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were occupied by British and American armies,
for Stalin, after a short period, would insist on
their being replaced by Russians.
Subsequent talks that I had with a number of
leading Germans confirmed that Ribbentrop
belonged to that school of German statesmen who
advocated rapprochement with the Soviet Union.
He was in favor of European domination by a
strong Russia and an equally powerful Germany.
Many of the Germans with whom I spoke
expressed the fear that this school would gain the
ascendancy. When this subject was discussed I
always maintained that, even so, Stalin would never
agree to a coalition that would automatically end
his country’s alliance with Britain and America.
Ribbentrop continued by saying that Hitler
was the only one to have realized that the
Continent would become bolshevized if Germany
collapsed. It was an appalling tragedy that Britain
and Germany should have gone to war against
each other—the more so because this war could so
easily have been prevented if Britain had not
attacked Germany. He also deplored the blindness
of the Finnish Government in making a separate
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