palast—
Joining
the
party
3
Junction
21
First
party
assignment
talk-
tect
and
enemy's
Hitler's mistakes
30
again
31
and
committed, the huge scale
continuous
exploration
and
analysis.
How
well-intentioned,
anti-Semitism,
to keeping this
government hierarchy
likely
to
When
in November
his
by him;
had heard
the proph-
The speech
Speer heard
Communism
and
and build and to work for
a new
order. Here
closely
was sentenced
he served this sentence to the
last
to
write
these
had
to
be
Spandau
by
labor
centration
the
Nuremberg
indictment:
of
having
plotted
this
statement.
decisions
becom-
at Hitler's
books
he
chose;
thought
he
had
he could
look in-
ward, ask
he
had
gnawing
but his main
this book
he had
help him return
trunk
and
doesn't
remark, "A thousand years shall pass and this guilt of
Germany
will
not
have
been
was
released
story
is
told
did
have
Liischen's
rescue
in
was
no
longer
he
felt
such
deeply
mixed
emotions.
Speer
others.
He
of
Armaments
never
looked
to
him.
of omission
unjustly
convicted;
voted
to
machine rolling
and that
incomprehension.
One,
The
Destruction
of
the
Dutch
Jews,
was
witten
by
Jacob
Presser,
who
history
was
made,
and
something
too
of
at
first
had
seemed
to
him
facts
survey
One
of
the
purposes
reveal some
of the
him
the
as
become by
heim
an im-
by
obvious
reasons
we
parents employed
even
allowed
officers were
soon fre-
invited
had it perform
and
would be killed.*
running
on
the
in order
to be
attacks.
often
Heidel-
slope rose the
constitution
I
diligent oarsmen in the club. At the age of sixteen
I advanced
ambition and
the
class.
Our
German
teacher,
an
enthusiastic
democrat,
subjected
prevented us from
events
during
extracurricular
activities
from
the
present
was
our
inability
to
travel
me
At
home,
politics with
was admitted
to the
Master's inner
the
draw my allowance
achievement. Sometimes,
we were
boats.
was
nature,
of Creation
could still
today
we
are
and
were
expanding,
when
we
drove
the
Slavs
out
of
Prussia,
or
 
tone
toward
the
"cult
of
which
have
passed
through
infernos
will
the
Joseph
the
group.
serve
as
dreams
of
rest of the time
a
modest
building
im-
in
caricatures
I
of
him.
submissively
by
ideals, a new un-
demagogues, they
molded
by
the
instincts
of
authority,
take
possession
had
NSDAP,
Kampfbund
Deutscher
and
spoke
not
bother
to
find
as his
cited as
But thanks
to my
uncritical, unable
or
1931,
I
had
reason
to
a moderate direction.
anti-
Semitic
feelings
or
phraseology.
Had
Hitler
members
who
joined
"anchored in
the
balance.
the brutalities
Association
Wannsee was
party
was
I
had
further sparked by
decor
owned
by
my
vain for
was
meant
to go
Berlin
Kreis-
leitung
West,
Will
Nagel,
who
used
me
one of
the most
imagining
of
his
associ-
felt
 
party
anthem
call.
NSKK
for
weeks.
The
district
would
have
military
thus make
out to
to
consent
bankrupt the party.
be governed
Hitler achieved his
of
such
schools
were
occasionally
regarded
hundred
I
felt—
new
life
shifts
or
their
convictions.
After
inspecting
the
Ministry,
Goebbels
sketch
on
be
you
think
you
Goebbels
claimed
the
idea
for
himself.
A
few
weeks
later
Goebbels
moved
into
the
official
disposal, the
to
add
I
promised
to
have
house
aspects
of
the
and in the last few days I set
a
large
drying
apparatus
to
work.
The
building
punctually
on
by
Nolde
from
Eberhard
Hanfstaengl,
even
simply
art,
party.
The
victorious
spirit
to
outside
drawings in
Fuehrer
door, said casually,
to
him
lor's
residence
to
a
the
Chancellor
off
from
the
outside
so
that
in
at noon
to
us:
"When
handsome.
The
Professor
now is
anyone
there.
It's
ridiculous,
how
of his
s and
future. I need someone
the
authority
I
have
conferred
on
him.
taught that
grand policy
one felt
one was
was aimed at preventing
total sterility of
uniform opinions.
be-
tween
although
it
may
sound
"the
Fuehrer
proposes
once. I continued
my
garden
as
his
was not
satisfaction.
"I
could
not
Eduard
Jobst
im-
me
to
give
him
a
report
on
was done,
on the
persons,
this
mind
on
the
day's
develop-
accomplished
anything,
simply
I
could
give
my
teasing
inept at
handling the
apparatus. Frequently,
the picture
"Then
permit
me
to
have
him
remodel
for
it
by
Frau
Troost.
There
up
to
the
behind the
up.
in such
praised
my
sketch.
And
to
my
course
of
it
architect after
to Pro-
Hitler
on
the
time and
order ravioli.
Mitford,
who
even
travel
sent
her
architects and the
the
court
museums
I first
of
it.
What
trouble
I
in
the
party
thought
a good
prime
brightly
 
His
pictures
were
practically
were
too
Spitzweg.
Hitler
began
to
be
uneasy
about
besides my
that I
would not
But
any
close
Munich
Hitler
tended
to
become
sulky
when
wanted
November
9,
1923,
which
was
celebrated
did not
at all
in
contempt.
A
became the
members
of
there
to
be
any
semblance
of
a
autobahn to Salzburg
Hitler could scarcely
Hanke said
to me:
I've telephoned
around, asked
"What
pleasure
can
there
be
in
prolonging
the
horrible
winter
artificially
by
staying
in
the
mountains?"
wooden tables and had
pace
through
been carried away
witnessed
close relationship
counted
on
profiting,
both
state secretary
his
ceased
to
be
over
remarked.
acity. He
of
shown
at
the
time.
adjutant:
"Have
you
any
leader of
Hindenburg
had
officially
praised
Chancellor
was
1939,
at
Since
he
The
fact
that
steadfast
hero
ceremony
of
driving
nails
into
the Roehm
Justice,
and
were free
SA, raised
ordinary SA
indeed avert
At
To my
away!
the officials.
not affect me any more
deeply
few hours with
of
monument.
Hitler
stepped
forward.
Schaub
head
angrily
in
a
manner
quite
out
of
keeping
with
the
solemnity
manuscript.
After
the
mistake
was
corrected,
found
objectionable
or
To
that
to
I'm
remember
commission.
The
temporary
gamum
altar.
The
indispensable
platform
for
my
assign-
ment.
as if I were his
equal.
Hitler
of
be
removed.
I
been blown up.
me
to
some
thoughts
of
the
past.
My
or (such were
contribution toward
Beauty
of
Labor;
cleanliness
and
surrounded
by
beautifully
all
of
for
me
offices and
to
to
dismaying
to
discover
that
reception that
any
sense
of
etiquette
with
a
certain
the
conferences
them
march
up
in
darkness."
banners,
seen
one which has survived
to
extend
his
hand
to
fall with
a loud
smack on
He
withdrew
either
to
of
the
numerous
functions.
He
took
special
satisfaction
in
from
their
names
at
world
at
architecture. I
found it
of
Hitler
s
liance
reread
them,
once
my
and useless.
bother with
Nuremberg
Opera
House
to
the
opera
house;
but
even
Next
tickets for
"atmo-
visited
of the
army and
have been
Hess, in
convinced
even
she
done
that,
studio.
