chives).
Married Carin: On Feb. , . The date was confirmed to me by Munich’s
Pasing registrar’s office on May , , and by documents listed in the
Veldenstein listing. The marriage certificate is now in the IfZ archives
(donated by an anonymous French officer). Recent HG biographers Mar-
tens (p. ) and Kube (p. ) are wrong in saying that HG married in .
Aunt Mary: Swedish text in Fontander, p. , who also describes an episode
witnessed by Bertha Fevrel, wife of a friend of Nils, in , when Nils
lunged at Emil Fevrel after he mentioned HG, grabbed him by the neck,
and then leaped out of the train. After this, Nils was suspended from h i s
teaching post.
To establish HG’s role in the famed Beerhall Putsch, I read the ,-page
transcript of the “Treason Trial of Adolf Hitler, et al.,” Feb. to Apr. ,
(NA films T/, and ) with the particularly valuable testimonies
in camera of Hitler, Lossow, Kahr, Seisser, Röhm, Ludendorff, and others.
The “Vollmacht” of Aug. , , has not survived but is referred to in the
Veldenstein listing as having been “granted by the Führer” on that date.
Italian correspondent: Leo Negrelli (see first note to Chapter ).
March on Berlin: See E. Deuerlein (ed.), The Hitler Putsch: Bavarian Documents
on November –, (Stuttgart: ).
Chapter : Putsch
Witnesses at the treason trial agreed that the reporting by Münchner Neueste
Nachrichten, no. , Nov. , , was impeccable. My version is knitted
together from the eyewitness evidence at the trial. Cf. too Karl-Alexander
Müller, Im Wandel einer Zeit (Munich: ).
Bodenschatz: GRGG..
Escape route: Carin’s letter to her mother, Nov. , ; reports by Thanner,
Feb. , , and Feb. , (in HG’s personnel file, formerly NSDAP
Central Archives file , then NA, film T/, now BA,
NS./vorl.). Thanner wrote his report in support of a lawsuit
brought by HG against Fritz Gerlich (the journalist whom he would or-
der liquidated on June , ) on account of Gerlich’s claim that HG had
broken parole to escape. Cf. Bayer. Staatszeitung, Nov. , (BA, Hans
Frank Papers, NL./AH.).
Mercedes: Deuerlein, doc. .
Chapter : Failure of a Mission
Mr. Ben E. Swearingen of Lewisville, Tex., provided to me the file of original
HG correspondence that he purchased from the estate of Dr. Leo Negrelli
(copy in SI). Some of these items were used by Michael Palumbo in h i s
paper, “Göring’s Italian exile” in Journal of Modern History (), no. ,
special edition D, ff, though without being able to correlate them with
the all-important Carin Göring letters. Cf. too K. P. Hoepke, The German
Rightwing and Italian Fascism (Düsseldorf: ), ff; and Giuseppe Bas-
tianini, Memoirs (Milan: ).
The Veldenstein listing refers explicitly to “copy of a letter from the Führer,
May , ; first Vollmacht issued by the Führer on Aug. , ; gen-