GOERING ILL

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1943, Page 5

GOERING ILL

SAID TO BE VERY BAD

LONDON, July 4,

According to "reliable reports" received by Swedish newspapers, FieldMarshal Goering is seriously ill, suffering from a nervous breakdown and heart trouble, and is under the constant supervision of two doctors. His condition last Thursday was said to be very bad. . Goering's non-appearance in public since the Heroes' Day ceremonies on March 21 bears out the reports of his illness, says the Stockholm correspondent of the British United Press. The illness is believed to have reached a critical stage, complicated by a nervous breakdown, and his life is in danger. Goering's reported heart trouble is said to be the result of undergoing a cure for drinking". One Stockholm newspaper says that Field-Marshal yon Keitel has become a member of the German Defence Council in consequence of Goering's illness. Travellers from Germany in the last few weeks have stated that Goering faded out of the picture politically and militarily after Stalingrad. The Berne correspondent of the British United Press says that Hitler is also reported to be ill. He is resting at Berchtesgaden after a nervous breakdown, leaving General yon Monstein in charge of the Russian front. The "Sunday Observer" comments: "At least five nervous breakdowns have been attributed to Hitler in the last six months. Goering's 'breakdown' has a little more news value, because it is only his second. These reports are the stock-in-trade of the- present international rumour industry, and are significant only as indicating the mood of the moment."