are joining us daily... furious at Kahr’s treachery.
There are various [SA] regiment commanders who
are having daily political conferences with Hermann
either in person or through couriers.In these letters to her worrying parents Carin more than once
embroidered on the distressing truth, such was her anxiety to
impress them with the wisdom of her new marriage. But as the
days went by, she noticed that her family maintained an icy si-
lence in Stockholm; only her mother continued to send food
parcels to them the parcels were smuggled across the moun-
tains by the courier who carried the secret letters that were now
being exchanged between Göring and Hitler, who had been
committed to Landsberg Prison pending his trial for treason.
Harassed by Communists, who stoned her in the street,
breaking a bone in one foot, Carin moved into the hospital to be
with Hermann. His condition fluctuated badly. On November
, just as the wound had closed, it broke open again. To muffle
the searing pain, the doctors began injecting morphine twice a
day. “Hermann is in a terrible state,” Carin wrote to her mother
on the last day of the month. “His leg hurts so much he can
hardly bear it.”
They operated on him under a general anesthetic,
and for the past three days he’s been running a high
temperature. His mind wanders, he weeps, he has
nightmares of street fighting, and all the time he is in
indescribable pain. His whole leg is a mass of rubber
tubes to drain off the pus.As Hermann Göring bit his pillow and groaned incessantly,
Carin sat helplessly at his side. “I have to watch him suffer in
body and soul,” she wrote one month after the shooting, “and