tember in the evening he was sedated with Hyoscin
and soon fell asleep, but after a few hours he woke and
became quite restless. He protested at his loss of free-
dom, said he intended to send for his lawyer, and so
on, and demanded to be given sufficient Eukodal “for
the pain.”
On coming to, he was talkative, lucid, and in full
possession of his faculties; considered himself badly
wronged.
No violence as yet.September []: Indignant conversation with Dr.
E. on his rounds today about the illegal manner ac-
cording to him in which he was brought here. Re-
fuses to take Hyoscin, as he believes he will be certified
insane while in an anesthetized condition. Expressed
broad sympathy with opinions of Fäderneslandet [a
notorious scandal sheet] on psychiatrists.Committed to Långbro Asylum later that day, Hermann Göring
had his wits about him enough to know that his life was now
entering into a tunnel whose very blackness might spell finality.
He found himself in a small ward known to outsiders simply as
The Storm he was alone in a cell with a bed bolted to the floor
and no other furniture. Panicking, he shouted at the first doc-
tor he saw, “I am not insane, I am not insane!” Realizing that his
whole future was in jeopardy, he refused to be photographed
for the asylum’s dossier.
The doctors had seen it all before. For the next five weeks
they calmly recorded his maniacal ordeal:
September October , : [The patient was] trou-
blesome, depressed, groaning, weeping, anguished,
tiresome, constantly demanding, irritable and easily
affected (i.e., NaCl [common salt] relieved the pain);
dejected, talkative, target of a “Jewish conspiracy,”