Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Overy

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

Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.

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

It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts of other capitalist states. While few would disagree that the Nazi regime had a number of clear ideological preferences when it came to the economy, the policies pursued in 1933 had much in common with those adopted in other countries, and with the policies of the pre-Hitler governments.

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

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

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.

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