THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1951.
As the perfect foil for FILES
until his day was done
by EITEL LANGE
whom Goering chose
as his personal photographer
THE
VERY day a courier plane flew to
Euro tro between Berlin and wherever
Goering's two private trains happened to be.
All sorts of things came out of it wines. papers, magazines, stacks of parcels and, on one occasion, even motor-boats.
The
"Asla."
address was simplenty – Bself:
FANTASTIC
GOERING
This was the code manu f He orders 'Bomb Britain,”
Goering's whereabouts.
My first trip with Goering to a war zofie cume one day when we left Brussels Bi the special tram and headed for Culata. Whenever we stopped the area was com- pletely isolated. Ack-ack men surrounded the line of coaches. The detectives stood outalde Goering's private carriages.
Troops in the neighbourhood provided further guards, and when evening fell tn. train always slid into a tunnel.
then goes on a buying spree in Paris
THE MARSHAL prepares to add eighteen stone be
load of a Heinkel bamben
11
FOR DINNER, SNAILS
T
AND PARTRIDGE
HE menu was superb. For broakfast Lhere was real coffee tea, chocolate, butter, new-baked rolls. white bread, jam, honey, sausage, bam. eggs.
MIDDAY DINNER: Hors d'œuvres, tobater
and caviar on special occasions, then soup, ah, roast meat, cheese or italian frull, und finally coffee and liqueurs. SUPPER
the most opulent meat. There were the rurcst delicacies-snails. cruwfish, partruige, etc.
TOON
At a very low price, passengers could buy extra drink and cigarettes.
Finally came the hour for the marshal to begin his inspection. His big motor-cars were hauled off the train-
The Reichsmarschall got into his big La Salle The detectives got in the next car, and the stall officers into a Mercedes Soon the column drove of
We pulled up
BURNS
IN
outside
Field-Marshal
Kesselring's HQ. it was in a huge bunker, only look ever taken into a by Cap Gris Nez.
Three storeys were cemented into the earth; the walls were mine feet thick. It commanded a magnißcent view across the Channel to the chalk cliffs of England.
Kesselring. a beat gure, stood outside. ready for the reception, his staff behind him
Goering went into the bunker with Kessel- ring. Overhead. German planes growled on their way to Britain, for the day that was meant to bring the British down had started
It was the overture to the "blitz." Out- aide an observation post had been built or igh ground. and it carried a huge telescope and a map-table.
IT WAS THE SCOOP
OF HIS LIFE
NOTICED
radio
man preparing bla microphone
atside the bunker.
He was
excited:
a propaganda
the marshal
had
ved It was going to be the scoop of tils
front region by the Marsha and C.-in-C. of the Luftwaffe
BRITAIN TO BE BEATEN
UR formations Rew over the observa- tion post. France was van- quished-80 it seemed. And for a long time Great Britain nad not been in such mortal danger.
Whatever was ahead, i was sure about one thing. If Britain was to be beaten, the man who stood lookin through the telescope. his massive shape bent down, lis eyes glued to the lens, woulu nave had almost no share in the victory. He was living a private life.
I walked back to the radio man report. It Illustrates the cant of
ose days -
te and he asked me hopefully: "Is he going who was about to record his
speak into my mike ?"
I said I would try to help. I sidled up to Grbach who handled Gooring's personal publletty, drawing his attention to the radio
reporter.
POPULAR RUSSIA
By CYRIL RAY
MOSCOW.
Runk is a stamp on a coin,
While the gold itself is us.
literal
Tintos
a
terad trans-
lish of the Russian version of:
guinea
The rank is but the
stamp; The man's the gowd (gold)
for a' that,
I took it from one of Russia's most popular books of verse Samuel Marshak's translation of
I pointed out that the record could be broadcast that very evening on all German trans- mitters and that the Reichs. marschall would certainly or happy to address a few words to the Fatherland-on-the- opening day of the German air offensive against Britain.
