Hermann goering timeline template
| Hermann Göring, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia, Plenipotentiary for the Implementation of the Four Year (economic) Plan, and designated successor to Hitler. |
In , Göring created the secret state police, the Gestapo, that would later by taken over by Himmler and terrorize the continent of Europe.
Following Kristallnacht in Nov. , Göring fined the Jews one billion marks for damages which the Nazis themselves had inflicted. He also warned of a "final reckoning with the Jews" if Germany should get involved in war, a sentiment also repeatedly expressed by Hitler.
Following the start of the war and early Nazi military successes, Göring ordered SS leader Reinhard Heydrich in July of to begin preparations for a "general solution of the Jewish question" in conquered territories. This led to the Wannsee Conference in Jan. in which Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann of the Gestapo a