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The Speaker

For fifteen months following Carin’s death Göring hurled him-
self into the Berlin effort. That way he had no time for sorrow-
ing. When it was all over and he was asked to reflect upon this
period, he remembered first the thrills, the drama, and the
trickery  the political backstabbing in which he took such obvi-
ous delight. Hitler was fighting for the future of Germany: to
Göring, however, it was the means that mattered far more than
the aim.
Something of the flavor of those months is caught in the
files of Göring’s attorney, the later-notorious Hans Frank.
Göring, it seems, would issue libel writs at the drop of a hat.
Thus, when Bruno Loerzer mentioned on May , , that at
lunch that day at the Aviators’ Club he had heard a Major
Baron Ugloff von Freyberg declaim in front of the assembled
aviators, “I can no longer regard Göring as a man of honor!”,
Göring at once exacted a written apology and costs. A few days