Göring. A Biography

 embassy. Göring airily denied the allegations, but when he traveled to Rome in May   instructed by Hitler to assure the ...

 They made only one car of its kind.... Hitler told us he always felt bad about the way the Bavarian authorities took away ou ...

 chauffeur Wilhelm Schulz driving, they all set out in the Mer- cedes from Berlin, but by the time they arrived at the wind- ...

 was out of the room. “I want to follow Mama. She keeps calling for me. But I cannot go. So long as Hermann is here, I cannot ...

 Young Thomas was overwhelmed with boyhood memories. He recalled once meeting his stepfather and Carin at the rail- road stat ...

 and its fragrant memories of his Swedish countess bride, and moved into the masculine, mahogany-and-leather world of the Kai ...

   The Speaker For fifteen months following Carin’s death Göring hurled him- self into the Berlin effort. That way he ...

 later the files show Göring suing a Munich editor, Dr. Fritz Gerlich, for having claimed that Göring had broken his word of ...

 gift to Emmy would be a photograph of Carin; later, he would name their two yachts and a forest palace after her. Emmy would ...

 ment of Göring, his principal lieutenant, to the Prussian minis- try of the interior. Göring seemed disposed to accept these ...

 amusedly years later, “rushed over to Hindenburg and fetched his authority for the decree to dissolve the House.... I could ...

 one instant,” he bragged afterward, “the whole maneuver would have flopped. As it was, Papen was finished.” He was developin ...

 office of chancellor, and Hindenburg equally obstinately refus- ing so long as the Nazis did not command an absolute majorit ...

 My darling! I’m listening to songs on the Swedish radio.... What pleasure the radio set you gave is giving me. I had a conce ...

 rate, after listening for an hour to Hitler urging that every week his father waited was a week lost for Germany’s destiny, ...

   Bonfire Night Hitler and Göring came to power on January , . On that day began the twelve-year “good run for ...

 It looked like an unpromising start. “Shortly after mid- day,” wrote Count Schwerin von Krosigk in his diary  he would be r ...

 confrontations that would lead to bloody fighting, and probably a general strike and economic paralysis.” The Cabinet minute ...

 exert some checks on Hitler and Göring. “As Prussian police minister,” the German press was reassured in a confidential cir- ...

 Versailles had denied them. That much is in the Cabinet minutes (which, like the Swedish hospital dossiers, routinely spelle ...