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I can't help but feel that the novel has drifted away completely from its portrayal of Göring. While the first half of the book was very close to his character, the second just mentions him from time to time, while other characters get more valuable screen time.

"There is one thing to be said for defeat: it simplifies things. What room is there for soul-searching, conscious or otherwise, in a country whose only sensation is that of a boot pressed on its neck? Shame? Guilt? Self-doubt? All such debilitating complications are squashed to nothing by the solid simplicity of resentment, hatred, self-pity, self-righteousness."

"No, I think fascism itself doesn't know what it is, except that it is against our age."

I'm making good progress even though this book is so long :) the prose is nice and flowing and the occasioaal changes in POV serve to keep the narration interesting.

And with Carin, the only likeable (?) if rather naive character is dead. moving on to politics!

Okay, so ... while the portrayal of Göring is astoundingly layered and truly comendable, his brother Karl Ernst did NOT die in WWI, he died in 1932 after having married and even having children. Also, the Göring's sisters have inexplicably disappeared from the Narration - why??