I would like to thank you from my heart for the
beautiful moment that I was allowed to spend in the
Edelweiss chapel. You have no idea how I felt in this
wonderful atmosphere. It was so quiet, so lovely, that I
forgot all the earthly noise, all my worries, and felt as
though in another world.... I was like a swimmer
resting on a lonely island to gather new strength be-
fore he throws himself anew into the raging torrent of
life....Her sister Lily had married a German officer (he had died on
the battlefield), and now Carin decided to divorce Nils and to
marry a German officer too.
Between stolen weekends with Carin von Fock in Stock-
holm or at the castle, Göring maintained his humdrum exis-
tence piloting air taxis for Svenska Lufttrafik. In their files is one
report he wrote in March : “When the warmer weather set
in,” this read, “there were more requests for round-trip flights,
so it would be worth advertising these on Sundays.” He added
his criticisms of their current organization: “There is much
confusion about who gives orders, distributes jobs, and takes
responsibility.”
A few days later, on April , , Svenska Dagbladet re-
ported that Captain Hermann Göring, “who has for months
been one of Stockholm’s most popular air chauffeurs,” had
shown off his white-cowled wartime Fokker fighter plane with its
-horsepower BMW engine at an aerobatics display.
Meanwhile his love affair with the married Swedish count-
ess grew into a public scandal in the straitlaced city. If anything
at all sanctified it then, it was the depth of the emotion that each
felt for the other. This becomes clear only now that the letters
they exchanged have surfaced in the United States. (From a
surviving inventory of his most precious documents, stored in