Did Ima have a secret romance in Germany?

       Off to search archives for clues to Ima’s mysterious love life.  Rumors persist that the love of her life was someone she met in her 20s in Germany, and when he was killed in World War I she destroyed all his letters. Some say that is just romantic hearsay. But maybe, just maybe, there is something she forgot to hide, preserved in these files at the Briscoe Center for American History:

Ima Hogg Papers

Box

4Zg86 IH Travel diaries 1908, 1914

3B153 Diaries 1898, 1908, 1912, scrapbook of postcards from          European tour 1907

3B170 Notebooks and notes, 1908, 1912, 1926

4Zg78 Correspondence, “the girls,” 1902-1909, 1903-1936

4Zg81 Correspondence, Letters from old friends, 1906-1933

3B154 Social life, correspondence 1899-1918, dance cards, etc.

2.325 D5c another scrapbook? “oversize materials”

2.325/V26 “Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung” 1936, “Adolf Hitler: Ein Mann und Sein Volk” ??

Why did she save this newspaper and this book?

         When Ima went to Europe, she always visited Germany. Other rumors say that she kept up with her beloved’s family over the years. Or maybe it was just the family she stayed with when she studied music in Berlin. I’d like to think it was both.