gift to Emmy would be a photograph of Carin; later, he would
name their two yachts and a forest palace after her. Emmy
would find that he had not only installed Carin’s old house-
keeper, Cilly Wachowiak, at his newly rented third-floor apart-
ment at No. Kaiserdamm in Berlin, but that he was setting
aside one room there as a permanent shrine to Carin’s memory,
with her white harmonium and a painting of her. Placid and
tolerant, Emmy put up with these intrusions, although she
confessed to friends that the apartment’s furniture was not to
her taste it was ponderous and expensive, with no particular
style.
On Emmy’s first evening at Kaiserdamm Göring threw a
big reception. She caught sight of the kaiser’s nephew Prince
Philipp of Hesse, whom Hermann had now lured into the party
(Göring had been at cadet college with one of the prince’s
brothers, later killed in action), along with another brother,
Prince Christoph (who would meet an untimely end in an Oc-
tober plane crash, while head of Göring’s signals intelli-
gence agency, the Forschungsamt).*
In Berlin the election battle had begun and the word
battle was literal in this case. Pistols and machine guns took the
place of words, fists, and libel actions. During the final month,
July , thirty Communists and thirty-eight Nazis would die
in the election skirmishes. The Nazi party seemed unstoppable.
Its private army, the SA, numbered , men over four
times the size of the regular army.
When the votes were counted on July , the Nazis had at-
tracted ,,. Entitled therefore to seats in the Reich-
stag, they became the biggest party, but still Hindenburg offered
Hitler only the vice-chancellorship, coupled with the appoint-
- For the Forschungsamt, see Chapter : Göring’s Pet.