in my opinion a bit theatrical and very spoiled in his manner.
That may be explained by the nauseating flattery that surrounds
him. The merest word he utters is regarded by this disgusting
crowd as if it had emanated from God Almighty!!!! To me, Hit-
ler is the more genuine; above all he is a genius, full of the love
of truth and a burning faith.” She referred to the similarities
between their two political movements, and concluded, “Sym-
pathy here for Hitler and his work is tremendous. You cannot
imagine how enthusiastically the entire Fascist party here re-
ceives Hermann as Hitler’s representative.”
For Carin Göring, as a letter written a few weeks later
shows, Adolf Hitler was Germany’s last hope of a place in the
sun. “We have not had such a man in the world in one hundred
years, I believe. I worship him totally... His time will come.”
Mussolini told Hermann [so Carin reassured her wor-
ried mother on July ] that he had had to overcome
many more difficulties than Hitler... The Fascists
here had many dead and thousands wounded before
they pulled it off, but Hitler has had only thirty dead.
Mussolini has absolute faith in Hitler alone in Ger-
many, and will not sign one single treaty, or meet with
anyone, or in particular deal with any government of
which Hitler is not the head.All this was not even near the truth. Her husband had intro-
duced into the preliminary negotiations with Bastianini an ex-
traneous element that rendered them certainly vexatious to the
Italian government and probably hopeless from the start. The
part-owner of the Grand Hotel Britannia, where they were
staying in Venice, was one Rudolfo Walther, who although born
in Venice was a German national; under the Versailles Treaty of
, Rome had declared his share of the hotel forfeit; and al-