• PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social
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    If Himmler and Goring look like big fuckin’ weirdos here, you are correct. Goring in particular became a hugely obese morphine addict in the later stages of the Reich. Albert Speer talks about going to his house to meet him and this slovenly wild-eyed dude in a robe coming to meet him at the door, and being absolutely shocked that this guy used to be some kind of war hero.

    Hans-Ulrich Rudel, the top Stuka pilot of the war, recalled twice meeting Göring dressed in outlandish costumes: first, a medieval hunting costume, practicing archery with his doctor; and second, dressed in a red toga fastened with a golden clasp, smoking an unusually large pipe. Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano once noted Göring wearing a fur coat that looked like what “a high-grade prostitute wears to the opera”.[184] He threw lavish housewarming parties each time a round of construction was completed at Carinhall and changed costumes several times throughout the evenings.[185]

    He was just a big fuckin’ weirdo. He tried to say at his trial that he didn’t have anything to do with any of this “holocaust” stuff, and they had a good chuckle and sentenced him to death.

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      Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano once noted Göring wearing a fur coat that looked like what “a high-grade prostitute wears to the opera”

      DEFINITELY speaking from experience there

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        Absolutely lol. He’s an Italian politician from the mid 20th century. I can pretty much guarantee that he has encyclopedic knowledge about prostitutes.