Sexually explicit letters written by evil Nazi leader Hermann Goering are being sold at auction. The intimate letters from Hitler’s right hand man to his married lover are going up for sale in Germany.
Anti Nazi campaigners described the sale of the letters as ‘outrageous.’ The handwritten notes show Goering’s chilling obsession with Carin von Kantzow – a wealthy, married Swedish aristocrat . He bombarded her with controlling, jealous and highly sexual declarations.
‘The thought of another man fertilising you as his wife torments me to the extreme,’ he raged in one letter, demanding she divorce her husband. And he whined and pleaded with her to stay faithful, obsessing over their potential sex life and even worried about her fragile health: ‘Ask the doctor if eroticism is dangerous for your heart… and about having sweet children!!!’
In another, he fumed: “‘You are my wife before God – may you soon be so before men.’ One of the love letters was signed off in a frenzy of lust: ‘I press you to me and kiss you wildly…’ Auction house Hermann Historica, often criticised for trading in Nazi memorabilia, is selling the letters for a starting price of £450. The highest prices are expected for the most emotional and erotic.
Trade unionist and author Hans-Christian Lange – who spearheaded the campaign for a Holocaust memorial in Berlin – said: ‘This is outrageous that letters from a man who did such evil – who was a chief architect of The Holocaust – are being sold. This just desecrates the past and is a gross insult to the victims of the Holocaust. A similar scandal is the selling of private luxury bunkers at Buchenwald concentration camp site.’
Some of Carin’s telegrams to Goering will also be sold, starting at £275. Goering met Carin in 1920 while working as a pilot in Sweden. She went on to eave her family and young son for Goering, divorcing her husband in 1922 and marrying the Nazi in 1923.But Carin died of tuberculosis in 1931, aged 42. Goering laid a swastika made of red roses on her grave.
And he later he had her remains transported to Germany in a grotesque state funeral, burying her at his grand Nazi estate Carinhall. Goering was one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi Party which governed Germany from 1933 to 1945. He also served as Supreme Commander of the Luftwaffe, a position he held until the final days of the regime.
After the war, Goering was convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against peace and conspiracy at the Nuremberg trials in 1946. He requested at trial an execution by firing squad, but was denied; instead he was sentenced to death by hanging. He committed suicide by taking a cyanide pill the night before his scheduled execution.
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