Just a quickie - am in a hurry. Thanks for your explanations even though you're mostly wrong. Strange Indeed. Now please look:
J. Prien wrote to me: "...there are in fact
quite a lot of -
to put it mildly - inaccuracies in Galland's presentation of his exploits in WWII."
You may call this friendly but I dare disagree. I dare a lot, it's horrible. I am horrible, that's all. But I was thinking more of what J.Prien wrote precisely in the introduction of his volume JFV 4/I. I remember(ed) only the general message and tone (several well-filled pages, a lot of text). JP is not really friendly to Galland "to say the least". Uninformed readers could follow that this Galland fellow was a clot and a nitwit, which I would find is slightly exaggerated. If Galland had been still alive he would have had every chance of winning legal proceedings against Prien for numerous insults and slandering - I think Prien didn't realise how hostile and hateful his comments on Galland were and still are (see at the top here). Experience shows that many people, not Prien only, are not aware at all that what they say or write is heavy slander and can result in very serious trouble in court. That said, I don't know if Galland would have sued Prien (I don't think so). You may find that I use some hard words - this is your private pleasure - but Prien's words against Galland are about 100 times harder and meaner. This, too, is his private pleasure. As far as I'm concerned he may do as he pleases. This does not mean that he's right. Please read the mentioned introduction to JFV 4/1 again and then think again.
The fact remains that Galland was one of the greatest fighter pilots AND FIGHTER LEADERS of WW II and even of the whole of the XXth century (including WW I), taking all countries into account. On the Internet virtually everybody agrees that he was the best, the greatest etc., especially American and British people but others too. This world-wide admiration and commendation must have some good, real reasons. I understand that Galland's JG 26 was considered the best German fighter wing in the BoB and was preferred by bomber crews for protection against British fighters. All this cannot come just by chance.
He had an exceptional career as the fighter general appointed by Göring after Mölders accidental death. (He didn't want this.) So he was not Göring's first choice but Mölders being lost he was the obvious choice, even taking Göring' great sympathy for him (and for Mölders) into account: Göring just liked them very much, but this is not the whole explanation. Galland was simply very good and very clever. Unfallible? Nope.
You might care to have a look at Yves Michelet's (Galland's very exact French translator and publisher) blog:
https://admin.over-blog.com/2675016/write/90559430
There is a short summary in English, German and French at the top. This particular part (or chapter) of the blog gives a long account of Galland's life and first book - in French - with numerrous photographs (most of them never published before). He explains, among other things, why Galland is the most famous fighter pilot of the XXth century and most probably of all time.
More some other time.