https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo

Photo: Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Göring at the meeting to formally hand over control of the Gestapo (Berlin, 1934)


The Geheime Staatspolizei ([ɡəˈhaɪmə ˈʃtaːtspoliˌtsaɪ] ⓘ, lit. ''Secret State Police''), abbreviated Gestapo ([ɡəˈstaːpo] ⓘ),[3] was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.

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[–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If Himmler and Goring look like big fuckin' weirdos here, you are correct. Goring in particular became a hugely obese morphine addict in the later stages of the Reich. Albert Speer talks about going to his house to meet him and this slovenly wild-eyed dude in a robe coming to meet him at the door, and being absolutely shocked that this guy used to be some kind of war hero.

Hans-Ulrich Rudel, the top Stuka pilot of the war, recalled twice meeting Göring dressed in outlandish costumes: first, a medieval hunting costume, practicing archery with his doctor; and second, dressed in a red toga fastened with a golden clasp, smoking an unusually large pipe. Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano once noted Göring wearing a fur coat that looked like what "a high-grade prostitute wears to the opera".[184] He threw lavish housewarming parties each time a round of construction was completed at Carinhall and changed costumes several times throughout the evenings.[185]

He was just a big fuckin' weirdo. He tried to say at his trial that he didn't have anything to do with any of this "holocaust" stuff, and they had a good chuckle and sentenced him to death.

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    Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano once noted Göring wearing a fur coat that looked like what "a high-grade prostitute wears to the opera"

    DEFINITELY speaking from experience there

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