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Old Gossip with Rebecca Siegel · July 2 · 29 min

Hermann Göring Wore Silky PJs

Let's talk about WWII, Nazis, Hitler, Hermann Goering, fashion, makeup, and some very problematic drug use! Trigger warnings: Addiction, Holocaust Cover art: My sister Intro song: My daughter Selected bibliography Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, by Normal Ohler "Gay Men under the Nazi Regime," USHMM Goering, the Rise and Fall of the Notorious Nazi Leader, by Roger Manuel and Heinrich Fraenkel "Goring,: The Nazi Lion Tamer," by John Gunther, Vanity Fair, Volume 43-45, 1935 Hitler, by Volker Ulrich Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany, by Jame Willie "Goring,: The Nazi Lion Tamer," by John Gunther, Vanity Fair, Volume 43-45, 1935 Image credits: National Archives and Getty

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Let's talk about WWII, Nazis, Hitler, Hermann Goering, fashion, makeup, and some very problematic drug use! 

Trigger warnings: Addiction, Holocaust


Cover art: My sister 

Intro song: My daughter 

Selected bibliography

  • Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, by Normal Ohler 
  • "Gay Men under the Nazi Regime," USHMM
  • Goering, the Rise and Fall of the Notorious Nazi Leader, by Roger Manuel and Heinrich Fraenkel
  • "Goring,: The Nazi Lion Tamer," by John Gunther, Vanity Fair, Volume 43-45, 1935 
  • Hitler, by Volker Ulrich
  • Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany, by Jame Willie
  • "Goring,: The Nazi Lion Tamer," by John Gunther, Vanity Fair, Volume 43-45, 1935 

Image credits: National Archives and Getty