I
was
called
in
to
attention
gifted
on the other
had
an
upsetting
dis-
covery,
a sign
of where
the
wealth
sensitive
a
high
artistic
conscious-
ness
never
oc-
among the
leaders of
order to
at
me.
"What's
that?
An
architect
as
busy
as
you?
I
figured
you
fee, except
to
I
could
But
by
of
rigidity
became
more
for the
among
various
conversation at
the
running
. .
."
building
program
I
explained
my
plan
the drive
I was called
1935,
he
moving the
Nuremberg zoo.
of between seven
month
mile and a
colonnade where
on
the
tract
if not,
"No, not
today, my
building
in Sicily
of
their
emotion.
Hitler
what it meant, for
will create
must
Berlin
this stadium.
I should
do. It
not
Mussolini.
Now
that
he
saw
never again ally
the
first
reactions.
atmosphere that
That
means
ence
the
British
of
with
They
represented
mood, a longing for
was
to
Mayor
Lippert,
an
of
to
assemble
standing.
by
medieval
conceptions.
The
monument
put
up
by
Martin
Machler
which
were
shown
in
1927
at
a
major
art
become
acquainted
with
them
until
I
read
Alfred
Schinz's
book,
Berlin:
Stadtschicksal
und
Stadtehau
(Braunschweig,
1964)
in
Spandau
prison.
in
the
midst
of
peacetime,
part of the
like
He
and
the
thirty-two
a
few
an
easterly
private homes surrounded by
to avoid the
terminal
points
of
the
that
emerged
from
Hitler's
initially
pointless
plan
for
beyond
Hitler's
megalomaniacal
powers
bestowed
upon
them.
In
the
plan
and
render-
greater
mute
have
no
case!" I sometimes
political career if
been virtually
a
wild
absurdity
that
he
would
ever
be
a
steel
skeleton
already
I met
painting
in
Ber-
de Chaillot and
impress
upon
Washington,
London,
and
 
to
Adjutant
with
Hitlers
from
later
I
was
him
the
greeted
me
with:
"Why,
how
is? But
you know,
led
Hoffmann
for
Hitler
a
a
high
barbed-wire
fence
which
could
be
down.
miles long.
With total
insensitivity to
and
penetrated
workers
clung
went
on
in
in
spite
expenditure, char-
acteristic of
the
he
allowed
thousands
paper,
and
see
which
lends
itself
resultant
ground
living
room.
a
merely
expanded
to
vast
proportions.
All
1961.
Gauleiters and
Reichsleiters did
conferred
on
Bormann
became Hitler's hard-
used
in
Berlin.
white vests and
abreast, so
retinue
scattered.
Bormann
frequently
again
fol-
for
the
back
of
near
the
window,
a
glass
top.
Beyond
this
a large
tapes-
try
Nana in a
Spitzweg;
a
land-
scape
a
row
on
the
excessively
long
and
uncomfortably
voices
with
his
neighbor.
gave
chamber music
from
interrupted by
treasurer,
or
Hermann
only for
least while
met
at
afternoon
to submit to Hitler
son
the
found the proper
anything
of
such
other
hand,
to these rules,
attempt
to
in
his
mythologizing
of
man
the
political
with
him.
For
he
to him
important; and
I assumed that he
it.
the Battle
of Tours.
more
tones
during
anybody
with
a
fat
belly
can
Ribbentrop
was
saying,
while
ter's
suspicions
realize
the
the large
Niemoller in
rebellious sermon
in Dahlem;
Bud-
weis
his youth."
a
At
the
time
I
of
to have
this tower
Vienna,
on
in
praise
of
Munich
and—
with
see
Vienna
outstripped.
1
Such
as
well
as
a
monument
1938
and
another
glorifying
shorelines in Budapest
the
the Danube. The
Thanks to
exclaim
over
the
would
say,
he
up
protested and
of
say: "There are two possibilities.
Either it is going to rain or
it
is
pres-
Hitler's attention
until
Hitler
suddenly
I
talked
on
Hitler
s
admira-
When
Eckart
died
in
1923
there
Hitler
used
Hermann Esser,
had
killed.
Even
toward
faintly
jarring
demanded
an
architectural
Chancellery into which
At
the
end
of
January
1938
Hitler
called
me
the middle of
make an
cost is
years
would
hours time
their
colors
and
a succession
an
arriv-
ing
seen
the
reception
hall
see the
time
was
should
out
an
examination
sulfanilamides
3
which
he
obtained
to exaggerate immod-
the
art
of
combating
logical
that
I
follow
finding,
so
Hitler
said,
and heavier
if they had
Venereal Diseases." MorelTs
I was there,
symptoms
caused
by
overwork.
I
slowed
he
would
no
longer
house
on
him.
He
visited
he gave
out my
aims as
and aims never
changed. Sickness and
Hitler
be
was
Reichsleiter
Philip
Chief
von
Fritsch
by
von
Brauchitsch.
military
Blomberg's
adjutant.
About
unfriendliness,
von Neurath. One
von
of
masters.
The
same
was
certainly
not
society
his
wife,
days London he
political plans, began to unfold. The
day was March
or against independence.
prepare the
hall of
the Northwest
a matter of careful
sets for opera and
frock
coats
laden
with
and
that
etiquette!
It's
buildings
of
the
Weimar
Re-
out.
The
dramatic
year
1938
led
finally
to
Hitler's
frightened
to
the
former
smoldering
ruins
of
the
Berlin
momentous
event
that
established
the
of middle-class
had
and
Hitler,
anxiety
backdrops
have been
comer in the party
The
and
of
course,
who
mobilized
the
rabble
of
answers.
For
the
Munich.
his
that
I
small; he wanted it tripled in
size. The
the
influence
of
art.
But
it
also
course
things
were
taking.
he
had
never
taken,
letters,
lay
on
the
nation—
this
developed
into
a few shy words
strokes
that
a secret
mains,
and
through
the
centuries
will
bear
reported
later,
"I
had
halls
of
the members
More than once
have
it.
looking
with
tapestries,
it
was
to
two paintings
Gallery for
problem
of
the
from
and
persons
of
lesser
importance,
among
whom
I
side tables—
cheap
presented
him
the
dinners.
When,
at
the
instance
of
the
about
the
spirit
of
sacrifice
among
his
associates.
were
so
he
had
developed
future was
that Italy
part
in
such thing
as an
otherwise and
almost
edu-
one day:
the
That is
his
in line."
Immoral conduct,
to
a
glad
to
of
his
Mosley,
chief
of
to
start
from
different
not
of
tough
ideologists,
but
lacked
in
ridiculing
these
dreams
of
Himmler's,
was
But
postponed.
Brutally
direct
Hitler
with
it
during
guests
nor
Hitler
s
gradually
up
a
white
heat,
though
he
usually
internal
Frick
tried
to
save
who considered
vice president
in his
gone
were with
had
just
to
carefully
Hitler was the
to
go
emergency landing
was a
plot against
a
trace.
became
all
his
of even
evolved consider-
to
architects of
history. My
sense of
this also
anyone
week, for
itself,
had
asked
me
to
come
to
for these
Hitler
loved
tall,
full-figured
women;
was
then
on
he
contented
himself
with
the Berlin
residence. It
a
narrow
court-
yard.
operettas.
He
account of
also dwindled.
took care
that Bruckner's
works continued
squandered his working
day to
session
was
Little
was
left
of
the
day;
by
his
passion
for
would himself go to
scheduling
could
be
regarded
ways,
for a
to do
his
companions.
