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Early Years: The Stormtroopers Arrive

Adolf Hitler: Rise and Downfall

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Hermann Goering: A Pilot of Glory and Daring Due

Hermann Goering was a hugely decorated World War One pilot. He inherited the most elite squadron at the end of the war, Red Baron's Squadron. The story goes that he ordered his pilots to crash land their aircraft on purpose in an act of penance for Germany having lost the war. James Wiley is author of Goering and Goering, Hitler’s henchman and anti-Nazi brother.

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