Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.
I looked at [Goering eating sausage] and I knew that what they say was true: that pigs eat the flesh of their own.
Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. . . I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!
Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.
When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?
It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.
Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce the pacifists for somehow a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. ' I think that was Jefferson. Oh wait. That was Hermann Goering. Shoot. " [Hosting the Peabody Awards for broadcasting excellence at the New York Waldorf-Astoria, June 6, 2006]
Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.
According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.
The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!
Goering was a contradictory [and] complex. . . character.
My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate; nothing more.
Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.
Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver
In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.
No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.
