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
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
Michael McCloskey, head of the Sierra Club, said, “Only James Watt could fail to see the difference between Hermann Goering and John Muir,” the naturalist Sierra Club founder.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023
But what most surprised me in Namibia was a street sign: one of downtown Windhoek’s main roads was called Goering Street!
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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