Unfortunately before that happened, "der Dicke" cleverly made fools of the
Allied authorities conducting the Nueremburg war crimes trials. First, he
made the prosecutor who questioned him look like a complete idiot - and then
he cheated the hangman. Whatever one may think of his politics and morals,
Goering was a forceful and able personality.
As to who in the Third Reich would have been the bane of coin collectors, I
am inclined to think that Heinrich Himmler would be a far more appropriate
choice. While Goering was not the sort of person one would wish to be
associated with, he was a dedicated collector of "cultural objects."
Particularly, those that had once been owned by Jews ... the "objekte."
Dave Welsh
"William Earl Haskell" wrote in message
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Dave Welsh wrote:
German numismatists ring the alarm bells
German cultural authorities have begun searching private homes and
seizing
entire collections of antique coins,
I thought Hermann Goering was dead.