English Translation

By the way, the Quai d'Orsay is not one-sidedly reckoned with a sharp increase in things, but is at the same time prepared for a temporarily limited continuation of the nerve war. The leader, it is thought, knows today that England will not capitulate to a fully ending fact in Gdansk and to a subsequent Polish-German war. He was much more likely to expect the possibility of a second Munich until Donmerstag evening. He obviously still hesitated to enter the secure war against England, but nevertheless other strategic prerequisites would lie in it. Although it is assumed that Stalin Lord v. Ribbentrop had promised to export raw materials in the case of Deytscher successes, one doubted that the link with Moscow had improved the overall position of the German strategy or made up for the loss of Japanese, Spanish and Italian cards. Now in Berlin, after underestimating the seriousness of the English resistance, people are making illusions about the attitude of Warsaw. I would like to note at the end of this report, which merely reflects the psychological dispositions of a state which is important to us German, that one is following with great interest here, how the German Communists, in which one saw the only opposition of formulated political commitment against National Socialism, will behave to the leader, but also all those who saw in Germany and outside the leader the guarantor against "Bolshevism" and out of this attitude affirmed the leader and his regime as the "smaller evil". Hitler, it is thought, will not have to reckon with communist counter-propaganda at least for the time being because of the connection with Stalin. Thus, the question of the attitude of the masses of workers, at least initially, will look less problematic than before. S8cet