The Görings

Albert Göring, Hermann’s younger brother Helped Jews and Czechs escape the Holocaust His forebears numbered Counts and social thinkers His godfather, a Jew, supplied his home Two castles towering in baronial splendor A film maker, he starred in war’s real movie Hated the Nazis, their brutality When Jewesses were forced to scrub the streets This dapper-suited man knelt down to join them Shaming the SS guard to let them go Hermann, the elder, spread race-hate through Europe Like rancid butter, bully-boy of bigotry Albert, squirreled bank accounts abroad Funding escape routes for outlawed resistors Gas-oven fodder and the walking dead He used the family stationary, signed Göring To snatch Jews where he could from execution Saved only by the scent-track of his brother The family name, whose syllables spelt terror Fall of the House of Göring, by War’s End Both brothers faced the trials of Nuremberg Hermann swallowed cyanide, dodged the gallows Albert, released to lingering poverty The flip side of the coin died unemployable Cursed by the name, its notoriety