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"Caesar"

Next to Hitler, Hermann Goer-Hore he was snarled at for un-¡ with 230 delegates. Goering be-¡clines in a deep arm-chair ing is unquestionably the most disciplinary action; then actually popular man in Germany; in many dispatched to the flying corps respects he is even more popular Once more he had got away with than Hitler, for Hitler stays in | tt. the clouds while Goering puts his strong legs firmly on the be ground. Hitler is an ascetic who does not smoke or drink; he lives

First Flight

he passed his pilot's exams in the After a period of observation, autumn of 1915, and within four weeks was able to fly to the front

There seemed some sort of compliment on vegetables and has no affairs with the feminine sex-character- involved in the recent ap-istics which always inspire awe in the masses. Goering, on the other pointment of Commissar hand, loves wines, women and he has the same sound V. P. Dekanozoff as Soviet

animal instincts and vices as the the first machine of his own,

Goering's pluck in aerial war- Ambassador to Berlin. He common man; therefore the peo-

fare is well known. In 1915 he ple love him. is one

of Russia's out- His most important character-was severely wounded. Only half recovered, he was ordered to join istic, and one which wins all

a flying relief corps in Breblingen standing figures in the hearts, is his sense of humour,

but simply did not carry out the Of all the Nazi leaders, he is field of foreign relations. practically the only one who has telegram to the inspection head- command. He sent the following He is a personal friend of a valuable fruit; he madquarters of the aviation forces in Berlin: Not able to locate Boe- Stalin, is reported to have fun of he knows how to take it.

blingen either in the

railway

to laugh, and when he is

He has the irresistible comic been born in Stalin's nat-quality of the "nice fut boy."

ive Georgia and even to have some blood relation-

ship with the Soviet dic- tator.

Good Stock

Going comes from good and ancient German stock, of a family

By--

Heinrich Hauser

returned 10

and

came Speaker of the Reichstag. reads his morning papers. He has As speaker, Goering was in the a special newspaper sérvice, and habit of scrutinising through his gets his news as early аб six feld, glastes delegates of those o'clock in the morning. Occasion- parties which displeased him, ally he reads English and Swedish

After the short-lived ministry papers. of General Schleicher, the last In the next hour his aide will under the parliamentary system, put before him all the telegrams carne the famous January 30, and reports that have arrived dur- 1933, on which Goering could re-fing the night. After that begins port to his Fuelner: "The position the half-hour which he calls one is taken--you will be Reichs- of his most beautiful ories. Chancellor!"

reads.

Fo

At five o'clock in the afternoon

In all his houses he has volu- the new Cabinet convened. Nowminous

libraries, principally tired' captain who sat at Hitler's and literature. it was no longer Goering the re-works of history or books on art His pét animal ide Minister, the Commissioner of the and valet Robert turns

but Goering the Reich plays at his feet. It is a Hon cub, Prussian Ministry of the Interior gramophone truly

on the and the Commissioner of the Air Idyll. Robert declares with justi- 2 Caesarean Force. Within an hour he had fiable pride that he knows by in- moved into his office at the Minis-stinct which records will be most try of the Interior on Potsdamer agreeable to the car of the master, Platz. Three months later he was whether the mood calls for the Minister-President.

Strong Arm

His further career is so well known that is it not necessary to describe it in detail To-day he still remains the strong arm of the Fuehrer.

means art

present Russian interests Prussian kings, bis forefathers After shooting down twenty-collections worth a fortune-on a

rowever, in a

1

ed in

Merry Widow or for Beethoven's Third Symphony. If the field mar- shal has a hangover or is other- wise in sombre mood, Robert will play the "Heroic March" from Gotterdammerung, for "that al- ways helps."

on

and

The

not always

his

easy one.

sometimes he has to wait a whole at the

of

on ignally from Pomerania. Among Į time table or on the map. Have The appointment of sois ancestors were school-teachers consequently

the and artisany; later generations front."

But it is difficult to explain how.

The Tailor important a person to re-produced mayors, merchants ani

His surviving adversaries in air in few years, he could have senators. Still later, under the battle speak of him with respect. acquired by honest

Between half-past eight nine the tradesmen are waiting in served as government officials: 'planes he received the highest salary which, according to Nazi in Nazi Germany is con-

the ante-room, ready to be called, great-grandfather, Michael German war decoration, the Pour principles, could not exceed 60,000 the tailor at their head. Consider- strued by authorised Nazi Christian Goering, was made war le Merite. It was evident that he marks annually. The riddle per-ng the changing dimensions of the councillor under Frederick the had been born under a lucky star. sists even if one assumes that his waistline of his client, his task is as Great something very near to 'press commentators

In June, 1918, he was sent up to imposing country seat, Karinhalf, being a minister. French blood

test u

new model pursuit plane his estate in Bavaria, his hunting barber, too, has a difficult time: signifying a greater re-entered the family when his in Berlin.

