Holocaust and Aviation
The Development of German Nazi Aviation as a Major
Factor in the Annihilation of the European Jewish People
By: Avinoam Amizan
Herman Goering the Air Czar
Herman Goering was the most popular figure in Nazi
Germany. He was second only to Hitler in his importance. He was Hitler's Deputy
and official successor, erector of the Nazi air force, and the super economy
minister.
It is amazing that there isn't any book dedicated to his
part in the annihilation of the European Jewish People. As chairman of the
Reichstag he signed the 'Nuremberg Lows'. As 'general inspector on the matters
of Jews in the Reich', he was the person who wrote the order of the final
solution and the chain of orders that lead to it. He transformed the Gestapo to
a major dictatorship enforcment tool; He was the leader in exploiting forced
labor, assets robbery and more.
The chapter about him in the book 'Holocaust and Aviation'
focuses on his motives from the point of View of the airy soul. The most
important date is: July 31, 1941, a day before the Jewish annual commemoration
day for the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE.
Herman Goering's father was a German diplomat. In 1885 he
became the first governor of Namibia. The first genocide that was executed by
the Germans, the first in the 20'Th century and which heralded directly the
Jewish genocide, was the annihilation of the Namibian People in 1905, few years
after Goering's father was promoted to be the ambassador in Haiti.
The mother of Herman Goering returned from Haiti to
Germany for a safe birth to him. Her rich Jewish doctor became her lover, and
father to one of her sons. These facts developed in Goering a strong father
complex, which caused in him a desire to be better then his father in all aspects.
Jealous to the family honor, he became also anti-Semitic.
Herman Goering was an excellent pilot, with 22 airplanes
'killings' in the First World War. He was promoted to the command of the
'Flying Circus' squadron; after its famed commander, 'The Red Baron', was
killed in battle.
Both were embodiment of the Nietzschean Superman, who
hovers proudly in the sky and enforce his authority by means of his appearance
and his desire, not less than by means of his actual strength.
Among the pilots who joined the squadron in the last
stages of the war were two who became with Goering leaders of the Nazi
movement: The weird Rudolph Hess who was Hitler's second deputy, and the
hoggish Arthur Griezer who was the demonic governor in occupied Poland that was
annexed to the Reich.
After the war Goering became one of the millions of
unemployed. He met Hitler in 1922. Hitler recognized immediately Goering's
value for him as a famous pilot and officer. Goering was impressed by Hitler's
political skills.
A fruitful cooperation and friendship started between
them; which continued until the defeat of the Nazis. It was based on their
shared belief in mysticism and nationalism.
The anti-Semitic race doctrine and the conception that
aviation is the key to the future development of Germany became one-piece in
Nazi Germany. There is a contact which cannot be cut of, between thought and
reality, between dream and will. They have to find a united expression. The
connection between Hitler and Goering was an example of that. They were 'The
Fat and the Skinny'.
From below, from within the bewilderment, in which Germany
was after the defeat in the First World War, came the need for pragmatic
settlement. Every order like this is built from different components at first,
and goes and unites to a central political single subject. In the case before
us, all the German political arc, after all was said and done, united under
Goering's image. In Germany 'order is order' and the Nazis provided it.
Goering symbolized the hope that Germany will capitalized
on the air success in the First World War. Goering was the most intelligent,
influential and the most popular figure in the Reich. This thing did not
disappear of course from the eyes of Hitler. It is possible that the Second
World War started because of the competition between them.
The most important contribution of Goering to the
construction of the new Nazi state was the replacement of the Conservatives
control in the army and the economy, in a mechanism under his control.
His direct involvement in the economy began when he wanted
to manufacture many more airplanes. He received under his control the
governmental office for the supply of raw materials. Quickly the office became
a monster that controlled the economy of Germany.
Goering became the czar of the German economy, after
receiving the responsibility on 'the four years economic plan' in 1936. His
original intention was to nationalize the industry. Lacking enough economic
skills, Germany slipped away quickly to the hands of a little group of
industrialists with huge factories.
