Swedish record shows that from September to , , Göring
was again admitted to Långbro Mental Hospital for “abuse of
morphine, dosage of to cgm per diem.”
The story of Göring’s struggle to overcome his accidental
morphine addiction remained a closed book for some years.
Then, in June , at a wedding dinner at Rockelstad Castle,
Göring, by then a powerful German minister, boasted to Count
Eric von Rosen’s new son-in-law, Dr. Nils Silfverskjoeld, that the
Nazis would “gradually destroy” (vernichten) the Communists
in Germany. Silfverskjoeld, himself a Communist, laid hands on
the Långbro dossier and publicized it in the Communist news-
paper Folkets Dagblad on November , ; the left-wing
newspaper Social-Demokraten also published references to
Göring’s hospital treatments. The war between Göring and the
Communists was by then one in which neither side gave quarter.
Göring spent Christmas with Carin in Sweden but left her
still on her sickbed in January to return to Berlin. He now
shared an office in Geisberg Strasse with Fritz Siebel, who was
also in the aviation business. Parachute sales were slow, but
Göring had his eye on bigger game. On May , the all-
important elections to the Reichstag (Parliament) would be
held. With the recklessness of a man with little more to lose,
Göring blackmailed the Nazi leadership into including him
among their candidates. Secret backers had provided the funds
that enabled Hitler to enlarge his party to a membership of mil-
lions. Göring bluntly threatened to sue the party otherwise for
every pfennig it had owed him since . Hitler capitulated,
promising him a seat if more than seven Nazis were elected.
Göring rushed around to his friend “Putzi” Hanfstaengl,
whooping with glee. To be a Nazi candidate under these cir-
cumstances was like money in the bank.
Suddenly Göring was no longer a pariah. He brashly