FOUR) STRANGES TA
THE
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1951.
FANTASTIC
GOERING
A suicide is disguised as a hero's death: The 'Red Cross' ourse who supplied Goering's drugs: What happened
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when a guard ́stole chocolate: The Karinhall tomb
N Banday, November
18, 1941, General Udet arrived at Reminten, Goering's hunting lodge, by special train from Berlin.
Udet, as Inspector-General of the Luftwaffe, believed
that the fighter and not the
by.
EITEL LANGE,
Goering's personal
photographer
bomber would decide the clothing for the troops war in the air, and he had the Russian front. come to ask Coering for more planes.
The interview Insted few hours and Udet return- ed to Berlin.
on H.Q. All through the war a Ploneer Company was at work alterations -at Goering's
on
Veldenstein Castle,
N
Sister Christa
one wing I was especially interested.
Here, in a loft, converted into
He said: "Contrary to the forecast of meteoro- a logists, winter in Russia has begun earlier, and is severer than in former years. We therefore call on the Ger- man people to make a saeri- Wake the Marshal nice for the benefit of the army fighting in the East: possible fur- NEXT day I was playing overshoes, if
chens with Robert, the lined, warm sweaters, pull valet, in the ante-room out- overs, socks and stockings, mittens, every aide Goering's bedroom. The underwear, Reichsmarschall was asleep, sort of protection for the and the whole building was head and cars, every kind of enveloped in silence. fur coat, and as quickly as acting as Goering's female valet, Goering was furious if dis- possible." turbed.
Suddenly we heard steps. The door was open by
schatz.
General
Behind him
was
an attic, were the living quarters Christu,
of Robert, the valet, and Sister.
a lady's maid who
played a strange part in Goer- ing's life.
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4 Times Tougher
By Wing-Commander
PAUL RICHEY
(UCCESSFUL · atomic at-
St
tack could destroy Great Britain completely and for ever. That is the view of Sir Henry Tizard, the Government's chief scienti- fic adviser on defence,"
It gives point--and urgency- to the questions, arid answers which we shall hear when MP, discuss the £320 million needed for the the RAF.
Here are MY 'questions!—
(1) WHY has Government, against the advice of the alterafi Armw, abandoned piloted very- high-speed research?
FACTS: Piloted very-high- speed aircraft are essential to research. The Americans have had piloted research aircraft fly- ing faster than sound since 1946. They have at least six different supersonic types, three flying at more than 1,000 miles an hour,
They are working on an air- craft designed to do more thân 9,000 miles on hour and reach 300,000Ft
The British Government in 1946 stopped all development of piloted supersonic research air- craft. Instead, in 1947, robots were dropped from aircraft in light. One reached 900 miles an
sea. hour, fell into the
The
WITH A WAVE OF HIS ARM Goering demonstrates
little Edda. A fairy-tale come programme was shelved. how simple it was te bring down the enemy planes in the days when he was a pilot 1918.
to life.
One night early in 1942 the Air Force sentry outside Emmy's bedroom found some chocolates to which a stimulant had been
She was n Red Cross sister, added.
or more accurately-his per- manent nurse.
The hungry man
other sentries. packets. So did Then they were found out.
All measurements inside wero
(2) WHX has the Govern-
1981 ment not ordered the wine Hawker. Vickers Supermarine 5357
swept-
the
or
adjusted to the height of a child. One had to stoop to get inside, passing through folding doors.
There was a drawing-room FACTS: Straight-wing aircraft with little armchairs, tables, cannot fly as fast as aircraft ala a few pictures, vases, curtains, a with swept-back wings. America
miniature bedroom with little and Russia both have swept
wing fighters in service. Even the Argentinos have built one.
she hoo Britain, although several swept-wing fighters fly- ing, has none in service or on order.
J
Now the nation
beds,
all drossing-fables, Robert and Christa served the foot alarmed, for
-master the people same
and knew his The Reichsmarschall ordered covered with valuable carpets. flung knew that the High Com- secrets, but they were enemies,
the whole platoon to fall in for
And the goods in the minia- Boden mand had failed to provide Sister Christa looked after the a roll-cali. He roared at the ture shop were not dummies,
adequate winter equipment. Reichsmarschall's medicines and men:--
but real foodstuffs. vitamin tablets, She was also,
thefts of "There have been
This fairy tale house was the drugs, chocolates at my house in Karin- presént of high ranking persons.
ball. The thieves are among
came
the
But they responded, and teleprinter operator holding within a fortnight 60,000,000 a sheet of paper.
articles were handed in.
Bodenschatz snatched it, held it before Robert's eyes, and said: "It is necessary to wake the Reichsmarschall forthwith!"?
I glanced at the paper. All I could see was the name "Udet." Robert dash- ed into Goering's room.
∙AT
Miserly Gift
according to rumour, the person administered his who,
particularly morphia.
years.
