guerrilla movement, Göring retorted with a grin that he
couldn’t imagine “what they could have done with my trees.”
Five days later Kempner took over the interrogation and
claimed that both Diels and Gritzbach had incriminated Göring
in the Reichstag fire. Göring called his bluff, demanding to be
confronted with the two supposed witnesses. Kempner meekly
put the allegations away.
Göring was worried about the silence surrounding his wife
and daughter. On October , Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, the junior
prison psychiatrist, took a letter to Emmy at Neuhaus, near
Veldenstein. She asked him how Hermann was. “As firm as a
rock in a raging sea,” was the kind reply. She wrote him on the
thirteenth and fourteenth, but the letters were not delivered.
To turn the psychological screw on the defendants, their
families were now arrested. Even Göring’s indignant brother
Albert, whom American Special Intelligence had only recently
contemplated using as an agent, was incarcerated. At : ..
on October , Paul H. Goldenberg of the CIC arrested Emmy
together with her niece, sister, and the nurse Christa Gormanns.
The women were imprisoned in Straubing Jail, and Edda was
put in an orphanage.
On October , Colonel Amen served the formal indict-
ment on Göring. The transcript shows that he asked only for a
trustworthy interpreter and an interview with his old lawyer,
Hans Frank. But Frank was in the same boat as Göring now.
Others proved more fragile under this mounting pressure. Ley
went insane and strangled himself with a wet towel on October
. Göring expressed heartless satisfaction. “It’s just as well,” he
told the psychiatrist, “because I had my doubts about how he
would behave at the trial.” He detected signs that Ribbentrop
was cracking up too. “I’m not afraid of the soldiers,” Göring re-
marked. “They’ll behave themselves.”