Hermann Goering excluded Luftwaffe chaplains

Hermann Goering confided to psychiatrist Leon Goldenshon in 1946: “I don't believe I'll go to heaven or hell when I die. I don't believe in the Bible, nor in many things that religious people think.” Adolf Hitler appointed Goering as aviation minister of the Third Reich on May 5, 1933. Goering at his trial in Nuremberg explained why he didn't allow chaplains in the Luftwaffe: “In the Air Force, I deliberately had no chaplains, because I was of the opinion that every member of the Air Force should go to the clergyman in whom he had the most confidence. This was repeatedly said to the soldiers and officers at roll call. But for the Church itself, I said that it would be good if we had a clear separation. The men should pray in the Church and not train there; in the barracks, the men should train and not pray. That way, from the beginning, I kept the Air Force free of any religious disturbances and ensured total freedom of conscience for everyone.”
REFERENCE: Leon Goldensohn, The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses, p. 132