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Ben Prickril's avatar

In our own era we have much to learn from Germany’s WW2 era Nazis. For example, it sounds like Goering must have learned from the German equivalent of Roy Cohn (Trump’s mentor). The exception is that Trump always doubles down, or TACOs, while Goering admitted guilt because he knew he was a dead man walking.

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Art's avatar

You discard entirely with even an attempt at a logical chain of reasoning, and jump irrationally from conflating Goering to Cohn to Trump. That says much about you and very little about any other human being.

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Ben Prickril's avatar

Well Art, you must acknowledge the similarities between the behaviors of Goehring and Trump. Is it illogical to assume that a man such as Goering learned the art of ruthlessness from someone, as Trump did from Cohn? Assuming you can accept that premise, it seems that your argument against me is the more illogical of the two.

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Neeraj Krishnan's avatar

It sounds like either Mr. Goering got bad counsel or he did not heed the good counsel he may have gotten.

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Charles Mendelson's avatar

My understanding from a family friend whose father was a reporter at the trial was that Goering regarded it as a kangaroo court and simply preferred to maintain his honor and dignity (as he saw it).

He had utter contempt for the others on trial who were trying to save themselves.

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Thomas's avatar

"It's the difference between trial law and paper law."

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Hartmut's avatar

Fascinating account! It seems to me this Göring guy was smart.

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