It was known that the your platoon. The whole platoon Supreme Commander, had been has been disgraced. To give you amorphia addict for many an opportunity, of restoring your I once saw him in a drug honour, the whole platoon will ged 'state-slouched in a chair, looking unconscious yet at the leave for the Eastern Front on some time wide awake. His the spot" expression was of blissful cestany; he opened his eyes from time to time, and then dropped the swollen eyelids.
Fairy-house
In the Crypt
Now we are buying American swept-wing Sabres.
heavy FACTS:: A modern bomber must be able to deliver an atom bomb to t-strategic target 3,000 miles away.
*(3) WHY did the Govern- ment let things slide until it has
order had to
Jet bomber
·AST of all 1° Baid a visit to raight off the drawing-board--- the tomb of Goering's Arsta most dangerous procedure? wife. He had her remains trans- potted from Sweden' 'in 1934, and had her buried in a small mausoleum. A pleco of rocic lay on the floor and underneath it a
Britain's once mighty heavy- The coffin was embedded in bomber force is now the Laugh- staircase led to the crypt
and Goering'sing stock of the world. Lincolns, white granite, coat-of-arms was carved in the basically designed üb years ago, cannot By fast enough or high stone.
enough to evade interception, cannot reach a target more than 1,100 miles away, and cannot carry the atom bomb, We have had to stop this gap by buying. B.29 Superforts from America.
T this time I was at Karinhall, Goering's country estate near Berlin. I was looking out of the window at the winter Some contended that his
personal air-raid shelter, a Bodentschatz looked at scene when Robert came fatness was due to morphia. He day I explored Goering's
certainly made many fruitless and said: "Udet is up to me and said:
efforts, to rid himself of the concrete cube dug Jala the
earth. habit. dead {"
"Do you know what the
Sister Christa maintained a
The shelter was set on bear- Old Man has given for the curious influence over Goering.
I stood before the resting Why Did He? wool collection? Two dis- Many State officials and Secre- ings, to give it "elasticity" in place of a woman whom all who carded S. A. uniforms,"" a taries of State applied to her to-case of hits. It contained a snug-had-known her spoke of as- K
sitting-room and a bedroom. NOW Goering's voice could sailing cap and a pair of obtain favours.
me
tennis shoes,"
be heard shouting “A ban on all news!" A BUR Robert was angry, He picion rose in me that there showed me Goering's ward- about robe filled with more than mystery the death. Then Robert 50 uniforms and civilian came out and said.
was some
"Udet has blown his brains out. They found him today in the Air Ministry."
Why did Udet shoot him- Helf? He felt he had been betrayed and sold by his And supreme commander. discovered his master's in- competence and laziness.
Next morning the Berlin courier brought the papers,
gar-
suits. There were ments of all kinda woollen coats, leather coats, plush coats, camel-hair coats.
There were fur caps, thick slippers, rows of shoes, and over-shoes, stacks of thick woollen gloves, socks, and stockings. This was not a wardrobe, it was a depart- ment store.
Robert continued: “And Emmy Goering's wardrobe
and I read the proclama is even more splendid. They Com- have 29 fur coats between
tion'
of the High
mand:
them."
The very
next month I instructed to make
"Today, the Inspector- General, of the Luftwaffe, was General Udet, has met with colour photos of soldiers", a fatal accident while test frostbite wounds in Russia. ing a now type of plane. The The majority of these Fuehrer has ordered a state wounds were due to the failure of the Command to funeral,"
'provide. warm clothing..
Why did they keep on lying?
I spent two terrible days with these poor men.
The commemoration cere- mony was held in the great hall of the Air Ministry. Goering delivered the fun- eral. oration. When he anded he turned to Udata Now
Karinhall
I was determined to find out all I could about Her
coffin, raised his fold- mann Goering. First I wanted marshal's baton, and the to explore Karinhall, .... tears ran over his chooks. DNETAN "May the gates of Valhalla The opportunity came when opon for you!" he declared. Goering, his wife, and daughter Edda went for a few days to Berlin..
Goebbels Appeals My tour tasted three hours.
SOMETHING
In all 160 people, including the happened guards, were in attendance on that December which the Coering family at Karinball destroyed the last remnant alone. Total staff at
ten numbered over 1000. of my beller in Goering.
days befor
the
And this was the reason for Robert's dislike of Sister Christa. In the grounds I also inspected He, too, played the go-between the model house erected for at times.
-Sent to East
NIGHTLY at Karinhalt side
tries wore posted outside the bedrooms of Goering and his wife,
SSH! Give the Peace Talks
a chance
truly noble and gentle lady,
(World Copyright--London
Express Service),
NEXT WEEK.
Goering, shoots down his own bomberMI Champagne feasting in the hour of defeat: Karinhall falls in flames
YET our Battle of Britain pilots, dying superior aircraft, faced and just defeated odds of 7 to 1. With the
Soviet Air
Force strength at 19,000 opera- tional aircraft, our pilots in a Battle of Britain. tomorrow would have to face-and defeat -modds of 30 to 1.
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