Where the facts warrant it, these men should be brought to trial, so that those among them who are guilty of these crimes should not escape punishment.

In 1945, the Allied powers prepared to hold the Nazi leaders accountable for the crimes committed

during World War II. Richard Sonnfeld sat down with a man whose name was as synonymous

with Nazism as Hitler or Himmler. The subject of the interview, Gering, denied any culpability for the Holocaust or the war.

Sonnemfeld was unimpressed, dismissing him as a hand-winging witness who was trying to whitewash his past.

But Gering continued with his denials, even producing a list of Jews he had helped escape

the Nazis. His story seemed ridiculous to captains until a new

interrogator arrived. Victor Paschkiz. His aunt had been smuggled out of Germany and he had little trouble remembering the famous name of the man who had assisted her.

It was Gering.

But this wasn't Herman, Hiller's number two. Pashkis and Sonnfeld were sitting with its younger brother, Albert.

A man wrongly accused of being a Nazi, when in fact, despite his brother's role in the regime he had

spent years battling against the Nazis. In this episode I explored the story of the Goering brothers Albert and Herman.

The Goings were a well-to-do family from northwest Germany.

Their father Heinrich grew up during an exciting era as the Germanic-speaking states unified

into a modern country.

The process had been masterminded by Otto Van Bismark, who after the so-called

carve-up of Africa appointed Heinrich, a former cavalryman, as the first commissioner of Southwest Africa. The native people did not

welcome this foreign encroachment in their land and conflict followed.

With limited resources at its disposal, Goering helped to draw an influx of German people

and cash to South West Africa after gold deposits were found. The new arrivals helped to bolster the German colony, but it was later

discovered that the gold rush was an elaborate hoax. It's unknown whether Gering was complicit in the hoax, but he was certainly a beneficiary.

The native Herrera and Namqua were on the opposite side of the spectrum, as the gold rush

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