There
up the character
the model
then
buildings
at
your
Goering made
that,
and
I
now
make
the
same
promise
to
all
gone
completely
crazy."
premieres,
another
cinema
for
the
masses
accommodating
the
idea
of
bringing
urban
life
set apart
to
the
airport,
2
I
saw
in
the
courage
to
monument
might
be
im-
architect
by
three
architect
was.
Sighting
On
the
rose
Soldiers'
High
Command
of
the
Army.
5
felt that his
Air Ministry had
his purposes. Goering was enraptured by my plans for his
new
building
(which
after
1940
went
it
officers of
preserves more
Hitler
allowed
me
to
design
architects
the
official
build-
ings
as
I envisioned
a two
Chancellery.
At
Hess's
headquarters
enough
for
swimming.
Dressing
in the lake.
the
land
unfit
for
building
purposes.
Three
enormous
side of
and in
the
reasons
the
could not work en-
Prussia
another
comparison,
though
a
highly
Prussian state
500
million
should
not
be
among
as
of its
took some
Whatever
we
a
word
way Hitler
To console
in
1950.
Hitler's
the
city.
With
some
difficulty
we
a
medal
for
British
full extent
or
ever
have
occurred
to
in his
himself
in
new thoroughfares.
design,
for
intersecting
axes;
dwarfing
Berlin
based on
thrust of the
he
would
ask
were
on
all
the
Let's! My
ruthless
competition,
outstanding achievement. This
were limits
Hitler,
who
had
interloper. But
I was
took power
tasks.
architects thronged to
asked me
also continued to absent myself from party meetings, had scarcely
any contact
a variety of pretexts.
wait to hear
Ministry
to
bring
to
the room. For a
thorn
exhibited
in
between
them.
Meanwhile
matters
morning in
a state
desperate lover with
Incidentally,
Hitler
selected
these
or
even
at
the
Chancellery.
a
always
only
Dr.
me: "It was
women
Goebbels
command
over
the
for
of
power.
It
was
mere
of
that
and
lounges
the
incorporation
into
make the old
been
of the
elections, rules
mystical
the
hall
slightly
parabolic
twenty-six
feet.
In
a
sense
the
this
(145
feet).
A circle of one hundred rectangular
marble pillars—
entrance. This recess was
the
fatal
a series
upon
a
granite
edifice
two
hundred
enamel
coated
27.5
to
that
supergrandiose
category
Rome.
all."
The
domed
hall
sides
by
water
which
would
reflect
it
the
future
Adolf
Hitler
the grand
bounds since
Even
Nero's
legen-
accommodated
thou-
sands.
for a theater
States.
9
after
me
years, that
had said,
calculations. I
materials
moved
to
pened, a
crowd on
He
shifted
the
center
for
the
Grossdeutschland
door to a
at a
to
be
seen
Late
Gothic
end
The
last
a
seen.
A
few
months
later
one
day
to the most glorious
domination is
practically spread
Nest. The long motorcade
would
even
go
myself.
I
am
staking
this hint.
21,
1939,
stood
so
high
as
to
bathed
to
chief
representative
of
at the
need
half
production, the propor-
on
conferences fully occupied
vivid
a
few
days
before
bringing
word
that
for
The
Duce
Hitler
looked
upper
rooms.
Later,
they
outgrowth
of
his
step, just as
he had
that
he
probably
would
pre-
paring
September,
best army can
demoralizing. Therefore
it was
generals which
this
power
in
vain,
a
struggle
for
Germany.
If
the
Germany
had
not
stood
h
and
we
r !
I
important
a
technical
were
ex-
life-and-
true that
Poland. At Hitler's
Hunt. A hot
secrecy
I
1939,
provided
with
shelters.
how
After the
swift victory
lord had
reduced
the success
distance,
of German army
the
getting
ready
second
Madeleine,
he
saw
sightseeing
tour
Paris, the
in
more
in
the
small
room
in
the
peasant
house.
continued
with
great
calm,
thing in
the world.
only
his house,
accompanied by
snatch of
plans
animal
out-
cry.
Then
Hitler
roared:
"Bormann,
at
com-
posure.
What
bothered
did
much influence
he had
to Hess's successor.
Hess to
this desperate
influence
over
time
in
1940,
after
a
conversation
his
Berlin
buildings
be
pushed
forward
at
full
I
for
a former
the war. Professor Haushofer
not
"intend
con-
tinuance
of
the
iron
the Fuehrers
building—in
short, for
He
was
still
determined
take
a
nasty
turn
when
and
salzberg. They
contained photographs
of hundreds
At
private
ends.
He
Dr. Karl
Brandt, that
all
plates
and
silverware
the Soviet
a
Funk chose it. How
are
Sweden,
Norway,
war
is
our
immediate vicinity
for the
occupied east-
but
lacked
an
order
from
Hitler
ment
ministry
showed
me
a
graph
comparing
American
to say about
ment
which
were
of
a
of our
wounded
had
frozen
the misery
Deeply
depressed
both physically
incapable of
enduring such
in-
too
sensitive
no
the
the
mistakes,
winced
his
leadership
the
hierarchy
he
felt
that I esteem
to
 
hard pressed
city, organizing
the task
Roads
were
rare,
and
they
could be
felt even
At dusk we
landed in the
simplest matters,
a
with
destroying it
the seven
Just
with
it.
"Frozen,"
I
thought;
that
long
bade
me
good
night,
was
then
visibly
sharpened,
the songs
of
the
the
very
few
steered
he
fitted
rather
poorly
into
the
on reverence.
after
much
discussion
of
whp
could
possibly
well
the way from
the
major
technical
tasks
the
more
so
since
he
was
entrusted,
within
the
referred
to
the
matter
again,
and
I
he
had
expressed
to be
about
between
a
first
sample
of
our
Now a
on
he
was
establishing
the
finally
consented
to
that his
disagreements with
caused quite a
that he wore the
with
a
sharp
flame
darting
I had
economy.
Now
still
within
sight
of
the
airport
was trying
to Dr.
Todt by
the
commanding
general
At
that
moment
a
by fate
Hitler
must
this
shift
of
Hitler
s
entourage.
he assembled around
building
me
his
architect
again
will
withdraw
from
affairs
for
several
months
to
on
the
qualities
Anhalter Station to
this
conference
could
these
ugly
furnishings
unobtrusively
back,
staring
sternly
in
their
interior
decoration.
capacity
of
prepared
for
rather
discussion on the
and since Hitler
the
German
Industry
Armaments
Office
of
speak about
my tasks."
be
con-
tinued
to
those
familiar
with
the
of
power
that
Year Plan and
man and
The capacity
for
this
statement
of
since the
matter involved
to
the
"Behave
employing the
emphasized
that
one
did
best
to
let
industry
on
technicians
industry.
ings
of
Bormann
of
production. Of cqurse I
had a certain advantage,
submarines.
In
clare
himself
in
full
Thomas,
and
General
Olbricht
(as
him
pomp. But
it must
be ad-
and
took
thought
so
fat
bluster
was
directed
with
great
I
knew
that
I
had
to
of
industry
Goering—I informed
my
design
for
his
Reich
begun
reduction in
sense. Thereafter,
thanks to
Goering's lethargy,
ever
therefore
—on
March
21—
I
formulation
of
our
up
my
could be
Thirteen such
armaments
program.
to make
sure—this
of efficiency, such
to keep
I
com-
our
Ministry
dustrial self-responsibility."
his
as a
state
bureaucracy,
for
Planning
Department,
Dr.
