Bruno received an uninvited guest at his palace a few days after Erich's call with Göring. The Generalfeldmarschall of the Luftstreitkräfte had gone out of his way to visit Tyrol and its Grand Prince.
And to Bruno there was only one reason for this unannounced visit. Göring sat before Bruno, in full regalia. The dress blues of the Luftstreitkräfte clung to his robust frame, adorned with the honors he had earned under conditions of battle and command throughout his career.
There was a noticeable difference between the man Bruno had known through the pages of history books in another life, and the man standing before him now. He was slimmer, stronger, and more charismatic without his morphine addiction and over-eating.
The early adoption of the He-51, a design introduced years ahead of its natural time, and its armored cockpit ensured that Göring never suffered the hip wound that had crippled his counterpart in another world.
