Richthofen Squadron veteran.
At the modest wedding breakfast at the Kaiserhof Hotel the
world’s society reporters glimpsed among the friends and
supplicants, Swedish in-laws and German relatives, princes and
princesses, field marshals and lieutenants, gauleiters and man-
servants. There was Viktoria von Dirksen, whom Göring’s fellow
“managers” had yearned to nominate for extermination ten
months before. There was Fritz Thyssen, whom he would
shortly commit to prison for high treason, and Rudolf Hess,
who would enter upon forty-six years of incarceration just as
Thyssen was leaving it in . After the feast Göring drove out
to Carinhall and vanished into the lakeside mausoleum for an
hour.The climax [wrote correspondent Lochner to his
daughter] was yet in store for me. When I arrived at
the palace of the Minister-Präsident [Göring, the nextThe sumptuous
wedding of Hermann Göring
to Emmy Sonnemann put an
end to two years of scandal
and rumor.