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Eavesdropping on Hitler’s Reich
whole area was to be reunited.
SCHMIDT: Hitler said there would be no Christianity in Europe
fifty years from now.
GOLTZ (to Glaise-Horstenau): What are they accusing you of?
GLAISE-HORSTENAU: They want to straighten out of few matters
concerning the Anschluß. And there are a few things to be clarified
about Croatia – such as the shooting of certain people – I didn’t have
anything to do with that. As far as Austria is concerned I can tell them
nothing but the truth. They might just as well accuse [Neville] Chamberlain
and [Edouard] Daladier: these men didn’t do a thing about
the Czech affair. I suppose I’ll have a lot of difficulty after returning
to Austria. . . I would never have had anything to do with National
Socialism, if I had known that their regime was not to be permanent.
I was in complete agreement with Hitler’s foreign policy up to August
1938; he really did the German cause a lot of good.
GOLTZ: – But I started to get cold feet as early as the Sudeten affair;
I expected trouble at the time, but in spite of everything the Führer’s
intuition won the day.
GLAISE-HORSTENAU: I made a clean break with the Nazi government
when war started in 1939. However, I modified my attitude after
the successful [Nazi] campaigns against France. .
I wonder how many orders were given in this war which were
contrary to [international] law. Even I had to give such orders.
Dr. Paul (“Presse”) Schmidt, Leiter der Presseabteilung des Auswärtigen
Amts, unterhält sich Ende Juni oder Anfang Juli 1945 mit
dem österreichischen Generalleutnant Edmund von Glaise-Horstenau;
Graf Rüdiger von der Goltz – der Anwalt, der den General
Werner Fror von Fritsch im Jahre 1938 verteidigte – und Georg
Ripken, führender Beamte des Auswärtigen Amts beteiligen sich an
der Unterredung Über die Vergangenheit.
SCHMIDT: I remember hearing Hitler make a rather cynical remark
when I met him in East Prussia. He said, “I’ll have to publish a book
after winning this war. I’ll call it ’My Collection of Broken Treaties.’
GOLTZ: Did you know of Eva Braun before you came here? I never
heard of her until I came to this camp.
SCHMIDT: I’ve known about her existence and about her relations