prepared to torch Göring’s beloved hunting lodge. The head-
stone of Jeschonnek’s grave was removed and buried. On
August , Koller moved Robinson, the Luftwaffe’s forward
headquarters, to an open stretch of railroad at Bartenstein.
The eastern onslaught was held off, but now the western
front suddenly collapsed as Rommel’s ring of armor around the
beachhead was pierced at Avranches.
Göring’s staff still declared him sick. When Carin’s young
nephew Count Carl Gustav von Rosen flew in from Stockholm,
he was not even allowed to phone Göring, let alone see him.
Mystified, the Swede told his friends that the Reichsmarschall
must be under house arrest. This was not so not yet, at least.
At the Wolf’s Lair his enemies were still biding their time.