Walter
Schieber,
was
a
chemist
by
profession;
he
altogether
incapable
of
distinguishing
difference.
The
back-
of
with-
heads,
as
There was
my
decisions
produced
of
party
leaders,
once
commented
putsch
of
July
20,
1944,
Bormann,
enjoyed
a
at the
me
work compelled
us to
thus
with-
holding
of
arms
from
the
front.
16
and
had
even
the
first
year
tion still
was
of this
war that
forces in
to ask
best
possible
Churchill
promised
his
the
end
of
October,
before
the
Russian
winter
begins,
all.
Conse-
quently,
are
the
In actual fact he at last agreed to suspend all
the building projects
cited
this
noble
our
which
I
had
read
these
obey.
After
The large
the
his
model
request in writing
Even
after
1942,
of
1944
Hitler
do is put
table,
and
an insane
degree. Hitler
himself, wherever
The
thickness
into
moun-
tains
in
Silesia
a heavy bomb on a public shelter, he
was
interested
Late one
shops
filled
with
valuable
enough
workers
style of the
directive is
called suitable under current
thus
He signed
lows: "Perhaps the war
even
though
they
may
not
be
finished
to
''building
factories
which
are
intended
trouble
arose:
ment
rivalries and
ally.
I
state
secretary
under
to
my
choice.
"Hanke
hasn't
the thing was handled
overlooked that
on November
than
not
meet
his
commitments.
Hitler
s
fifty million came to nought, partly because of the ineffective-
ness of the
The
They
lutely
of crude
economy drew
of
the
first
facts
asked
almost
shyly:
tion
in
when
Goering
began
shirking.
14
 
highly
dramatic
head-
quarters
with
me
in
order
to
young
official
as
successor
boards
of
directors
in
1922,
he
it
Speer,
to
headquarters
with
your
possible,
that
problems
always
be solved. This cannot
is
as
necessary
also
ignorant
muddled
transportation
ister
of
Transportation
that
portation with a
traffic and was
or at least until the systematic
air
When
Goering
a group
have
spoken
the Reich
for
in the
Heisenberg
was
by
no
means
the way
would take
of
to
lay
Berlin salon watching
and
build
a
1944,
I
was
of
solid-core
of
ammunition.
27
My
any
thought
of
producing
point
for Hitler's
completely
right.
traveled from Berlin
night
table.
Sometimes
he
would
order
a
the terror
felt
uncertain
when
he
was
confronting
to conferences
that
of
killing
bearings
when
presented
with
grasp
of
along with this
treating.
Do
you
mean
to
and
superior
artillery
by
same for
thirty-ton tank whose very
of the Tiger.
of
a
swift
effort to
as-
of
the
enemy.
Once,
Hitler
sent
for
gun must be
did
in
high that to raise
Keitel,
who
saw
his
position
threatened,
and
more
I
line of
generals and
into
details,
mistake
in the
their
names,
From that point
of exuberance
beginning
under
Stalin
at
forests without
the
oiling
of
their
turbines
while
they
were
associates.
we
Talk) published by Picker gives a good idea of Hitler's
topics
of
plains in an
his
self-assurance.
Our
troops
had,
the Terek and
with
them
had
a
third
of
that the
Hitler
considered this
for
months
at
Zeitzler, was
just the
opposite: a
energetically
sees
to
his satisfaction with
opposition, vehement debates,
situation
conference
took
place.
It
navy,
the
detail
of
the
events
of
the
previous
the
maps
were
pushed
de-
him more
have
been
true,
for
certain
restricted
fire
impossible because
let
actions
in
the
various
in the
versa.
Once
the
of
the
the latest
con-
ditions
created
an
to keep the discussion on
the plane
the course
the assumption that
to
operate
better
in
a
why
Hitler
always
more
restrained
and
modest
personality
than
Hitler
In
1943-44
the
a
daily routine
ance over
forbade him
holds exactly the
same opinion as
equipped
with
in
the
evening
good
china,
and
flower
ar-
rangements.
car
bedraggled,
starved,
With
a
start,
Hitler
no-
ticed
the
somber
scene
Without as much
was
how
Hitler
ations
for
thing
was
that
in
order
will
no
longer
come
through."
Hitler
intoxicated
We
in commemora-
tion of
We
will
not
fall;
consequently,
the
others
sending
November
weakened; they
have lost
Berghof
he
simply
did
and allied
west.
He
of
was
plight
of
rupting.
December
12,
1942,
6
he
issued
in-
as
a
chief
of
staff
to
wear
out
his
nerves
with
taking
sufficient
nourishment.
However,
for
the
serving
of
champagne
and
its
purpose
because
it
tied
up
Stalingrad and
bring fresh
to
support
fearful
would help
as requested.
we
will
hold
that!"
permission.* At
promised me
letters from the
force headquarters
a
temporary
numbness
followed
by
a
rush
of
us.
around Hitler
command confusion
content so long
of
the
many a
to filter
his infor-
It became a
that those
who stood
had
to
ask
up
way ten
De
Bormann
was
conducting
the
should
have
been restricted to party affairs, this new position now authorized
him
to
act
officially
in
any
useful
to
my
associates
of stereotyped
He
had
the
gift
of
arrive at objective
more often: Walther Funk,
ef-
the
beginning
of
demanding
a
ban
on
all
luxuries,
which
sense
a
great
utmost. In
our factories were
a
program
which
would
substitute
trust
for
scene:
disorganized.
to
be
enormously
my proposal
agenda. But the meeting place, the Cabinet Room,
showed
heated.
Goebbels
sure
of
the
mob.
Except
for
Hitlers
most
successful
experienced
with his
ent were
popular intellectuals
and actors
for
the
proach
which threat-
seemed
as
was
will
on by
above,
and Ley.
For the
first time
a motion
proposed by
of the Council
war,"
Goebbels
closed and most
hundred fifty
in
Berlin.
leadership
crisis/
but
strictly
that
showed
what
Stalingrad
really
star,
and
hence
to
bow
to
this
existing
authority
whose
beyond imagination. Instead,
were
ready to
to
remain
part
of
house
at
Obersalzberg.
criticisms
of
his
 
plans.
But
he
was
indicated that
"The
Fuehrer
has
not
seen
through
Lammers
any
more
than
he
Goering how
I said.
order
to
for this sort
spoke
somewhat
Reich
not feeling particularly
warm toward Goering
That would spoil
for air
other
side
who
were
order-
me
out
corresponded
morning
in
a
relaxed,
almost
cozy
atmosphere.
I
did
a
Propaganda
Minister
s
achievements
atmosphere
certainly
seemed
he
had
been
warned
by
vain. Goebbels, too, thought
received
us
in
his
desk
of
his
candor.
sat silent for the most
part,
Goering
and
Goebbels
aroused
each
other
by
build
up
bases
against
I
recall
the
way
capacity of
Ministers
for
the old rivalries
statistics
which
to several
hundred thousand. I proposed to our coalition that we join
forces
in
been erected
secre-
tariat.
as
group,
as
well
as
Sauckel
and
Milch,
"That will
an
instinct
for
out
to
be
unqualified
and make
him change
to the
No
our
After this meeting Goering
Milch,"
he
you/'
sad fact
suspicion
that
friendship
was
administering
a
him-
self
for
a
There followed
a succes-
more and
problems
ended
with
nothing
accomplished.
again!"
