Punishment was often orchestrated through means of brutality and interrogation, and was often used to acquire confessions. ... Shot down twenty-two allied aircrafts, Awarded the Pour le Merite and the Iron Cross (First Class). ... Here he met his first wife, Karin von Fock-Kantzow, whom he married in Munich in February 1922. ... The failure of the Luftwaffe consequently weakened the German forces as a whole, resulting in the start of their downfall. 9 May 1945, Goering was captured by forces of the American Seventh Army and, to his great surprise, put on trial at Nuremberg in 1946. ...

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