Goering was no buffoon. At Nurenburg he tied Robert Jackson in knots. He founded the Gestapo. He built a first class [albeit flawed] Air Force from the ground up in five years.
I didn’t realize that about the Gestapo. Allied propaganda painted the buffoon picture pretty well, and he was a little on the porky side.
There’s a Me-262 and, I think, a Me-109 on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. I was surprised at how small, yet gracefully lethal, they looked.