painting back in Birmingham after Jewish owner gave it to Nazi as bribe to escape

There is no truth in the rumour that Nigel Farage was bidding for a cigarette case belonging to Hermann Goering. It was set to fetch PS1000 at auction, though the main issue there is deciding whether a punter raising their right hand is bidding or making a Nazi salute.

Chance to put a rocket under our politicians

His father, Goering, 62, was killed shortly after they were shot by guard Jonathan Sanchez on F.

Second victim of shooting by guard dies on Dec. 25

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