Transcription: – 8 – Paschen doch seinen Mann ernährt. – Doch können wir froh sein, noch einige Pfund Fleisch uns besorgt zu haben. Es soll immer knapper werden. Es steigt täglich im Preise. Heute kostet Rindfleisch schon 2,65 M u. Kalbfl. 3,00 M.                     Dienstag, 25. April. Das diesjährige Osterfest hat uns das herr- lichste Frühlingswetter, aber auch „es fiel ein Reif in der Frühlingsnacht“ die Fleischkarte beschert. Von heute ab darf an frischem Fleisch, Räucherwaren und  Wurst auf den Kopf der versorgungsberechtigten Bevölkerung nicht mehr als 500 g für den Bedarf der laufenden Woche abgegeben werden. Die Seifen-und Zuckerkarte wird nun auch wohl nicht mehr lange auf sich warten lassen. – Wir benutzten das schöne Wetter zu Osterausflügen nach Orsoy und Görsicker. Es saß sich wunderschön unter den blühenden Bäumen am Rhein. Bei Haus Aber hörte ich d. erste Nachtigall. Scharen von Wildenten zogen rheinaufwärts. Ihre Gelege scheinen durch das Hochwasser zer- stört zu sein. Schade! – Sophie hat den gan- zen Tag mit Besorgungen für Küche und            – 9 – Vorratskammer verbracht. Morgens in Marxloh, nachmittags in Duisburg. Es gelang ihr noch aller- lei Sachen, die schon sehr knapp sind, zu erwischen. Dazu kamen noch an d. Molkerei Str. 5 Pfund herrlicher Butter. Sophie war obendrauf! Abends war sie natürlich schachmatt.      Donnerstag, 27. April. Wer aus den Osterferien von seiner Reise heimkommt, erzählt sicher von seinen mit mehr od. minder gekrönten Bemühungen, sich noch einige Vorräte an Mehl, Fleisch od. Fett zu verschaffen. Mit großen Hoffnun- gen ist so mancher ausgefahren u., ach, so enttäuscht wieder gekommen. Alle sind aber einig in ihren Berichten, daß es am schwersten hält, Butter zu bekommen. Da haben wir noch mächtiges Glück gehabt, als wir unsere Sendung aus Str. erhielten. Mit Krapohl war ich gestern in Spellen. Hunderte von Karnickeln sollten dort zu finden sein. Ich sah aber nur sehr wenige. Ich konnte keine Patrone loswerden. K. schoß 3 Laputze. Treff arbeitete ausgezeichnet. Eine lange Skatssitzung schloß sich unserm Aus- flug an. Sophie nannte mich nicht mit Unrecht

Transcription: Left page   working and his voice rose to a shriek.  The second time was over an article in the "Figaro" which apparently had some kind of personal references.  He told Burckhardt that he could not let anybody or anything touch his personal prestige, partly because he had come up from the masses, from the proletariat. I reflected that this was perhaps less a sign of political policy than of an inferiority complex.  He sent Forster away and talked for a time alone with Burckhardt.  He told him that they had found the Czech plans of war and that they had been the admiration of all his generals; that they had bought the Polish war plans and that they were childish and hopeless. He talked of Germany's need for food growing space and said that his scientists had told him they could make German soil produce very heavily by intensive application of chemicals, but that this would lead to the soil becoming sterile; he therefore needed Poland's acres.  I remarked that this indicated his mind was still running on war as such ideas were intended to defeat a war blockade.  Burckhardt says that on one point he said to Hitler something about his tremendous responsibilities and the fate of millions of people depending on his decisions.  Hitler replied previously turning his back on him "that decision no longer depends on me".  Burckhardt's impression was that he was referring to the gang which surrounds Hitler including von Ribbentrop, Dietrich (One of the 1934 executioners) and Lawrens  Lorenz? . I get the impression Burckhardt has a feeling of sympathy with Hitler; he regards him to some extent as he would regard an un- balanced woman, or perhaps, as Stoppani has it "the slave of his previous actions". He said that in his last interview, Hitler in addressing him never looked straight at him; ^This time he did.^ He had periods of depression and even sadness; as he left Hitler said to him that he would like to meet him again privately "whatever happens".  Forster as they drove away remarked "You seem to have a tranqui- lizing effect on him."   Burckhardt says that the old Keyserling's house near Wi^ever^erowo, which has probably resumed its name of Neustadt now, had been burnt down after the war started, but he had no news of the old people./. Some little time before the war began Forster, speaking of the Russo-Germa pact, said the agreement, he thought, included Russion access to the open sea. "Baltic States"? asked B, N Forster thought not - "we have interests there" - he was uncertain about Geography but mentioned the idea of a  port  in the Persian Gulf! "TIMES" The Nazi Mind 23/9/39 The documents published in a Blue-book yesterday are primarily material for the historian's patient study, although their main tenor is already well known. But readers interested in psychological oddities will find that they throw a curious light on the personality and behaviour of the Nazi leaders. There is, for instance, the picture of FIELD-MARSHAL GÖRING, after delivering himself of a tirade of ferocious threats against the Poles if they should dare to resist the Nazi designs, proceeding to show SIR NEVILE HENDERSON over the new splendours of his marble halls, to be adorned with tapestries representing "naked ladies "labelled with the names of various virtues," including Mercy and Goodness, but not Patience. There is the already familiar nocturnal scene in which HERR VON RIBBENTROP gabbled through the sixteen points of Germany's so-called peace terms, and then not only refused to let SIR NEVILE see them in writing, but "in "the most violent terms" declined to invite the POLISH AMBASSADOR to visit him in order to communicate them to his Government. But both the barbaric vanity of the FIELD- MARSHAL and the boorish discourtesy of the FOREIGN MINISTER seem to be reflections of an exalted model. SIR NEVILE HENDERSON indeed describes HERR VON RIBBENTROP as "aping Herr "Hitler at his worst." The motives admitted by the FÜHRER in the course of these strange diplomatic interviews seem sometimes to have no relevance to any consideration that moves civilized Governments when they handle matters on which the lives of millions hang. He is found reproaching England with "fighting for lesser "races," by which it is presumably to be under- stood as his serious doctrine that only his "Nordics" possess the right to life. He prefers war now, when he is fifty, to fighting it when he is fifty-five or sixty, apparently thinking it self-evidently right that the destiny of nations should be subordinated to the progress of one man's career. When reminded that MARSHAL BLÜCHER thought it imperative to be true to his pledged word, he retorts that "things were "different 125 years ago." And in the very last sentence of his last communication to the AMBASSADOR, after the British ultimatum had expired, he describes a document published by a private journalist as "a communication by "order of the British Government," conveying their intention of "carrying the destruction of "the German people even farther than was done "through the Versailles Treaty." The virtues of the German people, as we have learnt to know them in the years when they were permitted to be our friends and to respect them even when they were our stubborn foes, are pre-eminently those of solidity and sobriety. That they should come to be officially repre- sented by this clique of febrile and hysterical rhetoricians is a bewildering paradox, which in less tragic times would be cause for mirth. But when HERR HITLER describes himself to SIR NEVILE HENDERSON as "by nature an artist not "a politician," laughter is damped by the reflec- tion that the same boast was made by NERO.

