Göring’s “Betrayal” - The Telegram That Enraged Hitler

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]The telegram of just a few lines from Göring made Hitler furious in the final days of the Third Reich. [music] In April 1945, as Berlin was about to fall, Hitler locked himself inside the underground bunker. [music] Meanwhile, Hermann Göring, the right-hand man once chosen by Hitler as his successor, >> [music] >> sent a telegram asking if Hitler was no longer capable of leading the country, would he be allowed to take over power?

[00:00:25][music] On paper, that was completely legal, but in his paranoid and desperate state, [music] Hitler did not see it as a procedure, but as betrayal. Martin Bormann, Hitler's close assistant, immediately fueled [music] this suspicion and made Hitler believe that Göring was trying to seize power before [music] Berlin had completely collapsed.

[00:00:45]The rage exploded inside the bunker.

[00:00:49]Hitler ordered Göring stripped [music] of all positions, expelled from the Nazi Party, and demanded his immediate arrest. [music] Most terrifying of all was that only a few years earlier, Göring had still been considered the number one successor of the Third Reich. But in the final days, even Hitler's most powerful figures began [music] to distrust and turn against each other in order to survive.