They Asked Göring Why Germany Lost to America. He Was Blunt.

In 1942, Hermann Göring went on German radio and mocked American industry: all America had ever been good at, he said, was the radio and the razor blade. On May 10, 1945, an American general sat him down in Augsburg and asked what beat the Luftwaffe. This is what he said, and the three moments in between when the truth came for him. Did someone in your family build those planes, at Willow Run, in Wichita, in a shipyard, anywhere? Or fly with the Eighth Air Force? Tell us about them in the comments. CHAPTERS 0:00 Göring sits down with the Americans 2:00 Call me Meyer 3:54 Fifty thousand planes 5:47 Radio and razor blades 7:45 Willow Run: one bomber an hour 10:36 They weren't there: Aachen, 1943 12:47 Little friends: the Mustangs reach Berlin 15:58 The surrender in the Alps 18:58 Two hours in Augsburg 22:16 The pepper tree press conference 24:29 Ashcan, Nuremberg and the end 26:17 The ledger