After is something, too, of, Burns's genius In transmuting common speech into poetry.
of Burns, It is Marshak who has
Of the translators best caught the Hlt and the simplicity. This now elderly Ukrainian Jew is not only a scholar (his version of Shake- speare's sonne's
is the
only work of translation ever to win a Stalin Prize but himself a writer of charming children's versca. Burns Is a
and his translation of measure both of his scholarship and of his gift for words that sing.
arg the
a selection of the songs of Scol- land's Immortal bard, Robert
Burne's poems Burns, which has gone through heritage now of the man in the dozens of editions since it first Moscow street and it is typical appeared in the nineteen- that when the London corres- thirtie.
Ever since Peter the
pendent of Fravda, Comrade Maevsky, visited Scotland the Grent, other day he should make a pilgrimage to Burns's birthplace,
Russia has been Interested in
the iterature of Western Europe, his readers would expect it of
and Dickens and Balzac are him.
household words. But, since the
Revolution. some favourites I have the copy of Pravda be- have been replaced by others, fore me now.
and the aristocratic rebel, Byron, popular though he still is, has ylelded ground to the Scottish proletarian poet
Maevaky visited the Glasgow. slums where 400.000 people live What is remarkable is how dampness and
"in plich darkness, Incredible well, on the whole, he has been "moothly-shaven oll, ment or atench" while translated.
stocking kings küll time in their castica over a bottle of whisky." There are no clearly marked Burna's cottage moved him to dialects in this vast country of indignation that this
"stone Russia. The same sort of Rus- Krave" was "one of the causes sian is spoken from Leningrad to of the illness and early death of Vladivostock, and such citizens, the great Scottish poot."
of the Soviet Union as da not
Moovsky's guide could not tell
speak it speak some entirely him who owned Ban Lomond or different language, nich Ukrainian or Georgian-as alien belonged to "come 'sir" or other, Loch Lomond, save that, they from Rusa'an as French is from I don't know exactly," and Macvsky's heart filled with
English.
So, as there is no dialect as pride that in his own native land different from standard Russian the lakes and the mountains bo- 礼助 Lowland Scots is from longed to the propia.
Eng, yet as understandable He left Scotland shocked at
to Russlans, Marshak had to the dirt and, the overcrowding
keep Burha's Scottish flavour in in that country and at the fact
his translation by using the cary, that "only
rheumatie and
solloquial Russian of the streets tuberculosis are free,"
and farms.
poet ever
Much must be lost (has any.
been adequately translated?) but I can vouch that the male is there, for 3. have heard it most Blingly ro ched, and I am told that there
In the words of Bums:
soh wad some Power the giftie
»itë, Oorral's as ithers see
Gritzbach nodded he said he would do what he could.
an hour Goering emerged from the buriker and went to the observation posi with Kesselring He pushed back his omate cap and looked across to the English CORAL.
I know now that it was the
The Ratchamarachati person wily took over conduct of the Jacintory uberativo against Britain. Gootion is today under- going the dret big attack of our Luftwade.
"Our air. formations-Egitara and bombers-are dying in the direction of London and back.
Incoming reports are piling in, tayond doubt they are more than satufactors. We can tell trom the features or the ReichA- marschall, whose serious appear anco occasionally" makes way for ➡telling smile sa they come in. "The Rolchamarschall is calm personified. He gives his orders and closely follows their execu. tion which is reported to him
every time
Every one of is at this piace will never forget this our this hour in which the Puehrer's commander, standing only a few miles from the gaten of the Engla capitat gave his airmen the order which first struck of the rent vital uerva
the anetty.
מ
"The conference is over. Reichsmaraafiail dictate
The
Cow 1
WELFARE
STATE
THE MOMENT HE LOVED. -Yet another decoration fa pinned on the bemedalled breast. In all he had 172.
lines for the High Command communiqué and returns to the map board. On his way Do pasada, near ta, ha nema ua and the inlerophone... will he ?... YES I fle is coming!
