“No. It was the last hours and he (Hitler) was under pressure. If I could have seen him personally it would have been different.”

— Hermann Göring

To Leon Goldensohn, after being asked if he felt any resentment toward Hitler (15 March 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)

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