[[http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php?showtopic=83585|]SBS - Hitlers Henchmen Series 1 (1996) Part 4 Goering The Marshal]

Hitler's Henchmen is the most comprehensive film series ever produced on Nazi Germany and its leaders. In six parts series portrays the men who aided Adolf Hitler in his rise to power and serviced the infernal machinery of the Third Reich. Meticulously researched, it offers an unrivalled insight into the secret lives of the men of the Nazi elite. More than half a century after Hitler's demise ZDF have successfully recovered what was until now “lost” footage of Hitler's aides. This newly discovered archive material and interviews with surviving family members and Nazi insiders draws historical psychograms of Hitler's closest aides. Nuremberg was a historical first the International War Crimes Tribunal sentenced leading Nazi paladins for their unparalled atrocities while exposing to the world the infamy of the Hitler regime and its leaders. They wielded power and enforced it Goebbels, Goering, Himmler, Hess, Speer and Doenitz – 6 lives lived in Germany, six very different careers, but each contributed in its own way to making Hitler's regime what it became. Packed with exclusive interviews, combat film and both public and private German archive film, HITLER'S HENCHMEN takes you inside Nazi Germany as never before to help understand why this murderous regime behaved as it did - and how it came so close to world domination. Series is designed to offer in-depth personal and political profiles of six men who became architects of the destruction of Europe.

Part 4 Goering The Marshal

Half warmonger, half comedian Goering more than any of the Dictator's other aides, embodied the face of the Nazi regime. A decorated war hero with the common touch, Goering was instrumental in making Hitler and the Nazi Party socially acceptable. Although considered a lackey and stooge he still wielded immense power and privilege. After the initial triumphs of the war, Goering embarked on a downward spiral of narcotic addiction and narcissism. Morphine and power had destroyed his grip on reality and after a number of military disasters discredited his reputation the once poweful General was on the same path of destruction as Germany. Newly released secret documents from domestic and foreign archives illuminate Goering's many-faceted brutal personality.

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