But
Fuehrer
tactical
blunders
offended
the
of
my
ill-fated
attempt
lived
forced
going
half
within
a
of
the
arch-intriguer
stood high.
an-
nounce
gap
on
the
eastern
in
peasant
the
commander
of
Hitler
s
bodyguard,
that
Hitler
intended
SS
units
it
had
been
established,
close
a
mand
rejected
"Building a
of
Zeitzler,
the
Todt
moreover our winter equipment
plans
must
be
speeded.
Even
at
that
time
in political
extra-
strength
girders
which
would
the two other
Hitler,
to
the army commanders.
of
Hitler
came
to
grief;
he
all
its
connected with
the build-
submarine fleet knew
that their commander
in
command
had
not
troubles
I
was
questions
with
Doenitz,
of
the
U-boat
gradually
for
them
he
to
his
old
associates
I
hardly
hoped
that
I
while
Raeder
was
kicked
upstairs:
He
became
Admiral
to
protect
army
number
a
was to
in
the
production
of
Liberty
were
to
be
would
thus
avoid
the
problem
of
the
in
speeding
up
the
why
had
been
known
for
years.
joint
decree
I
had
asked
for
this
on
the
grounds
of
By transform-
our urgent
any
trickery.
Funk
informed
Lammers
of
the
As a
was presented to him
Minister
of
Reich
Minister
of
Arma-
ler,
Fromm,
and
me.
One
evening
I
in you, that now
since the
s powerful
Since
me
did not
cunning,
and
brutality
to
prevent
anyone
then on, Bor-
1943
the
re-
sign
my
to
my
prestige.
For
in
less.
These
and
devastated
of
that the
believing
the
reports
of
report
such
fantasies to the Fuehrer!" The Gauleiter at the other end of the line
was
evidently
insisting
on
his
already drawn
tank
production
as
I
had
early
rec-
ognized,
the
war
could
largely
British
air
force—
to
center
by
the
yet there
were no
reports on
the three
first surveyed
out
consequences.
Thus
the
Ruhr
industries
a
level.
Just
a
few
few
sites,
our
LuftwaflFe
did
not
At the
about it
proposal
forced itself on
in
Russia.
Moreover,
the
had been
wreak enough damage
vain. The "Meis-
might
persuade
the
demand, as late as
Instead
force
to
a
supply pipes out
in
that
would suffice
major
cities,
fears
our
cities.
After
three
or
headquarters dis-
defenses,
caused
serious
fires
in
raid
vigorous
associate,
General
failed
to
plained
that
in
Nurnberg.
almost
peacetime
quiet
done.
After
the
second
heavy
raid
of dispersal
attack
from
private
building
were not hampered by
reached
twenty
thou-
scene
unchecked
of
enemy
aircraft.
in
four-motored
daylight
bombers.
If
produc-
in
the
winter
of
1942.
Now,
when
our
cities
shot
peril if
American fighters,
able
to
provide
escort
Galland shook his
Reichsmarschalll"
over: "Come now, Galland,
down
shot
down
planes did
he acted
and deposited
period
in
which
In
such
could
scarcely
be
surprising,
for
during
this
period
he
had
experienced
lessly
ing
one
could
see
the
meaning
of
increasingly forced
tiality
the spring
now
firmly
believed
rigidly
so
I
thought
Since the
this was inevitably
reflected in the
quality of his
a
vacation.
a
peculiar
irritable
way.
darkened
the final phases
of the struggle
Even during
been
tiring
to
him.
For
by
nature,
restrained
etiquette
was
part
of
their
training.
For
In that atmosphere objectivity
a little
with the
On such occasions the
read
In reality most of the difficulties
arose from
the tempo
At
often dramatic
order
to
these
teas:
his
doctors,
his
sec-
retaries,
his
deputy, the
Hitler
still
loved
a
a
fire
in
the
could
not
whip
up
privilege
of
extremely
excited
and
other hand,
built.
Only
the
right
kind
of
building
in one of
these days.
Danube. Then
is true,
military dress
would
not
off her chemise
much to
the
monotonous
conversations.
Before
Hitler
past
three
evenings."
One
of
the
some to
morning,
the
they
concerned, he
Ribbentrop,
or
even
bothering
to
inform
de-
because the
milieu."
a
sequently,
Milch's
and
same
him
several
not on
dog
Blondi.
fetching, the
him
company.
As
People
no
matters
Initially,
both
we
spooned
to
a
depend on
of
a
man
whose
life
was
meals,
corner. There the
watched,
sharp
command
friendship
of
assure him of
of
him
was
certainly
and
even
his
seemed
what
happened
analyses of the
plans
in
terms
to
be
minor
aspects
of
it
were
decision
and
found themselves in
his
staff
resistance
were completely
fire
power
to
bear.
The
result
to
communicate
the merits
the
Soviet
or
weeks.
Then
like that of
pros-
ecutor.
In
his
found the
way out
of a
to
he would
German
hegemony,
of
course,
since
he
was
that
all
silence
followed,
until
someone
launched
another
had
early
years
of
the
had been
insisted
on
him
day
and
night.
On
September
12,
1943,
a
the
Italian
territory
as
far
few
hours
after
out to
a fair guess
freedom
by
Fascism."
industrial
potential
of
1
Hitler
to
be
de-
industrialized.
For
enough
of labor had
be
immune
in
Holland, produce
Production
lonne
appeal
Five
days
before
to
came
in
a million
two
categories
of
leiters
of
Bormann
s
strengthen the influence
for
Defense
of
rocket would
one
and
days.
On
called,
and
five days after
much closer to
the
historic
buildings
of
Essen
to
make
all
the
Gauleiters
pointing
stood
in
I
recast
most
of
me
describe
this
new
planning
Early in
he
8
Zeitzler
begged
me
to
help
months
available
in
the
the
to
send
defense
of
Nikopol.
Do
for
the
manganese
in
the
customary
order,
added the salutation,
been
although
I
no
longer
enjoyed
the
11
I
did
not
1943,
considered such
a journey
the name
It was
then
explained
that
of
the
infantry.
One
lingering
promoted the heavy
of
armaments,
in
of
Kolosjokki,
our
sole
faster
bedded
down
in
my
reindeer
in
my
knee.
Germany only
in the struggle
me
more
than
with
the
conditions
some
words
had informed
Milch that
telephoned us be-
cause some man
reserves
of
rooms
knee injury by Leopold III of
Bel-
gium
and
I
then
had
photo-
copied
of
my
time-
the
men
in
some
cases
to have
of
file,
composed,
as
it
turned
word.*
From
The
party
Herr Dorsch and the former director
of my personnel
impossible
state
of
him or
he must
go!" Goebbels
said. But
in
their
twenty-three type-
written pages
diction.
I
was
dismissing
one
imprudent.
section,
Herr
Haasemann.
attitude
of
focus
of
leg
a richly
carved display
special button
place in
by
writing
to
Hitler's
personal
mounting,
and
I
by
the
American
Eighth
third
of me
to stave
be interfering
in his
the latter
put
him
had grown
important
me
 
to Hitler
sign
that
perspective and see
I had not been
of exhaustion
and release
I wanted,
and
children
as
soon
as
many
weeks
there,
The
day
after
Hitler's
at
taken up quarters
in a distant
to
sev-
eral
was
6
Ley,
already
a
If
this work
department heads
grave accusa-
tions against them. By roundabout ways—Hitler did not think it
necessary
to
inform
me—
I
heard
that
Milch,
and
despite
the
for
was
sheer
delusion,
for
launching construction for
I was
I
grant
that
for
I
be this as
in
Germany
itself
crash.
when
I
had gained
"the commands
same
roundabout
in any
case, I
pessimistic-
me. "You have
us
much
as
possible
Field Marshal
flooded
with
happiness
to
have
received
them
off
for
a
long
time.
had drafted it
therefore
health
and
safety
at
Koch
At
that
Speer
German nation.
come but
also in
hear
of
constructions
being
removed
from
my
jurisdiction
and
turned
Waeger
accompany
much officiality,
Die Fledermaus.
had
deeply
depressed
me.
struggle
with
surely
have
thought
was already
of
he
could
of
power
striving
for.
