elry, or gold cigarette cases were turned over to his fiancée, now
Mrs. Emmy Sonnemann Göring, who has also been captured.”
Little of this was true, but to break down Göring’s “staged self-
assurance” Kempner pleaded for Göring to be brought to the
United States for interrogation on his morphine addiction, on
Emmy’s “former intimate friendship with a Jewish theatrical
man,” and Hermann’s “relationship to the late Austrian Jewish
landowner Baron Hermann von Epenstein.” The suggestion was
disregarded. Instead Kempner, himself a Jew, would be taken
onto the prosecution staff at Nuremberg.
Evidence against Göring was raked together from the most
eclectic sources. British intelligence intercepted a letter in June
from Stockholm to London in which a Mrs. Anna Morck
wrote that Göring had given jewelry to Carin’s sister Lily Martin
“Things stolen from Poland and other places, which ought to
be given back.” Hidden microphones installed in a special prison
camp outside London recorded Göring’s generals in, as they
thought, private conversation. Bodenschatz was heard telling
Milch that Göring was “the most ungrateful man in the world!”
“Always was,” agreed Milch. “A rotten character.” When he de-
scribed the Reichsmarschall’s mauve-painted fingernails Galland
corrected him: “It wasn’t paint, it was a transparent varnish.”
“Bodenschatz,” said Milch, “you say the Führer gave Göring a
monthly allowance of thirty thousand Reichsmarks. Do you
imagine he met all his expenses out of that?... The three hun-
dred and sixty thousand marks he received each year wouldn’t
last him even a month!” Each scrap of conversation was tran-
scribed and sent secretly to brief Göring’s interrogators.
Now calling himself “Major Emery,” Ernst Englander vis-
ited this camp on June and told Milch, Koller, and Galland
that Göring was blackening their names. The angry generals ex-
changed more scuttlebutt about him. In his private diary, Milch