Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

- Richard Overy

Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

- Richard Overy

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

- Richard Overy

Hitler could not tolerate too much social contact.

- Richard Overy

It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the re…

- Richard Overy

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

- Richard Overy

Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook and deli…

- Richard Overy

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

- Richard Overy