In the heart of the system that he controlled was 'The
Reich's Steel Factories conglomerate'. By means of legal theft it was converted
in the course of the war to a cluster of almost all the heavy industry in
occupied Europe. Not even one private German economic initiative was allowed in
the occupied territories. The main product of the new order was airplanes. The
air force received twenty percent of the national budget in 1940.
Goering was against any wastefulness. Therefore he opposed
the liquidation of the adept work force in the occupied countries. His orders
were always combined with the warning slogan: 'You will not waste anything from
what is good for use'. He thought about loot as the normal management of war.
Already after 'the crystal night' he created eagerly the legal system for
robbing the Jewish assets, by the advice of Heidrich Eichman. It became the
economic model for the final solution.
The order from July 31, 1941 for the final solution of the
Jewish problem was an individual calculated decision which was initiated only
by Goering. The order itself is very short, and surely it did not take him more
than few minutes to formulate it. Therefore it is very interesting to try to
understand what engaged him in the same days.
Within one year, from the summer of 1940 to the summer of
1941, He lost a big part of his prestige and status:
Firstly, he lost approximately 3,000 airplanes, compared
with his original planning, according to this calculation:
- 1500 as a result from untruthful reports that he
received on the amount of manufactured airplanes
- 1,200 in the battle on Britain
- 300 in the battle on Crete
He had approximately only 2,000 airplanes before the
campaign in Russia.
Secondly, he lost the control on the aircraft industry,
which passed to Speer, the armament minister, who planned production
modernization in assembly lines.
Thirdly, the strengthening of air bombardments from the
Allied caused a shock in the top of the Nazi party.
Lastly, there was the never ending story with Hess, his
friend from the squadron who deserted to England.
No wander that he was tense, angry, frustrated, and
fearful. He searched for an expression of retaliation and relief. An urgent
need was also created to lift his prestige.
He had to solve the complication immediately. He was man
of action, iron will. He thought that he is beginning to lose control and he
must elucidate his condition. Why if so, he thought, not against the Jews.
Goering sensed that on this way he will produce a new
dynamic, in which the total measure of up and down will be balanced. He will
compensate on the loss of airplanes by the annihilation of Jews, just according
to the vertical dialectic of Nietzsche, which is absent of morality. He thought
that in this way he will continue to seize all that he had. It was an attempt
to gain time and to erase his failures.
It is Possible that Goering thought of a 'response' to
Speer's program for airplanes production in assembly lines. The final solution
was an 'original idea' for 'assembly line'. Goering could have been able to
boast in it, together with Heidrich. In the annihilation camps the concept for
the line of action was: factory of death.
To the rehabilitation of his professional and political
status the order did not contribute much. Hitler controlled increasingly his
tasks. Goering's health deteriorated gradually physically and mentally.
In the Nuremberg trails Goering was judged on crimes of
war and involvement in crimes against the mankind. He was convicted and was
sentenced to death, but comitted suicide before the execution.
The Failure of Goering is a failure of the preference of
the will of power and the subconscious, over the rational thinking and the
harmonic humanism. This failure is expressed more fully in the figure of
Hitler's second deputy, Rudolph Hess, who was stricken with schizophrenia and
Amnesia because of his extreme airy character.
The eccentric image of Goering became a negative model in
the world media. All the negative aspects of the aerial soul were embodied in
him: The exaggeration, arrogance, coquetry, avarice and atrocity.
Goering embodied naturally the Nitchean superman.
Therefore his image is ignored in the decipherment attempt for the causes of
the holocaust. If we will remember that he was a second generation of
generators of holocaust, who improved and perfected his father's crimes, it
will be easier to understand him.
The airy reality, in which the Nazism acted in substance
and spirit, took from its victims the right to use the aerial soul for their
recuperation. To the holocaust survivors, who were in the lowest form of human
existense and wish to climb upward within their personal experience, the image
of Goering is a barrier that has to be smashed completely. This is a therapy
process. The interconnection between the dream of flight and Nietzschean
superman is insignificant. In order to heighten to the heights there is a need
for a moral system of values. There is a need for the strong support from all
humankind.
Avinoam Amizan is the author of the book: Holocaust and Aviation
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