Nuremberg: Inside The Twisted Mind of Hermann Göring Hermann Göring's story is of Germany's military-aristocratic elite who turned to the Nazis for salvation. The status and fortunes of Germany's aristocracy were based on land but by the early decades of the 20th Century, a new Germany emerged - an industrial and commercial Germany in which the old nobility struggled to find a role and saw their incomes decline. Göring's family was part of that old Imperial elite.