Although not generally known, Albert Goring, the younger brother of Reich Marshal Hermann Goring, was an outspoken anti-Nazi. Arrested several times by the Gestapo, each time being released by the intervention of the Reich Marshal. Albert was born near Mauterndorf in 1900 and became a successful businessman and in later life the Export Director at the Skoda Armament Works in Czechoslovakia. During his work there he helped many Jews escape the horrors of the Holocaust by forging his brother's signature on their travel documents. The Jewish wife of composer Franz Lehar was one of those helped by Albert. Returning to Germany after the war he was shunned everywhere just because of his name. Living on a government pension he married his housekeeper as a sign of gratitude so she could receive his pension after he died. One week later he died, in 1966 Albert Goering, the good brother
A good story, Annie, it shows that there can be good and bad in any family eace: PS Did we press a wrong button Annie
