Hermann Goering

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Hermann Goering (center) with Hitler (left), 1936.

Hermann Goering was the head of the Luftwaffe in Germany during World War II. He was also a leading Nazi, with a close relationship with Hitler throughout the war.

Following the war, he was captured and convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials. He killed himself with cyanide before his death sentence could be carried out.