I
wanted,
as
part
of
his
following,
 
Du
entangled
in
contradictory
feelings.
For
highest
distinction
show
on it
of
way in the
*
sup-
posed
to
form
a
confraternity.
Hitler
never
carried
preference
slight
type
Goering,
and
Bor-
mann.
Although
I
too
learned the
valuable lesson
any of
produce
approximately
as
a
he
had
called
this
the consequences
had
always
demonstrated
a
lack
of
target
or
attacked
in
manu-
facture,
G.
Farben.
of
trialists were made
began to
the unpleasant
manufactured
in
a
these
as
Berchtesgadener
Hof
for
some
refreshments.
production
of
fighter
planes
pause
by pretending cor-
private study
armaments
produc-
on
my
I
confess
Instead
of
pared
hun-
out
of
operation.
Then,
the
of
our
damage.
Merely
the
shock
of
bombs
exploding
hundred
word
for
declare
a
total
mobilization
the successful
to Hitler.
was useless
certain
points
and
writing
marginal
comments.
most urgent
a
major
a few
planes on
 
to
comprehend
the
situation
made
who are
economic
life;
a protected
the
succeed in spite of the
Atlantic
Wall.
Toward
bombs
were
dropped
in
such
been waiting
thing I
wanted to
American
harbor
was
divisions."
Had
and
of
Saur
in
order
to
draw
our
troops
away
awaken Hitler
him.
exactly
an
infraction
deploying
his
defensive
did
across
the
II, Vol. Ill, on
order to
prevent the
German Fifteenth
Goering hastened
fortifications.
On
June
17,
he
partisan-ridden
France.
On
June
22,
1944,
almost
at
the
same
time
as
the
Anglo-American
invasion
was
achieving
of
the
many
eyes
watching
him
of
this attitude
himself
but
also
the
His
religion
was
expectation that
at the
of
be
approaching
spoke
only
the
end
of
fact
duction. But
the
imminent,
end
of
all
two
revealed
that
special
kind
of
derangement
with
which
everyone
Only the
so
the
Hotel
grims to
prevent the
is correct
which is
. .
it
Therefore the
achievements.
further
interest, to put
But as
the
you
that
were
to
from
this
or let himself
in Siberia—these are
as well;
the
Me-262,
deafening noise
designer, Professor
to have
prejudices
were
he
said,
be
at
a
disadvantage
escort fighters and
tially,
as
fighters.
It
so
far
only
in
a
few
prototypes.
Nevertheless,
Hitler's
order
necessarily
influ-
enced
long-range
count-
controversy by
only
be
mak-
ing
air
force
chief
of
and,
could
thus
pursue
and
hit
a
ship
of
only
mistakes.
We
would
have
done
much
better
a point that
this
would
of
interests
and
to
be
conducted
production, had sent me
long-distance rocket
were available
in un-
formerly
opposed
the
use
of
terror-bombing
against
We are
device of
...
program
will
yield
results
and hit enemy bombers with great accuracy. It was not
affected
by
day
or
fighters,
would
were
my favorite armaments
liked mingling
hundreds of
ning of
armed
forces,
development
were
being
at the
The
the immediate
too,
show
lively
interest.
effect,
although
the
rocket
still
needed
considerable
development
before
Peenemiinde, the
American air forces
a
of
about business."
immediately. A
be
premature
facture and mass production,
blow
but
over
a
period
of
force
were
concentration
camp
prisoners,
all
be
the
management
called
the
the
manufacturing;
but
in
cases
of
very
rarely
war
at least
in this
and shifting
partially
But on May
measures
with
Dr.
tarian
considerations,
the
rational
my
surprising
conduct during
to
put
across
the
point
that
Himmler's
manufacturing
political
aims
were.
In
our
discussions
he
displayed
a
friendly
courtesy
that
seemed
slightly
forced
and
never
man
who,
swift
intelligence,
and
extreme
kept
in my favor.
the
we came
This
faces
expressed
feelings
that
stirred
me
then,
sional fixation
on production
of feelings only
the Nuremberg
and
raised
outside
the
system
now
become
so
alien
to
me,
ternational
court
at
the
member
of
the
leadership
of
the
enemy,
would probably be
Wall.
invasion
meet
no
resistance
and
would
be
occupying
Berlin
and
went
to
Obersalzberg,
Jodl
said
ironically
to
in
Jodl's
diary
for
June
5,
1944:
"Skeletal
convalescents
thousand men on furlough
at
Obersalzberg.
In
addition
to
youthful
charm;
he
was
curiously
poetic
and the General
of no
the
air
force
the
I
am
willing
to
me and
could not
heard
this assembly and
arrest many important
into
his
a
is on the
Just
now? .
. . The
For if
for me for a
it was
date
July
headquarters
and
over
Goebbels
forces
administration.
were
de-
greatest possible
and
trans-
portation
are
I would
have learned
a
putsch
in
the
present
men
spontaneous repudiation
the
munications
or
the
main
tele-
graph
office,
the
SS
out of
a
going
on,
General?"
as
he
learned
that
Remer
was
aback and
told him what
Berlin. Along
technical
crush the rebellion.
Meanwhile
night
had
fallen;
the
scene
was
illuminated
only
by
insignificant
speech.
Nevertheless,
he
put
an
inter-
are no
longer living."
was to telephone Hitler.
Ministry first.
my presence Fromm
and summoned
uprisings,
he
from
outside.
I bring
passed by
Schaub,
Hitler's
tion attempt." Then
harsh ven-
over;
he said,
back to Tsarist days.
traitors,
we
one
man,
just survived
Hitler
separated
him
from
on
Lieutenant Colonel
Giinther Smend—
"Great General
to
"If possible"—
the fact
no longer
draft found
it
to the Gauleiters and
we
again
and
worsen
my
assigned
denounced two officers
whose
the
new
types
of
point
so
his loyalty
I
had
said
before
July
20,
which
could
all
me.
The
one
of
me
remarked,
in
ex-
planation:
war
effort,
I
it would
had
such concerns, especially if they in-
volved the party. As soon as a conversation took a troublesome
turn,
Hitler
mann's economic
adjutant, telling him
Goebbels was
would now
make full
of
his
normal
this
loss
met tragedy. Insufficiently
had
made
an
arrangement
in the
role of
of
strengthening
I
recall
just
all connection with the mainland. In spite
of
the
total
British
control
taken over by
and the Gauleiters of
over our
almost unarmed
of Paris,
retreats were
the Gauleiters
over
the Allies,
and the
with
German
to have their factories
charge
of
Belgium
by
Hitler;
the
will
gone out to all
of
Partly to be
on
dictated
a
teletype
message
with
individual
problems
.
.
which
within
a
few
months
because
from
swallowing
too
large
a
Balkans.
By
southern
margin
of
the
Alps.
It
At
first
Hitler
no
At
at
Krefeld
with
more
than
thirty-seven
with
twenty
of
its
planes."
A
few
days
later,
when
I
visited
his
student
every week.
tanks
and
tractors."
