Word: karine
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...drifted from one thing to another. He was a mechanic, a laborer, a commercial flier. Flying the Swedish explorer, Count Eric von Rosen, back to his castle at Rockelstad, Göring met Rosen's sister-in-law, Karin, and fell in love with her. She divorced her husband, married Göring...
Friends smuggled Göring into Austria and Karin, though ill, went with him. Hitler was a forgotten captive, writing Mein Kampf in prison, and Göring was near the end of his rope. In Italy he tried to interest Fascists in Naziism, failed to impress Mussolini. Back in Sweden, he took to morphine (which he had probably first used under the stress of wartime flying), was committed to an asylum. The psychiatrist who treated him diagnosed him as an "extremely dangerous asocial hysteric." When he was released, Karin's child by her first husband was not allowed...
...October 1931 Karin was dying in Stockholm and Göring was at her bedside. A telegram came from Hitler saying that President von Hindenburg had consented to see him and asking Göring to go with him. When Göring arrived in Berlin he received word of Karin's death. Two years later, when Hitler was Chancellor and Göring was Prime Minister of Prussia, he held a State burial for her at Karinhall. Hitler walked beside the widower...
Last week, as both men celebrated their birthdays, Field Marshal Göring, heir-designate of the Führer, was publicly congratulated by Army, Government and Nazi Party officials. The Führer honored him with a personal call at Karin Hall, the sumptuous manor house which the Field Marshal built on Berlin's outskirts...
...team of husky, seasoned Wagnerian troupers as could be found in any opera house the world over. Some of them (Elisabeth Rethberg, Lotte Lehmann, Friedrich Schorr, Emanuel List) were veterans of leading German and Austrian opera houses. Some (Lawrence Tibbett, Julius Huehn) were U. S. singers. Many (Kerstin Thorborg, Karin Branzell, Gertrud Wettergren) were, like Tenor Melchior, Scandinavians. Sturdiest of all these sturdy troupers has been gargantuan, jovial Tenor Melchior, for 14 years the Met's leading Tristan, Siegmund, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tannhäuser...