Jazz Articles about Hermann Goring

Hermann Goring: The Lost Piano Session

by Ken Dryden
April 1, 2008

Although Hermann Göring was Adolph Hitler's second in command in Nazi Germany, the commander of the Luftwaffe and a World War I ace, it was easy to dismiss the dumpy, pompous leader with numerous rows of medals on his chest as a drug-addicted, overconfident fool. Göring was greatly surprised when he drove himself to surrender to Allied troops at the end of the war, thinking he would be treated as a prisoner of war and not realizing he was sought ...