and a postcard from Edda. Göring’s letters to Emmy show,
however, how the continued restraints and captivity were
preying upon his nature. “I keep thinking about the onset of
spring out there, bringing those wonderful woods alive,” he
wrote in one letter to Sackdilling. “You can imagine how I am
seized by yearning for you how I long to walk through this
awakening forest with you. God protect you and Edda and you
all! Although we have to be apart, believe me that my love and
longing for you have never been greater.” “My dearest,” he
wrote on another card to Emmy, “heartfelt thanks for yester-
day’s dear lines. I hope you’re getting on and keeping together
at Sackdilling you, Edda, and Elses big and small. Today my
counsel Dr. Stahmer is allowed to visit you. I trust him implic-
itly. Talk about everything with him. Best wishes to everybody at
the cottage. You know how endless is my yearning, and how
powerful my love for you. I hug you and kiss you all fondly.
Your Hermann.”
Then Wilhelm Frick’s defense witness, the Abwehr/OSS
double-agent Hans Bernd Gisevius, took the stand. Through his
purposeful distortions, he did far more harm to Göring’s case
than good to Frick’s. “In ten or twelve years,” snorted Göring on
April , “history will take an entirely different view of these
traitors.” Jackson was delighted, however, and thanked OSS
chief Allen Dulles three days later for making Gisevius available.
“[Gisevius] fulfilled the expectations stated in your letters,” he
added. “Göring is in a badly depressed state.”
Despite threats from Göring, loudly uttered to Schacht’s
attorney, to get even, Schacht testified on May that Göring
used to appear dressed as the emperor Nero, wearing lipstick,
rouge, and nail polish. (Göring hotly denied the lipstick, talking
that evening with Dr. Gilbert.) Schacht was fighting to save his
skin; but then Grand Admiral Dönitz testified, and he was