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Eavesdropping on Hitler’s Reich
to be done about it?”
He replied that it was generally known and was quite usual. . .
“There wasn’t anything particularly bad about it either.” And: “They
were to blame for everything anyhow. . . .
SCHLIEBEN: We are doomed to bloodshed.
BRUHN: It’s simply like this, that if we as decent people were asked
today: “What should be done to a government like that which has
carried out such things on a large scale?”, one can surely only say that
for the sake of humanity a people like that should not win the war. . .
One becomes an accuser of ones own country.
SCHLIEBEN: This is the situation into which those people have
brought us. And then he [Goebbels] quotes the Almighty!
BRUHN: . . . This is the Gottesgericht which has now overtaken
humanity.
SCHLIEBEN: Such a thing does exist and it is coming too! “And
I will visit the sins of the fathers upon the third and fourth generation!”
BRUHN: For the same reason I believe that when the policy of
extermination overtakes us, which we have actually merited by our
shedding of blood, the blood of our children will have to be shed too.
Die Verantwortung Hitlers als Staatsoberhaupt war klar. Was wußte
er jedoch überhaupt von diesen Vorgängen im Osten? Da gingen
die Meinungen auseinander. Es entstanden wütende Auseinandersetzungen
im Lager Nr. 11. “My greatest sorrow,” bedauerte
Kittel in einer privaten Unterhaltung mit Generalleutnant Neuffer,
“is that before I’m executed as a war criminal, I have to see all the
German shortcomings, discord, quarrelsomeness, and dissension
among ourselves, displayed here in this camp.” Gegenüber dem an
der Westfront gefangenen General der Panzertruppen Hans Eberbach
entschuldigte sich Kittel, er sei machtlos angesichts der Haltung
seiner Vorgesetzten gewesen.
KITTEL: I forbade that at Dünaburg and the immediate result was
that it stopped at once. I didn’t have any say in the matter at Stalino,
GRGG.264 (PRO: WO.208�4177); WO.208�4177); Gespräche zwischen 24.-26.2.1945.
GRGG.264 (PRO: WO.208�4177); WO.208�4177); Gespräche am 24.-26.2.1945.