The Other Goering
Can one brother be a criminal and another a hero? Hermann Goering was a Nazi and one of the biggest war criminals in history. His brother Albert claimed to be a protector of the weak and the oppressed. In 1945, after the Allied Forces won World War II, when every other German began declaring himself as anti-Nazi, could Albert Goering be telling the truth?
Can one brother be a criminal and another a hero? Hermann Goering was a Nazi and one of the biggest war criminals in history. His brother Albert claimed to be a protector of the weak and the oppressed. In 1945, after the Allied Forces won World War II, when every other German began declaring himself as anti-Nazi, could Albert Goering be telling the truth?
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