Hermann Göring

Hermann Wilhelm Göring (also Goering or Goring in English) (January 12, 1893 – October 15, 1946) was an early member of the Nazi party, founder of the Gestapo, and one of the main leaders of Nazi Germany. He was tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946 and sentenced to death, but he avoided execution by committing suicide in his cell, a few hours before the sentence was to be carried out.

In fiction

In Philip José Farmer's Riverworld, a reincarnated Göring becomes a missionary for the Church of the Second Chance, a pacifist religion.

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Philip José Farmer - Riverworld - Reincarnated - Missionary

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He was portrayed by Brian Cox in the 2000 TV movie Nuremberg, also starring Alec Baldwin and Jill Hennessy, and also by Glenn Shadix in the 1996 motion picture The Empty Mirror.

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Brian Cox - 2000 - TV movie - Alec Baldwin - Jill Hennessy - Glenn Shadix - 1996

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Philip K Dick's 1962 science-fiction alternate history novel The Man in the High Castle mentions Göring, who, by 1962 is aging, morbidly obese, and the subject of much rumor and speculation regarding his indulgent lifestyle (which is seen by some as akin to that of a corrupt Roman emperor's). He resides in his large estate within the alps.

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Philip K Dick - Science-fiction - Alternate history - The Man in the High Castle - Rumor - Roman - Emperor - Alps

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Goring was a early foe of Captain America, along with Hitler.

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