ATTACK ON LONDON
RITZBACH really hud Croone th
But I knew that the job hada's been dimcult. Goering loved this sort of thing.
saw the little radio man look at the marshal with rapt. #mtion,
And then Gooring spoke-
i am taking the opportunity of saying a few words over the radio to you at this historic Hour. After sil the challenging attacks of the British of these ast nighta un Berlin, tha Puchrer decided on a eminter: stroke against the chicl alty of the British kingdom.
personally took ov the lendership of this attack and heard tonight, in the evening hours. the droning of the vio torious German squadrons who have hit at the heart of the enemy for the art time in futt daylight.
"A was expected the shemy was thrown to confusion and our aim reached. I am convinced of the full success of the attack...”
Pull of high spirita Qoering Look farewell of Kesselring, and then in the very best of_tempers went to his La Balle car.
It was a happy day for him. It was his invasion."
DEFENCE
NOW OFF TO
PARIS
NEXT morning the special trait con- nued on its way. The Reichs- marschall thought he'd like to have a look at Dunkirk, When I got there in my little car ho and Colonel-General Jeschonnek. Chief of Air Staff, were having a picnic. Goering said to me, in a very friendly manner: "Lange! Take a nice picture of Jeschon nek and me."
Goering walked along the quay. side beginning a "photographic conversation, He drew himseli up, smiled. now und again giving me a shock by nasuming nik "field-marshal expression und theatrical using drainalle Sestures,
Like a child
A few days afterwards. the. special train left for Paris,
Coering went to stay at the Ritz
During the next two days we all knew what to was up to. Together with the Air Force Commandant In Paris, and his adjutant. he went off on a buying spree.
to the
They went together. picture galleries antique shops dress shops
perfunie shops making purchases.
Herr Hofer Goering's personal.
plcture buyer. had been for several weeks in Paris looking for suli- able treasuEB.
Goering seemed to find every thing pleasant that he saw. H was like a greedy, naive, lille child who wanted everything he could 605.
ALL TASK IS THAT YOU GET IT PROPERLY BAL
The treasure
He liked heavy, baroque-lookina
CED
brusent with Dally ferald,
thing3--altar cloths Gobelins heavy jewellery-but what he was really after were paintings.
He bought them ceasele-35!5 m arge numbers.
The
evening before we lett Paris I noticed that two tuge trucks had been joined to our special tmin-overflowing with the purchases of these two days. I watched these trucks being illed to overflowing with booty.
I noticed how an enormous wooden crucifix could scarcely be Hited in with all the other Chingi nerd the wokes of the Geniun
soldiers.
railway acials and
What really remained in my mind, however were the white fuces of the French who preased against the barrier watching the wagons being loaded itp.
And so home, 10 Berlin
AT HUNTING LODGE
*OERINO'S spree had Texhausted-him. And
so fairly soon we all moved of
To Rominyon on # hunting expedition.
Wus
wooden
The special in care to M camouflaged nalt some milles from the hunting estate *Mala three winged, building, very beautiful, set in a corner of the Rominien Heath In East Prussia.
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Prom ̈ nem Goering used to ot off to a smaller hunting lodge acur Johannisburg. II had been arranget at great cost but it soon
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turned out that I was too damp necause of a nearby Sen. wasn't used after a time.
NOT A SIGN OF WAR
So it
Now we could have, gol
down to work ugnin- but not on your life.
Querung went on living here as he did in Karinhail. If we hadn't all known that there was a bitter unmerciful war ruging we could have been living in deepest peace. It even annoyed Goering that the General Stalt came for confer ence every morning at 1) o'clock.
All conferences, which normally would have been held in Berlin und which needed his presence simply took place in Rominen people for whom Berita would have been an easy journey had to make their way cast as best they could. Thus it often happened that someone with ton minuto business took goveral days on the journey.
--In the hunting lodge the Reichs marschall dressed in keeping. He wore an outdi. be designed him- self. A long, green, leather hunt- g waistcoat. A bosuitful pre ilk shirt and hunting, bouts.
With him in the lodge were Brauchlesch. chief adjutant: Cap- Lain Tesko Robert Kropp and Sister Christa his male and female valets: everyone else r mained in the special train,
And so tite went on--with no trace et WAL** no Reichs marschall
da.com
about i
didn't give
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