lodge in East Prussia, And grandfather married Caroline de

His trial flight gard in Moscow for Ber-eree.

went smoothly: palatial house in Berlin, have all week before he can get His father was the first then German commissar in the newly hardt, was sent up for the second the State.

his friend, Captain Rein-been financed and furnished by general's head; Goering takes care of the shaving himself. Other lin and as presaging more acquired colony of South-West test. At 1,000 metres the wings Goering has always been gener- tradesmen are the rifle agent, the Agures ip the line of waiting active relations between Africa, in 1890 he went to Haiti

fell off-again death had barely ous-generous ita giving and as German consul-general.

missed Goering. the Soviet Union and the

generous in taking. If ever a min-art dealer, and a long line of re- Hermann Goering,

tailers with their collections On July 7, 1918, First Lieuten-ister of the corrupt era had been fate of birth Was spared

samples. ant Goering was appointed com- showered with presents as costly Third Reich. More active foreign country. His mother re- inander of the Richthofen pur- as those Goering received on the Breakfast at nine lasts exactly turned to Germany in time to suit squadron, shortly after Rich-occasion of his marriage in 1934 ten minutes. At nine-thirty, his relations may well follow. give life to him in Rosenheim, not thofen's death. He continued into the actress Emmy Sonnemann, dressing finished. Goering's long He was born command of the squadron until the entire world would have succession of conferences, recep- The movements of the Redar from Munich.

on January 12, 1893, the fourth the revolution. When it disband- shouted "corruption," If high tions, and sessions begins. Before Army in the Ukraine and child in the family.

Aschaffenburg after the State officials with modest salaries the visitors reach him they must Ten weeks later his mother, | Armistice, Goering prophesied had ever acquired one-tenth of pass through several ante-rooms of the Black Sea Fleet Franziska Guering returned to that some day there would be a the palatial residences, country occupied by the "Chief of the new Richthofen squadron. He has estates, and castles that the heads Bureau of Command," Boden- suggest that as the Nazis inti, leaving her baby with

friend. Two years later, however, made that prophecy come true.

of the Third Reich now possess, schatz, by the Chief of the Staff push into the Balkans he whole family returned from

they could not have lasted a week Bureau, Gritzbach, and by Go?r- Haiti.

Though free Press and free publicing's personal secretary, Miss and toward the Near East, The Goerings were well

opinion no longer exist in Ger- Grundtmann, who has been with German Russian rela- They kept open house in Berlin,

Married Baroness

many, it is generally known among him for many years. receiving diplomats and officers.

the people that Goering has ac- tions are

The visitors are mostly mints- certain to be-The son's weakness for resplend-

There followed the typical ad- cepled numberless presents worth ters and secretaries of state, uniforms and decorations event

millions. come more active

diplomats, high officers. lord- dates back to his childhood: John, ventures of a discharged officer in

It is known, for instance, that a presidents and high party officials, agitated.

the valet, had to bring sabres the post-war period, For a time

Geering was ü night and uniform caps to his bedside

taxicab rifle factory gave him a wedding but there are also artists and jour. driver. Then, in the spring

of present of a very costly rifle, and nalists. Military questions alter- 1922, he married Swedish that the Minister-President hadnate with problems of foreign After his reirement from diplo-

baroness, Karin von Fock. The his secretary write a letter to the policy. Now the administration Chateau Veldenstein in

young couple lived rather poorly effect that he already had fifty of forests is discussed; in the next in a little hunting lodge near similar rifles, and would much quarter-hour, the problems of the Munich. On October 12, 1922, prefer a farm in Mecklenburg of secret State police. Goering first heard Hitler speak such and such a size and located at a political gathering in Munich, at such and such a place. The His enthusiasin was kindled, and rifle had a value of perhaps 1,000 by the next day the two men had marks, the farm possibly 60,00 become friends. Hitler commis-marks. sioned him to organise the Storm Troops, and thus he became the when an art dealer made him an It is known, moreover, that Arst leader of the S.A.

offer in pictures, Goering replied Marching at Hitler's side in the

that "the Lord Minister-President ill-fated coup of November 9, The obvious solution for the 1923, the so-called Beer-Hall gets the pictures he wants from somewhat difficult educational putsch, he was struck by a ma- problem of the boy Goering was chine-gun bullet. Government Kadetten-police arrested him in a hospital, military school, a

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uff.

to the Franconia. From here little Her-

mann was sent to school in

Fuerth, much to his displeasure. He did not like either the school many in Fuerth

One reason why Com- when a party night was on. missar Dekanozoff is somatic service, the father moved 'outstanding a diplomat is because of his unusual equipment in Balkan and Near Eastern affairs. Ap parently Berlin hopes for a-clarification of Russian policy now that the new Ambassador has been ap-| pointed.

The first sign of clari- fication is Bulgaria's ob-a

or the Jews, of whom there were

Military School

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the stock of the Prussian mu- seums." And it was true.

