Italian journey: HG’s travel journal, Apr. –, , is in USAMHI. Three ear-
lier journals by HG were sold in Apr. by a Munich auction
house; two related skiing jaunts, the third the first part of this Italian
journey. See too HG’s curriculum vitae (ibid.) and K. Höhler and H.
Hummel’s official history, “The Organization of the Air Force, –,”
in Handbook of German Military History, –, vol. (Munich: ),
p. .
Professor John K. Lattimer generously made the diary available to the author
of this book.
Personal papers: for a box listing of the documents at Veldenstein in Feb. ,
see NA, RG, box , folder .
Also in USAMHI archives are three green Leitz-type binders of documents
collated by the Luftwaffe historical divisions from war diaries and other
files, entitled, “The RM’s Combat Flights,” Nov. , to July , (in-
corporating extracts from war diaries of HG’s units); “RM’s Combat Re-
ports,” Oct. , to July , ; and “ Photo Recce Reports by the RM,”
Mar. to June , . Seven of HG’s World War diaries, covering his
dramatic experiences as an aviator, –, surfaced in Aug. at a
Pennsylvania auction house, offered for sale by a Mr. Irwin, along with a
HG journal.
Combat victories exaggerated: Loerzer in conversation with Maj. Gen. Wolf-
gang Vorwald, reported in Milch diary, Apr. , (DJ film ); and U.S.
interrog. of Gen. Ulrich Kessler (NA, RG, R. H. Jackson office files, box
).
Göring’s Aug. , , pilot’s license is noted in the Veldenstein list.
Candidate for Reich president: Dispatch by German legation, Stockholm, Sept.
, (German F.O. archives, file: Referat Deutschland, Pets. ). HG’s
correspondence with the demobilization office (Abwicklungsstelle) is i n
BA-MA file, MSg./, and USAMHI archives.)
Carin Göring’s stolen letters were last seen in private hands in in the
United States. In the summer of they resurfaced, purchased by a
Pennsylvania auction house from a Mr. Irwin. In the USAMHI there is a
-page translation of the most important letters by Robert G. Hacke;
others were published by her sister Fanny von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
in Carin Göring (Berlin: ). Only a few letters were found in the posses-
sion of Carin’s son, Thomas von Kantzow, by Björn Fontander (Göring
och Sverige [Stockholm: ]), and Leonard Mosley (The Reich Marshal
[London & New York: ]).
Chapter : Storm Troop Commander
HG interrog. by Dr. George N. Shuster, U.S. Army Historical Commission,
July , . I have deposited a comprehensive collection of HG interrogs.
at the IfZ, Munich (SI). For Hitler’s version of their first meeting, see h i s
Table Talk, Jan. –, , and HG at International Military Tribunal i n
Mar. (IMT, ix, p. f), and in his book, Aufbau einer Nation (Berlin:
), and Gilbert, pp. ff.
History of the SA: See BA, Schumacher/.
Villa in Obermenzing: Munich police HQ, file # (Munich State Ar-