Goring (with the umlat over the o- which makes his surname sound like Goering)did cheat the hangman after the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials-- an American G-2 officer who was fluent in German was assigned to interview him, as he awaited his execution. Goering was a large framed man who put on considerable weight, even while the line troops of the Wehrmacht and even Waffen SS units were hard pressed for rations, especially after the crushing defeat at Stalingrad-- Goebbels, Himmler, Rommel- were all fairly trim and well fitted men in comparison.
Goering's estate was named Karinhall- a vast hunting preserve and he indeed did love to hunt and entertain their- and awarded the prized "Ritter kruze"-- Knight's Cross with various annenda of oak leaves, diamonds, etc- to his Ace Luftwaffe pilots--
If you want some accurate insight into Goering and his role as Reichmarshall and CO of the Luftwaffe, read the book "The Eagle Has landed"--Goering was petty and small minded from that account of him- which I believe to be somewhat true.
The rumor has it that Goering bribed the G-2 Officer to bring him a cyanide pill from his baggage stored out of his cell-hidden inside a bristle hair shaving brush with a false bottom apparently- and that in exchange for that, he gave the officer details as to where some of his treasure and personal belongings were secretly hidden. Goering did this to avoid death by the noose, as he feared his bulk and the drop would cause his head to be torn off his body in the process. He also said that only the firing squad was appropriate for soldiers and airmen who served their Country in combat--
Krieghoff did make some drillings as survival weapons for the Luftwaffe pilots- cased, 12 gauge with a metric rifled barrel underneath, double triggers and ejectors- it is possible that as Goering would have awarded that contract himself, Krieghoff may well have made him a shotgun at "no charge" in return for that bit of business-
But to document that shotgun as shown on that website as being one that belong to Herman Goering, just because of the initals HG-- there were/are many German males with the same initals I should guess- Hugo Glazer, Heinrich Glanyz, etc--
I would really want at least three older experts on German and Austrian guns from that 1940-1946 era to examine any weapon purported to have once belong to any of "Hitler's Henchmen"--
