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Hermann Goering's Liability In Condoning Mass Murders

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The Nuremberg trials were a series of legal procedures conducted by a committee of judges known as the International Military Tribune. These trials prosecuted multiple Nazi participants, whom which of these included Hermann Goering, during World War II on account of crime. A man of significant social and political ranking, Goering was the most trusted confidant of Hitler and chosen successor. Although Goering denied the crimes accused of him, substantial evidence corroborated the charges brought against him in court. The evidence presented the abuses Hermann Goering committed while in position as minister interior of Prussia to suppress political rivals (Europe since 1914). Even though Goering refused responsibility in condoning mass murders, …show more content…

Despite his denial, Goering’s conscious involvement in the Nazi movement and intentional decisions concerning the public welfare justly convicted Hermann Goering of his crimes in the Nuremberg Trials. In January 1933, Hermann Goering joined Hitler as minister interior of Prussia when Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Under Hermann Goering’s rule as minister interior of Prussia, covert institutions were established to remove political arrivals. The Gestapo, the Nazi secret police force, was formed by Goering to detect any opposition to the Nazi regime within Germany (Europe since 1914). Although Goering later passed the Gestapo to Heinrich Himmler (another German Nazi official), Goering was indirectly responsible for the brutality …show more content…

Goering was liable for Germany’s economy because Hitler had designated him the leader of Germany’s Four-Year economic plan. After “the Night of Broken Glass”, an act of German retaliation in response to the death of a German diplomat by a Polish Jew, the German Jewish people were fined for the destruction caused by the riots (Green). Because Jews had put claims in German insurance companies to cover the damages sustained during the riots, Goering was upset over the state of Germany’s economy. To stabilize Germany’s economy, he chose to withhold insurance claims that would have paid Jews for the damages on their property during the riots and redirected the Jews’ compensation to the state (Green). If German insurance companies paid the Jewish people for the damage sustained, millions of Reichsmarks (German currency) would have been used to pay the Jewish people. To further punish the Jewish population, Hermann seized Jewish property for the purpose of “Aryanization” (Europe since 1914). “Aryanization” was a term used by the Nazi referring to the transfer of Jewish property to non-Jewish people. The confiscation of Jewish property allowed total control and power over the Jewish population and accelerated the progress of the “Final Solution”, which as a plan for the mass genocide of European

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