Bavaria to act and offered his “troops” in support.
Göring, however, had other preoccupations now. Carin
had contracted a lung infection at his mother’s funeral and re-
turned to Stockholm, where heart problems forced her into the
Vita Kors Nursing Home at Brunkeberstorg.
Göring remained in Germany at Hitler’s side. Early in
October he wrote to Carin’s mother, adopting the ornate
style customary in her family. “I sense your gentle aura, and kiss
your sweet hands!” he wrote. “Then a profound stillness comes
over me and I sense your helping prayers.”
“Over here,” he continued, turning to the political crisis in
Bavaria, “life is like a seething volcano whose destructive lava
may at any moment spew forth across the country... We are
working feverishly and stand by our aim: the liberation and re-
vival of Germany.” He concluded by begging the countess to
take care of his Carin “She is everything to me.”
Countess von Fock replied sending Göring twenty gold
crowns (“from Carin”) and a food parcel containing rarities like
coffee and butter.
Still ailing, Carin returned to her Hermann a few days
later. “I have a slight cold,” she wrote to Thomas from Munich,
“and am writing this in bed, where the Beloved insists I must
stay until I am better. He is very busy these days and great
events are in the offing, but until I am better he insists that I
mustn’t bother myself with them. He looks tired and doesn’t get
enough sleep, and he wears himself out traveling miles just to see
me for a few moments.”
They were both homesick for Sweden, but a sense of des-
tiny kept Hermann in Bavaria. “Times are grim here,” he wrote
to Carin’s mother on October . “Strife and deprivation ravage
the country, and the hour is not far off when we must take re-
sponsibility for the future.”