It is though there would be penal ser- an amazing fact that

In considering this rapid change of subjects Goering shows great concentration and much intuition; he is capable of both. After the callers have gone, the secretaries bring folders of papers awaiting dashed off. I signature», which are quickly

Talks With Hitler

Goering takes lunch with Hitler

stimacy when confronted korps. There learning was sec- but a few hours later some of his vitude for similar offences in any two or three times a week. The

by invitations to join the Axis.

tion.

other country, in Germany nobody two men often stay together for grows really angry at Goering.

has

Prussian Council of Ministers, the Council for the Four-Year Plan, conferences on economics, meet- ho is fat." If Nietzsche were stillings with presidents, and private alive, Herman Goering could have audiences which Goering had not

finished in the forenoon. served him as the ideal model tor this. "blond beast,'

ondary; the main thing was to be-S.A. men rescued him. To come a soldier. It suited the in- ried the wounded man to a motor

hours-sometimes their discussions clinations of the boy; he became car and got him away to nearby an excellent cadet and left the Austria.

last until darkness. When Goering military college of Lichterfelde The ensuing stations of his life

does not lunch with the Fuehrer Experienced observers with the highest of distinctions: include Venice, Rome, Czecho-

he usually has guests in his own slovakia, Poland, Danzig and

house. At three-thirty his aide will watch Turkey for praise from the Kaiser,

People's Instinct His joyful father presented the Sweden. A political fugitive whose

draws his watch and points to it the other signs of clarification boy with 1,000 marks. The use arrest had been ordered in Ger

The people's instinct tells them visitors to take their leave. Over

by way of a gentle hint to of Russian policy, for Rus- Hermann made of the money is many, Goering suffered that fate

as characteristic of him as it is of the exiled which he later pre- that wealth and display of luxury coffee after the meal an old friend, sian influence is very congenial: he invited the family pared for so many others. His belong to this man. The people Secretary of State Koerner, has an chauffeur, a wife's jewels and finally every have always liked a display of strong in both these coun-cher Sepp Rusch, to take a object of value went to the pawn power and splendour from their opportunity to unburden himself tries, and it would be les-father he wrote: "Money which shop. Eventually their last be- potentates, and the princeliness of of his problems.

The afternoon is a succession of is not immediately necessary for longings were auctioned off, and Goering's manner of living sened by Axis penetraliving is there, for pleasure. I am the Goerings lived for a long time scarcely been matched by that of various meetings: the Cabinet, the sharing it with Sepp Rusch, hop-on small loans from their friends, any German prince before him. With him. the paradox proves ing you will understand."

true: "He does not get fat because Commissar Dekanozoff His father died: in- 1013. The next year Hermann, rose to the can be expected to make rank of lleutenant in a regiment

Sting in Speeches shrewd broker where stationed near Muelhausen,

Dinner seldom takes place be- "When I become an officer

In 1926

tore nine-thirty, usually after ten a general political involving which goes without saying-there amnesty was decreed, and he re- transactions.

Five to six hours' sleep is all Goering almost always has dinner I want to turned to Germany.

he needs. In summer and winter guests, though never more than Russian prestige are un must also be a war.

distinguish myself like my papa." Two years later, in May, 1928, o'clock. The bedrooms in all his only those he likes. He takes care he gets up between six and seven thirty-five at the most. He invites der way. From this dis- This boyhood wish was granted, Goering was one of the Arst tance it would seem that like nearly all his wishes. The twelve delegates of the Nazi Party hert, cloaks the heroic figure in

houses face cast. His valet, Ro- of the seating arrangement, him- to enter the Reichstag. He was one of his many bathrobes and

self: the compliment implied A few weeks after the outbreak nevor a good speaker, but his

Hie parties are liked for their takes him to the cold shower. The informality and galety. The chef in his appointment to of the war he was the first lleu- speeches were popular, to: the Berlin was the compli-tenant of his regiment to receive point, and matchless in their sting, shower is said to be followed by of the foremost restaurant of Ber- Iron Cross. When, rheuma- On September 25, 1981, Karin, calisthenics. Meanwhile the first lin. takes great pains to satisfy ment that one hard bar- tism of the joints began to bother Chooring's first wife, died in Swe cup of coffee has been put in his all of Goering's demands.

After dinner he often visits the gainer pays another him, he filed an application to be den. He had loved her deeply, dressing-room, always on the when he sends one of his come an aviator. There was no and in memory of her he built his ring table, and Goering always theatre, usually arriving in time

drinks it standing up. reply: so he made up his mind country place, "Karinhall," where

for the last aët. If he does not Then the field marshal, in dress- go out, he is entertained by mov- best traders to complete and few in the aeroplane of his she now is buried.

friend Lotzer to the ¦ generol By 1992 the Nazis had become ing-gown and slippers-of which ing pictures at home, preferably deal.

headquarters of the Crown Prince, the strongest party in Germany two comforts he owns dozens-re-comedies.

a

war came.