Goering
Americannoun
noun
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Hermann Goering, a top Nazi official, plundered Goudstikker's entire collection when the art dealer fled to England in 1940.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
Mr. Buruma recounts one contemporary joke: “An airplane carrying Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels crashes. All three are killed. Who is saved? Answer: The German people.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Desi landed in America alone with her child, while back in Amsterdam, Hermann Goering, Hitler’s second-in-command, looted her husband’s art gallery.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
Frustrated, he stepped down from the committee and, together with a University of Washington bioethicist named Sara Goering, decided to independently pursue the issue.
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2024
No, it turned out that the street instead commemorated Hermann’s father, Heinrich Goering, founding Reichskommissar of the former German colony of South-West Africa, which became Namibia.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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