The 1940 field marshal ceremony was a promotion ceremony held at the kroll opera house in berlin in which adolf hitler promoted twelve generals to the rank of generalfeldmarschall (field marshal) on 19 july 1940. This film examines the uniforms and decorations of hermann göring at the time of his capture by the us army in may 1945, and what became of that finery. This summer white tunic of rm goring resides in the imperial war museum of london It is typical of his favored style of tunic and is the design most often associated with the reichsmarschall. F028188 hermann goering in white luftwaffe uniform with grand cross and pour le merite 1940 wwii. A uniform of reichsmarschall hermann göring can be seen in the military historical museum at the former airfield berlin gatow (2016)
Hermann göring supposedly said before the second world war that if even one enemy plane would ever cross the german border, he would be called meier. The gefreiter’s uniform is an early pattern, heer/wehrmacht stock, but has luftwaffe insignia added to it General göring regiment used white waffenfarb, replacing the typical “rose” used with panzer crewmen Like the heer, the piping was seen in some instances. In this picture he also wear a weißer dienstrock, white summer uniform, while in the background we can see großdöllner see lake In his trial after the war, göring once said
