authorities were not deceived and issued a warrant for his arrest
on the morning of November . A Lieutenant Maier of the
Garmisch-Partenkirchen police station telephoned orders to the
frontier post at Mittenwald ordering Göring’s apprehension if
he showed up there.
Göring shortly did. In his personnel file is a contemporary
account by the driver who tried to smuggle him across the
frontier, Nazi storm trooper Franz Thanner:
Around ten .. I drove off by car to the frontier post
at Griesen with Göring, his wife, a doctor Maier of the
Wiggers Sanitarium and myself as driver.... Check-
ing the passports the customs men on duty drew at-
tention to the “Göhring” one and asked if this was
Captain Göring of Munich. I said I didn’t know but
didn’t think so.The customs official sent for the police. Thanner continued:
When they arrived, Frau Göring began to scream.
They directed that the car was not to be allowed
through, and we were escorted by the police back to
Garmisch.
An official of the local police precinct was waiting
for us there. He notified Captain Göring that... he
might stay in a Garmisch sanitarium of his choice, but
under strict supervision, as they were still awaiting the
arrest warrant.Göring had no intention of waiting, and when the police re-
turned to the Wiggers Sanitarium barely an hour after leaving
him there with Carin, they found that the bird had already
flown. “A police detective came from Munich to arrest H!!!” she
wrote in her diary. “Room inspection! They came back three
times.” The indignant local police said later that he had given his