pediatrician Dr. Sopelsa checked his injuries. They were suppu-
rating badly, and the doctor rushed him to hospital late on the
thirteenth.
A multitude of people [described Carin in a hith-
erto unpublished letter written the next day] gath-
ered outside as four Red Cross men carried Hermann
out into the ambulance. Everybody shouted Heil! and
sang “Swastika and Steel Helmet.”
Later in the evening, after I left the hotel, a crowd
of students gathered... and staged a torchlight pro-
cession and sang beneath our hotel balcony.
Today there was an even bigger demonstration in
Munich. Leaflets have been published saying that
Hermann is dead. The university has had to close. All
the students have declared themselves for Hitler.Over the next ten days she wrote several more letters betraying
not only her excitement but also her blind devotion to the Nazi
cause. The Görings’ situation was not enviable. Munich was
placarded with wanted posters, the police were keeping watch
on their villa at Obermenzing, their mail was being impounded,
their beautiful Mercedes-Benz had been confiscated.
Carin kept all this from Hermann. Gradually his fever de-
clined, but he had lost a lot of blood and seemed frighteningly
pale. The disappointment that he had suffered kept him awake,
and he brooded incessantly over the events of the past weeks.
Our car [lamented Carin] has been confiscated by
von Kahr. Our bank account has been frozen. But
even though it sometimes seems as though the world’s
entire misfortune is about to descend upon Hitler’s
work and us, I have a firm belief that everything will
turn out all right in the end.
The work goes on, and thousands of new followers