Top 7 Richard Overy Quotes

#1. Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

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#2. Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

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#3. Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook and delighted in re-telling most of them to his friends.

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#4. Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

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#5. Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

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#6. Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

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#7. Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.

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