Richard Overy

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

— Richard Overy

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

— Richard Overy

“No one in either system could be unaware that State Security was out there, but for the ordinary citizen, uninterested in politics,…

— Richard Overy

It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from…

— Richard Overy

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

— Richard Overy

Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large…

— Richard Overy

“There have been ample opportunities since 1945 to show that material superiority in war is not enough if the will to fight…

— Richard Overy

Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.

— Richard Overy

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

— Richard Overy

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

— Richard Overy