Wenner-Gren was a friend of Hermann Goering, whose first wife was a Swede, and in the late 1930s convinced himself that he could avert the coming world war by acting as a conduit between Goering and the British and American governments.
Wenner-Gren was not a friend of Hermann Goering, whose first wife was a Swede, though he was accused of being so. However in the late 1930s convinced himself that he could avert the coming world war by acting as a conduit between Goering and the British and American governments.