I like his style. "Photos showing how a German fighter pilot painted a Jewish Star of David on his First World War plane just to annoy a racist Hermann Goering have come to light. Leutnant Adolf Auer wasn't Jewish himself but was upset when commanding officer Goering made anti semitic remarks about his own wingman, Willi Rosenstein. In revenge, Lt Auer painted the six-pointed Jewish symbol on the side of his Fokker biplane for Goering to see. Although the First World War had nothing to do with the Jews, Goering went on to became an early member of the Nazi party and one the most prominent leaders in the Third Reich. He was one of the architects of the Holocaust in the Second World War, ordering a high-ranking Nazi official to organise the solution to the 'Jewish Question'. He went on to appropriate important art work from Jewish victims of the genocide. Willy Rosenstein emigrated to South Africa as the Third Reich rose to power in the 1930s. Despite being a WWI flying ace - claiming nine British kills - he and his family didn't feel safe in Nazi Germany and fled. In a cruel twist, his son Ernest Rosenstein became a pilot with the South African Air Force and was killed in action while fighting for the Allies in 1945. While Lt Auer's stunt might have been laughed off in 1917, it could have led to his arrest or even execution in the Second World War. An album of 24 black and white photos that is being sold at auction 100 years later includes several pictures of him and his observer in their aircraft with the Jewish symbol next to the black iron cross. The album also includes aerial snaps taken over the Western Front, including Passchendale and bomb damage at Armentieres. There are also images showing Lt Auer with a large group of German airmen." Photos of ace who defied Goering's anti-Semitism on sale | Daily Mail Online
Goering was a bit schizophrenic in his antisemitism, once declaring "I'll decide who is a Jew in my house" when criticized for having Jewish friends at a party. Of course, he only tolerated rich or famous Jews, and dropped them all when Nazi power consolidated. In a way, Goering was perhaps the most despicable of all the high party officials. He was just in it for the money, fame and power, flaunting his ill-gained wealth when the other Nazis were trying to look proletarian, in line with the official socialist ideals of the party. .
This isn't entirely fair. Goering did look after Rosenstein. Rosenstein's photosand story is here Jewish Knights of the Air | Dayton Holocaust
