True Evil: The Making of A Nazi — Season 1, Episode 6: Hermann Goering
Documentary, War & Politics • 45 min • 1 season, 6 episodes • ★ 7.5/10
Episode synopsis
Hermann Goering‘s story is that of Germany’s military-aristocratic elite, who turned to the Nazis for salvation. The status and fortunes of Germany’s aristocracy were based on land, but by the early decades of the 20th Century, a new Germany emerged - an industrial and commercial Germany, in which the old nobility struggled to find a role and saw their incomes decline. Goering’s family is part of Germany’s old Imperial elite.
About True Evil: The Making of A Nazi
This ground-breaking series examines the lives of the leading Nazis, in an effort to answer the question, why did it happen? It explores and tries to understand the incredible transformation of educated men into Nazi criminals, by charting the lives of six people who over the course of 20 years descend into moral oblivion.