

Like all individuals in Nazi Germany of the highest ranks, Göring has amounted for himself extensive political and military power. Nonetheless, the ephemerality of the Nazi regime meant the downfall and the dissolution of the established powers, as evidence was becoming more and more clear that – years after being declared – Germany would never have the means to win the war. In 1945, when Göring knew about Adolf Hitler’s intention of committing suicide, Göring dispatched a correspondence to the Führer, asking him permission to take his place, to fully control the Reich. Filled with anger, hatred and wrath, Adolf Hitler considered this attitude a nameless act of treason. After depriving Göring of all his titles, he ordered his arrest. Nonetheless, after negotiating his freedom, Göring became a free man, only to surrender himself to the Americans, after a few days. Considered guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, at the Nuremberg Trials Göring was sentenced to death, but committed suicide before the sentence was executed. A depressing fate, shared by almost everybody who was fooled by the grotesque, arrogant and biased farce that the Third Reich revealed itself to be.