ler on trial. Göring could only watch impotently from afar. “I
threatened,” he claimed to historian George Shuster, “that if
they held the trial in camera I would appeal directly to the
German public by newspaper articles.”
In the weeks before the trial Hitler remained in close touch
with him.
Yesterday and the day before [wrote Carin on January
] Hitler’s lawyer was here. He came direct from the
fortress where Hitler is held, full of the latest news
and bringing letters from him. The lawyer visits Hit-
ler every day. Perhaps there won’t be any trial. If
there is, it won’t be to Kahr’s liking, because he’ll be in
the dock with the other two scoundrels [Seisser and
Lossow]...Money was becoming a real problem, although the hotel was
proud to have them as guests; they gave Göring a percent
discount on everything and allowed him to run up a bill. “The
waiters are nearly all storm troopers,” said Carin in a letter dated
February , . “They worship Hermann.” The Görings
hated being thrown on the charity of their friends. Their pov-
erty fed their anti-Semitism. “I would rather die a thousand
times of hunger,” Carin wrote, “than serve a Jew.” And
Hermann, writing to her mother on the twenty-second, ex-
plained their plans thus: “I want to stay here until the [Hitler]
trial is over; but if there is then no prospect of us returning
home [to Munich], we should like to go to Sweden.” There he
hoped to find work “Because I only want to go home to a
strongly nationalistic Germany, not to the present Jew-ridden
Republic.”
The trial of Adolf Hitler et alia began four days later. The
Görings could not put Hitler and the other defendants out of