(Stuttgart: ), nos. and . On Oct. , , Charles Lindbergh re-
corded in his diary a stag party at the U.S. embassy in Berlin attended by
HG, Milch, Udet, aircraft designers Heinkel and Messerschmitt, and U.S.
military attaché: “Marshal Göring of course was the last to arrive.” HG
awarded to Lindbergh the order of the German Eagle, on Hitler’s orders,
asked him about his recent trip to Russia and talked about the Ju . HG
“said that at one time he knew so little about finance that he couldn’t even
keep his own pocketbook filled. Göring said he told Hitler he would be
willing to take on any problems in Germany except the religious problem.... He spoke at length, then sat and frequently closed his eyes while the
translation was going on.”
Reich Defense Council: Woermann’s notes on the first session, Nov. , ,
are on NA film T//ff; for a different version, see ND, -PS.
Darré recorded in his diary that day: “Reich Defense Committee. The
cabinet had gradually fallen asleep. The Four-Year Plan is devolving into
individual commissions, hence this attempt to reactivate the Reich De-
fense Committee which last sat in . Göring attacks me unfairly, and I
reply in kind.”
Losing weight: Letters of Henders to Halifax, Feb. and (PRO file
FO./), and to the F.O., Feb. , (PRO file FO./).
San Remo: Lt. Gen. Josef (Beppo) Schmid, “Reichsmarschall Hermann
Göring [and] His Position in the Conflict between Germany, Britain and
the U.S.A.,” a memoir in Rear Adm. Walter C. Ansell’s Papers at Old
Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia; further, Schmid’s conversation
with Suchenwirth (see note “Loerzer and Kesselring,” Chapter ) and
interrog. report, “GAF Intelligence in the War,” ADI(K) / (in SI).
Also, testimonies of Fritz Görnnert and Emmy Göring in Case , pp.
, and ,.
“Old woman”: Letter of Ivone Kirkpatrick to F.O., Feb. , (PRO file
FO./).
Forschungsamt: David Irving, Breach of Security (London: ), p. .
Threats to Hácha: Hewel note in ADAP, D, iv, no. ; U.S. State Dept. inter-
rog. of Keppler; Meissner, memoir of Oct. , and interrogs. of the inter-
preter Paul Schmidt, Oct. –, (all on DJ film ).
Disapproved: HG interrog. OI-RIR/; Körner testimony, Case , p. ,. The
FBI document quoted is in FDR Library, file OF.b.
Lookout: Milch diary, Mar. , (DJ film ).
Chapter : Out of Favor
Trip to Libya: Reports of British consul in Tripoli in PRO file FO./.
For HG’s talk with Mussolini, Apr. , , see NA film T//ff.
HG’s dinner with Hitler: HG, interrogated by U.S. State Dept., Nov. –,
(DJ film ).
Weibisch: Letter of Henderson to Halifax, May , (PRO file FO./);
and see note “Disapproved,” Chapter . Hitler’s brief pep talk of Apr. :
Letter from Wolf Eberhard to the author, May , , and interviews with
Gerhard Engel and Ottomar Hansen (SI).
French air attaché: See the French Livre Jaune, no. ; Coulondre’s dispatch to