vakia; then the loose ends like Danzig, Memel, and the Polish
Corridor. On the morning of the fourth, Göring noted, “Thick
fog, sun partly coming through. Discussion in the morning with
Henderson.” He again outlined to the Englishman his broad vi-
sion of a partnership between Britain and Germany with Brit-
ain recognizing Nazi Germany’s hegemony in the continent of
Europe. He concluded his diary:
Henderson this .. shot another fine stag, -
pointer... : .., stalked alone in Jodupp. On
bare ground to right of Wollner pasture watched a
scene of activity just like rutting at its peak, about ten
stags were there crying in full voice, several combats.
Kept a right royal - or -pointer under observa-
tion for some time, only six years old but a mag-
nificent future. He had a harem, but was beaten off by
an older - or -pointer. A most engrossing specta-
cle.Henderson would never forget those two days at Rominten. As
dusk fell, the chief forester ceremonially called the bag. Göring
thanked all the huntsmen, and they sounded the hallali (death
of the stag) on their hunting horns. “In the starlit night in the
depths of the great forest,” wrote Henderson, “with the notes of
the horns echoing back from the tall fir trees in the distances,
the effect was extremely beautiful.”
There was an intimacy, transcending all frontiers and en-
mities, between these hunting men; nor has it been without
purpose to dwell upon it here. We shall see that as the final
curtain descends upon the caged Hermann Göring, and he casts
about him like an injured animal caught in “that medieval in-
strument of torture,” a steel-jawed trap, for a friend to deliver
the releasing coup de grâce, his eye lights upon an officer and