English Translation

53 - 2 - that the Germans must attack nolens volens Russia. Remember how England won a glorious victory in the year l940, and how it successfully fought in Africa, in the Mediterranean and in Near Asia. And now England is in the process of winning the battle on the Atlantic. The losses of the Germans are enormous, and the devastation is so great that they may still be able to survive this winter, but not the worst. And the Soviet Union fights to the victorious end, as well as Britain. These are the two facts that decide. I would have nothing to do with you if it were different. Don't be discouraged by the daily German victory fanfares, this triumphal cry is a sad hide-out game. What I am telling you here in realistic clarity, all the politicians see as well as the politicians in London. Every thinking person in Germany asks himself: "How is it possible for us to end the war as quickly as possible, and can we still win at all?". We know that Germany can only think of a short war, so it also formed the term "Blitzkrieg". Now Germany has already lost the game. Hitler knows that Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States will wage war to the unethical end, he also knows that no compromise peace will be concluded. Therefore, the desperate struggle for Moscow is raging now, because the Germans hope that England will still be ready for peace in the fall of Moscow. But if all the fronts should fall, the war will continue. The war with Japan will also come. Germany is already slowly falling apart. The disintegration of the Nazi party is proved by the flight from Hess to England. Göring is in a Nazi clique, Hitler has lost his influence on the workers, Göbbles is a baboon, as the English cartoonists seine him. Himmler maintains with his gang the terror in Germany and in the most populated areas. Also in the army there are signs of decay. Here there are different views about the ariegführung, and there is a dispute as to whether the time for the war in the East has been right. Young generals argue with the old Prussian school, which is still the opinion that there should not have been a war with Russia, and that they do not agree yet whether they - 3 -