07-13-2008, 07:37 AM
ham Wrote:the fat one was air marshall Goering who was coopted because he had been a member of red baron's WWI flying squadron.
It was Reich Marshall Goering. It is Air Marshall Douglas. Goering was a legitimate WWI fighter ace and as leader of the Luftwaffe no doubt was an air marshall. The Reich Marshall title came later.
One aspect of history is how the Nazi German leadership was portrayed by Allied polpular culture as a bunch of ridiculous unaccomplished little men. Even William Shirer's book took that tack. Strange that such a bunch of losers came within a heartbeat of conquering the world.