Transcription: BUCKINGHAM PALACE 1918 The Queen joins me in welcoming you on your release from the miseries & hardships, which you have endured with so much patience & courage. During these many months of trial, the early rescue of our gallant Officers & Men from the cruelties of their captivity has been uppermost in our thoughts. We are thankful that this longed for day has arrived, & that back in the old Country you will be able once more to enjoy the happiness of a home & to see good days among those who anxiously look for your return. George R.I.

Transcription: Left page   Burckhardt as to the demeanour of the crowd and he replied on the whole it was quiet and well behaved, almost indifferent. One man had stepped forward shouting "slaghten die Hund tote" but was immediately pushed back by the police; several of the people in the crowd actually saluted Burckhardt as he drove off. He passed through East Prussia and went to Kaunas, the Lithuanian capital, that night and after a day or two, went on to Riga where he met Munters the Foreign Minister and received every kindness. A small ship brought him over to Stockholm after a shocking voyage during which the motor cars on the deck were filled with water.  At Stockholm Sandler was extremely kind to him; as Burckhardt remarked, he did not even say "I told you so in January!". While he was in Stockholm, Burckhardt was called on by the German Counsellor sent by Weizsacker to apologize for the way he had been so summarily ejected and offer him every facility if he cared to pass through Germany on his way to Switzerland. (He had received the most solemn promises from Weizsacker and others that if he should ever have to leave Danzig, he would be given decent notice and not treated ignominously.)  Note in the margin   [I had told him not to count on it.] The Counsellor told him that Weizsacker's eldest son had just been killed in the Polish fighting and that Weizsacker was resigning his post as permanent Head of the Wilhelmstrasse.  He had only stayed there because he still hoped to check the wild men and keep peace. The Counsellor was somewhat outspoken and said also, a propos of young Weizsacker that "they" were putting people of that class into the front line. Burckhardt did pass through Germany. He described the night spent in a way-side auberge in the common room of which he saw a huge pictorial poster representing various horrors of war such as bayonneted women, children, etc. along the top of the poster, in great red letters, was the word "Chamberlain" and from the name huge gushes of blood were represented as falling. He says the date 26th- August was on all German War Orders & it was postponed for a week.  Right page   I forgot his account of the visit of the "Schleswig-Holstein", the battleship which was sent to Danzig for a formal visit towards the end of August.  The Officers made all the official calls and received all the usual entertainments, including a party in the General Kommando. This was on the Sunday before the attack on Poland. In the course of the evening the Captain of the ship remarked to Burckhardt that some times an Officer was compelled to do a thing which he would never dream of doing as an honest private individual.  Burckhardt thought he was referring to his orders to attack without warning the small garrison of 200 men in the Westerplatte. I asked Burckhardt about Nederbragt, the Dutch President of the Harbour Board.  He told me that Nederbragt had, as the crisis approached, completely severed all relations with the High Commissioner and dissociated himself in every possible way.  He had done the same thing with me when the Nazis suddenly turned on me in my last months in Danzig. I think his motives were exclusively based on the hope that he could still protect his job.  He is a contemptible little creature and I confess I was highly amused on learning that he was treated with even less courtesy than Burckhardt; no one called on him, but he got a telephone message to be out of Danzig in two hours. Burckhardt's account of his visit to Hitler on the 13th of August was extremely interesting. He says that Hitler asked for him and eventually sent his private aeroplane to fetch him.  He found Hitler remarkably quiet and normal and over a tea-table with Forster present, he made ordinary table talk.  Then they began to talk about the Danzig affairs and the general situation. In the course of the conversation Hitler had just two of his maniacal outbreaks: one was about the Poles, when he said that if they went a millimeter further, he would crush them from the face of the earth and the face of History. Burckhardt says his eyes were glaring and his face

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