Albert
Goering is being considered for an honour given to those who risked their
lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. A file is being prepared at Yad
Vashem The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, the
Holocaust memorial and research centre in Israel, to put Albert Goering
forward for the Righteous Among the Nations award. A campaign to
honour him follows growing recognition of his efforts to save victims of
the Nazis.
March 2013, Louis Bülow
The
notorious Nazi Hermann Goering aided Adolf Hitler's rise to power and for
years he was second in importance only to Hitler in The Third Reich.
As founder of the Gestapo, Hermann Goering was instrumental in creating
the first concentration camps for political dissidents and a prominent
leader of the Final Solution, the murder of 6,000,000 Jews. Next to Hitler
the man who played the largest part in the shaping of the Nazi
inferno.
But his younger brother Albert Goering loathed all of Nazism's
inhumanity and at the risk of his career, fortune and life, used his name
and connections to save many Jews and gentiles. He is credited with many
acts of kindness, small and large. Even today survivors remember once he
took off his jacket, went down on his knees, and scrubbed a sidewalk
together with Jews who were ordered by the Nazis to do so in public as a
humiliation.
Jews humiliated ..
The parallel with Oskar
Schindler is inevitable. The story of Oskar Schindler awakened a new
generation to the realities of the Holocaust, but Albert Goering, however, is
almost unknown - he was shoved into obscurity by the enormity of his
brother's crimes.
After the war Albert Goering was interrogated at the Nuremberg Trials and
many survivors testified on his behalf - but he was imprisoned for several years for his name
alone ...
A report, buried until recently in
British archives, documents that Albert Goering actually saved many lives
- Jews and non-Jews - from the horrors of Holocaust.
