English Translation

39a -22- In my opinion, Dr. Benesch has come to the conclusion in recent years before the outbreak of war that France is in disintegration if he has not admitted this to the public. In France, it was only the Maginot line in the firm conviction that "we can't do anything". The people were slowly driving Communism, and I would like to say more about anarchism. At that time I had the feeling that Benesch was really trying to achieve a balance with Germany. I remember some conversations with him and in particular his secret negotiations with the Führer's confidants, Vawal, which he let go to the castle from the Hotel Alcron under the greatest secrecy and with whom he negotiated completely alone. Why, and what these negotiations failed is not known. Because I don't know anything about these conversations. But I think that it was already too late and that Dr. Benesch no longer had enough power to calm down the wind that he had sparked in his surroundings for a long time and to meet an agreement with the kingdom. Benesch about 4 or 5 years before the outbreak of the war, that two great powers without a return to the world go their way: Germany and the Soviet Union. Germany grew every day economically, but also politically and militarily. It has a strong industry, which could easily be converted to war production. It had a number of millions of qualified workers, which the Soviets lacked. However, the Soviet was already preparing for the war from the moment of its takeover, that is to say, already 20 years ago. The Reich had a clear program known to the whole world: unification of all Germans, protection of the habitat, return of the former German colonies and thereby the safeguarding of the nutrition of the German population. Germany was trying to achieve this goal by means of peaceful agreements. 06747 wnllrg CA29