English Translation

29 Part A.: News and Reports (Completed on 2 December 1939) I. THE ALLGÉMEINE SITUATION IN DEUTSÇHLAND 1) After the Munich assassination The general mood in Germany was naturally dominated by the attack in the Munich Bürgerbraukeller in recent weeks. It is not the task of these reports to take part in the enigma of whether this attack is staged by the Gestapo or attempted by opponents of Hitler in his own party. We must confine ourselves to reproducing the voices that triggered the attack in the people. The following reports have been received: Berlin: 1. Report: The assassination was a greater over-research than the Russian Pact. The excitement was almost outrageous. The wildest rumors were circulating. Hitler himself was killed, it was not true that he was already back in Berlin. Hess was also dead. Göring was spared because he had not been to Munich. He had surely known beforehand that something was going on. The assassination had been instigated by the Göringclique. It had been done by the military and many other things more. There was almost no human being who would not have been ravaged in any way by the matter. Essentially, the foreign stations, which were heard very much especially in these days, especially the English stations, contributed to this. Finally, however, in this case the official propaganda prevailed again. A few days after the assassination, the opinion was quite widespread that the assassination of J/ had indeed been made by the English. The official German propaganda had all the easier to play than no one else was able to find an almost plausible explanation for the assassination. I then made a trip to the Ruhr area. In the extraordinarily busy train, as far as ever, was actually only spoken of this assassination. It must be said quite objectively. that there was no human being who even a certain