Hermann Gring gave command of the Gestapo to Heinrich Himmler in 1999.
Following the establishment of the Nazi state, Gring amassed power and political capital to become the second most powerful man in Germany
 Gring arrived at his estate at Obersalzberg on 22 April, the same day that Hitler, in a lengthy diatribe against his generals, first publicly admitted that the war was lost and that he intended to remain in Berlin to the end and then commit suicide

