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C. S. D. I. C. (U.K.)

G.G. REPORT

IF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT IS REQUIRED FOR FURTHER DISTRIBUTION. IT SHOULD BE PARAPHRASED SO THAT NO MENTION IS MADE OF THE PRISONERS' NAMES, NOR OF THE METHODS BY WHICH THE INFORMATION HAS BEEN OBTAINED

G.R.G.G. 226

The following conversation took place between:

Gen d Pz Tr Eberbach (GOC VII Armee), capt Amiens 31 Aug 44 and
SS Oberführer Meyer (Kdr 12 Pz Div Hitler Jugend), capt nr Liege, 7 Sep 44

Information received on 20-21 Nov 44


TRANSLATION

Eberbach: I can't make Himmler out at all; on the one hand, because he decided to have all the Jews massacred, consciously --

SS Oberführer Meyer: "Do you know why? Himmler is the most faithful executor of the Führer's orders. The Führer used to say: "Should the Jews succeed once again in involving Europe in a war, it will not mean the destruction of the German people, but the annihilation of the Jewish race."[*]

Eberbach: "The essential thing for us Germans is to find out way back to a decent way of living. There is no other way; anything else would spell disaster and act as a boomerang."

 


GERMAN TEXT

Eberbach: "Himmler ist mir einer der unklarsten Leute, einerseits weil er diese ganze Judenmassakers beschloß, bewußt…"

Meyer: "Wissen Sie weshalb? Himmler ist der treueste Vollstrecker des Wortes des Führers. Der Führer hat immer gesagt: 'Sollte es dem Judentum gelingen, Europa wieder in einen Krieg zu stürzen, so bedeutet das nicht die Vernichtung des deutschen Bluts, sondern die Vernichtung der jüdischen Rasse."

Eberbach: "Was überhaupt wesentlich ist: Wir Deutschen müssen wieder zur selben Anständigkeit zurückfinden. Anders geht es nicht, alles andere geht schief und schlägt gegen uns selber zurück."

 

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* Website Note:

The reference is to Hitler's Reichstag speech, Jan 30, 1939: see Völkischer Beobachter, Jan 31, 1939, right.

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