International: Defeat Is Hell

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Emmy Sonnemann GÖring, the buxom actress whom buxom Reich Marshal Her mann Gring married in 1935, arrived last week at Neustadt, near NÜrnberg.

She was riding in a Mercedes Benz. A two-and-a-half-ton truck followed, with a month's supply of food, quantities of clothing and jewelry.

In her party were her seven-year-old daughter Edda (named for Edda Musso lini Ciano), a nursemaid, a German lieu tenant colonel and his orderly. To officers of the U.S. 19th Infantry Division, said a New York Times dispatch, the lieutenant colonel presented an order from an un named SHAEF major general, requesting that Frau Goring be given all assistance.

U.S. soldiers obediently helped Frau GÖring, her daughter and nursemaid move into one of the GÖrings' many villas.

Having done their duty by Emmy, the German lieutenant colonel and his orderly went off to a prisoner-of-war cage.

Captive Hermann GÖring told U.S. interrogators: "In your aerial warfare you had a great ally — the FÜhrer." GÖring im plied that Germany would have won if the air war had been left to him, said that his Luftwaffe had developed a marvelous jet fighter "that was to sweep Allied bombers from the skies." Hitler rejected it.