Early
in
of
fuel—
form-
erly
the
Hitler
that
"the
order to fill
side, each
plane
would
be
lost
over
Germany
in
order
to
attrition
conference and
agreed to
bombings.
That
of his
bomber
his lungs:
arm is to
skilled workers,
Send Saur
glass of
purposes;
plane, and
declared the
Armaments Staff:
"We must
representatives the air industry
manu-
facture
on
the
by
high-ranking
officers.
It
is
questionable
whether
almost
On November
gatherings.
In
those
secret
weapon
and
prob-
ably
never
will
a tool for
gave
which
could
be
population
from
a while
of
begin.
Among
in Sonthofen held in
unpredictable
consequences.
I
from Hitler
note
of
Denied fresh supplies
and even the
toward the
a
last
interruption.
situation."
Oddly
enough,
was going to
carry out a
a task.
I
no
expansive
and
to
reconstruct
if
last
card
and
knows
it,
too."
Vogler
his last
card, now
enemy
West
shifted
to
soldiers
"last card"
as im-
pressively as
Model,
travel
from
of
soon
of
commands.
Hitler
divi-
roads
on
of
thankfulness
have
that
for the
by
now
was
empty
talk.
The
failure
of
the
Ardennes
offensive
could not be explained
hardly
away from Berlin
to
govern
from
the
capital.
The
chaotic
and
cut
off.
Guderian
When
he
heard
the
details,
Hider
was
so
We
must
to
every
tactical
same time
guillotine. Off to one side a weeping woman cowered on
the
ground.
former
about
the
Ruhr
a teletype message
to
ship
"at
least
30
to
50
percent
of
the
January
pity.
of the
that
the
war
was
the
frequently
appeared
at
the
situation
conferences.
He
kept
battle
former
associates
in
our
designs
time to spare, nor
they understood:
armaments and, given
should have
the
I was prepared
toward
the
of such conclusions.
of
his
the
subject.
Then
he
send out
safe
unread.
I
where
Dieter
Stahl,
who
be made to
an atmos-
with
the
reaction
of
the
German
newspapers
and
demanded
a
sharper,
more
aggressive
tone:
"Those
warmongers
That gang
Germany."
The
only
one
victory Hitler
had associated
around him. With the
bers
one knew what
him-
with Goering pri-
excellent Rothschild-
parachute division
better
than
his
the
electricity
was
minor matters, asked about pointless details,
spoke of the situation
that
Since I
heroically
measured by
in
the
affair.
me
untouched.
I
was
But this appeal to the
oath
was
in-
asked my
affair.
could
was extremely
unusual, Stahl
my own
frankness. But
the gas.
of
rebuilding
artillery
shells,
which
were
made
in
Stahl's
factory,
had previously
been at
ground level
the operation of chance. Hitler, temporarily
blinded
our
plot
might
still
be
uncovered.
Sometimes
I
became
tion
could
be
read
in
my
face.
After
all,
since
July
20,
1944,
there
was
al-
ways
too, relieved
rebellion,
loy-
alty,
outrage.
and
life
again
with
lost
war,
I
decided
to
accompany
my duty
consequences
for
me
personally."
At
it for proof that defeat would
finally seal
pursued aims similar
ends
was
greater
everything
and
to
follow
But
seemed
command.
You
personally
if
the
They
were
working
as
efficiently
from
Hitler
to
attack
be
irritation
Jodl,
who
was
in
charge
of
the
western
that
I
by the
"could
not
be
continued
drawn up
complete plans.
On February
takes
precedence
over
necessities
Thanks
to
could no
longer handle
a
time
that
the
material
substance
at
a
suitable
moment.
Then
I
requested
Julius
my impending
a
dedicated
photo-
graph.
which
I
speed
up
the
collapse."
After an
populace
the people
villages. Deputations
the
to Keitel
threatened areas
of
hundreds
West
him
for
me
to
write
even
a
At that
for my
me
at
this
point
to
respond
of
of
continued: "If
agreed
that
half
then
the
enemy
hedgehopping
fighters
appeared.
"Night fighters in
where
the
would switch
siren sound.
any
preparations
Hitler
the army headquarters, situated
sensible
in
the
in
Chief.
Hausser
installations
and
the
high-
way
bridges
were
largely
intact.
which
he
had
re-
ceived.
most sweeping
walked across the fields
out
spite of
for the East.
days.
Inde-
the Chancellery
Kemptka's report for
of coolness all around
of
the
July
20
conspiracy.
Obviously,
on the
That
was
probably
an
unprecedented
a
Reich
and
Hitler
cial rifle
for the
parachute troops—
of
and
a
half
before,
is
still
holding
something
in
reserve
that
he'll
report
was
terrifying.
of
the
Ruhr
for
their restoration
transshipment
ports
and
the
menting
to
master
poorly fed
and
were
inevitable.
The
assembled
read
It
called
city
upon
the
on Field
on the
My
father
came
quickly
up
to
the
clasping
my
hand
one
last
time
out
already
waiting
in
an-
other
The oil baths
concentrated
east
of
not continue
finally
had
without heavy
Every-
as even more
later
Sauckel
issued
one
more
took
off
situation
conference.
of
Himmler,
who
me frostily, did
in
ference
with
the
Ruhr
Gauleiters.
You
pressed
them
think necessary
continued
in
a
friendly
manner,
and
I
for me to
run
translated
into
terrifyingly
thorough
terms.
In
faith
and
the
longer
lies
future.
We
can
hope
always spoken
ourselves
for
battle.
knowing
what
answer. I left it to the moment of confrontation to
decide what
he
was
moved.
After
situation:
an
iota
note I
tence of
some
important
conces-
affixed his
3.
structions
by
the
Again without
prevent large-
read as
any circum-
with
Bormann;
headquarters bunker
stop
at
his
desk.
Actually,
in
April
1945,
I
had
on
so
that
miles from Berlin. In
hiding
military
to
brief
nonmilitary
situa-
It seemed
to me
that the
busy
with
Kes-
selring,
the
chance I
no
more
than
a
few
sentences
the
At
the
time
of
demolition order.
"With
regard
to
all
measures
for
should
be
usable
for
German
production."
11
Hitler
did,
In this
able
a dummy.
In between
dwelt
a
bit
on
the next
His
secretary
freely
the
end
was
imminent,
Furtwangler
nodded;
he
My
initiative
and
my
become,
Remembering the
from
being
will mean
huddled in overcoats.
beginning
I
over
with
victory
Goebbels repeated again
I had
so much
vented!
The
over
breaker
has
not
been
of
German
refugees
of
death
wrapped in-
bunker
the
face the thought that
that
until
the
barge
had
that
there
would
be
they had
last
of
the
war
developing
a
in
I
understood.
of
Nieder-Finow,
technical
from the
been completed.
order
of
March
19,
longer worth
in
part
to
Heinrici's
attitude.
In
Dammsmuhl. There would
finished talking.
He proposed
troops
made
so
good
a
decision was taken
Hamburg
with
us,"
the
Gauleiter
urged
he,
of
ideas
of
April
19.
self,
though
at
the
would
not from
the
more
strong-
form,
scrupulously
with a
shaking hand.
This condition
took flight from reality and
entered
his
world
of
fantasy,
when
a
conquer
Bolshevism
long
since
ceased
down
from
the
walls,
of
furniture
a symbolic
He
the
from the
bunker to
his
only
role
taken
such a point
strips
to shift the head-
to
deliver
this
Third
2
and
also
personnel alone
and
mentioned
that
Hitler
seemed
bent
on.
What
could
it had been hoarded
zone.
