willingness to submit to medical and psychiatric examination.
The court still refused to grant Carin custody of Thomas.
Göring’s movements after this are something of a mystery.
Unlike Hitler, he seldom reminisced about the more barren
years of his existence. He clearly intended to regain high office
in the Nazi party, but three years had passed since his inglorious
exile, and the party now had no time for him. His name was
scratched from the membership register, and he had difficulty
later in reclaiming an early number (his party file shows that his
“second membership” was grudgingly backdated only to April ,
).
Eventually the BMW motor works gave him a job in Swe-
den, selling its airplane engines in Scandinavia. But he knew that
his political fortune lay in Germany. In January he re-
turned therefore to the land of his birth, holding a concession
from the Swedish automatic parachute company Tornblad.
Carin was to stay behind in Sweden. As his train pulled out
of Stockholm’s central station, she collapsed into her sister
Fanny’s arms. Her heart gradually fading, she was taken to the
Vita Kors Nursing Home at No. Brunkebergstorg.
Each of them was half convinced they would never see the
other again.