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Originally Posted by RGTraynor
People often badly overestimate the regard in which Goring was held, contemporaneously, by the German public. Over a dozen German aces survived the war with double Goring's victory count, and nearly forty survivors bettered it. Did Goring's fame exceed Udet's? Greim's? Lothar von Richtofen's? von Schleich's? Bongertz's? What evidence do we have for that?
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The key difference was Goring was in command of Richtofen's Circus, this gave him a position of responsibility at the end of the last war that was high enough to be significant, but not high enough to be responsible for losing the war.