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There are 3 quotes matching Hermann Göring in the collection:
No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Göring. You may call me Meyer.
Hermann Göring
Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, addressing the German Air force, September 1939. Meyer (or Meier) is a common name in Germany. Quoted in the 1979 book August 1939: The Last Days of Peace. This statement came back to haunt him as Allied bombers devastated Germany. Many ordinary Germans, especially in Berlin, took to calling him ‘Meier’, and air raid sirens ‘Meier’s Trumpets’.
My Luftwaffe is invincible … And so now we turn to England. How long will this one last — two, three weeks?
Hermann Göring
Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, June 1940. Quoted in the 2015 Imperial War Museum book The Battle of Britian.
The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.
Hermann Göring
German Air Force Minister, in a letter to Hitler, 1940. Quoted in article Becoming the Arsenal of Democracy by The National WWII Museum. In the President’s Annual Budget Message on 5 January 1942, Franklin Roosevelt said:
“I should like to see this nation geared up to the ability to turn out at least 50,000 planes a year.”
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