Zivan reviewed Göring : eine Karriere by Guido Knopp
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2 stars
I read the Hebrew translation of this book.
It is amazing to learn how incompetent the Nazi leadership could get.
How the Nazis got their reputation as efficient is perhaps a credit to their propaganda machine.
While it was nice to read a history book that is not too long, I found this book to be a bit to simplified. There is so much back story to many of the events that is just missing.
There are too little actual examples, we're told that Goering went there and made an ass of himself. How he took a holiday during a critical moment. But I'd like to hear what he actually did do.
By the end of the book when Goering is being tried in Nirenberg I got the feeling that he didn't actually do anything but show up once in a while and blow some hot air.
He did much …
I read the Hebrew translation of this book.
It is amazing to learn how incompetent the Nazi leadership could get.
How the Nazis got their reputation as efficient is perhaps a credit to their propaganda machine.
While it was nice to read a history book that is not too long, I found this book to be a bit to simplified. There is so much back story to many of the events that is just missing.
There are too little actual examples, we're told that Goering went there and made an ass of himself. How he took a holiday during a critical moment. But I'd like to hear what he actually did do.
By the end of the book when Goering is being tried in Nirenberg I got the feeling that he didn't actually do anything but show up once in a while and blow some hot air.
He did much more than that and it's hard to grasp that from this book.