The Knight, Death, and the Devil (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ella Leffland
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1893-1946
- Setting: Germany, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, and France
- Principal Characters: Hermann Goring, Heinrich Goring, Franziska Goring, Karl Goring, Albert Goring, Curine Goring, Emmy Goring, Edda Goring, Hermann Von Epenstein, Thomas Von Kantzow, Rose Korwan, Adolf Hitler, Ernst (petzi) Hanestaenol, Joseph Goebbels, Albert Speer
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Substance abuse, Anti-Semitism, Drug addiction or addicts, Military life or service, Nazism or Nazis, Concentration camps, Pacifism
- Locales: France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria
Hermann Goring was, for most of Adolf Hitler’s bloody reign of terror, the second most powerful man in Nazi Germany. A large, handsome, imposing figure, Goring loved his friends, relatives, and servants, and cared deeply for animals and art. A heroic pilot during World War I, he was a compelling public speaker. Under Hitler, he created the Luftwaffe, the Gestapo, and the concentration camps. He was also a drug addict and a generally inefficient administrator. Ella Leffland presents Goring as a good and intelligent man who allows his conception of Germany’s destined greatness and...
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