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Full resolution (TIFF) - On this page / på denna sida - Berlin February 1945
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Heydrich, the appointed Reich Protector of Bohemia
and Moravia, was murdered, after having himself
murdered an unknown number of Czech patriots,
Kaltenbrunner was his obvious successor as chief
of the Gestapo. Not only had nature provided him
with the necessary abilities, but in appearance he
was all that one would expect a Gestapo chief to
be. It was fairly obvious that Obergruppenführer
Kaltenbrunner could have little understanding of
any humanitarian proposal in connection with the
German concentration camps.
At our meeting he was polite, cool, and
inquisitive. He was anxious to know why I wished to see
Himmler. As he sipped his Dubonnet he pointed
out how extremely difficult it was to arrange a
meeting. He suggested that instead I should
explain my purposes to him, whereupon he would
transmit them to his chief. This alternative was,
of course, quite unacceptable to me. It was
therefore necessary to get him sufficiently interested
in arranging a meeting with Himmler, and to do it
without giving away the real object of my visit.
According to my notes, our conversation
proceeded roughly as follows:
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