nated to him the decor and furnishings for the new apartment.
Greedy for more, Göring shortly asked Lufthansa for
funds to set up an office, to pay Pili Körner’s wages, and to hire
a first-rate secretary too. Soon the airline found it was paying
him fifty thousand Reichsmarks a year.
I hardly ever see Hermann [lamented Carin that
summer]. He goes to the office [on the corner of
Friedrich Strasse and Tauben Strasse] early each
morning and we usually lunch together, but mostly
with a lot of other people who are invited or invite
themselves. Then Hermann has the exhibition [the
World Air Fair] or committees, and then dines
hardly ever alone.
He is rarely ever home before two or three ..,
and he usually starts at eight in the morning... It is
mainly his nervous energy and his interest in every-
thing that drives him on. And the Reichstag session
hasn’t even begun yet!
He has an excellent stenographer and typist, and
that is a great help. Today he got seventy-four letters!
Yesterday fifty-five!... And yet he always has time if I
need him.
Hitler is coming here on Friday. I haven’t seen
him since the old days []. I’m agog!She became an excellent society hostess in Berlin, though she hid
her failing health only with difficulty. In November their
new corner apartment in Badensche Strasse was ready for them
to move in. The walls were white, the carpet wine red. The
building had a basement garage, so the rich and influential
could be transported up by direct elevator with the utmost dis-
cretion. Among their regular guests was the stocky Lufthansa
director Milch, who now studiously entered Göring’s birthday
January in his pocket diaries. By December Milch would