Visibility
adventure,
for
we
could
landed just
to the
were rela-
tively rare.
The effect
made
of
social
brandy,
few
welcome was reassuring and
be
ascending
or
welcome there
was no
would
have
done.
I
voiced
my
favorable
impression
salzberg the battle
your
view
once
is
al-
fought him, lied
hold
the
crowd
conjectures.
The
sincere
with
had
treated
me
as
flown
to
Berlin
mirages which
excited the
heart
attacks.
I
sent
word
to
minutes alone for
d'etat;
take control
when
I pocketed a
promptly
of bitterness, help-
lessness, self-pity, and
presence
anyhow,
it
doesn't
matter
who
good enough
for the
Bormann brought in
of the
top leadership.
had
left
the
stage.
my
surprise,
waiving
all
for-
wont move
the paper. This
was, so far
to the
had withdrawn.
the bunker.
more. The
were as cold
and
appointed
Saur,
his
Column
had
been
converted
into
headed toward a gap
me a year
special
brand
of
cordiality
toward
a
fellow
official
resignation,
he
maintained
that
it
the
I've
spent
on
their
hands."
He
spoke
of
to strike some
have
at once,
of
the
drama
that
must
be
taking
in
now in
Schleswig-Holstein.
We
moved
the
new
President
to see
designated
you
as
his
successor.
Written
Allies;
Kaufmann
all,
himself
and
their
limit.
When
mourners,
of
concentration
camps.
Not
all
these
images
came
into
this day.
of
of
would
make
a
place
between
Doenitz
as
ior British forces
was against
said,
to
from
the
was now being
pending
entrance
talk with
the
ever
the
the plan
take
me
and
a
few
friends
to
of any
all
their
of recent months." All
studio, I
is
still
being
Soviet
armies,
or
threat-
ened
he
slovakia,
moving to Prague
headquarters
in
Karlshorst,
The
an end.
On May
activities
exactly
like
German Reich
structure began
govern-
at
work.
I
cabinet
meeting
took
place
in
the
so-called
Cabinet
Room,
a
former
schoolroom.
It
looked
as
if
Schwerin-Krosigk
of
rye
from
his
ourselves
ridiculous;
or
rather,
we
already
to
put
a
cham-
pagne
and
there
in
the
sixteenth-century
castle,
built
out
into
almost
sudden end
when Goering's
of
my
career:
"Had
I
known
what
posal
more
than
two
thousand
heavy
was that
I
at
Secret
British
of
training
in
motored
cargo
were
led
was a
been
broken.
had
to
be
Chief of State
the deposed
in general
each
took
the Americans treated me
of
Ger-
became uneasy;
he compared
realized with relief that he had lost his way. Clumsily,
in my
with
some
in
1937
when
I
ended
from
followed me.
edge
of
of
Schacht and
General Thomas,
concentration
camps
who
a
black
suit.
about
him.
The
supposed
for it
stood
this
annex.
Here,
in
it that
most
of
production, the
assistants
joined
my
former
assistants
the
news
hit
me
hard.
Much
me.
The
Americans
rations so
day
with which
the American guards,
his
face
I
Dr. Strolin, and Admiral
a
block
of
cells
which
I
of
interrupted
only
from
the sunny
side of
the prison
rooms with better
pleased to see
barbers had been
a
to fend off
embarrassed. Finally
my door
too was
mirror
for
of various matters. Ap-
offering
formal question
and say,
the only believable
to tell
at
the
interrogation
I
the
lower
story.
The
whole
a
Grand
Ad-
miral,
minister,
or
preliminary investigation had been
ning. In my
pened and my
I must
private individual.
be
strong
enough
good
I
have
a
chance. . . .
Perhaps,
by
favoring
winds."
I
could
man
with
strong
from Berlin."
tude. Finally
he handed
you and consider
of
twenty
other
defendants
I
did.
since, he
ever
seen
him.
He
ler
would
But
country while that was still
possible, it was
absurd and truly
of
deception.
Once,
in
the
prison
slipped up
suicide. Once I tried
the nicotine
The
fatigues
ants
expressed
the
same
view:
reached an extreme
we
would
follow,
I
declared
framework
everything
that
we
ludi-
crous.
For
many
became
more
blunted
from
In spite
isolation,
although
the
small
walking
area
must
rooms at
Fritzsche, Funk, and Schirach.*
of
the
less
harsh.
part, fought
obstinately for
the few
a
lucky
chance,
a
few
 
...
against
go into the
of
part
of
my
testimony
in
a
favorable
light.
I
people
must
be
told."
Letter,
mid-
the
truth
about
the
whole
madness.
further
question,
sheaf
severe stomach pains.
but also our
to
1
The
Even
Goering,
who
had
entered
the
trial
unspeakable
misery
In
a
sense
depravity had entered
As
its own
high
in the lower
of life,
science, and
and that no
developed armaments economy it
is my last duty to state: A new great war will
end
with
the
destruction
of
be
unavoidable.
more
essential
will
be
of
spare
us
our
emotions
were
extinguished.
time. As on
of
the
leadership
seemed
my interrogation.
camp
inmates
with-
upon the world.
"For there are
which one
matter of
this item
and that;
to subjugate
that bypassed
too, is
1947,
"has
in
an
earth-
quake-proof
structure.
The
of
negative
impulses,
past,
of the burden that
many
had
set
of my
of
me to use
1941
to
1944.
It
were intended
by
Hitler's
Knirr
was
sidings
of
the
army
4.
the
great
aperture) would have had
high.
The
field
had
a
floor
Shortly after-
bride
had
its
dome,
335,445,000
by
reason
Hitler
did
not
feel
the
need
to
return
building.
The
919-foot
been
preserved;
from
it
circumstances
a
person; thus this hall
1938
gallery
722
Reich with
England!"
At
the
time
I
was
aston-
ished
by
the
spontaneity
of
this
cheering.
I
placing
the
ing
from
south
to
According to
Heidelberg,
Inns-
Saar-
briicken,
of
all
the
building
projects
to the
Reich,
my
name
would
in
job
meant
to
Dr.
organ
Angriff
than
I
to
production represented
the following
with
a
212
percent
increase
in
steel
consumption.
Thus,
the
tank
the
production
levels
of
1941.
was a reduction
possibility," I continued,
a
lines
for
Procedure
in
of urgent
contingency
Bureau
of the
 
firm
are
not
to
House
of
German
Art
Company's
alone
than
here.
Of
31
million
women
Economics Ministry;
Goering.
15.
meant that the
amounted
to
1,300,000
many. Using the
interfere
with
seized in Belgium.
general
protest
from
Hitler.
In
this
respect
my
strategy
resembled
Bormanns.
In
1942,
as
twenty-five
conferences
on
armaments
with
February
1945
A.
Boelcke,
ed.,
the southwestern
tank
experts
consider
in-
accessible
to
tanks.
One
mobility
on
Armored Division
continue
to
pay
their
by Goebbels's
of
his
diary
once
put to
functionaries,
since
failing
to
once.
At
so
1943,
built
had
rounds of
8.8 or
remaining Ruhr
of water.
Russian opera-
examination.
The
division
into
is some-
thing new.
Fuhrerprotokoll,
remote
to the German front.
ball
bearings
produced
decreased,
according
had "the opportunity
American
 
obeyed
In my opinion have
of the willingness
3.
The
been
industry to
serve the
needs of
the German
armaments industry."
of
summer of
by
making
Berlin.
7.
our
a
position
to
Nowadays,
Hitler
him